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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. We also considered the role of young leaders from the private and public sectors in this essential transformation. Oliver Camp.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

And when we discard it, it continues to produce greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere as it rots. Agriculture is responsible for one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and each year, we throw away roughly 1.8 billion tonnes of food, or 30% of what we produce. We waste too much of it, and that is the issue.

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6 Foods that have as much protein as beef with much less of an environmental impact

The Environmental Blog

It’s seems like we’re seeing hype every week with regard to the two major plant-based meat companies: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. This is a good thing or else we’d be freezing. are the ones responsible for trapping this heat so that we can live. Favorite Brand: Beyond Meat.

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Review of ‘A Small Farm Future’ by Chris Smaje

Low Impact

Could and should we build a new kind of food system based on small farms? This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers. But does it have to be that way?

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A community leader on why aid work is necessary to build climate resilience

Grist

Last week in our series on personal climate action, we explored the power of advocating for climate progress as part of a community. The vision “Every movement organization, every social justice organization across this world should have resiliency, climate justice, and education tied into their plans.

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Trends in Food, Agriculture, and Nature-Based Solutions with Mitch Rubin

Elemental Excelerator

As we recruit for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. Reading this book was kind of like the moment in The Matrix when Neo is given the choice of the red and blue pill. of global GHGs.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Now, we need you to take the next step.