Sunday, May 19, 2024

EPA to fund network of centers to help marginalized communities access environmental justice money

“There are communities waiting for (toxic) sites to get cleaned up. They are waiting for infrastructure to be built so their communities don’t flood.”

A guide to your digital carbon footprint – and how to lower it

As we accommodate our new digital reality, take a few steps to lower the impact of your devices and digital presence.

Wildfire smoke exposure linked to increased COVID deaths

Health experts have suspected since the early days of the pandemic that a link existed between air pollution and the likelihood of catching the disease and experiencing a more severe infection.

We need to talk about environmental projects that fail

Celebrating success is great, but a new study finds patterns we can learn from — including the fact that we ignore failure at our own peril.

It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one

It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.

Sanders’ plan to fight global climate disaster too ambitious, says NYT

Until media start to treat the climate crisis with the urgency the scientific community continually tells us it requires, they will continue to be a major part of the problem.

Climate change and the limits of economic growth

If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution?

Is the U.S. Fracking boom based on fraud?

Will the biggest innovation of the fracking revolution be making financial fraud a laughing matter?

A global plastics treaty can end the Age of Plastic

This indigenous worldview can lead treaty negotiations, creating systems that are less demanding of our planet and value nature over profit.

Encourage Congress to ban factory farms

It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!