Category: Agriculture
Why Can’t We Grow Healthy Food For A Sustainable World?
In the cute new Jerry Steinfeld Netflix film, Unfrosted, a character is flummoxed by the 1960s cereal marketing wars. He suggests that the Kellogg company consider a new direction. Let’s create a healthy, sugar-free breakfast option for children, he says. The others look at him, stunned, then break out in … [continued]
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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical
Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.
With the election of President Donald Trump, the conflict over glyphosate’s risks and benefits entered a new realm of confrontation that has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, the largest user of fresh water in the blue economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes.
Why Winemakers Must Embrace Sustainable Growing Practices
Winemakers work outdoors in high season in long verdant rows. A deliberate slow rhythm marks their days as they examine vines and grapes, monitor trimming, and plan for the harvest. Then come hours of communicating with the team, analyzing lab work, checking on cellar activities, and assessing fermentation tanks — … [continued]
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No, Agriculture & Meat Aren’t A Bigger Driver Of Climate Change Than Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels are the dominant cause of global climate change. Decades of rigorous scientific research, repeated validation, and global scientific consensus confirm this unequivocally. This core truth needs reinforcement because a provocative paper recently published in Environmental Research attempts to upend this established understanding by claiming that agriculture, particularly livestock farming, … [continued]
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Copernicus: Warmest March In Europe & Lowest Arctic Winter Sea Ice
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover, and hydrological variables. Most of the reported findings … [continued]
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