Sustainable food and ag folks offer their elevator pitches for Obama 3

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   Backcut Posted 11:52 pm
   06 Nov 2008

   USDA-Forest Service"Support good management that enables soil, forests, and plants to store vast quantities of carbon."
   Since the Forest Service IS a part of the USDA, let's hear Obama's plan to accomplish the above task. I expect that it will be more of the same forest destruction that both eco-groups and the Bush Administration embraced for 8 years.
   Let's see what will be the Obama Administration's response to the mega-disaster that is our National Forests. Denial will surely be the first response, I'm thinking.
   
   
   
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   Pangolin Posted 4:32 am
   07 Nov 2008

   Access to land. At my local farmers market I don't see many young people in their 20's working on diversified agriculture. Fertile land close to cities is held in suburban ranchettes that split that land into 5 acre plots that grow grass or, at most, a few bored riding horses.
   The prices of truck garden land is completely beyond the expected income earning ability of a small farmer. Exactly how a person starts farming without inheriting land is a mystery to me. It could be a mystery to everybody else also.
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   annajennifer Posted 1:07 pm
   09 Nov 2008

   climate changeIn the past decade, it has been called everything from the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" to the "greatest challenge to face man". There have been conventions, coalitions, and conferences held in its name. Hundreds of politicians have discussed, debated and even come to agree on possible solutions armed with which we might stand and face its impending challenge. Thousands of scientists have released studies, statements, and reports documenting its harmful and possibly even apocalyptic consequences for all of the world's biodiversity. Millions of people have individually altered their own lifestyles and together they have walked and run and biked in fierce protest. The issue at hand is climate change, and it has literally and figuratively taken every corner of our world by storm. People are increasingly aware that this environmental threat could be the defining issue of our time.
   In the face of this global challenge, older generations are coming to the table to work towards a remedy. However, in energy, productivity, and creativity an ever-growing youth movement has eclipsed their efforts. Self-mobilized youth around the world are currently pursuing just and sustainable solutions to global warming with the maturity and sense of urgency necessary in these pressing times.
   
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