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

The Environmental Blog

That’s because they are solving a huge problem related to global warming and human health. Global warming was something that I had never previously understood growing up. Greenhouse gases (methane, carbon dioxide, ozone, etc.) What is the problem and why is it a big deal to solve?

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

The graph, co-created by Mann, shows that while global average temperatures have been rising for the past 500 to 2,000 years, the rate of heating has sharply accelerated since the start of the industrial revolution in the West, and particularly during the 20th century. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?”

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7 People in Virginia Play an Outsized Role in Progress on Global Climate Goals

DeSmogBlog

Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S. The damage to the health and wellbeing of residents along the pipeline route is incalculable. In 1988, he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming.

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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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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. IN THEIR BOOK Merchants of Doubt , historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Inclusive and green economies, prosperity, cleaner air and better health are possible for all if we respond to this crisis with solidarity and courage. Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". The solutions are clear.