Last week I introduced a series of frequently asked questions and began by addressing the first: The EPA says agriculture only accounts for 6% of US greenhouse gas emissions. Shouldn’t we focus our efforts on bigger problems such as coal fired power plants and automobile emissions instead? Today I’ll address the following: Do “food miles” […]
Some time ago I was asked to present at the Cultivating Regional Food Security Conference in Seattle on the topic of “research debunking food system assumptions related to climate change and food”. In preparing the presentation, I decided to address the five most common questions addressed to me regarding agriculture, food and climate change.
When I was young, my Grandfather’s most frequent complaint was that the rain “stopped at one fence-line, leap-frogged our farm, and started again at the next fence-line.” If I hadn’t seen it happen so many times myself, I don’t think I would have believed him. Growing up in a farm family from arid Eastern Washington, […]