The fight to define regenerative agriculture
Organic agriculture has transitioned from fringe to mainstream over the past two decades, with sales showing double-digit growth for many years and big retailers such as Costco embracing organic products.
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A Green New Deal for natural gas
The U.S. Senate voted against the Green New Deal, but its interlinked climate, job and social justice goals are still percolating.
Harnessing the edge effect for your organization
This week, I had the opportunity to participate in a unique event hosted by the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), focused on the urgency and opportunity in evolving a new direction for the tech industry — specifically, reversing the digital attention crisis and realigning technology with humanity’s best interests.
There’s an endangered species we’re not talking about: humans
If you viewed Earth from far above (and for better or worse, this book will often take a high, wide perspective), roofs would probably be the first feature of human civilization you’d notice.
The righteousness of the youth-led climate justice movement
I’ve been wondering for years when it would finally happen: an uprising by the world’s youth against grownup inaction on climate change.
What does net zero mean?
In order to keep the rise in global mean temperatures "well below 2 degrees Celsius" above pre-industrial levels and to try to limit global warming to 1.5 C, the Paris Agreement commits to net-zero emissions globally in the second half of this century.
Is an ‘insect apocalypse’ actually happening?
Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate plants, prey on insects that we don’t get along with, and to be movers and shakers for Earth’s ecosystems. It’s hard to imagine a world without insects.
Turns out creating circular food systems is not as easy as pie
What exactly does "circular food" mean? My brain immediately conjures up a donut, although pie also qualifies.
The rising tide of the blue economy
Forget green. The next clean economy is blue. Blue, as in the deep blue sea.
Scientists have declared a biodiversity crisis — here’s what that means for business
It's not often that environmental news even gets close to trumping the arrival of a royal baby. But fresh in the wake of Extinction Rebellion protests, the declaration of a "climate emergency," the publication of the Committee on Climate Change's Net Zero report and a surge in electoral support for the Green Party, some news outlets grasped which way the wind is blowing.
