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A Wake Up Call From “The Dust Bowl”
Filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest documentary “The Dust Bowl” aired on PBS in November, serves as a reminder and wake-up call about the threats posed by climate change to agriculture. The documentary,...
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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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Making the Climate Case for Farmland Protection
California Must Protect Farmland on Urban Edges to Meet Climate Protection Goals A new CalCAN report says that California’s farmland is at risk from traditional pressures like urban sprawl and new ones...
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California Farmland Protection Act (AB 823)
CalCAN, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers and the American Farmland Trust are co- sponsoring a bill (AB 823) in the California legislature to require permanent protection of one acre of...
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Strategic Growth Council Re-Commits to Funding At-Risk Farmland Conservation
The Strategic Growth Council (SGC) yesterday voted unanimously to approve the 2017 program guidelines for the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program (SALC), thereby ensuring that ten...
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Funding Available for Conservation of At-Risk Ag Land
The Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program (SALC Program) is now accepting applications for Agricultural Conservation Easement grants and Agricultural Land Strategy and Outcome grants....
View ArticleFarmers Urge Governor-elect Brown to Tackle Climate Change Impacts on...
CalCAN has released a set of recommendations to Governor-elect Jerry Brown. The report, California Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Policy Recommendations for the Next California Governor, outlines a...
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What do COVID-19 AND Climate Change Have in Common? They Both Threaten the...
This is reposted from American Farmland Trust. Click here to view the original article. American Farmland Trust’s new report shows how the destruction of California’s prime agricultural land is...
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Investments Increase Affordable Housing, Farmland Protection But Pandemic...
As legislative leaders have returned to Sacramento and begin to address the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) today released its report,...
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