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Green Mission News – August 2025

Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day

In just about seven months, humanity has exhausted Earth’s budget for the year.

https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/earth-overshoot-day/

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/total-infiltration-how-plastics-industry-swamped-vital-global-treaty-talks

UN’s top court delivers landmark decision on tackling climate change

https://apnews.com/article/un-court-opinion-climate-change-1ac84a94a5aaffd63518ef1da3502a9e

Rethinking Media Literacy: A New Ecosystem Model for Information Integrity 

https://www.weforum.org/publications/rethinking-media-literacy-a-new-ecosystem-model-for-information-integrity/

 

Massachusetts test shows big savings from free heat pumps and solar

Low-income residents on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard who participated in a home electrification pilot saw their utility bills drop by more than half. 

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electrification/massachusetts-pilot-results-free-solar

The “green” corporations funding anti-climate groups

https://climatevoice.org/green-corporations-funding-anti-climate-groups/

Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/18/climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-autocracies-authoritorian-countries

This Might Be the Climate Wake-Up Call We’ve Been Waiting For

It can be challenging to connect climate change to people’s everyday lives. But there’s nothing abstract about heat waves and vanishing beaches.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198044/heat-waves-us-europe-vacation-climate-change-wake-up-call

LA fires charred homes into piles of metal and concrete. By recycling them, they’re given new life 

After the Palisades and Eaton fires scorched entire neighborhoods, the Army Corps of Engineers set up operations to recycle concrete and metal from mostly fire-damaged homes. 

https://apnews.com/article/la-fires-eaton-fire-steel-concrete-trees-recycling-rebuilding-b40594fef233399c4c9e1fe62a83aa85

Yet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive

Trump ran on bringing down inflation. Instead, as climate change relentlessly drives up food prices, his administration is hell-bent on ignoring the problem. (eating the costs)

https://newrepublic.com/article/198233/grocery-prices-yet-another-way-republicans-making-life-expensive

How the climate crisis and aid cuts could devastate global supplies of vanilla

Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a country that supplies up to 80 per cent of the global crop each year, face a difficult future as the climate crisis and aid cuts bite.

https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/us-aid-trump-vanilla-madagascar-usaid-b2788831.html

The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects

From solar-powered greenhouses to wild rice initiatives, the Trump administration cut funding for nearly two dozen farm and food resilience projects.

https://civileats.com/2025/07/23/these-farm-and-food-projects-have-lost-their-epa-funding/

How nanoplastics may be impacting our long-term health

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-nanoplastics-may-be-impacting-our-long-term-health/

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://www.wsls.com/tech/2025/07/01/major-reports-about-how-climate-change-affects-the-us-are-removed-from-websites/

Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

EPA tries to rescind ‘endangerment finding’ – part of ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda that experts say poses grave threat

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/trump-epa-endangerment-finding

Coastal communities vary widely in climate hazard acknowledgment, study shows

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/coastal-communities-vary-widely-in-climate-hazard-acknowledgment-study-shows/ar-AA1JAgVU

 

‘Highly Inspiring’ Court Ruling Affirms Nations’ Legal Duty to Combat Climate Emergency 

“While the United States and some other major polluters have chosen to ignore climate science, the rest of the international community is advancing protections,” said one observer. 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iacthr-advisory-opinion-climate

Summer without cherry pie? Michigan’s signature crop faces battery of threats

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/cherry-pie-michigan-signature-crop

New Mexico sues US air force over Pfas pollution from military base

High levels of Pfas stemming from the base have tainted water, damaged crops and poisoned cows in the area

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/new-mexico-us-air-force-pfas

New Analysis Finds PFAS in 98% of Tested U.S. Waterways Across 19 States

https://waterkeeper.org/news/new-analysis-finds-pfas-in-98-of-tested-u-s-waterways-across-19-states/

The Cornish start-up using food waste to make organic clothing

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cornish-start-using-food-waste-170000282.html

Renewables-Backed Transmission Project Touted as a Trump ‘Win’ Now Facing the Axe

https://www.splinter.com/renewables-backed-transmission-project-touted-as-a-trump-win-now-facing-the-axe

Turning over a new leaf: historic English gardens adapt to the changing climate

Head gardeners try out more diverse and drought-resistant plants from around the world, with fascinating results

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/18/gardens-future-uk-landscapers-switch-to-drought-resistant-planting-climate-changes

Moving Trees North to Save the Forests

As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2024/forest-assisted-migration-climate-change

Right to repair ‘would reduce inequality’ 

Will the government’s upcoming circular economy strategy consider a right to repair and overconsumption? 

https://theecologist.org/2025/jul/24/right-repair-would-reduce-inequality

How Developing Countries Can Reduce Emissions Without Compromising Growth

https://earth.org/how-developing-countries-can-reduce-emissions-without-compromising-growth/

On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past

For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent’s forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burning and why the practice must be restored to protect against catastrophic fires.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/lori-daniels-interview

Carrying capacity is not just a ‘mountain’ issue. It is a national and global concern

