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Cool farming (Summary Version): Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential

Cool farming (Summary Version): Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential

Publication | January 7, 2008 at 17:00

Agriculture is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Greenpeace’s new report Cool Farming details the destructive practices resulting from industrial agriculture and presents workable solutions to help reduce its contribution to...

Cool farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential

Cool farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential

Publication | January 7, 2008 at 17:00

Agriculture is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Greenpeace’s new report Cool Farming details the destructive practices resulting from industrial agriculture and presents workable solutions to help reduce its contribution to...

Ecological farming

Publication | July 1, 2010 at 13:54

Human-induced climate change is resulting in less and more erratic rainfall, especially in regions where food security is very low. The poor in rural and dry areas will suffer the most and will require cheap and accessible strategies to adapt to...

Agriculture's climate change role demands urgent action

Press release | January 7, 2008 at 17:00

Agriculture is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions and urgent changes need to be made if its role is to be changed from a carbon source to a carbon sink, according to a new report published by Greenpeace today.

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Feature story | July 7, 2008 at 17:00

Last year, many Canadians had their summer holiday at the lake interrupted by the appearance of toxic dead zones caused by hazardous algae blooms. In Western Canada, Lake Winnipeg experienced record algae pollution which has doubled in the last...

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Publication | July 7, 2008 at 17:00

Fertilizer run-off from industrial agriculture is choking the planet’s oceans, rivers and lakes. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution feed explosive algae blooms that suck the oxygen from the water as they grow. These algae blooms result in dead...

Agriculture's climate change role demands urgent action

Agriculture's climate change role demands urgent action

Feature story | January 7, 2008 at 17:00

Agriculture is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions and urgent changes need to be made if its role is to be changed from a carbon source to a carbon sink, according to a new report published by Greenpeace today.

Gulf of Mexico

Page | July 8, 2008 at 9:55

The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico (US) - By Henry Steinberg: First came Hurricane Katrina, taking their houses. Now the Dead Zone is taking their hope. The shrimpers on Grand Isle, Louisiana, are hit hardest by an environmental disaster that...

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  • Feed the World - Not with GE

Feed the World - Not with GE

Blog entry by Josh Brandon | February 14, 2008

It’s that time of year again when the ice on the pond gets a little soft, hungry bears start stirring in their dens and the global biotechnology lobby dusts off a new set of confabulated figures to demonstrate that the world just can’t...

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  • The Future of Food

The Future of Food

Blog entry by Josh Brandon | January 31, 2008

Come to the Greenpeace office in Vancouver on Friday February 1st for the first of a monthly film series.  The Future of Food is showing at 6:30 at 1726 Commercial Drive at East 1st avenue.  Meet other GE free activists, and join...

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