Natural Awakenings Twin Cities November 2019

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Hot Habits
Phoenix Shifts to a Cooler Night Mode
Phoenix, which had 128 days
at or above 100 degrees
Fahrenheit last year, is one
of the hottest and fastestwarming
cities in the U.S.,
and most American cities are
expected to drastically heat
up in the next decades with
heat waves and triple-digit
days. In the Valley of the
Sun, work and play are shifting
into the cooler hours.
Neighborhoods are active
at dawn and dusk when residents hike, jog and paddleboard.
Last year, heat caused or contributed to the deaths
of 182 people in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
Ariane Middel, a professor of urban climate at Arizona
State University, says, “We are almost a living laboratory.
We can test strategies and see different ways to keep
adapting and mitigating. By the time it gets hot in other
places, they can take what we have learned here.”
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Abandoned Crops
Economics Drive Farm Food Losses
Farmer Cannon Michael left more than 100 acres of ripe
cantaloupes unharvested last year because he couldn’t
sell them for enough to cover the cost of labor, packing
and shipping. According to a new study from Santa
Clara University, in California, about one-third of
edible produce remains unharvested in the
fields, where it rots and gets plowed
under. Most research on food loss
and food waste has focused on
post-harvest, retail and consumer
levels. The new study
offers a far more accurate
look at on-farm food loss
by relying on in-field
measurements. ReFED,
a coalition of nonprofits,
businesses and government
agencies that fight
food loss and food waste,
estimates that 21 percent of
water, 18 percent of cropland
and 19 percent of fertilizer in the
U.S. are dedicated to food that is
never eaten.
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