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3 under-the-radar forces in food

GreenBiz

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. The backstory: This is good news from a sustainability perspective, because both companies provide additional sales channels for producers that practice organic and regenerative agriculture. This is a (sadly familiar) failure of social justice.

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An answer to aquaculture's unsustainable fish feed habit?

GreenBiz

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. Midwest, for instance, soy production relies on chemical inputs that damage biodiversity and generate greenhouse gases. It certainly feels that way in aquaculture. Soy grown elsewhere also comes with costs.

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An answer to aquaculture's unsustainable fish feed habit?

Business Green

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. In the US Midwest, for instance, soy production relies on chemical inputs that damage biodiversity and generate greenhouse gases. It certainly feels that way in aquaculture.

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Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining

DeSmogBlog

But a growing number of marine biologists, ocean conservationists, government regulators and environmentally-conscious companies are sounding the alarm about a variety of environmental, food security, financial, and biodiversity concerns associated with seabed mining. Still, Nauru hopes to forge ahead with seabed mining.

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An answer to aquaculture’s unsustainable fish feed habit?

AGreenLiving

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. Midwest, for instance, soy production relies on chemical inputs that damage biodiversity and generate greenhouse gases. It certainly feels that way in aquaculture. Soy grown elsewhere also comes with costs.

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September is Coastal Cleanup Month with a new look for 2020

AGreenLiving

Register your own coastal cleanup — wherever that may be One conservation organization, Heal the Bay in Los Angeles County, serves as an example of this campaign by helping citizens coordinate their own cleanup efforts with a centralized registration system.

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3 under-the-radar forces in food

AGreenLiving

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. The backstory: This is good news from a sustainability perspective, because both companies provide additional sales channels for producers that practice organic and regenerative agriculture. This is a (sadly familiar) failure of social justice.

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