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| 23.09.2024 | UN adopts 'Pact for the Future' to tackle volatile future for mankind | UNITED NATIONS: UN members adopted a blueprint for the future on Sunday (Sep 23) to tackle the myriad wars, environmental threats and technological challenges facing humanity that the global organisation hailed as "groundbreaking"... |
| 07.09.2024 | Fishermen in Rio de Janeiro use app to record, report water pollution | Previous
Alexandre Anderson from Ahomar, a network to protect Guanabara Bay, uses an app designed by him to denounce environmental irregularities at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Lucas Landau
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| 07.07.2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Sasha Stiles, Harv Teitelbaum: Marshall Fire rebuilding should be forward-thinking | The Marshall Fire brought seemingly insurmountable pain and difficulties to those who lost their homes. It is understandable that some are relieved not to have to rebuild to the latest sustainable standards, and to be able to continue using... |
| 02.02.2022 | Patagonia CEO: Banks need to stop financing the climate crisis. Here’s how other companies can help make that happen | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Despite dire signs that we’re plummeting deeper into a climate and ecological crisis, the world’s largest ... |
| 30.11.2021 | Как наши города превратятся в окаменелости | Иллюстрация: Эммануэль Лафон
Великие мегаполисы и цивилизация XXI века оставят геологическое наследие, которое сохранится в течение тысячелетий. Но, как рассказывает автор этой статьи Дэвид Фаррелл, некоторые артефакты окажутся долговечнее ... |
| 15.01.2021 | Frank Pallone and Joe Manchin: Gatekeepers of the Biden energy agenda | With the Georgia runoff elections settled and Democrats poised to take control of both Houses of Congress, a path exists to achieve President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to work toward 100% clean electricity nationwide by 2035 and invest $2 tr... |
| 20.12.2020 | Fossil Fuel Divestment Comes For New York Pension Funds - Is That Constitutional? | ARNHOLD HALL AT THE NEW SCHOOL, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2018/03/26: Members of the campaign to ... [+] Divest New York States pension funds from fossil fuel holdings held a picket outside Arnhold Hall at The New School ; where New York St... |
| 06.12.2020 | Jeff Bezos’ $800 Million Missed Opportunity To Transform The Climate Movement | Sep 19 2019: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the founding of Amazon's Climate Pledge at the ... [+] National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.Getty Images for Amazon |
| 02.12.2020 | Advertising Industry Is Fuelling High-Carbon Consumerism, From Meat To Cars | 2
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A new report has warned of the impact advertising has in promoting overconsumption of carbon-intensive products, with experts recommending that regulations be put in place to curb climate-harming spending habits. Unti... |
| 01.11.2020 | What Would A ‘Divest Global Shipping’ Campaign Look Like To Save Our Ocean? | The successful global campaign on divestment from companies that support the fossil fuel industry. ... [+] Seen here, Davao, Philippines, Global Week of Action on Divestment. Photo: 350.org Philippines |
| 25.09.2020 | How to Figure Out Which Candidates Actually Care About the Environment | Registration, education and action. We're supporting voting in partnership with iamavoter.com, a nonpartisan movement encouraging voting, and civic engagement.
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It’s time to wake up. On Global Day of Climate Action, VICE Media Gro... |
| 23.09.2020 | Vote As If The Climate And The Future Of Humanity Depend On It—Because They Do | 1
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By: Bill McKibben
Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.
To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidentia... |
| 30.06.2020 | Ten Ways That Racial And Environmental Justice Are Inextricably Linked | The statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt is to be removed from the American Museum of ... [+] Natural History, New York City announced on June 22. The statue, put up in 1940, features a Native American and a Black man standing a... |
| 23.06.2020 | What Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Mean for Climate Change? | Venetian canals are clear enough to see fish through the normally cloudy water, and dolphins have been seen swimming in Italian ports; the Himalayas are visible from India and Nepal for the first time in decades; and air quality in cities f... |
| 19.06.2020 | Longmont rally Friday continues call for racial justice | On Friday afternoon in downtown Longmont, Hermine Ngnomire looked out over a crowd of more than 50 protesters and told them they were helping to make history.
“I have never been more proud to be a Coloradan,” she said.
