From beer to slaughterhouses: Earth Week in New England

This 12 months for Earth Week, April 18, 2022 – April 22, 2022, NHPR and its associate stations within the New England Information Collaborative are sharing tales on how local weather change is impacting meals techniques in our area. And we’ll take a look at the ways in which New Englanders are adapting to a altering setting.

Meals techniques are the sum of the meals chain—from provide and manufacturing of crops, livestock, fish, and different agricultural merchandise to transportation, processing, retailing, wholesaling, in addition to the preparation of meals to disposal of waste.

On NHPR, search for reporting on-air Throughout Morning Version and All Issues Thought of in addition to on NHPR.org and the NHPR app, together with information from NHPR’s local weather change reporter Mara Hoplamazian on the slaughterhouse scarcity in New England, reported via the lens of a New Hampshire farmer who’s making an attempt to alter that – and begin a brand new form of slaughterhouse.

Additionally on NHPR, try By Levels, a local weather change reporting mission that tells tales of challenges and options in addition to particular person tales of resilience and wrestle, innovation and compromise, and of massive change by levels.

Different Earth Week tales from the Collaborative embody:

• New England’s maple syrup manufacturing and the way one Maine county is poised to develop into one of many final outposts of an trade weak to a altering local weather.
• The motion for New England beer to develop into totally native, and what this implies to the setting.
• How cities and cities throughout New England are exploring methods to get meals merchandise out of trash bins – and into compost bins.

The New England Information Collaborative is a consortium of 9 public media stations within the area working collectively to coordinate information protection, share reporting and advance finest practices in all facets of journalism. The NENC is a member of CoveringClimate Now, a world journalism collaboration devoted to protecting the local weather story.