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Global Warming Organic News
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| Hard-hit by the economy, many aspire to (and some find) off-the-grid living | Columnist Adam Ellick finds former professor college professor Jill Swenson, who left the rat race years ago, married an organic farmer, and became almost entirely self-reliant on their upstate New York homestead. | Mar 12, 2009 |
| Heat waves threaten cities, drought lays waste to southwest farmland: too late for a sustainable agenda? | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate scientists convened recently and pronounced the world environmental situation grim. | Feb 27, 2009 |
| Japanese town of 8,000 generates 161% of energy needs from renewables | The Japanese town of Kuzumaki, population 8,000, has over the past decade transformed itself into a model of energy self-sufficiency no longer dependent on oil. | Feb 23, 2009 |
| Crop-breeding alternatives, unmet human need counters latest calls for more use of GM crops | Leading agricultural scientists in the UK suggest revisiting GM technology in answer to growing worldwide food security problems, but the technology topic is still hotly debated. | Feb 09, 2009 |
| Biochar: prolonging the benefits of organic matter | Whether you incorporate the charcoal remains of last night’s campfire or last season’s rampant weed growth (smoldered in a pit with little oxygen), biochar has the ability to tuck more carbon into the soil for longer, slowing microbial action and the turnover of organic matter. | Feb 09, 2009 |
| Obama's energy secretary outlines dire climate change scenario | Unless there is timely action on climate change, California's agricultural bounty could be reduced to a dust bowl and its cities disappear, said Barack Obama's energy secretary Steven Chu. | Feb 05, 2009 |
| EU climate plan schedules increasing investments | European leaders approved a broad plan for halting climate change last month, which will be used in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. | Jan 27, 2009 |
| In historic environmental victory, courts vacate lax EPA pesticide regulations | An appeals court vacated a 2007 EPA ruling that pesticides could be applied to water without a Clean Water Act permit. | Jan 22, 2009 |
| Des Moines Register carries LaSalle op-ed citing benefits of organics | “Organic farming can nurture healthier planet,” Rodale Institute CEO Tim LaSalle wrote recently in a Des Moines Register op-ed.
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| Poor nations already suffering from climate change impacts | A letter entitled “Worried about climate change? We live with it already,” is published in The Independent. | Dec 18, 2008 |
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