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TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to say no to solar geoengineering!“[W]hen you start to reflect light away from the planet, you can easily imagine a chain of events that would extinguish life on earth.”That’s what David Keith, one of the world’s top solar engineering scientists, told the New Yorker about his own life’s work.With a warning like that, it’s easy to see why Mexico is banning solar geoengineering. That, and the fact that a start-up called “Make Sunsets” was caught trying to block the sun in Baja California Sur—without permission from, or even notifying, the government!Moving in the other direction, the Biden Administration is officially exploring ways to stop sunlight from reaching the Earth, while the European Union has recently floated “a potential international framework” for going forward with research into this misguided and ineffective attempt to address the global climate crisis.Few policy makers in the U.S. have tried to wrap their heads around this issue, but a group of Rhode Island state legislators have drafted a bill, the Atmosphere Protection Act that’s a great introduction.TAKE ACTION: Tell your state legislators to say no to solar geoengineering!

People are worried about the biolabs in their backyards. From Boston, Massachusetts, to Manhattan, Kansas, to Berkeley, California, activists have tried to stop risky gain-of-function research to weaponize potential pandemic pathogens.TAKE ACTION: Ask your state legislators to ban gain-of-function biolabs

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

Elizabeth Henderson has farmed at Peacework Farm in Wayne County, New York, producing organically grown vegetables for the fresh market for over 30 years. Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and other publications, and she is the lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture.The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases. Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/

The Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal Podcast is a series of conversations with members of a national coalition representing more than 10,000 rural and urban farmers and ranchers in the U.S. The coalition is committed to advancing food and agriculture policies that support organic, regenerative and agro-ecological food production and land-management practices that restore soil health and reduce greenhouse gases.Learn more here: https://regenerationinternational.org/farmers-ranchers-green-new-deal/