Uttarakhand may be assessing the carrying capacity of its cities; but unless India manages both rural and urban ecosystems effectively, it cannot truly balance economy and ecology

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/carrying-capacity-is-not-just-a-mountain-issue-it-is-a-national-and-global-concern

This is Not a Thing: Land, Sustainability and Legal Education

https://academic.oup.com/jel/article-abstract/26/3/395/408505

How to talk about heatwaves with kids (without scaring them)

https://agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net/2025/07/20/parenting-children-discuss-heatwaves-climate-crisis/

Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change

https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-the-2025-texas-floods-and-the-role-of-climate-change/

From deforestation to renewal: Why reforestation isn’t just about trees

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/from-deforestation-to-renewal-why-reforestation-isnt-just-about-trees/

A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.

On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of dollars. 

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/northeast-heat-wave-solar-battery-benefits

The US food system should be providing healthy, sustainably produced food for all. Instead, it’s damaging our health, our land and water, our communities, and farmers and food workers themselves. We can do better.

https://www.ucs.org/food

Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?

This project hopes that decoding sperm whale sounds will boost conservation efforts

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/could-ai-help-humanity-understand-whales

Berkeley’s Path to Zero Waste

(audio)

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/podcast/entry/berkeleys-path-to-zero-waste

Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/bill-moyers-helped-break-the-medias-climate-silence/

Climate change is amplifying extreme rain events in the Northeast, research shows

A deluge of rain caused flash flooding in New York City and surrounding regions.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-change-amplifying-extreme-rain-events-northeast-research/story

Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions

The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the harm

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/cost-trump-keep-coal-open

Plastics Made the LA Fires Worse

But we have an opportunity to build back better. 

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/plastics-made-the-la-fires-worse

Pyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch butterflies at an overwintering site in California

https://academic.oup.com/etc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf163/8177160



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Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change

https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-the-2025-texas-floods-and-the-role-of-climate-change/

From deforestation to renewal: Why reforestation isn’t just about trees

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/from-deforestation-to-renewal-why-reforestation-isnt-just-about-trees/

A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.

On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of dollars. 

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/northeast-heat-wave-solar-battery-benefits

The US food system should be providing healthy, sustainably produced food for all. Instead, it’s damaging our health, our land and water, our communities, and farmers and food workers themselves. We can do better.

https://www.ucs.org/food

Could AI Help Humanity Understand Whales?

This project hopes that decoding sperm whale sounds will boost conservation efforts

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/could-ai-help-humanity-understand-whales

Berkeley’s Path to Zero Waste

(audio)

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/podcast/entry/berkeleys-path-to-zero-waste

Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/bill-moyers-helped-break-the-medias-climate-silence/

Climate change is amplifying extreme rain events in the Northeast, research shows

A deluge of rain caused flash flooding in New York City and surrounding regions.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-change-amplifying-extreme-rain-events-northeast-research/story

Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions

The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the harm

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/cost-trump-keep-coal-open

Plastics Made the LA Fires Worse

But we have an opportunity to build back better. 

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/plastics-made-the-la-fires-worse

Pyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch butterflies at an overwintering site in California

https://academic.oup.com/etc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf163/8177160

 

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Compost Happens – August 2025

Gourmet mushrooms grown from palace coffee grounds https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8g6vgqnlgo The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects From solar-powered greenhouses to wild rice initiatives, the Trump administration

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Green Mission News – August 2025

Earth Overshoot Day In just about seven months, humanity has exhausted Earth’s budget for the year. https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/earth-overshoot-day/ ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global

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Compost Happens – July 2025

Talking Trash Christi Turner tackles a rotten problem in one of America’s fastest-growing cities https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/talking-trash Tobacco waste valorization through composting: A systematic review of biomass

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Green Mission News – July 2025

Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0608/vermont-local-organic-bipartisan-big-food Recycling Food Waste Could Dramatically Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-recycling-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html   What is

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Green Mission News – June 2025

Attenborough at 99 delivers ‘greatest message he’s ever told’ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0wjxg0ex1o Bananas are the world’s most popular fruit – and the fourth most important food crop

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Compost Happens – May 2025

Scientists make breakthrough discovery in farm compost that boosts crop performance: ‘The results show significant growth’ It also reduced the amount of antibiotic-resistant genes and

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Green Mission News – May 2025

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids  Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2025

Hope for Children Through Climate Justice https://oikoumene.org/resources/publications/hope-for-children-through-climate-justice   What if your relationship with food could transform the world?  From the biology of consciousness to the

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Compost Happens – March 2025

Zero-Waste Pioneers Reshape Modern European Dining https://www.epicureasia.com/food/38733/zero-waste-pioneers-reshape-modern-european-dining/ How factory farms produce ‘ghost’ food waste that could feed billions of people In natural farming systems, cows

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Green Mission News – March 2025

