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Role of technology to fight off COVID-19 pandemic to inevitability of climate crisis, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and development from leading authors
https://nerdist.com/article/people-buy-40-pounds-of-electronics-per-year-report/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remade-institute-announces-35-million-160000858.html
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/interest-surge-in-local-food-grown-using-regenerative-methods/
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/wef-brief-explores-opportunities-for-circular-plastics-economy/
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/22/jamie-henn-stop-adding
The Huffington Post | By Kate Bratskeir Kraft Singles, a type of processed cheese that comes individually wrapped in a thin, plastic film, is the
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Thursday committing the federal government to cutting its own emissions 40 percent by 2025 and
Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth,
Executive Summary Since 2012, the agrichemical and food industries have mounted a complex, multifaceted public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaign in the United States,
The mission of the Chemical Footprint Project is to transform global chemical use by measuring and disclosing data on business progress to safer chemicals. It
In the past twenty years, the emphasis of the waste and resource management sector has moved from landfill to recycling, and there is now a
A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide
First published in October 2011 newsletter of the Northern California Recycling Association ExtendedProducer Responsibility (EPR) is the extension of the responsibility ofproducers for the environmental impacts
If gas were $10/gallon, would we die? Posted by Tom Wright on December 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM In order to run the industrial economy
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in handKeeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to keep the world below dangerous levels of warming.
https://www.earth.com/news/regenerative-ranching-is-a-low-cost-natural-climate-solution/
The Dutch require greenhouses to be climate neutral from 2020. Here’s how they’re doing that.
California apartment buildings are getting virtual power plants.
This free calculator estimates the electricity cost and carbon footprint for nearly every home in the US
https://medium.com/circulatenews/the-power-of-water-a23d57853686
Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to keep the world below dangerous levels of warming.
https://www.earth.com/news/regenerative-ranching-is-a-low-cost-natural-climate-solution/
The Dutch require greenhouses to be climate neutral from 2020. Here’s how they’re doing that.
California apartment buildings are getting virtual power plants.
This free calculator estimates the electricity cost and carbon footprint for nearly every home in the US
https://medium.com/circulatenews/the-power-of-water-a23d57853686
https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/thermoeconomics/
https://www.miragenews.com/how-organic-farming-practices-lead-to-a-circular-economy/
By Tom Philpott
Our food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/26/us-farming-agriculture-food-supply-danger
A new study shows the nutrition and environmental benefits of more than 600 perennial species—from artichokes to chaya—which address climate mitigation, biodiversity, and nutrition.
In this peer-reviewed study, we compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four American families for six days on a non-organic diet and six days on a completely organic diet.
We found that an organic diet rapidly and dramatically reduced exposure to pesticides in just one week.
https://foe.org/organic-for-all/
A new study shows that US families consume cancer-linked glyphosate in their food. The good news: going organic rapidly reduces levels On average, levels across all pesticides dropped by 60.5 percent.
A new artificial neural network model, created by Argonne scientists, handles both static and dynamic features of a power system with a relatively high degree of accuracy.
Industrial runoff and lax standards have tainted water across the US. Senators and doctors are calling me, asking what to do
A new study published by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and partner institutions has proven that repeated and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age occurred simultaneously in South America, Southeast Asia, Europe and Greenland. Abrupt climate change can be as problematic as gradual change and we should deal with the risks associated with abrupt scenarios, suggests a UCPH researcher.
The group aims to “address cascading collapses in biodiversity due to overfishing, human-caused climate change, deep sea mining, and other marine emergencies.”
New Guinea is the world’s largest tropical island and its biodiversity has fascinated naturalists for centuries1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2549-5.epdf
In the Berkshire Mountains, Jen and Pete Salinetti’s regenerative farm practices and commitment to community have them well-positioned for this moment.
https://civileats.com/2020/08/12/farming-is-an-act-of-social-justice-at-woven-roots-farm/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/reusable-packaging-provides-untapped-payoffs-business
https://inhabitat.com/earth-overshoot-day-comes-3-weeks-later-this-year/
Rising consumption by the affluent has a far greater environmental impact than the birth rate in poorer nations
Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant and keep it help firmly in the ground. But not all roots are the same.
https://www.agronomy.org/news/science-news/getting-root-problem
“The devastation wrought by Hurricane Laura is staggering. Climate denial is not a victimless crime, and it’s time for the fossil fuel industry to be held accountable.”
https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat/will-climate-break-through
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/07/30/covid-earth-economy-climate-change/
NormalNOW.com
Electric cars are normal now.
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/what-indigenous-wisdom-can-teach-us-about-economics/
Agroforestry is the intentional combination of woody perennials like trees and shrubs with crops and also livestock to create a resilient “food ecosystem” that benefits farmers, biodiversity and the climate.
https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/assets/biochar.html
As dominant nation in the global fishing industry, yet ranked worst for fishing offenses, China could have a huge positive impact through the new rules — if it enforces them, experts say.
