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San Francisco restaurant promotes sustainability and carbon farming
2016-07-06 07:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Sustainability is at the forefront of Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz's newest restaurant, The Perennial, which opened in San Francisco in January 2016. The Perennial's sustainability initiatives include a 2,000 square foot off-site aquaponic greenhouse, substantially smaller-than-usual meat portions, and wine served from the tap to reduce emissions from transportation from bottles. The Perennial is part of growing trend of bringing transparency back into the food system by de-commodifying food...
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Farming Sector Needs to Encourage More Women into the Industry
2016-07-06 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The farming sector needs to encourage more female participation in the industry and promote the significant role of women already working in agriculture.
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Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
2016-07-01 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Forty five years have passed since Earl Butz, then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, asserted, Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry. Time has proven Butz very wrong. The weight of four decades worth of scientific evidence tells us that organic farming is critical to feeding ourselves, now and into the future, as a new report by Friends of the Earth explains. Not only can organic farming...
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Weekly Overview: Agricultural Organisations Call for Early Commitment to Farming Following Brexit
2016-06-28 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - Last week the UK held its EU referendum with the leave vote triumphant. Following the decision, farming organisations stressed that it is important that an early commitment is made to British farming.
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In California Farming Heartland, Study Finds Drilling and Fracking into Freshwater Formations
2016-06-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Oil and gas development, including hydraulic fracturing, occurs in as many as one in five underground sources of fresh water in California's farming heartland, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study by Stanford scientists assessed the amount of groundwater that could be used for irrigation and drinking supplies in five counties of California's agricultural Central Valley, as well as the three coastal counties encompassing Los...
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