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Humility, caring and wisdom make a better future possible (David Suzuki) For many, the pandemic has renewed our innate appreciation for and connection to nature.
Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution The climate crisis is here, but regenerative agriculture can help fight it. Our newest white paper explores regenerative
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to
UK Environmental Agency Post-Covid Recovery Plan This Action Plan sets out how we will build on our past achievements to accelerate to a fair,
A greener economy: how we make sustainability central to business https://theconversation.com/a-greener-economy-how-we-make-sustainability-central-to-business-139086 The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share Message for
Only One Earth Nature is sending mankind a message, specifically that mankind is on the verge of a breakdown. It is time to wake up.
From Emergency to Emergence. The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains,
Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus From the forests, to our farms, to our gut microbiome https://navdanyainternational.org/one-planet-one-health-connected-through-biodiversity/ Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air
Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference https://thefern.org/ag_insider/al-gore-promotes-carbon-markets-regenerative-agriculture-at-d-c-conference/ How to support your children in turning climate angst into climate action https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-support-your-children-turning-climate-angst-climate-action/
Banking on Climate? https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change_2019_vFINAL1.pdf Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon https://theconversation.com/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon-128307 Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year Teen activist lauded by magazine
If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind As renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting
‘Genius’ Grant Goes To Marine Scientist Who Embraces Flash Mobs And Comic Books https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/25/763456317/genius-grant-goes-to-marine-scientist-who-embraces-flash-mobs-and-comic-books Is Compost the Secret to Making Ag Climate Friendly? A new
Greta Thunberg’s Transatlantic Sailing Trip Is Seriously Carbon-Neutral https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/22/greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-sailing-trip-is-seriously-carbon-neutral/ Walter Jehne – The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123y7jDdbfY
The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller has just launched a new website: https://www.buckminsterfuller.net. The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an
A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay
Climate change and biodiversity should be top headline news (David Suzuki) http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/05/climate-change-and-biodiversity-should-be-top-headline-news We’re Not the Class of 2019. We’re the Class of 0000. Deliver a
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaaw2869 AND New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’ https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/new-paper-proposes-a-science-based-global-deal-for-nature/ Why Is Going
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient People taking the training are often surprised to find out that sustainable ecological farming—and healthy soil—actually
US Youth Climate Strikes https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/climate/greta-thunburg.html THIS IS A CRISIS FACING UP
Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation just announced a bold new plan to curb climate change The One Earth Climate Model says we can curb temperature rises without
We don’t have enough organic farms. Why not? Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace.
FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change
Turn your food scraps into soil BECOME A SOIL MAKER, OR FIND ONE NEAR YOU. MakeSoil.org A Record Number of Scientists Are Running for Congress,
California Climate Strategy An Integrated Plan for Addressing Climate Change http://www.climatechange.ca.gov New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change The first suggestion to Rafe Pomerance that humankind was destroying the conditions necessary for its own
A California City That’s Taking Beauty Seriously Vallejo is working on conserving open space and beautifying the city as part of a national campaign to
Spending time alone in nature is good for your mental and emotional health Today Americans live in a world that thrives on being busy, productive
Moving from sustainable to regenerative farming For those still catching up with sustainable farming, a new trend is on the horizon. The idea of regenerative
Closing the Loop, the world’s first feature-length documentary film on the circular economy. “Unless we go to Circular it’s game over for the planet; it’s game over
This Georgia rancher might be our best hope for a sustainable future Ride shotgun on this game-changing farm in “One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts,” streaming
World’s first plastic-free aisle opens in Netherlands supermarket Campaigners hail progress as Amsterdam store offers dedicated aisle of more than 700 products, with plans for
Will People Eat Relish Made from ‘Waste’ Ingredients? Drexel Study Finds They May Even Prefer It A new Drexel University study found strong potential for
‘It’s shocking, it’s horrendous’: Ellen MacArthur’s fight against plastic She broke the solo record for sailing round the world, but now she is dedicating her
Costa Rica Runs Entirely on Renewable Energy for 300 Days Costa Rica has charted another clean energy accolade. So far this year, the Central American country has
Humility, caring and wisdom make a better future possible Federal support should shift to plant-based agriculture, including trend-setting oat and pea farmers, whose crops are made into meat and dairy alternatives.’
Just what California needs.
This new report shows that the average American household can both fight climate change and save money at the same time.
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/household-savings-report
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World leading scientists put a spotlight on the risks of homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle.
As the world responds to the simultaneous challenges of climate change and increased demands for certain commodities such as food and energy, land use and land cover are changing.
Increasing plantation forestry and agricultural monocultures are turning once diverse landscapes into areas with a single plant species, which affects the terrestrial water cycle.
Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires, floods, droughts and even hurricanes, warns a think-tank group of almost 30 water scientists from 11 countries.
Stable conditions in the atmosphere favor fair weather. However, when the ocean is stable, the layers of the ocean do not mix. Cooler, oxygenated water from beneath does not rise up and deliver oxygen and nutrients to waters near the surface, and warm surface water does not absorb carbon dioxide and bury it at depth.
“The same process, global warming, is both making the atmosphere less stable and the oceans more stable,” said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. “Water near the ocean’s surface is warming faster than the water below. That makes the oceans become more stable.”
New solar-cell design shows potential for increased efficiency
A collaborative research team, consisting of University of Delaware mathematicians and engineers at Pennsylvania State University, has come up with a new design for thin-film solar cells with the potential to significantly increase the efficiency of these flexible panels that convert sunlight into electricity.
For example, standard solar cells, the kind seen on rooftops and in “farms” spread over acres of land, are reasonably efficient and increasingly affordable, but they are heavy and rigid. Thin-film cells —built from lightweight and flexible materials, making them useful for such applications as portable devices and vehicle roofs — are inexpensive and easy to manufacture, but they are much less efficient at converting light into power. Specialized types of thin-film technology are more efficient,
but those cells are manufactured from expensive materials or are not long-lasting, severely limiting their use.
“To be fair, I don’t have any “views on climate change” either. Just like I don’t have any “views” on gravity, the fact that the earth is round, photosynthesis nor evolution… But understanding and knowing their existence really makes life in the 21st century so much easier.”
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