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 TO THE AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL BREAKDOWN
https://www.ippr.org/files/2019-02/risk-and-environment-february19.pdf
Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic stability is possible. Human-induced environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented scale and pace and the window of opportunity to avoid catastrophic outcomes in societies around the world is rapidly closing. These outcomes include economic instability, large-scale involuntary migration, conflict, famine and the potential collapse of social and economic systems. The historical disregard of environmental considerations in most areas of policy has been a catastrophic mistake. In response, this paper argues that three shifts in understanding across political and policy communities are required: of the scale and pace of environmental breakdown, the implications for societies, and the subsequent need for transformative change.
How Amazon plans to make half of its shipments carbon neutral by 2030
Though the company denies it, its new goal comes after pressure from workers and shareholders to do something about its huge carbon footprint.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90309906/how-amazon-plans-to-make-half-of-its-shipments-carbon-neutral-by-2030
Organic for all
http://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OrganicForAll_report_Final.pdf
Study Shows Toxic Pesticide Levels in Families Dropped by 60% After One-Week Organic Diet
When Politicians Say “Free Trade,” They Mean Upward Redistribution
https://truthout.org/articles/when-politicians-say-free-trade-they-mean-upward-redistribution/
The world must change the way it produces food, Sánchez-Bayo said, noting that organic farms had more insects and that occasional pesticide use in the past did not cause the level of decline seen in recent decades. “Industrial-scale, intensive agriculture is the one that is killing the ecosystems,” he said.
Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
How to Start a Suburban Berry Farm
https://modernfarmer.com/2019/02/how-to-start-a-suburban-berry-farm/
The Four Most Thought-Provoking Environmental Books Coming in February
https://www.ecowatch.com/12-childrens-books-to-grow-future-food-leaders-2628374393.html
Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions
https://www.juancole.com/2019/02/emergency-australian-emissions.html
Harrison Ford: leaders who deny climate change are ‘on the wrong side of history’
Meet eight female conservation scientists who inform and inspire
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/meet-eight-female-conservation-scientists-who-inform-and-inspire/
HOW A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN CHILDREN
A decades-long study in California is shining a light on the impact of pesticides on childhood brain development, while getting young people directly involved in the research.
https://ensia.com/features/pesticide-exposure-california-children-farmworkers-agriculture-chamacos/
The rewilding movement is going from strength to strength One site in Argentina now has tapirs, jaguars, peccaries and macaws
Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/world/asia/himalayas-glaciers-warming.html
The truth about big oil and climate change Even as concerns about global warming grow, energy firms are planning to increase fossil-fuel production.
None more than ExxonMobil
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/02/09/the-truth-about-big-oil-and-climate-change
A key Senate committee approved U.S. President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, putting the former coal lobbyist a step closer to becoming the permanent head of America’s top environmental regulator.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-wheeler-idUSKCN1PU1SP
US coastal businesses hit by everyday impact of climate change, study shows Annapolis seeing sea rise at about twice the global rate.
Flooding there foreshadows problems other coastal towns can expect
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/15/us-coastal-businesses-hit-by-everyday-impact-of-climate-change-study-shows
EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)
The Modern Farmer Ode to Seed Catalogs
Benefits of pulses: Good for you and the planet
https://theconversation.com/benefits-of-pulses-good-for-you-and-the-planet-111161
Mangrove forests can rebound thanks to climate change – it’s an opportunity we must take
More Salt in Our Water Is Creating Scary New ‘Chemical Cocktails’ Scientists have found that
many inland waterways are getting saltier, and that’s helping to mobilize heavy metals and
other chemicals from the soil, creating potentially dangerous combinations.
More Salt in Our Water Is Creating Scary New ‘Chemical Cocktails’
A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish Franklin Delano Roosevelt
sought to redefine freedom in the face of war. The Green New Deal imagines goals for a colorful democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/07/green-new-deal-climate-change-us-politics
{Auntie May, Auntie May!!}
Key West bans some sunscreens to protect coral reefs City commission voted 6-1 to bar certain chemicals blamed for harming the only living coral reef found in the continental US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/07/key-west-florida-sunscreen-ban-coral-reefs
It’s time to talk about cancer prevention — and the role of the environment An inadequate focus on researching and understanding the role of the environment in cancer prevention is a failure for public health.
https://www.ehn.org/laura-n-vandenberg-its-time-to-talk-about-cancer-prevention-2628192178.html
Plastic bags are out. Plastic straws are on their way out. Now Hawaii lawmakers want to take things a big step further. They’re considering an outright ban on all sorts of single-use plastics common in the food and beverage industry, from plastic bottles to plastic utensils to plastic containers.
Climate Change Still Seen as the Top Global Threat, but Cyberattacks a Rising Concern Worries about ISIS and North Korea persist, as fears about American power grow
National Geographic announces the Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge aimed at reducing plastic waste, up to $1,000,000 in prize/grant money available
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/innovation-challenges/plastic/
Study Shows Toxic Pesticide Levels in Families Dropped by 60% After One-Week Organic Diet
Trump administration condemned over delaying action on toxic drinking water. EPA to spend at least another year considering whether to restrict toxic chemicals found in drinking water
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/14/epa-toxic-chemicals-pfos-pfoa-delay
NASA Happily Reports the Earth is Greener, With More Trees Than 20 Years Ago–and It’s Thanks to China, India
Countdown to Calving at Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/countdown-to-calving-at-antarcticas-brunt-ice-shelf
A World Without Clouds
A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback
loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth’s climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/
By one calculation, we may have already passed the point where concrete outweighs the combined carbon mass of every tree, bush and shrub on the planet.
