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Survey Says: Nutrient Levels Vary Greatly In Bionutrient’s First Annual Report

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The Bionutrient Food Association (BFA) has recently found that the same crops grown under different conditions offer wide variations in nutrient levels, which should be of major interest to consumers. In fact, antioxidant, polyphenol and mineral levels in carrots and spinach appear to vary significantly from sources such as farms, farmers markets and stores, researchers […]

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‘Redribble-ize’ the Earth: Basketball Court Art Installation Explores Environmental Themes, Replenishes Soils

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When it comes to communicating the brilliant, practical, natural and economic solution that is rock dust, a creative remineralization basketball court provides the ‘slam-dunk’ combination of educational art and inspirational play.

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Cannabis to the Rescue: Flowering Herb Offers Effective, Economic Means of Capturing CO2

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Equinox Farm’s Ted Dobson showing the soil where cannabis will be grown.   Cannabis may very well be the ‘drug of choice’ in terms of organically sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide through agricultural production, aided by the highly-effective, natural solution that is rock dust remineralization. “I’ve been fascinated with remineralizing for decades,” says Ted Dobson, general

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Soil Remineralization Shapes Yields and Elevates Food Nutrition: An Interview with Philipp Swoboda

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Philipp Swoboda grew up with a forest bordering his family’s hillside home in Austria, which he believes contributed greatly to his early love of nature. Throughout his upbringing, being in and around nature was essentially the norm. Although he lived on the outskirts of an urban area, Philipp recalls his passion for exploring the forest

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Life from Rock: EcoStone Changing the Landscape of Farming

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Guido A. López Cárdenas with a crop of table grapes in Spain grown with EcoStone. (Disponible en español.) EcoStone is a mineral fertilizer that not only meets the strictest criteria of organic agriculture, but also promises to significantly boost crop productivity and nutrient density to feed a growing population’s growing appetite. With 92 natural elements

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A Visit to André Leu’s Regenerative Organic Fruit Farm in Queensland

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Disponible en español. “When Leu bought his 150-acre farm 20 years ago in the Daintree region of northern Australia, the land had been degraded, the native tropical rainforest destroyed. He knew most of the property would be worth far more by returning it back to the natural primary forest, so that’s just what he did.

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Remineralize the Earth Launches Fundraising Campaign on Patreon

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One of the most important things humans can do as constructive passengers aboard Spaceship Earth is to help restore the health of our planet’s soils and climate. Remineralize the Earth was one of the first organizations to identify and accept that challenge. Joanna Campe introduced me to the concept of remineralization over twenty years ago.

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The Ecoagro Revolution in Mexico

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Bernardo Castro Medina at the ECOAGRO expo in 2012. Diagram shows progressive loss of soils through erosion and remineralization as a solution.   Conventional agriculture practices are causing severe damage to the soils, due in part to the indiscriminate use of fertilizers and chemical products applied to feed plants and control diseases in crops. Recently,

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The Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation – Advancing remineralization into the mainstream

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Responding to climate change is one of the most complicated and one of the most long-term projects humanity has ever undertaken. If we’re going to manage this challenge, it’s going to involve new policies, new laws, and new ways of behaving. We have to think not of ourselves (that in itself is a challenge for

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Documenting Reasons for Optimism: Mitigating Climate Change through Soil Restoration

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It is important to document reasons for optimism, focusing on the future we want to achieve. Several trends, in particular trends regarding soil regeneration, support optimism about the environment. We need to build upon these positive trends, while resisting the negative ones. For years while I was in Geneva, Switzerland, I published and edited the

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