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FOOD PRICES MORE AT RISK FROM CLIMATE THAN CPRS
The impact of extreme weather events on food prices dwarf the modest increases expected
under the proposed CPRS or even more ambitious emissions trading schemes, The Climate
Institute briefing paper Food Prices and Emissions Trading released today shows.

9/11 Reset Haiti Humanity Global Warming One Minute to Midnight

Dear All.......

The Cop 15 round of discussion ended somewhat predictably with no
resolutions or commitments to carbon reduction, yet outside the Bella
Centre, activists from horizontal movements, N.G.Os and State
representatives from the Global South opened up a space for dialogue that
sought to challenge the power relationships implicit in the 'official
discourse'.

Gatewaysucks sends Copenhagen greetings to Harper and Campbell

For immediate release
Friday December 18, 2009

Surrey and Delta, BC 

Today’s global food system, with all its high-tech seeds and fancy packaging, cannot fulfil its most basic function of feeding people. Despite this monumental failure, there is no talk in the corridors of power of changing direction.

Small farmers can cool the planet

A way out of the mayhem caused by the industrial food system

Concise data on how industrial agriculture plays a big role in the climate crisis and how diversified, small-scale farming and local markets can solve the problem.

The way that industrial agriculture has treated soils has been a key factor in provoking the current climate crisis. But soils can also be a part of the solution, to a much greater extent than is commonly acknowledged.