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Mayor Eric Garcetti in April 2019 released Los Angeles’ Green New Deal, which sets aggressive goals for the city’s sustainable future, tackles the climate emergency with accelerated targets, strengthens our economy and our middle class, and sets L.A. on course to be carbon neutral by 2050.

“Politicians in Washington don’t have to look across the aisle in Congress to know what a Green New Deal is — they can look across the country, to Los Angeles,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “With flames on our hillsides and floods in our streets, cities cannot wait another moment to confront the climate crisis with everything we’ve got. L.A. is leading the charge, with a clear vision for protecting the environment and making our economy work for everyone.”

L.A.’s Green New Deal is guided by four key principles: a commitment to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement; a promise to deliver environmental justice and equity through an inclusive green economy; a plan to ensure every Angeleno has the ability to join the green economy by creating pipelines to good paying, green jobs; and a determination to lead by example within City government, showing the world what an urban Green New Deal looks like in practice. More- click here…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more.

And there’s enough room, Swiss scientists say. Even with existing cities and farmland, there’s enough space for new trees to cover 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers), they reported in Thursday’s journal Science . That area is roughly the size of the United States.

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As the urban agriculture movement has become more mainstream in recent years, so has the amount of content and ideas about it as well. Urban farming is often touted as a solution to climate change, food security, personal empowerment, economic development or the savior of the pending collapse of the global food system. It may very well be many or some of these things. When a movement gains popularity, it’s original purpose and ideas can get diluted, much like a game of telephone. Adding more people to the conversation can undoubtedly bring a lot of creative and innovative ideas, but like anything that grows, some ideas work, and others don’t. That’s part of the evolution….by Curtis Stone

https://medium.com/@urbanfarmercstone/what-urban-agriculture-is-and-what-it-is-not-1c9790520817