San Francisco and Farming, Food and Climate Change

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This came out a few years ago, but I just came across it today. FABULOUS.

From keynote speech by Michael Pollan on: The Great Challenge: Farming, Food and Climate Change:

"This has caught the attention of the City of San Francisco, which under our climate law is required to offset all their greenhouse gas emissions within the next several years. And they're looking at a plan to take city compost and spread it on all the range lands that the city controls around the reservoirs, the verges along the highways and roads, and they've calculated that if they can spread that half-inch layer of compost on all those lands, they can COMPLETELY mitigate their carbon emissions, year after year after year. They're going to have to do it like every 30 years."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FACA.SC/permalink/330439414189302/

We must find ways to promote and support/fund/incentivize farmers to transition to carbon farming. We can reverse climate change, not just reduce carbon emissions and transition away from fossil fuels: while they are necessary, they could also take decades. We don't have decades. According to scientists, we need to actually REVERSE climate change in the next 2-3 years. We need to reverse climate change now. Also eating/promoting an increasingly plant-rich diet (listed as #4 on Drawdown's list of top 100 solutions to reverse climate change) and reducing food waste (listed as #3 on the Drawdown list) are things we can do every day. We also need to make these into a movement.

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ALL HANDS ON DECK! 
Climate Action: Do it for everyone you LOVE!

Food as Climate Action: Changing how we eat, how we farm, and
reducing food waste are some of the FASTEST and easiest ways to
reverse climate change

. https://www.facebook.com/groups/FACA.SC/

Support Divestment & Public Banking as a way to defund

fossil fuels, protect indigenous and other at-risk communities
AND put money back into our local economy!
http://publicbanksantarosa.org 

Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock - http://sonomasolidarity.org

Because it's not over for Standing Rock! Or the rest of us working to

transition to a sustainable future!

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