SOURCE: CSA News, February “Of the 12 most important classes of environmental problems that plagued past societies and threaten us now, at least 10 are also central to agronomy, crop science, and soil science. Agricultural sustainability, in other words, is the heart of global sustainability…”

SOURCE: CSA News, February “When a group of Polynesians arrived some 1,000 years ago on an isolated South Pacific isle known as Easter Island, they encountered a lush, forested landscape. About 700 years later, historians and anthropologists estimate the last tree was axed. Chaos ensued, and the society collapsed in a frenzy of civil war and cannibalism. The fates of failed societies carry a modern day warning: We pursue unsustainable environmental practices and ignore environmental problems at our peril.”

SOURCE: “Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story”, Harvard Business Review, June 20, 2011, t.html Weber, C.L. and Matthews, H.S Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in the United States. Environ. Sci. Technol. 42: Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more greenhouse gas reduction than buying all locally sourced food.