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By following intensive biological farming practices, Sustainable Cotton Project growers reduced the use of the most toxic pesticides on their cotton. Moreover, they slashed overall pesticide use by up to 70%.

A short documentary produced by the Davis, California-based Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP)has been produced by Gibbs and videographer Liam Creighton. The "Cleaner Cotton" video documents the cotton project's impressive campaign to improve the environment, public health and agriculture economy of Firebaugh, a small rural Central Valley farming town about 40 miles west of Fresno.

"Look at the things we're doing for the community, reducing pesticides in the watershed," Firebaugh grower John Texeira says in the video. The eco-friendly farming practices paid off at harvest, too. "We had yields better than our neighbors."

Indeed, Sustainable Cotton Project growers are leaving an imprint on the San Joaquin Valley, which produces some of the finest cotton in the world, a high-quality fiber that can command a premium price.

The region produces about 90% of the nation's Pima cotton, the Cadillac of cotton in the U.S., rivaling the fine Egyptian quality.

Global Green Cotton Market

In the past six years, participating farmers have produced more than one million pounds of Sustainable Cotton Project's trademarked Cleaner Cotton® for the $5 billion-a-year global green cotton market. The project is working with major retailers such as Gap Inc, Levi Strauss & Co, Williams Sonoma, North Face and others to incorporate the eco-friendly cotton into their product lines.

View "Cleaner Cotton" Online

The cotton video is part of the work of the Sustainable Cotton Project. Learn more at: Cleaner Cotton. The Sustainable Cotton Project is a private non-profit working under the direction of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers in Davis.

Organic Food, Lawns and Gardening for Homes

"Organic" is a production method of caring for the soil and natural resources such as water, wildlife, and native plant colonies to continually replenish the natural system. This makes so much more common sense than forcing fast growth with petroleum based fertilizers, toxic chemicals and unnatural levels of irrigation.

Organic methods are widely accepted in the marketplace with Farmers Markets providing opportunities for local farmers to sell their freshly picked organic produce to local residents.

But local organic production is one kind of organics -- imported products that claim to be organic are entering the grocery store and other food outlets. Transporting foods thousands of miles doesn't keep with the core benefit of organic methods that have proved to be so wise.

Distance not only uses petroleum fuel...but reduces the freshness of the foods that arrive on your plate. How many miles does your food travel -- does it need a passport?

Local organic production provides families with multiple benefits: fresh healthful food, low transportation and carbon impact, stable local economy for local farmers, and cleaner air, cleaner water and less toxins in the community's soil system.

Food isn't the only organic product -- any crop that benefits from clean water, water conservation, soil conservation, and non-toxic chemicals can be grown organically. Growing crops such as cotton organically can dramatically reduce the number of chemicals that go into the natural resources system. Traditional cotton can consume 7 pounds of chemicals for every pound of cotton that ends up in your t-shirts!

Those seven pounds of toxic chemicals aren't necessary, and they aren't very smart.

Out goal with this growing website it to help you locate the best organic alternatives for a green and sustainable home and lifestyle.

Organic Food, Lawns and Fabrics for Offices

Snack rooms, catered lunches and banquets, and juices in the vending machine COULD all be organic. Finding organic foods and beverages is getting easier.

Organic isn't just about taste and food value, it's about clean air, clean water, and even water consevation as organic, natural resource conservation methods are used to grow everything from trees to tobacco to cotton to hemp and flax. Organic is a growing method. And then comes production -- another stage in the organic supply chain that needs to be made more sustainable with low toxic processing chemicals, low energy methods, and socially responsible labor practices.

We'll help you find services and products that honor organic and sustainable agricultural and production methods.

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