Much fertilizer production relies on natural gas or coal, accounting for just over 2% of the world’s climate-warming emissions, and chemical fertilizers contribute to agricultural runoff that ...

If you don’t the chemical pesticides and fertilizers can contaminate the water supplies. More sustainable in the long run: Organic lawn care can be time consuming at first.

In fact, chemical fertilizers have extensively damaged our soils in Africa. We need to think of our soils in a more holistic way,” she said. The soil health summit by the African Union — which in 2006 ...