Dirt Fights Climate Change Guaranteed

01Dec09

The UK’s Soil Association just put out a report 5 days before Copenhagen that farming’s biggest thing is in fighting climate change — putting carbon back into the soil and earth. Organic, chemical free farms have dirt that has 20-28% more carbon (the lego brick of all life) than your burned out non-organic, chemical fried farm. If the whole world turned to organic farming, you could cut greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention air pollution or acid rain) by 11%.

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Tags: biochar, carbon, climate change, COP15, copenhagen, dirt, greenhouse gas emissions, Soil Management

Pesticide 4800 Times Worse than CO2

18Jul09

Public health and environmental advocates Friday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request from Dow AgroSciences for a permit allowing it to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride onto farm fields in four states. The chemical is a toxic pesticide whose global warming effects are thousands of times stronger than carbon dioxide.

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Tags: Agriculture, climate change, climate chaos, DOW, EPA, farming, global warming, pesticides, sulfuryl fluoride