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Energy
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Renewable energy could render five of Australia’s remaining coal plants unviable...
Up to five of Australia’s remaining 16 coal power plants could be financially unviable by 2025 due to a flood of cheap solar...
Empire State Building Realty Trust Now 100% Powered by Wind
For nearly 100 years, the Empire State Building has stood as a testament to the industriousness and economic power of the United States....
Business
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Environmental policies not always bad for business, study finds
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Critics claim environmental regulations hurt productivity and profits, but the reality is more nuanced, according to an analysis of...
Large food companies are looking to lock carbon in soil as...
Regenerative agriculture practices can sequester carbon in soil, but for companies with complex supply chains, the logistics of moving to such practices can...
Nature
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Electronic ears spy on poachers in a key Central American jaguar...
The international NGO Panthera has been using acoustical monitoring systems to support their anti-poaching patrols in Guatemala and Honduras since 2017. The acoustical...
Large privately owned redwood forest is preserved in $24.7 million deal
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A vast redwood forest located 80 miles north of San Francisco and sprawling nearly as large as Big Basin...
Policy
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A Win for the Oceans: International Sustainability Agreement
“Fourteen heads of state call in to a remote meeting” sounds like a post-COVID adaptation of a “walks into a bar” joke. But...
US makes official return to Paris climate pact
The US is back in the Paris climate accord, just 107 days after it left . While Friday’s return is heavily symbolic, world...
Weekly Blog
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Polar Bears, a Beacon of Hope
Polar Bears, a Beacon of Hope
Guest Post By Krista Wright, Executive Director at Polar Bears International It’s February 2021, polar bear moms and cubs are nestled in their dens, and the hope I feel for their future is palpable. Events over the last year disrupted many global systems, upending life as we know it. As we begin to recover and rebuild, we find ourselves in a unique position to reimagine what comes next. A future with polar bears, a stable climate, and an equitable society is possible—and there has never been a more important time to come together in realizing...
A journey towards an environmental career
A Journey Towards an Environmental Career
by Jamie D'Souza Do you ever stop to think about your career journey? All the important moments and unexpected turns that led you to where you are today? I just finished a master’s degree and while I spend my days trying to find a job in Montreal’s environmental sector, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I got to where I am. I’ve always enjoyed being outdoors and close to nature. I love camping, going for walks, spotting wildlife, but I never really thought about having an environmental career. As a kid there were...
A new challenge COVID-19: Stay safe and protect the environment
A new challenge COVID-19: Stay safe and protect the environment
By Debbie Banks COVID-19 is a massive global economic and health calamity causing social and economic disruption at an unprecedented scale. In the era of COVID-19, we all have to take extra precautions to protect ourselves from the coronavirus. This includes social distancing, proper sanitization of surfaces, and the necessary use of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and gloves. Plastic pollution was a problem long before this pandemic, but the increase in medical waste compounds it. Most masks are made from durable plastic materials, and they can remain in the...
ISYLA – Songs for Change on Climate
ISYLA - Songs for Change on Climate
by Amy Woodburn Just before the world went mad (or madder) in January 2020, I took the photo below. It pictures the then 18-year-old girl who had agreed to meet me, a mum in her forties, to help me hammer an action plan for my hairbrained idea that I could effect change on climate with my songwriting. I didn’t know singer Lizzie at all really when I took this picture in the coffee shop. I had only met her fleetingly at the end of a local Extinction Rebellion meeting. I knew she was passionate about...
Ailuna: bringing together technology and good people for a brighter future
Ailuna: bringing together technology and good people for a brighter future
By Helene Rønning Humans are complex beings. We are constantly innovating, analysing information and solving problems. Yet at the same time, we can be complacent, destructive and blind to the problems we are causing, especially without any support or help to do things differently. Most of us want to help change the world for the better. But we don’t know where to start, we feel alone, overwhelmed or just don’t believe that our small actions can make a difference.
Small changes, big impact
But every little positive change can have a huge cumulative...
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...
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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...
The Environmental Impact of Food Waste
Up to a third of all food produced is wasted, though that food could easily feed the hungry. This percentage varies. For example,...
5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture
Regenerative farming requires more high-tech equipment than tractors. //Courtesy of Unsplash. Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices...
This Biodegradable, Edible Wrapper Could Replace Single-Use Plastics for Food
Scoby Packaging is a food wrapper developed using a byproduct of kombucha. Snapshot from video Plastic has long been a wrapper's delight. It's...
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...
Transportation
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Michelin Picks French Startup NEOLINE To Offer Carbon-Free Shipping
The Michelin Group recently signed a transport commitment with NEOLINE, a French startup that provides decarbonized shipping services. This new commitment reflects Michelin’s...
Autonomous short-haul delivery company Gatik unveils its first electrified box trucks
The company’s first new electric trucks will go into service this month at Walmart operations in New Orleans, with additional deployments expected in...
EVs are just one part of sustainable transportation
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Ford plans for all cars sold in Europe to be electric by 2030
Ford has pledged that all of its cars on sale in Europe will be electric by 2030, in the latest move by the...
Science
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Scientists Launch ‘Four Steps for Earth’ to Protect Biodiversity
A dugong, also called a sea cow, swims with golden pilot jacks near Marsa Alam, Egypt, Red Sea. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images...
