Publication archives

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
According to one account reported in the Financial Times, the first project to claim to offset carbon dioxide emissions resulted from a chief executive officer’s concern about emissions from a yet-to-be constructed coal-fired energy plant in 1987.
Smokestack with emissions
by
Dr. Steve Suppan
The following letter was sent to the National Nanoscale Science Engineering and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on June 16, 2023. 
Watch the recording of our webinar, "Big Meat and Dairy are heating up the planet: Learnings from the Emissions Impossible series" held on June 15, 2023. Download the slides from the presentation here. 
EI promo 3
by
Timothy Wise
I had just returned from an exhilarating, intellectually stimulating week in Mexico City when the news broke that the United States government had escalated its challenge to Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn to the level of a formal dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA).
Maize plot using agroecology farming
by
Erin McKee VanSlooten
Minnesota’s legislative session ended in May, and stakeholders are celebrating big wins for Farm to School and Early Care.
Governor Walz signing 2023 Ag Bill
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Karen Hansen-Kuhn
It seems every day the climate catastrophe inches closer to us. Last week, dense smoke from wildfires in Canada led to severe air quality alerts across the East coast of the United States, with a stinking yellow haze coating the skies.
Deforestation in Equator
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Ben Lilliston
This year, drought is contributing to the largest abandonment of winter wheat acres since 1917 and the shrinking of the U.S.
cornbed