Global Warming News and Research

Huffington Post Column Lauds Rodale Carbon Solution

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Carl Pope: Thinking Big is Getting Big

VIDEO: Rodale CEO video interview explains how organic farming will combat climate change

rodalewm — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:44:36 -0400

Tim LaSalle highlights the ways U.S. farmers can become the leaders in fighting global warming in his "OnPoint" webcast interview. Using basic and proven organic farming practices that build soil will pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it in soil as carbon that benefits agriculture in many ways. If applied to all U.S. cropland, an effective combination of these practices could result in mitigating (balancing out) 25 percent of the U.S. emissions from fossil fuel combustion, LaSalle said.

RESEARCH REVIEW: Climate Change Solution

rodalewm — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:52:38 -0400

Agriculture is an undervalued and underestimated climate change tool that could be one of the most powerful strategies in the fight against global warming.

Des Moines Register carries LaSalle op-ed citing benefits of organics

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:19:34 -0500

“Organic farming can nurture a healthier planet,” Rodale Institute CEO Tim LaSalle wrote recently in a Des Moines Register op-ed.

Poor nations already suffering from climate change impacts

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:16:24 -0500

A letter entitled “Worried about climate change?

Will clean energy spending escape the bottom of the list?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:13:24 -0500

Blogger Andy Revkin observes that the federal defense expenditures for research and development practically dwarf all non-defense spending, let alone those dollars going to investment in clean energy. “What might happen if a president sought not to shrink the military research pie, but simply devote more of it to transformational technologies related to harvesting, storing, or moving energy?” he wonders.

Meat production now subject to emissions scrutiny

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:11:35 -0500

As meat production makes it onto the global radar of problematic emissions sources, the Netherlands leads the way in reducing emissions while using the methane byproducts of livestock production to generate power.

Farming with the Future in Mind

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:16:24 -0500

Raising the bar, and the accessibility of sustainable practices.

By Genevieve Slocum

UK forces all major national planning decisions to address climate mitigation

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:48:17 -0500

The British government will now require that all national planning strategies make it clear how they will mitigate climate change. This replaces the practice of reaching strategic infrastructure decisions on a case-by-case basis and is expected to push through more large, nationally significant renewable energy projects.

Carbon offsets at a distance can have unintended consequences, plans to protect forests could do the opposite

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:45:12 -0500

In their recent report, the group Friends of the Earth argue that current international proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Joseph Zacune, a climate and energy coordinator at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), warned that protecting forests should not become a way for rich countries to pay their way out of reducing emissions.