The archive
Agriculture
Nationwide win-win-win opportunities are exceedingly rare. Our nation’s farmers and ranchers are on the frontlines of climate change, but they also have an opportunity to help our planet and increase their profit.
Conservation
As the issues of climate and the environment continue to shape the GOP’s vision for 2022, it is important and encouraging to have conservative leadership from members such as Congressman Westerman. He is offering durable and pragmatic solutions that bolster our natural and economic environment.
Infrastructure
A much wider concept of Sponge Cities is now developing. Often referred to as Ecosystem-based Adaptation, it creates an absorbent urban environment within flood-prone areas, to allow surplus groundwater to drain away safely, or be collected for cleaning and reuse.
Conservation
Our goal should always be sustainable policies that can last for generations. Lincoln, Grant, Harrison, and Roosevelt paved the way for conservation in our country and we should ensure that this practice of conservation continues for many generations to come.
Agriculture
Iron Ox is paving the way toward the future of precision agriculture, one plant at a time.
Conservation
We cannot ignore the current and future impact of climate change on wildfires and other extreme weather events. But focusing solely on climate change misses the forest for the trees. If we ignore forest management and restoration, we’ll have far fewer of them.
Infrastructure
The bill takes important steps forward on energy research, development and demonstration, environmental conservation and remediation and improving several regulatory processes.
Science & Tech
An innovative startup in Maine has prototyped a simple (and brilliant) idea in the up-and-coming field of carbon removal.
Conservation
Identifying opportunities to empower the people who best understand the importance of productive land use, conservation and environmental stewardship will go a long way to meet the administration’s environmental objectives.
Culture
Cotton is a staple product in shirts and jeans, but the carbon emissions released from large agricultural fields are a big contributor to climate change. Regenerative farming offers a solution.
