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 consumer acceptance of a new category of foods created from discarded ingredients.
The joint research, led by three Drexel professors, Jonathan Deutsch, PhD professor in the Center for Food and Hospitality Management, Hasan Ayaz, PhD, associate research professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Rajneesh Suri, PhD, professor in the LeBow College of Business along with three graduate students Siddharth Bhatt, Jeonggyu Lee and Ben Fulton, sought to find out if foods made from surplus ingredients — termed value-added surplus products (VASP) — that would have been otherwise wasted can be a promising solution to food insecurity if appropriately marketed to consumers.
http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2017/December/Food-Waste-Marketability-Research/
Ford to invest $11bn and have 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicles by 2022
The planned investment is significantly higher than the previously announced target of $4.5bn by 2020
Energy From the Sun — Student Guide
http://www.need.org/files/curriculum/guides/EnergyfromtheSunStudentGuide.pdf
Building a record size offshore wind farm
https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-wind-farm-2529673178.html
Responsible consumption, a guide to a zero-waste New Year
https://guardian.ng/property/responsible-consumption-a-guide-to-a-zero-waste-new-year/
After years of steady cost decline for solar and wind technologies, renewable power is becoming an increasingly competitive way to meet new generation needs.
http://www.irena.org/-/_2017_Power_Costs_2018_summary.pdf?la=en&haC3
District heating warms cities without fossil fuels
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/district-heating-warms-cities-without-fossil-fuels/
‘Days Numbered’ for Fossil Fuels: Sanders Backs Demand for Rapid Energy Transformation
“The issue in front of us is not a scientific debate,” the senator said.
“It has everything to do political will.”
You want to eat meat that’s been ethically raised.
But how can you know for sure?
7 Ways to Launch Your Own Anti-Plastics Movement
https://www.ecowatch.com/toward-a-plastic-free-future-2519406874.html
The Problem of Plastic Waste will require Drastic Measures
http://cleanmalaysia.com/2018/01/15/problem-plastic-waste-will-require-drastic-measures/
New fountains and bottle-refill points to tackle London’s plastic waste
Exclusive: Mayor of London announces scheme to reduce packaging waste and improve access to tap water
99% of These Sea Turtles Are Turning Female—Here’s Why
At the Pacific Ocean’s largest green sea turtle rookery, a crisis is unfolding, likely thanks to warming temperatures. Will this become a global problem?
World’s largest money manager to CEOs: You must do good for society
10 Million Acres of New National Parks Created in Chile
https://www.ecowatch.com/chile-national-parks-2529955708.html
Trump plan to shrink ocean monuments threatens vital ecosystems, experts warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/02/us-ocean-monuments-environment-trump
Save the Arctic
The Arctic is the world’s air conditioner, but amid global climate change it’s warming twice
as fast as the rest of the world. In the last 30 years 75% of the summer sea ice volume
has disappeared, causing oil companies to try and take advantage.
World’s biggest wildlife reserve planned for Antarctica in global campaign
Vast 1.8m sq km fishing-free zone would protect species, such as penguins, leopard seals
and whales, and help mitigate the effects of climate change.
New measurement confirms: The ozone is coming back
Despite lots of year-to-year variability, trends are now becoming clear.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/new-measurement-confirms-the-ozone-is-coming-back/
Carbon Omission
How the U.S. Media Underreported Climate Change in 2017
Polluted air, water to be cleared up by 2020
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1084723.shtml
3 Reasons a Meat Tax Is a Good Idea
https://www.ecowatch.com/meat-tax-us-2529634937.html
Better Composting Crucial to SF Reaching Zero Waste
Although the city isn’t likely to meet its goal of zero waste by 2020,
San Francisco has dramatically reduced how much it sends to the landfill.
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/waste-not-want-not/
British supermarket chickens show record levels of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
How to Bring Caring for Kids and Elders (and Other Acts of Love) Into the Economy
It’s one of the most concrete representations of love that we have, yet it’s extremely undervalued.
Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240
2017 was the hottest year on record without an El Niño, thanks to global warming
Climate scientists predicted the rapid rise in global surface temperatures that we’re now seeing
Getting to 350: What It Will Take to Fix Global Warming
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43144-getting-to-350-what-it-will-take-to-fix-global-warming
More than half of Norway’s new car sales now electric or hybrid, figures show
Generous tax breaks and incentives like free city tolls and parking put country en route to meet electric-only vehicle market by 2025
Climate Change Could Make 327 Toxic Sites Even More Dangerous
https://www.care2.com/causes/climate-change-could-make-327-toxic-sites-even-more-dangerous.html
Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/brazil-announces-end-to-amazon-mega-dam-building-policy/
Quarter of British honey contaminated with bee-harming pesticides, research reveals
Although the contamination rate has fallen from a half since a partial EU ban the insecticides remain in the farmed environment posing a serious risk to bees
Belize Ends Oil Operations in Its Ocean Waters
https://www.ecowatch.com/belize-offshore-drilling-wwf-2522728566.html
Other Countries Have High-Speed Trains. We Have Deadly Accidents and Crumbling Infrastructure.
Rubbish already building up at UK recycling plants due to China import ban
Plastic that would have been imported to China will cause chaos for councils as it mounts up, warn industry experts
Poke Bowls Are Trendy, but Are They Sustainable? (2 min. video)
https://www.ecowatch.com/poke-tuna-oceana-2522775789.html
Reduce waste, recycle more, and stop the burning
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/05/reduce-waste-recycle-more-and-stop-the-burning
Civilized UK, rebuking Trump on Coal, now 30% Wind Powered
https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/civilized-rebuking-powered.html
California Has Ample Ways to Fight Trump on Drilling
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/california-ample-ways-fight-trump-drilling/
Donald Trump Has Sold Out Family Farmers
Trump claims he’s “fighting for our farmers,” but his policies mainly benefit agribusiness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-has-sold-out-family-farmers/
‘Like thunder in the ground’: Texans fear link between quakes and fracking waste
Wastewater injection, a byproduct of fracking, is the likely culprit behind a surge of earthquakes in northern Texas – and residents want accountability
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/05/texas-earthquakes-fracking-wastewater-wells-envidence
Climate Web Pages Erased and Obscured under Trump
Critics of the new administration see a troubling pattern where information is hidden from the public
It’s Time to Confront the Scourge of Capitalism in the Food System
Trump’s Assault on Solar Masks an Epic Crisis in the Nuclear Industry
http://progressive.org/dispatches/trumps-assault-on-solar-masks-an-epic-crisis-in-nuclear-180125/
Climate Denial Will Kill Us
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/climate-denial-will-kill-us/
CHANGING THE DIGITAL CLIMATE
H o w Climate Change W e b C o n t e n t is Being Censored U n d e r t h e T r u m p Administration
https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Part-3-Changing-the-Digital-Climate-1.pdf
Digging In: Land Rights, Food Sovereignty and a Pop-Up Restaurant in Detroit
Further collaboration between The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
https://www.eppm.com/industry-news/further-collaboration-between-the-ellen-macarthur-foundation/
INSIDE COCA-COLA’S SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
https://packagingeurope.com/inside-coca-cola-sustainability-action-plan-europe/
DONALD TRUMP STILL DOESN’T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The president thinks polar caps are “setting records.” They’re not.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/donald-trump-still-doesnt-believe-in-climate-change
In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon
https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/climate-change-farting.html
No, Polar Ice Isn’t Growing and, Yes, We Are Boiling the Earth
https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/trump-growing-boiling.html
11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs
https://theconversation.com/11-billion-pieces-of-plastic-bring-disease-threat-to-coral-reefs-90694
New risk of atmospheric aerosols as sunscreen
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/new-risk-atmospheric-aerosols-sunscreen/
Climate change threatens half of US bases worldwide, Pentagon report finds
Defense department says wild weather could endanger 1,700 sites
Findings run counter to White House views on climate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/31/climate-change-threatens-us-military-bases-pentagon