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With Tourism, We'll Always Have Paradox
- Article Source
- Thomson Reuters
A July 13 feature delineates the points and lines fusing tourists' economic usefulness with their imprint on biodiversity.
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- 2022-07-15
Cleaner Water Via Solid Support in Iowa
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- Iowa Public Radio
This July 15 story explores how local funding and support boosted Iowa farmers and officials as they climbed into compliance with clean-water requirements.
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- 2022-07-15
Best Practices, Meet Breadbaskets
- News Item Type
- Commentary
- Article Source
- Foreign Policy
In a July 14 op/ed, veterans of global diplomacy targeted changes to fertilizer production as a key to sustainably expanding the food supply while greening it.
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- 2022-07-15
Choose Among Many Net-Zero Frames
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- Commentary
- Article Source
- Project Syndicate
This July 15 call to the ramparts from two diplomats puts financing schemes for biodiversity outcomes on the clock.
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- 2022-07-15
A Florida City Aims to Conserve Community
- Article Source
- Florida Times-Union
A July 8 story zooms in on Jacksonville's mayorally-defined "community land trust," which applies land-trust economics to foster affordable housing.
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- 2022-07-08
If Only There Were Carbon Cash...
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- Bloomberg News
This July 7 feature stirs the troubled water in flows of carbon claims from Gabon to an oil company, and reveals the policy mirages in carbon markets.
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- 2022-07-08
You've Got to Have a Plan(t)
- Article Source
- Grist
This July 7 op/ed from a farmer details how plant selection and management can make "carbon farming" meaningful or meretricious.
- Original Article
- https://grist.org/fix/carbon-farming-ecosystems-climate-solution/
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- 2022-07-08
B(r)each Reading for Summer
- Article Source
- Financial Times
On June 28, the British mainstay reviewed three books advocating for regenerative agriculture - including one by Ralph Fiennes' brother, for what that's worth.
- Original Article
- https://www.ft.com/content/e3f6a07d-3716-42d8-b45a-e066caeae28f
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- 2022-07-01
Do You See What I Seed?
- Article Source
- CNBC
On June 28, the offer from a company that claims its drones replant forests after wildfires made it to the business news, with endorsement (and an order) from Shopify.
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- 2022-07-01
Something Feels a Bit Offset Here
- Article Source
- Bloomberg News
Bloomberg dug into an offset deal involving BP and rural Mexican farmers, and says its reporting has advanced a squarer deal. Read past the headlines for the complexity.
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- 2022-07-01
No Silver Bullet? Try No-Till, Then.
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- Commentary
- Article Source
- The New York Times
This June 21 op/ed knocks at the case for indoor vertical farms - and implies a bull case for regenerative agriculture.
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- 2022-06-24
Movement Beneath the Surface
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- Reuters
This June 23 story, glimpsing coastal restoration commitments in China, hints at the expanse of biodiversity tools and funds waiting for a signal from the world's governments.
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- 2022-06-24
A Place Where the Grass is Really Greener
- Article Source
- Utility Dive
This June 23 story shows how activists and other NGOs cast a gimlet eye on promises to zero out pollution through vaguely defined carbon markets - and how a verifiable, additional, robust carbon market can check many boxes.
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- 2022-06-24
- Topics
- ClimatePublic Policy
There's Carbon in Them Thar Plots!
- Article Source
- Inside Climate News
This June 17 story looks at the prospects for farmers in carbon markets - and the challenges of measuring and verifying them, in California and elsewhere.
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- 2022-06-17
The Devil's in the Details?
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- ABC News (in Australia)
This June 14 report shows how the timber business Down Under responds to a report on its alarming rate of emissions.
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- 2022-06-17
- Topics
- ClimateForestPublic Policy
It's Not Easy Being REDD
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- S&P Global
This June 14 mini-brief lays out the challenges of a "jurisdictional," or politically mapped, approach to carbon-removal projects.
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- 2022-06-17
More Produce in the Alphabet Soup
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- Reuters
This June 7 profile outlines how the Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure's co-chair frames his task and his timing.
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- 2022-06-10
The Weather's Crazy, the Farmer Isn't
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- The Christian Science Monitor
This June 3 profile starts in Manitoba and proceeds to lay out a business case for regenerative agriculture.
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- 2022-06-10
Timber Stocks or Tinderbox?
- Article Source
- The Seattle Times
This June 3 op/ed tries to shine a light through the scrabbling over Washington state's dabbling in carbon markets.
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- 2022-06-10
Get Davos Man a Tractor!
- Article Source
- POLITICO
In this May 27 newsletter, below some pungent observations about flood insurance policy, you'll find some notes on agriculture's cachet at this year's World Economic Forum.
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- 2022-06-03