Progressive city councilwoman Michelle Wu’s Green New Deal envisions fare-free transit, cooperative housing and a local conservation corps.
Plans would pay landowners to keep the ecosystem in a natural state to fight climate change.
For decades, Bill McDonough has been leading the movement toward sustainable architecture. His goal is to create a garbage-free society through what he calls “cradle to cradle” design.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/science-rules-with-bill-nye/e/76550199?autoplay=true
LivingPackets is a Berlin-based startup that aims to replace the familiar cardboard box with an alternative that’s smarter, more secure and possibly the building block of a new circular economy.
The primary product created by LivingPackets is called The Box, and it’s just that: a box. But not just any box. This one is reusable, durable, digitally locked and monitored, with a smartphone’s worth of sensors and gadgets that make it trackable and versatile, and an E-Ink screen so its destination or contents can be updated at will.
How governments and the private sector consider the natural environment when constructing policy is being transformed thanks to a new “natural capital” decision-making framework.
Diageo isn’t the only consumer packaged goods (CPG) company to announce paperboard-based “plastic-free” bottles and packaging. Unilever, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola are all on board.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/anita-desikan/150-attacks-on-science-and-counting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/31/coal-ash-epa-trump/
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/tahoes-state-lake-report-2019
Cole added that environmental factors such as increasing indoor air quality or
natural sunlight can have positive impacts on academic learning for young students.
In 2019, 64 countries were paying more in debt payments (multilateral, bilateral and private) than they were spending on health.
https://bluedoormedia.co/2020/08/28/black-wind-turbine-blades-can-reduce-bird-deaths-by-70/
http://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2020/08/13/maldives-records-highest-micro-plastic-pollution/
‘Critical’ questions over disease risks from ocean plastics
Key knowledge gaps exist in our understanding of
how ocean microplastics transport bacteria and viruses – and whether
this affects the health of humans and animals, researchers say.
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/homepage/title_809561_en.html
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Seafood Study Finds Plastic in 100% of Samples
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.0c02337
https://www.ecowatch.com/marine-plastic-waste-2646992655.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
https://www.censored.com.ng/amsterdam/
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2020/08/11/26716
https://resource.co/article/ellen-macarthur-foundation-launches-new-circular-design-toolkit
Google’s parent company will target eight areas, including energy efficiency, clean energy, green buildings, clean transportation and circular economy and design
Killer whales along the Norwegian coast have long classified as fish-eaters. New research shows that some of them also eat seals – and accumulate large amounts of harmful pollutants.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Satellites_provide_crucial_data_on_crops_during_COVID-19
Native bees are at risk across the U.S. “Buzz Kill” — winner of the 2020 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest — depicts the beauty and key ecological role played by these bees and shows how industrialized agriculture and its use of honeybee colonies threatens endemic bee species.
https://www.foodbev.com/news/kind-commits-to-sourcing-almonds-from-bee-friendly-farms/
https://oceans.ubc.ca/2020/08/06/tropicalfisheries/
Local Food: Santa Barbara, CA
Researchers examine food supply chain resiliency in the Pacific during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019989/local-food
Stronger Rains in Warmer Climate Could Lessen Heat Damage to Crops, Says Study
Lithium lanthanum titanate particles enable high power densities even in micrometer sizes – publication in Nature Communications
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2020/08/10/26710
British fossil fuel giant and sixth biggest polluter of all time, BP, is making a move away from continued fossil fuel extraction. BP has announced plans to cut extraction of fossil fuels to 40 per cent below 2019 rates by the year 2030. This, as Oil Change International notes, is the first commitment “from a Big Oil and Gas company to recognize that significant reductions in oil and gas production must occur within this decade.”
https://canadians.org/analysis/bp-plans-keep-it-ground-sort
2020 Drawdown Review: THE Climate Solutions for a New Decade
https://drawdown.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/TheDrawdownReview%E2%80%932020%E2%80%93Download.pdf
Why industrial anaerobic digestion is not the answer to food waste
Why companies are fighting for stricter energy laws.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/corporate-america-ally-clean-energy_n_5f3c3896c5b61551404e5738
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/22/jamie-henn-stop-adding/
WEF Brief Explores Opportunities for Circular Plastics Economy
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/wef-brief-explores-opportunities-for-circular-plastics-economy/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remade-institute-announces-35-million-160000858.html
The Average Person Buys 40 Pounds of Electronics Per Year
https://nerdist.com/article/people-buy-40-pounds-of-electronics-per-year-report/
Role of technology to fight off COVID-19 pandemic to inevitability of climate crisis, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and development from leading authors
Carbon accounting should be a basic requirement for banks
Financial institutions and asset managers are impeding progress on climate action for lack of a simple rule
https://www.ft.com/content/fcaa31d2-84a2-4c9e-8532-cbd7e23d22d0
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