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Tag Archives: climate change
America’s Food Crisis: Time Magazine Has No Clue
How disappointing to read Bryan Walsh’s uninformed and inaccurate article (“America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix It,” August 31, 2009). Not only is he clueless as to what sustainable agriculture is, he doesn’t even get organic right. Organic is defined in U.S. law and regulations and does allow the use of chemicals (yes, they tend to be “natural” chemicals, but they are still chemicals.) Sustainable agriculture also is defined in U.S. law, and the Read More >
Environmentalists Want to “Stick” It to Farmers
Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment wrote recently in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, asking why the Waxman-Markey climate change bill should treat agricultural emissions differently from energy and transportation emissions, with a “carrot-and-stick approach, one in which fossil fuels suffer the stick while agriculture feasts upon the carrot.” Hill’s primary objection to the bill is the amendments added by Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), which exempt agriculture and forestry from Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act, biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Collin Peterson, corn ethanol, Fargione, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Jason Hill, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman
Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act, biofuel, biofuels, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Collin Peterson, corn ethanol, Fargione, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Jason Hill, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman
The Facts of Life on Waxman-Markey
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have … the Peterson amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, formally known as H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). According to Grist contributor Meredith Niles, there are a number of positive inclusions in the amendment that were advocated by environmental groups. The good aspects, according to Niles, are those that will encourage improved agricultural practices. The bad Read More >
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Tags: American Clean Energy and Security Act, biofuel, biofuels, cap-and-trade, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, environment, environmental protection agency, EPA, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, lifecycle analysis, renewable fuel standard, USDA, Waxman-Markey
Biotechnology’s Role in the Fight Against World Hunger
As part of the Administration’s fight against world hunger, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined June 11th seven principles that support sustainable of agriculture in rural areas worldwide. Speaking at the 2009 World Food Prize Announcement Ceremony (see “Ethiopian Scientist Named 2009 World Food Prize Laureate” below), Clinton said the issue of chronic hunger and food security is at the top of the Administration’s agenda. “The effects of chronic hunger cannot be overstated. Hunger is Read More >
Ethiopian Scientist Named 2009 World Food Prize Laureate
The 2009 World Food Prize is awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability of one of the world’s five principal grains and enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Gebisa Ejeta will receive the $250,000 World Food Prize on October 15 at the Iowa State Capitol. Ejeta entered Purdue in 1974, Read More >
