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the slogan, “Healthy or five decades, soil, healthy ecosyshuman rights tem, healthy plants, activist, journalhealthy food, healthy ist and author Ronnie people, healthy animals, Cummins has camhealthy climate.” All paigned for natural these living systems are health and the environinterconnected. Regenment. Since he coeration of one system founded the Organic impacts another, which Consumers Association will lead to stabilizing in 1998, the nonprofit the climate. has grown to a network that’s 2 million people strong, dedicated to What’s the Every time you pull promoting organic difference out your wallet, you food, regenerative between organic farming and commerce are either casting your and regenerathrough global initiavote for regeneration tive farming? tives that integrate pubor the continuation of Regenerative farming is lic education, marketdegeneration. Everything simply the next stage of place pressure, media organic, focusing on soil outreach, litigation and you buy is a vote. health, carbon sequesgrassroots lobbying. tration and ecosystem His latest book, Grassroots Rising: A Call restoration. We call it “regenerative organic” to Action on Climate, Farming, Food and a because people understand organic. But Green New Deal (ChelseaGreen.com/product/ when we devised organic standards, we grassroots-rising), focuses on Regeneration didn’t completely understand soil biology International, a global network that he and and the carbon cycle. Now we know that other advocates spawned in 2015 with a goal there’s important biological life below the to reverse global warming and end world soil. We understand carbon sequestration. hunger by accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture and land management. Regenerative organic farming rebuilds the soil, which improves food, health and eventually, the climate. It’s a transformation What is Regeneration of the food system.
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It’s a movement that spread when people started to understand that the climate crisis was very, very serious and connected to other crises we face—our health and farmers not being able to make a living, for example. It’s about identifying regenerative practices around the world, publicizing them and changing public policy. We use
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What will it require to achieve the goals of the Green New Deal, which calls for net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2030? First, consumers need to understand the interconnectedness of things so that they
