I am part of the group Basil and Cheese, the best group of them all, and we decided to focus on food. I had food in the national perspective (link: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/basilandcheese/?p=5 ). The article that I read was an interview of sorts of  Wes Jackson. He talked about how a new type of farming could ease the strain on the environment and the agriculture industry’s carbon footprint. These news farms are called Perennial Polycultures and more closely resemble nature, with many of species of plants living in one area. The main benefit to this style is that the farm itself is sustainable, therefore it does not need to be replanted every year. This has several benefits to the environment, all that are discussed in my article. This is an issue that should be addressed because farming has become extremely industrialized and unnatural. Our system (called Annual Monocultures) harms the land and creates involuntary greenhouse gasses such as the fuel it takes to bring new seeds or pesticides to farms. In addition to this the process is extremely chemical, destroying small animals including insects, causing harm on their ecosystems. This new, revolutionary, way of looking at farming will hopefully do something to soften our blow on the environment.