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ing them and changing or five decades, public policy. We use human rights the slogan, “Healthy activist, journalsoil, healthy ecosystem, ist and author Ronnie healthy plants, healthy Cummins has camfood, healthy people, paigned for natural healthy animals, health and the environhealthy climate.” All ment. Since he cothese living systems are founded the Organic interconnected. RegenConsumers Association eration of one system in 1998, the nonprofit impacts another, which has grown to a network will lead to stabilizing that’s 2 million people the climate. strong, dedicated to Every time you pull promoting organic out your wallet, you food, regenerative What’s the farming and commerce are either casting your difference through global initiabetween organic vote for regeneration tives that integrate puband regeneraor the continuation of lic education, marketdegeneration. Everything tive farming? place pressure, media Regenerative farming outreach, litigation and you buy is a vote. is simply the next stage grassroots lobbying. of organic, focusing on His latest book, Grassroots Rising: A soil health, carbon sequestration and ecoCall to Action on Climate, Farming, Food system restoration. We call it “regenerative and a Green New Deal (ChelseaGreen.com/ organic” because people understand orproduct/grassroots-rising), focuses on Reganic. But when we devised organic stangeneration International, a global network dards, we didn’t completely understand that he and other advocates spawned in 2015 with a goal to reverse global warming soil biology and the carbon cycle. Now we know that there’s important biological and end world hunger by accelerating the life below the soil. We understand carbon transition to regenerative agriculture and sequestration. Regenerative organic farmland management. ing rebuilds the soil, which improves food, health and eventually, the climate. It’s a What is Regeneration transformation of the food system.
International?
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, publiciz-
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