Apr 10, 2017 · Sustainable agriculture 101. OK, so sustainable agriculture is the wave of the future. But what is it, exactly? Sustainability has many facets. Environmental sustainability, for example, means good stewardship of the natural systems …

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Mar 12, 2018 · 2. Electric vehicles cut your emissions. Even when the electricity used to fuel an EV comes from the dirtiest coal-dominated grid in the US, EVs still produce less global warming pollution than their conventional counterparts.

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Oct 22, 2024 · A Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report released today outlines how decades of car-oriented policies promoted by the powerful auto, oil and road-building industries created the car dependency we have today and shows how that system, paid for by ordinary people, negatively impacts marginalized groups. The study also provides a vision for a transportation system that prioritizes options ...

Nov 10, 2021 · For years, discussions of world hunger have contended with an ugly, persistent, and deeply problematic idea: there are simply too many people to feed in the world.In the 1960s, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich claimed in his book The Population Bomb that the world would run out of food, water, and other resources without steps to control population.

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