NEWSCLOUD

Media with conscience

NewsCloud is an independent, community-powered news site:

  • Keep up with breaking news from around the web.
  • Join in discussions with other readers.
  • Share stories with your friends.
SIGN UP Existing members can sign in here

You were looking for:
To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming

organic_farm_uk_grain.jpg Timothy J. LaSalle is CEO of the Rodale Institute, a 60-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to researching sustainable farming and educating farmers and consumers about the food we eat. He will be contributing posts to TreeHugger as a guest blogger on an ongoing basis. There is no question that a perfect storm of factors – from rising oil prices to the growing climatic impact of global warming – are creating a silent tsunami of global hunger. There is also no question that the world’s most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ah...

Continue to the story