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Extreme Weather Due to Global Warming Leads to Food Price Spikes
As the most severe and extensive drought to strike the U.S. in over half a century, the 2012 drought has already brought serious impacts on U.S. agriculture as well as a considerable increase in retail...
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Joe Morris Wins Rangeland Stewardship Award
We are pleased to announce that San Benito rancher Joe Morris of Morris Grassfed Beef has won the 2012 Clarence Burch Award presented by the Quivira Coalition in New Mexico. The award recognizes...
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Honey Carbon Calculator Tracks Honey’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Many California crops rely on bees. As the second largest producer of honey in the United States, every year California takes about 1.5 million bee colonies to pollinate 760,000 acres of almonds trees,...
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Megastorms Could Flood Massive Portions of California
Scientific American recently published an article on “megafloods”, warning that massive floods caused by atmospheric rivers will likely impact California if climate change continues unabated....
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NOAA Announces 2012 As the Warmest Year on Record for Contiguous U.S.
Although not the end of the world, the year 2012 remains unusual for its extreme weather events and natural disasters. According to the scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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California Hits Solar Energy Milestone
The California Public Utilities Commission announced earlier this month that 1,066 megawatts of solar power was installed through the California Solar Initiative (CSI) by the end of December 2012,...
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USDA Report On Climate Change and Agriculture Promotes Sustainable...
On Feb. 4th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report titled “Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation,” concluding that a changing climate would pose...
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IPCC Report Confirms Climate Projections
With more certainty than ever, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has determined it is “extremely likely” that the earth’s warming since 1950 can be attributed to human...
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USDA Launches New Climate Incentives Initiative
On April 23, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the USDA’s new climate change initiative, which will incentivize agricultural producers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increase...
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State Legislators and Staff Learn From Farmers Leading the Way on Climate Change
CalCAN co-organized a Climate Smart Agriculture tour in Sonoma County this week, inviting representatives from six state legislative offices to visit two innovative farms. Co-hosted by Organic Valley,...
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