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Lizzie Rivera explores the connection between soil health and human health in celebration of all the farmers – organic and otherwise – who are reversing environmental damage, cultivating biodiversity and harvesting hope
When their buyers closed up shop, some farmers created new opportunities by collaborating with their neighbors.
https://civileats.com/2020/09/14/for-small-farms-surviving-the-pandemic-co-ops-are-a-lifeline/
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/public-wants-science-based-policies-for-covid-19
https://www.politicallore.com/a-concept-city-designed-to-withstand-epidemics/23447
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2020/09/agricultural-science-professors-working-to-bring-the-farm-home/
Biodiversity – the rich diversity of life on Earth – is being lost at an alarming rate. This loss effects our own health and well-being. Today, catastrophic impacts for people and the planet loom closer than ever.
https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-us/
We need a robust circular economy for water, our most useful resource
https://medium.com/circulatenews/the-power-of-water-a23d57853686
Our energy hunger is tethered to our economic past
https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/thermoeconomics/
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
The Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy And she has a plan to do it. http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-woman-aiming-to-get-50-million-americans-into-the-worker-owner-economy-20171026 Global atmospheric CO2 levels
In an exclusive extract from her new book, the actor recalls the beginnings of her climate crisis protests outside the White House
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/05/jane-fonda-if-greta-thunberg-can-do-it-so-can-i
https://news.yale.edu/2020/09/04/lighting-way-new-solar-fuels-science
https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat/cm6g4gwy6x0icmtp0072wyglve005i
List comes after Trump order in June directed agencies to use emergency authority to speed projects amid economic downturn
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/11/science.abe7391?rss=1
https://climateaction100.wpcomstaging.com/about-us/
https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/cw2020/bill-mckibben-vote-as-if-life-on-earth-depends-on-it
Fast Fact Friday: Rights of Nature
(video; 2:15 mins.)
https://celdf.org/advancing-community-rights/rights-of-nature/
INVISIBLE HAND: A FILM BY MELISSA A. TROUTMAN & JOSHUA B. PRIBANIC
(85 minutes) https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/
Farmers from across the Americas are working together to envision a new food system based on food sovereignty and political justice.
The Problem With Microplastics
https://theaseanpost.com/article/problem-microplastics
In the meantime, nonsensically, we carry on drilling. As pointed out
earlier in the week, despite this, and the climate emergency, California alone has approved 1,679 new drilling permits this year.
http://priceofoil.org/2020/09/18/a-dying-industry-is-leaving-a-deadly-legacy/
Vast majority of world’s electricity companies remain heavily invested in fossil fuels.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/31/only-one-in-10-utility-firms-prioritise-renewable-electricity-global-study
Criticism without Critique: A Climate Camp Reader from January 2010
https://dysophia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cca_reader.pdf
Space for Movement: Bolivian Climate Justice
https://spaceformovement.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/space_for_movement2.pdf
Contours of Climate Justice Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237630594_Contours_of_Climate_Justice_Ideas_for_shaping_new_climate_and_energy_politics
Private markets promise farmers monetization of a secondary crop: carbon stored in the soil. But questions loom about data ownership, consolidation, and increased pollution in communities of color.
https://civileats.com/2020/09/24/are-carbon-markets-for-farmers-worth-the-hype/
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/09/18/coal-mining-svalbard-glacier-flood/
For decades David Attenborough delighted millions with tales of life on Earth.
But now the broadcaster wants us to face up to the state of the planet.
Engineer’s Undergraduate Research Could Make Solar Energy More Efficient.
Pitt students have created a type of self-cleaning glass that allows more solar energy
to reach the power-generating portion of solar panels.
https://www.giveto.pitt.edu/s/1729/18/interior-giving.aspx?sid=1729&gid=2&pgid=4072&cid=9135&ecid=9135&crid=0&calpgid=2135&calcid=3585
Why science takes so long: University of Toronto’s Ross Upshur on our evolving understanding of COVID-19
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/why-science-takes-so-long-u-t-s-ross-upshur-our-evolving-understanding-covid-19
Deep-sea coral reefs face challenges as changes to ocean chemistry triggered
by climate change may cause their foundations to become brittle, a study suggests.
The underlying structures of the reefs – which are home to a multitude of aquatic life –
could fracture as a result of increasing ocean acidity caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2020/ocean-acidification-risks-deep-sea-reef-collapse
From Berryessa to Klamath Mountains, High-Severity Burns Quadrupled During Warm Drought.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/wildfire-rise-1984-northern-californias-coastal-ranges
Minnesota ranch works to bring regenerative ag to leather products
https://www.startribune.com/farm-renegade-tackles-new-industry-fashion/572395492/
This duo is rebuilding bee habitats with a 13-mile stretch of pollinator gardens through Newport News, Virginia.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teens-saving-city-bees_n_5f3e8068c5b609f4f675af89
While fresh seafood hasn’t traditionally been included in hunger relief programs, advocates say the lean protein is a smart choice that supports local economies.
https://news.westernu.ca/2020/08/study-touts-lower-cost-longer-life-battery/
Utility companies undermining global transition to net-zero emissions
Extinction Rebellion accused the newspapers of
failing to accurately report on climate change.
Human-caused climate change has made the world warmer than it used to be, and the consequences have started to show.
With global heating, expect more inferno seasons:
Pacific Coast Climate Apocalypse
Talking about weather records feels pointless when every year is certain to be hotter than the last.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/those-orange-western-skies-and-the-science-of-light/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-13/climate-change-wildfires-california-west-coast
Never before has the biosphere, the thin layer of life we call home, been under such intensive and urgent threat. Deforestation rates have soared as we have cleared land to feed ever-more people, global emissions are disrupting the climate system, new pathogens threaten our crops and our health, illegal trade has eradicated entire plant populations, and non-native species are outcompeting local floras. Biodiversity is being lost – locally, regionally and globally.
In much of the world, safe drinking water is unavailable in people’s homes. When water is not available from managed sources like this store in San Borja, Bolivia, people need to acquire water in other ways.
Take it from me: You don’t want to go through what we did. Every community deserves water, life, and dignity.
The use of wide-ranging utility patents by a few powerful multinational corporations could make it harder for small companies to breed future crops.
Researchers need our help to advocate for policies that will protect insect populations.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/04/is-there-life-beyond-plastic/
Coca-Cola accounts for 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging annually, which roughly accounts for 200,000 bottles every minute.
Lizzie Rivera explores the connection between soil health and human health in celebration of all the farmers – organic and otherwise – who are reversing environmental damage, cultivating biodiversity and harvesting hope
When their buyers closed up shop, some farmers created new opportunities by collaborating with their neighbors.
https://civileats.com/2020/09/14/for-small-farms-surviving-the-pandemic-co-ops-are-a-lifeline/
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/public-wants-science-based-policies-for-covid-19
https://www.politicallore.com/a-concept-city-designed-to-withstand-epidemics/23447
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2020/09/agricultural-science-professors-working-to-bring-the-farm-home/
Biodiversity – the rich diversity of life on Earth – is being lost at an alarming rate. This loss effects our own health and well-being. Today, catastrophic impacts for people and the planet loom closer than ever.
https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-us/
We need a robust circular economy for water, our most useful resource
https://medium.com/circulatenews/the-power-of-water-a23d57853686
Our energy hunger is tethered to our economic past
https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/thermoeconomics/
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