To learn more about this, please visit the following resources:
Regenerative Agriculture
- Kiss the Ground Regenerative Farming: https://kisstheground.com/regenerative-agriculture-partone/
- NOFA Mass site on Soil Carbon Restoration: https://www.nofamass.org/carbon
- Farming to Reverse Climate Change & Regenerative Agriculture: https://www.greenamerica.org/node/8452
- Regeneration International Summary of Regenerative Agriculture: https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/
- Regeneration International Resources: https://regenerationinternational.org/resources/
- Regeneration Massachusetts – our local Regeneration International branch
- Films of John D. Liu on helping environments to recover from human interference–in China, Africa, and many more locales
- Light Farming Article by Christine Jones
- UnderstandingAG
- Symphony of the Soil Excerpt – Demonstration of the difference between conventional agricultural soil, organic soil, organic soil with compost and organic soil with compost & cover crops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOACBjnwJM
- Farmer’s Footprint Documentary Regeneration: The Beginning – Addresses the impact on human health from using chemicals, like glyphosate, to grow the food we eat and highlights the role regenerative agriculture can play to fix our food system.
- Soil Solutions to Climate Problems narrated by Michael Pollan: Good summary of how soil can store carbon and make a difference in warming
- 4 per 1000 Initiative Videos on Soil and Climate Change: Gives good overview of how plants and soil sequester carbon, how changing farming and forest practices could stabilize the climate and increase food security, as well as policy ideas and examples. https://www.4p1000.org/resources
- Soils: Our Ally Against Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_69vy7ZBxE
- The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson http://www.kristinohlson.com/books/soil-will-save-us
Climate Change Situation
- National Climate Assessment 2018 update: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/18
- Wildlands and Woodlands: Broadening the Vision for New England Report
Forests
- Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good article written by Professor Moomaw (Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6/11/19)
- Article written by Professor Bill Moomaw about how forests address climate change (The Conversation 5/8/17)
- BBC News How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other video
- What 750 Billion Trees Can Do About Climate Change: Importance of protecting the largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Great Northern Boreal Forest video
- Guest column: How to fight climate change? Save existing forests by William R. Moomaw, Bob Leverett, Robert A. Jonas and Monica Jakuc Leverett (Daily Hampshire Gazette 7/24/19)
Food Systems
- The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber www.thethirdplate.com
- New England Food Vision by Food Solutions New England
- Organic Consumers Association
All of the Above
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming website: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food
- Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: https://www.resilience.org/resources/two-percent-solutions-for-the-planet/
- Biodiversity for a Livable Planet: https://bio4climate.org/resources/
- Center for Biological Diversity’s aim to protect endangered species and wild places is clear in the many fronts on their action page
- The Kiss the Ground website and videos
- How the soil food web works explained in a series of animations