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Help farmers manage the risks from more chaotic weather. For example, governments can help farmers grow a wider variety of crops and livestock so one setback doesn’t wipe them out. Governments should also explore strengthening social-security systems and arranging for weather-based agriculture insurance that helps farmers recover their losses. Focu
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Katherine Collins has become an outspoken architect of investment strategies that help propel us toward a circular economy.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
The herbicides and pesticides that are applied to the
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

productive.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

Any student of agrarian societies knows that people inclined to expand agriculture sustainably, without privatizing land or surrendering its management to a class of overseers, have always found ways to do so.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
the real battle to make an existing city such as New York more sustainable may be won in the minds of superintendents managing the metropolis’s roughly one million buildings.
Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
Forests store and regulate water. Wetlands prevent floods and provide water for farmers and cities. Coral reefs are