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Greenpeace demands scale up of ecological farming
Amsterdam, 18 May, 2015 – Ecological farming, a path towards an agricultural model that protects the environment and secures farmers' livelihood, has been mapped out in a Greenpeace report released today. It is a system based on the latest scientific innovations and produces healthy food while working with nature.
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Ecological Farming
We are living with a broken food system. It needs to be replaced urgently for the benefit of all people, and the planet. Greenpeace's Food and Farming Vision describes what Ecological Farming means, and how it can be summarised in seven overarching, interdependent principles – based on a growing body of scientific evidence.
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Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior brings relief to Vanuatu’s stranded islands
Port Vila, 16 May, 2015 - Greenpeace's flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, will arrive in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on Monday to help deliver relief to Vanuatu's outlying islands, many of which are still stranded without electricity or basic living essentials.
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Those who produce our food suffer the most
How pesticides affect farmers' and our health.
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Greenpeace report reveals farmers are the most vulnerable to health risks from pesticides
Exeter/Hamburg, 12 May, 2015 – A review of scientific literature shows clear evidence that exposure to certain pesticides, currently allowed in European fields, is associated with different forms of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and diseases of the newborn. This is the conclusion of a new report published today by Greenpeace, Pesticides…
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Pesticides and our Health
Since 1950 the human population has doubled, yet the area of arable land used to feed these people has increased by only 10%. There are huge pressures to provide food, at low cost, on land that is becoming more and more degraded as nutrients are stripped from the soil. Reliance on external inputs – fertilisers…
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Clicking Clean
While there may be significant energy efficiency gains from moving our lives online, the explosive growth of our digital lives is outstripping those gains. Publishing conglomerates now consume more energy from their data centers than their printing presses. Greenpeace has estimated that the aggregate electricity demand of our digital infrastructure back in 2011 would have…
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When industrial food fails us, it’s time to change the food system
The current food system is broken. We all see how industrial and chemical intensive food production impacts on people and farmers, the planet and animals.
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From Bangladesh to the world: Who made my clothes?
Two years ago today, one of the worst industrial incidents took place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,000 people died and over 2,500 injured when Rana Plaza, a clothing factory supplying global fashion brands, collapsed.
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How do systems get unstuck?
If we are going to resolve our ecological challenges, we must rethink, not only our social systems, but our habitual ways of thinking.
