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Energy
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Indigenous-Led Solar Energy Project Wins Prize Funding to Implement a Community...
OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 19, 2021 /CNW/ - Indigenous communities, governments, organizations and business, particularly in northern and isolated regions that are at the forefront...
Hawaii Will Power Its Clean Grid With 6,000 Home Batteries Installed...
Swell will link batteries in 6,000 different homes to create a decentralized power plant for the local utility. The virtual power plant model...
Business
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Simple change to fishing gear saves thousands of birds in Namibia
A cheap and simple change to the equipment used by Namibian fishing boats is saving tens of thousands of vulnerable seabirds annually, researchers...
From Store to Door with Minimal Impact: How Companies Are Eco-Friendly...
Even without the pandemic turning the world on its head in 2020, fast courier services are quickly becoming popular for a generation that...
Nature
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Okanagan conservation group looks to protect wildlife with ecological corridor
Looking east towards Black Mountain over the Okanagan valley. The Okanagan is home to a vast array of wildlife. Unfortunately, however, the region...
New Black and Orange Bat Species Discovered in West Africa
A new species of bat has been identified in West Africa. MYOTIS NIMBAENSIS / BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL In 2018, a team of researchers...
Policy
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Huge News! U.S. Will Rejoin Paris Agreement to ‘Protect Public Health,...
As President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took the oath of office on Jan. 20, climate action advocates reiterated calls for them...
Should Wildlife Be Granted the Right to Own Their Homes?
"Affording a property right to animals has both dignity and practical benefits." — Karen Bradshaw, Wildlife as Property Owners (p. 132) Pixabay, Pexels...
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Cox Enterprises Accelerates Sustainability Goals by 10 Years
Cox Enterprises announced on January 21, 2021, that it has accelerated its goal to be carbon and water neutral from 2044 to 2034 as part of the company’s national sustainability program, Cox Conserves. The new Cox Conserves strategy expedites the company’s zero environmental footprint goals by reducing, replacing and recycling within its own operations, along with developing new renewable projects and partnerships to offset impacts.
Since Cox set its original goals in 2013, clean technologies and renewables have advanced,
and the costs associated with these industries have decreased. At the same time, the pace of climate change has led to ever-worsening...
Weekly Blog
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Connecting Off-Grid – Digital Debbi
Connecting Off-Grid
Guest post by Debora Lucyk (@digitaldebbi) The inlet It’s all calm and quiet after hours of the sound of rain. A raven is squawking, and the trees are glistening with the sun shining on them, making them appear to be covered in sparkles; fresh and glittery, full of light. Somehow you can see they are happy, that they are somehow spirited with an inner life. I’m completely myself here, also full of life, and I get a huge grin on my face as I unconsciously connect with their peaceful resolve, joy and strength. I’m on my own but left with...
Eco Anxiety – The New Normal?
Eco Anxiety – The New Normal?
By Sharon Michelle, MSc Psychology When I was about 8 years old I ran all the way home from the Cinema absolutely distraught after watching Watership Down (1978) an animated film about rabbits finding a new home because of developers moving in on their habitat. It was my first experience with what may now be termed “Eco-anxiety” (to this day I can’t listen to Art Garfunkels “Bright eyes” without feeling a bit choked up!) Eco-anxiety hasn’t yet been classified as an anxiety disorder, but some Health Care professionals feel it should be. The DSM (The Diagnostic...
10 Questions with Angela Haseltine Pozzi – Washed Ashore Project
10 Questions with Angela Haseltine Pozzi, founder and artistic director of the Washed Ashore Project. Washed Ashore is a non-profit community art project founded by artist and educator, Angela Haseltine Pozzi in 2010. The project is based in Bandon, Oregon, where Angela first recognized the amount of plastic washing up on the beaches she loved and decided to take action. Since 2010, Washed Ashore has processed tons of plastic pollution from Pacific beaches to create monumental art that is awakening the hearts and minds of viewers to the global marine debris crisis.
The Questions: We understand you came to create Washed...
What the Biden victory means for our rivers and clean water
What the Biden victory means for our rivers and clean water
Guest Blog by William Robert (Bob) Irvin, President, and CEO of American Rivers American Rivers is ready to work with President Biden, Vice President Harris, and their administration to repair the substantial damage to rivers and clean water. One of my favorite quotes is from Leonardo da Vinci, “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.” Elections are like rivers, framed by what has happened in the past and full of possibility for the...
Year-end message for 2020
Year-end message for 2020
By Grant Brown, Founder, Happy Eco News A year of tragedy and discord For my whole life, the number 2020 was used to describe what is known as perfect vision. Unfortunately, after the events of the year 2020, instead of clarity, it forever will be associated with death, loneliness, and outrage. The Covid-19 pandemic, George Floyd, wildfires, and hurricanes battered our world and our society. Pretty much everything that could have gone bad did. But in amongst all the negatives were the everyday people, trying to do their best. Sure, we can point fingers at small groups of people, sometimes lone...
10 Questions with Writer Melina Sempill Watts: Tree and Biodiversity
10 Questions with Writer Melina Sempill Watts: Tree and Biodiversity Melina Sempill Watts’ first novel Tree is the story of 229 years in the life of a California live oak from the point of view of … the tree. Last year, Tree won best new fiction in the Beverly Hills Book Awards. Watts’ first book event was on a panel at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. Her work appears in Earth Island Journal, Sierra Magazine, New York Times motherlode blog, and elsewhere. Why did you write Tree? Koyaanisqatsi translates from the Hopi as “life out of balance.” By 2003, I embodied that word: my...
How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America...
Courtesy of C.J. Clouse Close Authorship The Stone House Farm in New York is home to a new carbon marketplace tied to regenerative...
Creating a No-Landfill Meal Kit
Meal kits are synonymous with excessive packaging, but they have a crucial redeeming feature — they reduce food waste. At Just Salad, that...
Here’s even more evidence that plant protein is better for you than animal protein
Yum, looks like a brain! Pixabay Animal meat is known for its many nutrients. If you eat a variety of animal meats (light...
How Restaurants Can Become More Sustainable
There is an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste produced by restaurants every year. And this is only food waste....
17 Organizations Diverting Food Waste to Provide Meals for People in Need
Food organizations help redistribute quality food to those in need. Candle Photo / Getty Images By Amy Martin One-third of the world's food...
Transportation
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GM’s new electric delivery vans will be made in Canada
The (soon to be) made-in-Canada GM EV600 electric delivery van Newly ratified deal gives Ontario workers a bigger bite of EV manufacturing, with...
Greener planes of the future… or just pretty plans?
BBC News image captionThe Airbus Maveric is a remote-controlled blended-wing test aircraft At an undisclosed location Airbus has spent months testing a radical...
Global sales of electric cars accelerate fast in 2020 despite pandemic
Global sales of electric cars accelerated fast in 2020, rising by 43% to more than 3m, despite overall car sales slumping by a...
A circular car industry could slash carbon emissions – here’s how
Realignment around common circularity language can jointly drive transformative solutions for the automotive industry. Accenture research shows that circular economy approaches, next to electrification,...
Science
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These Oxford Scientists Just Created Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel From CO2
Silhouette of a departing passenger aircraft during a golden sunset. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have revealed what they...
