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IPCC report says beef and pork consumption must fall by 90%, poultry and milk by 60%, replaced by four to six times more beans and pulses. Or else. As if. Anybody have a better idea?! http://ow.ly/zhCB30myktw

Gotta love this air-cleaning “bench”: The CityTree is a strange mix of bench and hedge… 4m-high vertical garden inhales pollution & exhales fresh air = 275 trees in 1% of the space. Each holds 1,682 pots of moss which extract … Continue reading →

Delta farmer Terry Bremner on another downside of soaring real estate out of synch with local incomes: the ALR is doomed: “The ALR doesn’t work today. It was created 45 years ago when farms were farms– you bought a farm … Continue reading →

VERY disturbing video of farmed salmon processing blood, http://ow.ly/opuv30gS6Vr disease pumping into wild salmon migratory path

Difficult questions about aquaculture: is it really 7x more expensive to raise salmon on land? Is land-based fish farm at Pt. McNeil breaking even or a boondoggle? Should land-based fish farms be close to markets and airports? Check comments. http://ow.ly/3YZP30gBqAk

New nat’l food guide might stop recommending meat + dairy that make people sick http://ow.ly/LA3U30fnfsY http://ow.ly/YSEm30fnfyi

The Berkeley food pyramid: http://ow.ly/d/6vYC

“Big Ag doesn’t feed the world. It feeds cows & pigs & makes trans fats, palm oil, & sugar—foods that make us sick.” http://ow.ly/5eVX30cnkqX

Food has greater potential to help reverse global warming than the energy sector. Paul Hawken’s new book tells how. http://ow.ly/a93330cnjgs

Lake Tahoe gets 8.7 billion gals of water in 2 days. California farms getting watered. Our food source. Thanks be. http://ow.ly/tDWm308Uz9Q