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Factfulness: The Book to Combat Modern Despair

By Sarah L. Tichonuk Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Flatiron Books, April 2018) is an extraordinary book. Written by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, the founders of The Gapminder Project, … Continue reading

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Study: Climate Change a Buzzkill for Coffee Producers

By Basil Waugh Global warming could reduce coffee growing areas in Latin America — the world’s largest coffee-producing region — by as much as 88 percent by 2050. That’s a key takeaway of the first major study of climate change’s … Continue reading

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When it Comes to Precipitation, What Will the 2017 Growing Season Bring?

By Cheryl Herrick As we look ahead to our work in the fields this spring, summer, and fall, we’re again thinking a lot about water. Agricultural water quality is a hugely important issue both in and out of Vermont, and … Continue reading

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Climate Talks and the Future of Farming

Hopefully you are already paying attention to the climate talks in Paris because you understand that this might be our last and best hope of achieving a desperately needed binding international agreement to stifle climate change. If that is too … Continue reading

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