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

GreenBiz

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. 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. Jennifer Ballen, head of global market operations, Indigo Ag.

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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

AGreenLiving

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 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.

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Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees

Unsustainable

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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'Adapt to survive': UNEP publishes six-step guide for delivering a sustainable business

Business Green

The Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity published this week hammered home a point that has long been clear: the transition towards a more nature-positive and climate-responsible economy requires a major overhaul of core business assumptions and an embrace of new metrics for gauging economic success.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. One such project is their efficient cookstoves in Burundi.

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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. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.