{"id":257,"date":"2016-12-16T17:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=257"},"modified":"2016-12-16T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:51:00","slug":"from-the-web-patagonia-challenges-businesses-to-support-regenerative-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/12\/16\/from-the-web-patagonia-challenges-businesses-to-support-regenerative-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Patagonia Challenges Businesses to Support Regenerative Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US outdoor clothing giant\u00a0<strong>Patagonia<\/strong>\u00a0is calling for business leaders to back regenerative organic agriculture, claiming that certain textile standards are \u201cnot going far enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/195015181\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\nPatagonia CEO\u00a0<strong>Rose Marcario<\/strong> blogs about <em>regenerative agriculture:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A growing number of corporations, researchers, journalists and practitioners have also started using the term \u201cregenerative\u201d\u2014as well as \u201crestorative,\u201d \u201csustainable,\u201d \u201cethical,\u201d and others\u2014almost interchangeably, without any clear sense of what we\u2019re talking about. Even worse, we\u2019re increasingly seeing \u201csustainable\u201d claims combined with conventional (non-organic) farming, which defeats the purpose entirely. How can you rebuild soil ecosystems while simultaneously pumping the soil with pesticides and herbicides?<\/p>\n<p><em>We shouldn\u2019t tolerate the watering down of agricultural practices that hold potential for enormous benefit to our suffering planet. The risks are simply too great. Meaningless terms with little or no concrete definition inundate consumers at every turn (even the label \u201corganic\u201d can be slippery), causing confusion at best. And some existing standards don\u2019t go far enough. For example, many companies have signed onto the Better Cotton Initiative\u2014a program that includes some important environmental and social provisions but ultimately still perpetuates some harmful conventional practices, including use of synthetic pesticides and GMO seeds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/regenerative-organics-drawing-a-line-in-the-soil\/\">more<\/a><\/strong> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US outdoor clothing giant\u00a0Patagonia\u00a0is calling for business leaders to back regenerative organic agriculture, claiming that certain textile standards are \u201cnot going far enough.\u201d Patagonia CEO\u00a0Rose Marcario blogs about regenerative agriculture: A growing number of corporations, researchers, journalists and practitioners have also started using the term \u201cregenerative\u201d\u2014as well as \u201crestorative,\u201d \u201csustainable,\u201d \u201cethical,\u201d and others\u2014almost interchangeably, without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2016\/12\/16\/from-the-web-patagonia-challenges-businesses-to-support-regenerative-agriculture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Patagonia Challenges Businesses to Support Regenerative Agriculture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[427000,8582,425622,18484],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-leadership","category-renewables","category-videos","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}