After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet.
But its benefits mask enormous dangers to the planet, to human health – and to culture itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
Ohio city votes to give Lake Erie same legal rights as a person
A Green New Deal is fiscally responsible. Climate inaction is notReal economic responsibility means sustaining the communities and physical resources on which society is built
The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s Encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists
THE KIDS MIGHT SAVE US ALL
For years, I’ve been fighting to save the planet for my son’s generation. Now they’re fighting for themselves.
https://otherwords.org/the-kids-might-save-us-all/
Green New Deal is feasible and affordable
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/opinions/green-new-deal-sachs/index.html
18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make the Climate Mobilization Work
https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18Strategies.pdf
State soil health initiatives respond to climate change
https://www.iatp.org/blog/201902/state-soil-health-initiatives-respond-climate-change
Grassing up: finishing beef on grass, the secret to success may be the pasture beneath your feet
https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/livestock/grassing-up-finishing-beef-on-grass/
Soil becomes fertile ground for climate action
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/soil-becomes-fertile-ground-climate-action
Three outcomes could follow if climate change stokes mayhem, conflict and violence. It might be helpful to think about the strains to come.
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/climate-change-stokes-mayhem-in-several-ways/
Organic research expands in Iowa
Rodale Institute opens the Midwest Organic Center at Eztel Sugar Grove Farm
https://www.hpj.com/ag_news/organic-research-expands-in-iowa/article_5d9d183c-35fe-11e9-b44a-23fbde7803c0.html
Peninsula eco-solar farm a ‘world-first’
Is the Tide Turning on President Trump’s War on Science?
https://truthout.org/articles/is-the-tide-turning-on-president-trumps-war-on-science/
White House Climate Panel to Include a Climate Denialist
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/climate/climate-national-security-threat.html
Agribusiness’s secretive plans to unravel food safety and worker protections
Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought
Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands
Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands
Carbon measurements are a first step toward protecting a forest in western Tanzania
https://www.ippmedia.com/en/business/carbon-measuring-tanzanias-gombe-stream-and-mahale-mountains
Business and the effects of global warming Some companies are tackling the results of global warming, but most are not
https://www.economist.com/business/2019/02/23/business-and-the-effects-of-global-warming
Climate disasters cost the world $650 billion over 3 years — Americans are bearing the brunt: Morgan Stanley
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/climate-disasters-cost-650-billion-over-3-years-morgan-stanley.html
Landmark Australian ruling rejects coal mine over global warming
The case is the first time a mine has been refused in the country because of climate change.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00545-8
Trump’s Pick of Wealthy Climate Denier for UN Ambassador Decried as ‘Slap in the Face’ to Planet and Humanity
Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said she is “disgusted but not surprised” by the president’s nomination of Kelly Knight Craft, who is married to a billionaire coal magnate
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/27/trumps-pick-wealthy-climate-denier-un-ambassador-decried-slap-face-planet-and
Is the Insect Apocalypse Really Upon Us?
Claims that insects will disappear within a century are absurd, but the reality isn’t reassuring either.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/insect-apocalypse-really-upon-us/583018/
Bramble Cay melomys: Climate change-ravaged rodent listed as extinct
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47300992
The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.
The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.
Our five biggest delusions about climate change
How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply
How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply
New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/new-study-finds-young-forests-have-a-huge-climate-impact/
HOW A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN CHILDREN
A decades-long study in California is shining a light on the impact of pesticides on childhood brain development, while getting young people directly involved in the research.
https://ensia.com/features/pesticide-exposure-california-children-farmworkers-agriculture-chamacos/
Green New Deal is Wisconsin’s call to action
Food chains and cultural handcuffs Young people have not had time to make mistakes yet
OPINION: GREEN TECH METALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OTHER SMART TECHNOLOGIES NEED TO BE SOURCED SUSTAINABLY AND RESPONSIBLY.
HERE’S HOW.
Climate change solutions — like solar energy, wind energy and electric vehicles — depend on rare earth elements. How we secure those elements matters.
https://ensia.com/voices/green-tech-metals-renewable-energy-sourced-sustainably/
Regenerative agriculture: Taking organic to the next level
Regenerative agriculture takes proactive measures to replenish the
earth, rather than gamble with the potential long-term consequences of
standard farming practices.
HOW CITIES CAN LEAD THE WAY TOWARD A LOW-CARBON FUTURE
– – Infographic by The World Bank
https://ensia.com/infographics/how-cities-can-lead-the-way-toward-a-low-carbon-future/
CAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY KEEP UP WITH SOLAR ENERGY’S BRIGHT FUTURE?
– – Infographic by New Jersey Institute of Technology
https://ensia.com/infographics/battery-technology/
WATCH: This Plastic Challenge Will Inspire You to Make a Difference
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-pollution-solutions-2628949015.html
EPA Adopts Fringe Science Claim That Small Doses of Pollution Are Healthy
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-pollution-heath-2629720153.html
The Issue With Tissue and Toilet Paper: How the U.S. Is Flushing Forests Away
https://www.ecowatch.com/forests-tissue-toilet-paper-sustainability-2629612402.html
One Pennsylvania Town Shows How to Properly ‘Zone’ Fracking
https://www.ecowatch.com/pennsylvania-frazking-zone-2629723868.html
Thirsty? Here Are 9 Types of Water You Can Drink Plus, learn if there’s one that’s best for your health.
https://www.ecowatch.com/types-of-water-2629621183.html