2008 “Can We Go Organic?” Videos Are Up!

13Jun10

Join Canadian Organic Growers as we explore how organics is making a difference. Who is making this vision real and how can you be part of it ? What is your role? Hear farmers, researchers, local food security advocates and community organizations discuss the state of Canada’s food system and share their positive vision for the future

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Tags: Agriculture, bartering, carbon, climate change, community, development rights, farmer, farming, Food, global warming, labour rights, land trust, local, markets, multiplier effect, organic, Toronto, trading, transport, video, Wal-Mart

Get Down with DIRT! (the Movie)

07Jan10

FoodCycles (http://foodcycles.org) is hosting one of the first largest screenings of the award winning DIRT! the Movie in Toronto at Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St W; map) on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 (6:30-8:30 PM). Dirt! the movie tells the amazing story of the earth we stand on everyday and how we depend on it for life. In addition, FoodCycles is fundraising for its education work. Tickets will be available online and at the door on a sliding scale of $10-20. There will be a reception at 6:30 PM and the movie will start at 7 PM and end at 8:30 PM. You can buy sprouts, vegetable earrings or memberships during the reception.

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Tags: climate change, Compost, conflict, dirt, Dirt! the Movie, environmental impacts, film, Food, FoodCycles, land, microbes, microorganisms, Movies, Soil, Soil Management, video

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

Get Rid of Climate Change Once & For All!

07Jun09

There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste – which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering – into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Then you can start shifting really hefty quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast.

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Tags: biochar, burning, charcoal, climate change, farming, gaia, global warming, james, lovelock, low heat, pyrolysis, sequestration, solution, storage, theory, world

Green Economy a Key to Solving Crisis?

02May09

The new report entitled Green Jobs: Towards Decent work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, says changing patterns of employment and investment resulting from efforts to reduce climate change and its effects are already generating new jobs in many sectors and economies, and could create millions more in both developed and developing countries.

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Tags: Agriculture, climate change, climate chaos, developed, developing countries, eco tourism, economic crisis, global warming, green economy, green jobs, tourism