{"id":40506,"date":"2018-11-14T07:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40506"},"modified":"2018-11-14T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:42:58","slug":"fight-climate-change-in-your-own-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40506","title":{"rendered":"Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"content-header\" class=\"article-header col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10\">\n<h3 id=\"content-title\" class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/planet\/fight-climate-change-in-your-own-garden-20181112\"><span id=\"parent-fieldname-title-0efcf1524ef34c228d06a0a263760d8a\" class=\"\">Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"content-description\" class=\"article-description\"><strong><span id=\"parent-fieldname-subheadline-0efcf1524ef34c228d06a0a263760d8a\" class=\"\">Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-lead-image-row\" class=\"row\">\n<figure class=\"article-lead-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" img-responsive no-min\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/planet\/fight-climate-change-in-your-own-garden-20181112\/victory-garden.jpg\/image\" alt=\"victory-garden.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"840\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"story-content\" class=\"col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-10\">\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text-0efcf1524ef34c228d06a0a263760d8a\" class=\"\">\n<p>During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/americas-patriotic-victory-gardens\" target=\"_self\">planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables<\/a>.\u00a0The food would go to allies in Europe, where there was a food crisis. These so-called \u201cvictory gardens\u201d declined when WWI ended but resurged during World War II. By 1944, nearly 20 million victory gardens\u00a0 produced about 8 million tons of food.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the nonprofit Green America is trying to bring back victory gardens as a way to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Jillian Semaan, food campaigns director at Green America, who added that the organization wants \u201cto allow people to understand shifting garden practices towards regenerative agriculture and what it means for reversing climate change and sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back into the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization is doing that through an educational video and a mapping project. Recently, more than 900 people added their gardens or farms to the Climate Victory Garden map that tracks U.S. agricultural activities that use regenerative practices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\" embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGreenamerica%2Fvideos%2F2002288903394427%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/just-transition\/how-to-feed-ourselves-in-a-time-of-climate-crisis-20170908\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/srccs\/\">has said<\/a>\u2014and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/pdf\/session48\/pr_181008_P48_spm_en.pdf\">continues to reiterate<\/a>\u2014that carbon sequestration accounts for a large portion of global agricultural mitigation potential. Globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2es.org\/content\/international-emissions\/\">agriculture accounts for 11 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans<\/a>, according to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables.\u00a0The food would go to allies in Europe, where there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[113,22962,141,22963,1912,346,369,22965,5720,5161,440,22964,19386,716,6085],"class_list":["post-40506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-center-for-climate-and-energy-solutions","tag-climate-change","tag-deonna-anderson","tag-food-production","tag-gardening","tag-global-warming","tag-green-america","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-jillian-semaan","tag-regenerative-agriculture","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-yes-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506\/revisions\/40507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}