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Forget moonshots — it’s time now for a global 'soilshot' to address climate change	6.9.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
Poor land use is increasing erosion, nutrient depletion and other threats. But sustainable practices and technologies can reverse this trend.
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Episode 187: The WRI director on sustainable food systems; The lifecycle of corporate commitments	5.9.2019	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Plus, how reporting can help investors and more on China's Belt & Road Initiative.
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Episode 186: Bill Weihl calls for corporate climate activism; you'll dig this new farm-data initiative	30.8.2019	Small Business \| GreenBiz.com
The former energy and CSR czar at Facebook and Google calls for companies to raise their voices. Plus, we catch up with Dorn Cox, research director for a new open source agricultural data initiative.
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Organic food health benefits have been hard to assess, but that could change	28.8.2019	GreenBiz.com
Organic growing is proven to be better for biodiversity and chemical exposure, but is the food actually more nutritious?
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Growing change: Can agriculture be good for the climate?	2.8.2019	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
Regenerative farming practices can promote soil fertility. They also have the potential to build economic resilience on farms by buffering the risk from threats such as pests, diseases and climate shocks.
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Cargill pledges to tackle climate impact of beef business	31.7.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
Regenerative agriculture is central to new plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by one-third over the next decade.
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How Allbirds, Organic Valley and Everlane support regenerative agriculture	19.7.2019	Small Business \| GreenBiz.com
A small-but-mighty group of consumer goods is offsetting their carbon emissions by sourcing materials from farms and ranches investing in these best practices.
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U.S. agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal	10.7.2019	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
How can we give power back to farmers — and out carbon back into the ground?
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The rise of seatech — a new world wide web	19.6.2019	GreenBiz.com
IoT, big data, blockchain and biotech are powering a wave of sustainable seafood.
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Springing into action against Roundup -- the mounting evidence against use of glyphosate	1.6.2019	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Food & Health Since the inception of this column, a lot of turf has been covered regarding some very challenging agricultural and food issues related to seed, pesticides, health and sustainable agriculture. Often Monsanto and its activities have come into question. Less than three weeks ago, the National Farmers Union initiated an online petition calling on the Canadian federal government to ban Roundup and glyphosate. Monsanto, a huge transnational which has now merged with Bayer, looms large globally when it comes to farmers, weed control, genetic manipulation of seed, Roundup and cancer. In 2018, Monsanto was bought by Bayer for $63 billion. Bayer now faces close to 14,000 lawsuits against its product glyphosate, and in the past year its stock has dropped by 40 per cent. (And yes, that is the same Bayer that makes aspirins and vitamins, and now, most infamously, the pesticide known as Roundup, and its active ingredient glyphosate.) In the last few years Monsanto has been on public trial -- despite its ...
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Near Hiroshima, Japan eyes opportunities for innovations in recovery and resilience	4.4.2019	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Technology is providing solutions — but nothing's a silver bullet.
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Planting trees only works if the restored forests stand for more than 10 or 20 years	20.3.2019	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Ecological resoration is supposed to help damaged and deforested ecosystems recover — but early-stage forests aren't the same as mature ones.
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A culture of cultured meat: Better than animal agriculture	8.3.2019	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Solutions to factory farming actually might be found in the laboratory.
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5 new corporate climate initiatives revealed at GreenBiz 19	4.3.2019	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
New products from SC Johnson and Iron Mountain, and renewables progress from GM and 3M. Plus, Land O’Lakes’ latest habitat conservation deal.
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Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again	4.3.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
The "give back what you take" approach of sustatinability isn't enough.
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The greenback cutthroat trout needs saving, again	15.2.2019	High Country News Most Recent
After a case of mistaken identity, scientists double down on their efforts to save a fabled fish.
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A new way to curb nitrogen pollution: Regulate fertilizer producers, not just farmers	25.1.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
Make the industry better design out the superpollutant from fertilizers — don't blame the consumers with few other options.
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The dying pig in the aisle: How McDonald’s came to transform animal welfare	19.1.2019	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
The legal and PR battles that the fast food behemoth waged transformed the company's sustainability strategy.
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Looking to fungi, spiders and other natural insect killers for less toxic alternatives to synthetic pesticides	17.1.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
New technologies based on natural chemicals are yielding more environmentally friendly ways to control pests that eat our food and harm our health.
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8 types of ag-tech startups with the right ingredients for sustainability	9.1.2019	GreenBiz.com
Here are some of the promising ventures being backed by the likes of Tyson, Campbell Soups and Danone.
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