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Plastic Pollution Is a Major Problem in the U.S., but Solutions Exist  New analysis, focused on packaging and microplastics, models effects of policies  https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/02/10/plastic-pollution-is-a-major-problem-in-the-us-but-solutions-exist Global

‘I wasn’t going to be diverted,’ says King Charles about campaign on the environment Monarch says he has remained focused despite early criticisms of his

Cultivated. The North American Organic Agriculture Quarterly. https://ifoamnorthamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Cultivated-IFOAM-NA-Magazine-Fall-2025.pdf Pennsylvania’s Idyllic Retirement Community For Farm-To-Table Foodies Has Its Own Organic Farm https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/pennsylvanias-idyllic-retirement-community-farm-114500278.html Pirates of the Anthropocene

PETITION TO THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO CANCEL THE REGISTRATION OF PESTICIDES THAT CAN PROMOTE RESISTANCE TO MEDICALLY IMPORTANT ANTIBIOTICS AND ANTIFUNGALS https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/environmental_health/pdfs/2025-11-20_Petition-to-Cancel-Medically-Important-Pesticides.pdf

Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving ‘policy room’ for the federal government to cut emissions in the electricity sector without

GENI — Linking Renewable Energy Resources Around the World https://geni.org/ Bezos-backed renewables alliance targets $7.5 billion for developing countries https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/bezos-backed-renewables-alliance-targets-75-bln-developing-countries-2025-09-22/ Military spending eats into Africa’s

Florida’s oyster crisis takes center stage in latest musical-science project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3mnGnod0g The U.S. Solar Industry Keeps Moving Forward Despite New Obstacles  Even as U.S. federal

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

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

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

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

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

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

World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take

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

Global Plastics AI Policy Tool  Countries are exploring ways to reduce the impact of plastic. This tool explores different policy interventions both regionally and globally.

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’

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

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