Avainsana: agroecology
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Our friends, the trees, support the world – carbon sinks and stores and the importance of trees for life and communities
Trees 🌲🌳🍁 are in many ways the rulers and protectors of the world. Like the Ents from The Lord of the Rings. Out of all the biomass on earth, which is about 600 Gt, 450-500 Gt is in forests. There are no organisms as massive as trees. And there is no larger carbon storage or…
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The cruel reality of meat production – there is no such thing as a happy chicken or a climate-friendly pig
The biggest environmental act you can do is to become a vegetarian, preferably a Vegan. Did you know that more than 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production? This is more than all the traffic in the world combined. A kilo of beef has up to 50 times more climate emissions than…
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Climate change today and the path from extreme disaster to sustainable balance
It finally came to this because of humanity’s greed: A couple of friends in India said that there has been no monsoon for three years and half of the palm leaves have turned yellow and died. A friend in Italy says that local people don’t go out there at all because of the scorching heat.…
Ecoblogi - A Blog by Daniel Elkama 