Environmental win at Point Reyes a loss for all others https://eedition.sfchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx   Bringing the Outdoors Back to Childhood  https://bioneers.org/bringing-the-outdoors-back-to-childhoodzmaz2502/   Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO: “Eliminating

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Compost Happens – January 2025

What is happening to the food waste collected under California’s recycling law? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-is-happening-to-the-food-waste-collected-under-california-s-recycling-law/ar-AA1wynaN   Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: Dual Strategies to Secure Food

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Green Mission News – January 2025

Losing the Birds, Finding the Words: Eve Ensler’s Extraordinary Letter of Apology to Mother Earth (includes 6 minute video) https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/10/28/eve-ensler-apology-mother-earth/   Seven quiet breakthroughs for

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Compost Happens – December 2024

Waste not, want not: Turning food waste into fertile soil for sustainable growth https://phys.org/news/2024-12-food-fertile-soil-sustainable-growth.html What Everyone Should Know About Food Waste Solutions https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariannekrasny/2024/12/03/what-everyone-should-know-about-food-waste-solutions/ From waste

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Compost Happens – November 2024

Community Composters Innovate, Adapt, and Connect at the 8th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum https://ilsr.org/articles/cultivating-community-composting-2024/ These East Denver neighborhoods will get compost service next Congratulations

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Green Mission News – November 2024

Flowers and the Birth of Ecology  Without flowers, there would be no us. https://nautil.us/flowers-and-the-birth-of-ecology-917041/ I have acreage to sell you in Antarctica: Antarctica is ‘greening’

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Compost Happens – October 2024

Lion Farms offers wide variety of organic Florida mushrooms https://communitynewspapers.com/south-dade/lion-farms-offers-wide-variety-of-organic-florida-mushrooms/ How State Organic Waste Ban Policies Can Drive Food Waste Reduction  Organic waste bans are

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Green Mission News – October 2024

Book review: The Nutmeg’s Curse Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html and https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-21/the-nutmegs-curse-review/ Letter from the Farm | Wild Geese and

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Green Mission News – September 2024

5 big ways U.S. communities are working to minimize harm from climate change https://ensia.com/notable/5-big-ways-u-s-communities-are-working-to-minimize-harm-from-climate-change/   In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities

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Compost Happens – August 2024

US’ Outdated Composting Infrastructure Offers Golden Investment Opportunity  https://sustainablebrands.com/read/finance-investment/outdated-composting-infrastructure-investment-opportunity   Table2Farms: Innovating Composting to Combat Climate Change https://foodtank.com/news/2024/07/innovating-composting-to-combat-climate-change/   Ventura County organic recycler putting waste

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Green Mission News – August 2024

QUOTATIONS FROM ROGER REVELLE Compiled by Deborah Day, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives https://library.ucsd.edu/scilib/biogr/day_quotations-from-roger-revelle.pdf and In 1957, Climate Scientist Warned Congress That Fossil-Fueled Global Warming

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Green Mission News – June 2024

  What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?  Inside the effort to standardize the design of returnable containers. https://grist.org/business/what-will-it-take-to-get-companies-to-embrace-reusable-packaging/   Green

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Compost Happens Now – May 2024

International Compost Awareness Week Slated May 5-11 This year’s theme is COMPOST … Nature’s Climate Champion https://www.morningagclips.com/international-compost-awareness-week-slated-may-5-11/ ‘Just Eat It’ explores food waste and surplus

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Green Mission News – May 2024

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects,

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Compost Happens – Earth Month 2024

Earth Month UWS Explainer: How to ‘Compost’ Food Scraps and Why It Matters https://www.westsiderag.com/2024/04/11/earth-month-uws-explainer-how-to-compost-food-scraps-and-why-it-matters Navigating the Compostable Packaging Landscape: Insights from BPI Executive Director Rhodes

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2024

‘Nature Has Rights’: Aruba Could Become 2nd Country to Recognize Rights of Nature in Constitution https://www.ecowatch.com/aruba-nature-rights-constitution.html   In Libya, one person’s garbage is another person’s

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Compost Happens – March 2024

Opportunities for scaling compost strategies help farms’ soil health https://www.agdaily.com/features/opportunities-for-scaling-compost-strategies-help-farms-soil-health/   GrowNYC prepares layoffs as city shifts to curbside composting https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-policy/grownyc-cut-54-workers-city-shifts-curbside-composting   Local farmers discuss

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Compost Happens – February, 2024

Unlocking the Power of Composting: Enhancing Soil Health and Boosting Crop Yields https://medriva.com/health/eco-health/unlocking-the-power-of-composting-enhancing-soil-health-and-boosting-crop-yields/   Chance Farm pursues ‘closed loop’ agriculture with composting group https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/agriculture/chance-farms-pursues-closed-loop-agriculture-with-composting-group/article_0011a7a0-c6c7-11ee-9c20-abf130d4d6b4.html  

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Green Mission News – February, 2024

    Five Ways to Develop “Ecoliteracy”.Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow explain how we can teach kids to care deeply about the environment.https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_ways_to_develop_ecoliteracy

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