by Deborah Phelan | Mar 8, 2017 | Climate Change, Food Security, Gender Equity
It’s International Women’s Day and while many are asserting their inherent value by participating in “A Day Without A Woman’ events, small scale female farmers in the developing world don’t have the luxury of taking a day off from their...
by Deborah Phelan | Feb 19, 2017 | Climate Change, COP21
As signatories to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement anticipate the announcement that the United States is withdrawing its support for the historic document, climate activist organizations are launching a grassroots campaign to pressure their elected representatives to...
by Deborah Phelan | Feb 16, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Food Security, Global Goals, Hunger
The same region in the Horn of Africa which experienced severe famine back in 2011 is once again devastated by a record breaking drought, which threatens to undermine success gained in helping communities cope with the ravages of extreme weather and climate change....
by Deborah Phelan | Sep 20, 2016 | biochar, Climate Change, Cookstoves, Real Life Story, Youth, Youth and Climate Change
Boy Scouts from Elk Grove Troop 118 convened at Elk Grove Regional Park Sunday to test drive six Climate Rescue Can Cookstoves they constructed as part of 2050kids Cookstove Challenge. The scouts reported construction times which ranged from two to six and a half...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
A USDA research team investigating the ancient soil amendment biochar to address food security is suggesting that, with its potential to store one gigaton of carbon per year by 2050, biochar could be a “game changer” in addressing global warming. In field and lab...
