A Love Letter to My Compost Heap
https://atmos.earth/a-love-letter-to-my-compost-heap/
The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods
For two decades, the 1.5-acre Growing Home farm has pursued its mission of growing and selling produce to its neighbors. It’s found support from across the city and in the state legislature.
Why is inorganic fertilizer so bad for the climate?
https://www.oneearth.org/why-inorganic-fertilizer-is-so-bad-for-the-climate/
U.N. Climate Ambition Summit 2023
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Final Speakers List
Plastic Cloud: New Study Analyzes Airborne Microplastics in Clouds
https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/78501
Climate Change Is the Fight of Our Lifetime—It’s Time We Spent Our Money Like We Knew That
More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.
Net Zero Roadmap
A Global Pathway to Keep the 1.5 °C Goalin Reach
In a Historic Vote, the State of California Becomes the Largest Economy in the World to Endorse the Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Climate Deniers Should Not Assume They Will Never Face Justice
Time has a way of catching up with scientific falsehoods—and so too for those who peddle them.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/climate-deniers-face-justice
State of the Climate in 2022
An international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
As NYC Expands Food Scrap Collection, Local Composting Businesses Seek New Clients
Many of the small composters that had stepped in to provide New Yorkers options during the pandemic are pivoting to collecting commercial organic waste.
Six people are taking the government to court over climate change
The group, aged 11 to 24, have filed a lawsuit against all EU member states, as well as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Russia and Turkey, alleging they are violating their human rights by failing to cut emissions fast enough.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/six-people-are-taking-the-government-to-court-over-climate-change/ar-AA1hlT2Z
Take a break from your screen and look at plants − botanizing is a great way to engage with life around you
‘You can’t survive this’: Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida’s most vulnerable coast
Officials and residents said the rural Big Bend region was wholly unprepared for the Category 3 storm.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/hurricane-idalia-florida-big-bend-flooding-storm-surge/
Students react to no water at schools in South Plaquemines Parish (LA) amid saltwater infiltration
https://www.wdsu.com/article/low-and-no-water-pressure-in-schools-in-south-plaquemines/45055357#
Scientists Find Direct Link Between Polar Bear Cub Survival Rates and Human-Caused Carbon Emissions
https://www.ecowatch.com/polar-bear-cub-survival-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
50 years after the Bunker Hill mine fire caused one of the largest lead-poisoning cases in US history, Idaho’s Silver Valley is still at risk
Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws, judge says
Swapping out plastic for seaweed: Meet the start-up tackling packaging waste, boosting soil health
UK start-up Searo is addressing the plastic problem with a seaweed-based alternative for flexible packaging, flow wrap, and single-use cups.
3 developments on SB 1383 that could spur progress for California communities
A pair of agreements with Agromin, a planned anaerobic digestion facility and a new bill all offer jurisdictions an assist in achieving compliance.
The summer food went weird: searing heat reshapes US food production
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/02/farming-food-supply-climate-change-drought-rain
There’s Nothing Natural About Modern Meat
The factory farm industry wants you to believe in the superiority of “real” meat that’s been pumped full of antibiotics and hormones.
https://sentientmedia.org/unnaturally-modern-meat/
Researchers find nuclear waste fingerprints in sea turtle shells
A new study underscores an enduring nuclear legacy as Japan releases wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific.
https://grist.org/indigenous/researchers-find-nuclear-fingerprints-in-sea-turtle-shells/
Tens of Thousands in Seoul: ‘Stop the Dumping of Radioactive Wastewater’
‘It is time for the international community to step in and call out this clear breach of the international law’
Scientist Peter Kalmus: The Hurricanes, Floods & Fires of 2023 Are Just the Beginning of Climate Emergency (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/31/peter_kalmus_climate
Lethal Investments: The Health Consequences of Cash Flows into Coal
How Major Global Banks are Financing Some of the Deadliest Coal
Plants in the US
https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/SierraClub-CoalUtilityFinancingReport.pdf
Feeding big agribusiness, starving Africans
Industrial agriculture has failed to eliminate food insecurity in Africa. It is time for a radically different approach.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/4/feeding-big-agribusiness-starving-africans
Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo1324#editor-abstract
The Small Farmer Atlas: Learning Lessons from the Original Influencers
In the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrives
Despite months of protests by farmers and an electoral rebuke, the Dutch government has pressed ahead with an attempt to make its farming system more ecologically sustainable.
But there are deep divisions in the Netherlands over how extensive any reforms should be, and clashes over the role that new technologies should play in them.
This summer, talks over a potential consensus position between the Dutch government and the national farmers’ union collapsed in failure.
The clash between the continent’s green movement and its agricultural industry is building steam, with the EU’s flagship conservation law barely squeaking through parliament in June.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-the-clash-over-dutch-farming-europes-future-arrives/
How the Finance Flows: The banks fueling the climate crisis
https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/how-finance-flows-banks-fuelling-climate-crisis
California’s Salton Sea Eyed for Lithium Extraction With New Tech
As companies with billionaire backing buy in, frontline communities weigh the economics with health and environment.
https://undark.org/2023/09/05/californias-salton-sea-eyed-for-lithium-extraction-with-new-tech/
Oil & Gas Companies Are Forging a Suicide Pact With Mother Earth
Our national charter needs amending to deal with big corporations, which in turn requires a mass movement.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oil-gas-companies-are-forging-a-suicide-pact-with-mother-earth
EV sales growth points to oil demand peaking by 2030 − so why is the oil industry doubling down on production?
EVs are a climate solution with a pollution problem: Tire particles
The tiny fragments that tires release into the environment are yet another reason to reduce car use.
https://grist.org/transportation/evs-are-a-climate-solution-with-a-pollution-problem-tire-particles/
Mobile homes could be a climate solution. So why don’t they get more respect?
We like to denigrate manufactured housing, but new units are better for the environment.
https://grist.org/solutions/mobile-homes-could-be-a-climate-solution/
‘To Dye For’: The Toxic Evolution of Fast Fashion by Alden Wicker
https://www.ecowatch.com/to-dye-for-alden-wicker-ecowatch-interview.html
Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
The planetary boundaries framework draws upon Earth system science. It identifies nine processes that are critical for maintaining the stability and resilience of Earth system as a whole. All are presently heavily perturbed by human activities
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds
Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers
PLANET WRECKERS: HOW 20 COUNTRIES’ OIL AND GAS
EXTRACTION PLANS RISK LOCKING IN CLIMATE CHAOS
https://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2023/09/OCI-Planet-Wreckers-Report-Final.pdf
BPI seeks to change ‘out-of-date’ definition for compost set by USDA
The federal definition has remained the same for years, but composters worry it could leave modern facilities and compostable products out of compliance.
https://www.wastedive.com/news/bpi-compost-definition-usda-compostability-california/693387
Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Are Strategic Price Cuts the Solution?
A new study suggests that grocery stores could keep more food from landfills and be more profitable by adopting a practice widely used by airlines, hotels, and other industries.
What Los Angeles Has Learned About Curbside Food Waste Collections
Keeping your cool in a warming world: 8 steps to help manage eco-anxiety
Take a break from your screen and look at plants − botanizing is a great way to engage with life around you
Can a Tiny Restaurant Surcharge Move the Needle on Climate?
Investing just one percent of food and beverage sales in regenerative agriculture could be key to changing the food system.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/zero-foodprint-changing-the-food-system/