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other crises we face— or five decades, our health and farmers human rights not being able to make activist, journala living, for example. It’s ist and author Ronnie about identifying regenCummins has camerative practices around paigned for natural the world, publicizing health and the environthem and changing ment. Since he copublic policy. We use founded the Organic the slogan, “Healthy Consumers Association soil, healthy ecosystem, in 1998, the nonprofit healthy plants, healthy has grown to a network food, healthy people, that’s 2 million people healthy animals, healthy strong, dedicated to climate.” All these living promoting organic systems are interconfood, regenerative nected. Regeneration of farming and commerce Every time you pull one system impacts anthrough global initiaother, which will lead to tives that integrate pubout your wallet, you stabilizing the climate. lic education, marketare either casting your place pressure, media vote for regeneration outreach, litigation and What’s the grassroots lobbying. or the continuation of difference His latest book, degeneration. Everything between organic Grassroots Rising: A Call and regenerayou buy is a vote. to Action on Climate, tive farming? Farming, Food and Regenerative farming is a Green New Deal (ChelseaGreen.com/product/grassroots-rising), simply the next stage of organic, focusing on soil health, carbon sequestration and focuses on Regeneration International, a ecosystem restoration. We call it “regeneraglobal network that he and other advocates tive organic” because people understand spawned in 2015 with a goal to reverse global organic. But when we devised organic warming and end world hunger by acceleratstandards, we didn’t completely understand ing the transition to regenerative agriculture soil biology and the carbon cycle. Now and land management. we know that there’s important biological life below the soil. We understand carbon What is Regeneration sequestration. Regenerative organic farmInternational? ing rebuilds the soil, which improves food, It’s a movement that spread when people health and eventually, the climate. It’s a started to understand that the climate crisis transformation of the food system. was very, very serious and connected to
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