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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. The certified B-Corp brewery composts all organic waste and is working to reclaim runoff for crop irrigation.

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California’s Chance for a Resilient and Equitable Food & Farming System

Caff

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Modern Farmer

Distributed at music festivals and public events and in municipalities throughout Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the upcycled product, which looks like a hollowed-out wheel of camembert, brings the process full circle by reining in the world’s most discarded waste item.

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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

Modern Farmer

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. percent of the world’s pesticides and 10 percent of its insecticides. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions.

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Opinion: To Make a Real Impact on Climate Change, We Must Move Beyond the Carbon Footprint

Modern Farmer

In general, we need multifunctional perspectives for a more holistic systems comparison.” To be sure, we need conventional farming systems right now that create efficiency and economies of scale to grow and distribute large volumes of food to feed a growing population.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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GAP Certification 101

Farmbrite

It does that through an audit of a food products' growing, handling, packaging, and distribution. It allows you to continue producing, packaging, and distributing safe goods. And if you're using composted manure, document the turning, temperature monitoring, and mixing to guarantee that the manure is actively composed.

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