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Tag Archives: sustainability
Toward Sustainable Pandemic Recovery
The climate crisis continues in the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic with its economic downturn threatens years of progress addressing climate change and sustainability. It’s now or never for the environment. Governments are expected to spend trillions of dollars in stimulus … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economy
Tagged Act On Climate, climate change, climate crisis, economy, sustainability
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What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
There is a strong argument nothing is wrong with our food system. There is a strong argument everything is wrong with our food system. To talk about a “food system” at all presumes a lot that may or may not … Continue reading
Nuclear Abolition in Trump World
Elimination of nuclear weapons remains a priority for many of us who followed disarmament progress through the years. Our work hasn’t ended. What should be our priorities in Trump World? To a large extent, society answered that question in the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Disarmament
Tagged Foreign Affairs, nuclear abolition, nuclear disarmament, sustainability
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Act On Climate
Every few years, interest in climate change spikes, according to internet search frequency reported by Google Trends. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5º C above pre-industrial levels … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Environment
Tagged climate change, environment, global warming, IPCC, sustainability
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A Difficult And Strange Season Of Weather
By Carmen Black (Editor’s Note: Iowa Farmers deal with an existential reality that is the weather. Regardless of increasingly polarized discussions about climate change, weather affects real people in tangible ways. Carmen recently wrote this piece to members of her … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged Community Supported Agriculture, farming, Iowa weather, Local food, sustainability
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There Is A Family Dairy Farm Crisis
Things are bad when the coop sends the suicide hotline number with the milk payment. Milk prices are currently about $15 per hundred weight while cost of production at family farms is more than $22 per hundred weight. Like so … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Dairy farming, farming, politics, sustainability
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Grit Alone Won’t Protect Local Food Systems
The marketplace of home vegetable gardens, community supported agriculture, farmers markets, road side vegetable stands, restaurants, retail interests and direct farm sales hasn’t coalesced into a sustainable local food system, and may not. One should never doubt the resilience of … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged farming, Local food, sustainability
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Social Security Runs Out! (In 2034)
Last Thursday the board of trustees overseeing Social Security released its 2018 projection. 61 million beneficiaries — retirees, disabled workers, spouses and surviving children — will get an increase in monthly benefits. The forecast increase is 2.2 percent or about … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged Hillary Clinton, politics, social security, sustainability
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Exiting Paris – Not The End Of The World
We survived U.S. failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gas emissions and will survive if Republicans drag us out of the Paris Agreement after the 2020 general election, as was announced June 1 in Washington, D.C. Make … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community
Tagged Act On Climate, ActOnClimate, climate change, environment, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
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24 Hours of Reality — 2016 Edition
Who knows what President Trump’s impact on the environment will be? To hold ground environmental advocates have claimed since the Nixon administration, we can’t ignore the renewed challenges presented by the mogul’s rise to power. We don’t know what Trump … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged environment, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
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