Ngnomire, of Longmont... |
| 05.06.2020 | George Floyd Death: Climate Activists Promise To Address Rampant Racial Justice | 2 10
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By: Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, James Bruggers
Friends of the Earth tweeted #BlackLivesMatter, and the head of the NRDC promised “to be fully and visibly committed to the fight agains... |
| 04.06.2020 | Morning Brief: Environmental groups confront racist past, speak out against institutional prejudice | Prominent groups in the environmental movement — which has struggled with a racist past — are speaking out against institutional prejudice and calling for the movement to better prioritize social justice. The League of Conservation Voters, ... |
| 27.04.2020 | OPINION: Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Film Trashes Clean Energy, Offers Zero Solutions | 1
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Editor’s Note: Lest this piece may be misunderstood, it’s worth nothing that this publication believes a good takedown can be an incredibly important tool in the climate crisis fight. But takedowns should be nuanced, f... |
| 17.03.2020 | Sustainable Certification Body WSO Launches Online Audits To Curb Emissions Amid Coronavirus | 11 1
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World Sustainability Organisation (WSO), the NGO behind the leading global sustainability certification standards Friend of the Earth and Friend of the Sea, has just created a new auditing format that is entirely ... |
| 12.03.2020 | Trend Forecaster Li Edelkoort: Coronavirus Offers Planet Chance For Restart | 417 1
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The coronavirus outbreak, now declared a global pandemic, will eventually enable humanity to reset its values for the benefit of the planet, said top trend forecaster Li Edelkoort. In an interview with Dezeen, E... |
| 23.01.2020 | Greta To Davos World Leaders: “Our House Is Still On Fire” | 12 1
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17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has addressed world government and business leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, slamming them for continued inaction on the climate... |
| 08.01.2020 | Positive Energy Accelerates Renewables Investment With Asia’s First Financing Platform | 9 1
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Singapore-based startup Positive Energy Ltd. is a renewable energy finance platform that digitalises and simplifies green investments. Through blockchain technology, the startup is making the sourcing, funding and ... |
| 24.09.2019 | IN-DEPTH: We Can’t Solve Climate Change If Banking Industry Keeps Funding Fossil Fuels | 1
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From funding deforestation projects to giving loans to fossil fuel companies and keeping them insured, the banking & financial industry is underwriting global warming and it needs to stop. The solution? Divestment.... |
| 18.09.2019 | Letters: Muni a comedy of errors; Huffman’s sentence; Climate Strike in Boulder | Steven Haymes: Municipalization effort is a comedy of errors
Just like President Donald Trump and his blind supporters cannot admit to his ongoing mistakes due to his incompetence, the same can be said for the ongoing mistakes on the Boulde... |
| 26.07.2017 | Trendy Social Activists Prove Instagram is a Platform for More Than Selfies | In just two short decades, social media has become a universal filter through which we record and replay our lives. According to a 2015 Pew Research report, back in 2005 only four percent of American adults used online social platforms— mos... |
| 29.03.2017 | Climate Change | Yesterday brought us an executive order rolling back much of the (meager) progress we’ve made reducing the US’ reliance on carbon energy and the resulting impact on climate change.
The New York Times has a good editorial piece today on this... |
| 20.01.2017 | Quasi Bring in Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Steven Malkmus for 'Battle Hymns' Compilation | This morning, a music writer who I hold in high esteem wrote something extremely stupid about feeling guilt towards the inherent "escapism" of music. Fuck that. If you want to spend the next four years glazing over and drifting in... |
| 16.02.2016 | Five Must-See Climate Change Documentaries | 6 Mins Read
Ever since An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006, the power of the documentary to engage the world in a discussion-sometimes controversial, always colourful- about climate change can’t be denied. In the past twelve months w... |
| 08.12.2015 | A Climate Change Arts Festival Takes Over LA | When it comes to winning the future, LA is the best of cities and the worst of cities. Known as a car capital, it’s also at the forefront of electric vehicle innovation. It’s a desert city with a famously precarious water-source backup plan... |
| 25.09.2015 | The DeanBeat: How to get game developers to save the planet | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Erin Robinson Swink is a seasoned indie game developer and founder of Ivy Games, and she’s trying set the world on fire. But in a good ... |
| 25.09.2015 | The DeanBeat: How to get game developers to save the planet | Erin Robinson Swink is a seasoned indie game developer and founder of Ivy Games, and she’s trying set the world on fire. But in a good way.
She’s a Phoenix-based neuroscientist-turned-game-creator and developer of games such as Gravity Ghos... |
| 10.02.2015 | How ControlShift Labs’ white-label software is helping drive social impact | Supporters of nonprofits can do more than give money. Particularly nonprofits that are pushing a legislative or social change agenda. They can bug their neighbors to bug their elected leaders. They can bug their campus presidents to divest ... |
| 14.04.2014 | Environmentalist author will discuss pipeline plan | Bill McKibben
Author Bill McKibben calls himself an unlikely activist.
McKibben, 53, of Vermont, would rather stay home and watch bees make honey than burn up jet fuel traveling around the world to build a climate movement. Yet the founder ... |
| 23.11.2010 | Global Art Installations Take Aim At Climate Change | This week the first global planetary art show: 350 EARTH took off, launching numerous climate-themed art installations in locations all over the world. The large-scale public exhibition comes right before the UN climate talks taking place o... |
| - | EGEB: ‘Big 6’ US banks now all say they will align with Paris Agreement | Wells Fargo yesterday announced that it intends to achieve net-zero for its financing activities by 2050.
DeSmog found that many big bank board directors have ties to polluting industries, creating conflicts of interest.
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| - | Vanessa Nakate takes an African voice to Cop26 | Even limiting global temperature rises to 1.5°C would not be safe for many communities in Africa, Ugandan climate campaigner Vanessa Nakate told a rally of 100,000 fellow activists in Glasgow on 6 November.
“1.2C is already hell for us. It’... |
| - | A federal carbon tax is imminent in the USA – and Exxon is pushing it | Is a Federal Carbon Tax coming to the USA? The answer can be surmised in one point: Exxon has been lobbying Congress to institute carbon regulation. This corporate policy became public after a 2009 speech by their CEO, Rex Tillerson. Recent... |
| - | Climate Crisis Weekly: Virginians showed they care about climate change on voting day, more | Virginia Democrats campaigned on fighting the climate crisis and won.
The official word[s] of the year for 2019? “Climate strike.”
New Zealand passes a law that sets 2050 as its net zero target year.
An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island pr... |
| - | Lawmakers reportedly reached a deal on 5 years extension of 30% tax credits for solar energy | U.S. Democrats recently said they were open to a lift of the four-decade-old ban on crude oil exports, if Republicans would allow the bill to include an extension of the federal tax credit for solar installations, which is currently set to ... |
