Marion, Author at Transition Town Media

Time to Raise Our Consciousness About Ecocide

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Ecocide is the willful destruction of the natural environment by human activity such as harmful industrial activity, land use causing habitat destruction, and practices resulting in pollution of air, land and water. Some examples of harmful practices are fossil fuel extraction, deforestation, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and greenhouse gases. Climate change, increasing disease and infant mortality rates, ocean dead zones, and animal, insect and plant…

How Regenerative Agriculture Can Reverse Climate Change

Posted on February 7, 2019

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It’s time to stop ignoring the obvious. Climate change is now an emergency for humanity. One way to stop runaway climate is to change farming practices that damage ecosystems and biodiversity. Rodale Institute research proves regenerative agriculture has the potential to reverse climate change by sequestering more than 100% of current CO2 levels. In my blog, A New Look at Climate Change, I said that…

How You Can Convince Others to Take Action on Climate Change

Posted on January 30, 2019

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There is a rapidly closing window to transform the economy and avoid climate catastrophe. — Professor Katrina Brown, Exeter University The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported an ominous fact: we have twelve years to address climate change. Will this latest report change attitudes about climate and finally cause us to take action? It appears some people have…

Three Easy Ways You Can Help Stop Climate Change

Posted on January 23, 2019

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Do what you can with what you have, where you are. –Theodore Roosevelt Feeling helpless to do anything about our climate change crisis? Here are three simple ways you can make a difference. 1. Plant a tree. Trees help stop climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere, and storing carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves. A healthy tree can…

Six in Ten Americans Want Action On Climate

Posted on January 10, 2019

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Most Americans agree: We have to solve the climate crisis. According to Quinnipiac University researchers, 63 percent of American voters believe the US should be doing more to address climate change. At a time when we can’t agree on much, people across party lines want our legislators to work on resolving the climate crisis now. We need to be persistent in telling legislators…

Time to Raise Our Consciousness About Ecocide

How Regenerative Agriculture Can Reverse Climate Change

How You Can Convince Others to Take Action on Climate Change

Three Easy Ways You Can Help Stop Climate Change

Six in Ten Americans Want Action On Climate

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