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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution this week declaring each Monday to be "Veg Day."
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At the World Dairy Summit yesterday, industry associations from around the world signed a pact to reduce emissions associated with milk production, as well as develop and share innovations for lower-impact milk processing, packaging and distribution.
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A wine producing culture and industry that took centuries to cultivate may evaporate if nothing is done to address climate change, a new report has found.
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While some have trouble imagining what the worst impacts of climate change will look like, the effects are apparent today and projected to get dramatically worse if nothing is done to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. For the business community, this means shipping delays, more insured losses, constrained energy supplies and a decline in some tourism-based activities.
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A Worldwatch Institute report cautions against developing a climate change mitigation strategy without including agricultural and land use policies.
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The South American country will see a sharp decline in the amount of coffee, soy, corn, cassava and grain it produces, and could reportedly see losses of up to $14 billion by 2070. Only sugar-cane crops will benefit from the weather changes, says a report from the country's agricultural research arm.
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Global warming could slash productivity in prime U.S. wine-making areas like California's Napa and Sonoma valleys by century's end, leaving some of the best temperatures for grape-growing in New England, researchers reported on Monday.
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Climate change provides many new opportunities for British farmers, like tea and energy crops, but also poses challenges including the threat of new insects and diseases, a British government minister said.
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European policy makers must stimulate alternatives to fuels derived from edible oils to resolve a growing conflict between the food sector and biodiesel producers, an industry association says.
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Marks & Spencer has sought to bolster its credentials as a global citizen by announcing it would be Britain's first major retailer to sell clothing made purely from Fairtrade cotton.
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There's an even bigger winner in the green fuel revolution than the environment -- U.S. farmers.
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Ghana is leading efforts to use waste from cocoa farming to produce household products and drinks -- from fertilizer and soap to wine and brandy -- that will boost income for poor farmers.
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Some New Jersey farmers are putting solar power systems over barn roofs and fields to make electricity for their homes, farm buildings and irrigation systems -- and reducing pollution at the same time.
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New plants for production of bioethanol fuel entering service in Germany will start consuming significant volumes of grain this year -- but only at very low prices, market players fear.
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Germany is looking to messier energy sources to produce cleaner fuel, showing the world that it is possible use all-natural plant and animal products to run cars and heat homes.
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Biofuels could become a major revenue earner for Britain's arable farmers within 5-10 years, but much will depend on government support, a major study into the U.K. cereals sector has concluded.
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A major cafeteria management chain has rewritten its mission statement to emphasize sustainable agriculture, asking its chefs to use locally grown produce and meat free of hormones, antibiotics, and genetically modified feed.
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Canadian energy firm TransAlta and the Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan are to buy carbon credits from the world’s eighth largest pork producer under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism.
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After launching its Signature Collection online and through phone orders in September 2003, Procter & Gamble's Millstone Coffee brand is introducing two of these specialty coffees to be sold at grocery and retail stores throughout the country starting this fall.
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More than a dozen dairies in California are installing methane capture and power generation equipment. Clean air is one motive; cutting power bills is the other.
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Organic beef producers, once distant outsiders in the $175 billion a year U.S. beef industry, are poised to grab a larger bite of the market this year.
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The companies most famous for their do-gooder business products -- The Body Shop, Ben & Jerry's, Starbucks -- are best-known for catering to first-world customers and tastes. That's part of what makes the Sekem Group's desert experiment so remarkable.
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Measuring the contents of a belching bovine's breath, may not sound like the simplest -- or most appealing -- job, but for a few scientists determined to breed greenhouse friendly animals, it's all part of a day's work.
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A new report shows that environmental leaders in the global food and drug sector financially outperform the sector's environmental laggards.
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Just as Starbucks popularized cappuccinos for mainstream America, a new group wants to put 'ethical' coffee on supermarket shelves across the globe.