Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
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Green Growth vs Degrowth: Are We Missing the Point?
A broad discussion of the climate change growth versus degrowth debate and how to move forward despite those differences.
Read more...Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Read more...What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
Read more...Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment
Why Big Finance is part of the energy problem, not the solution.
Read more...You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.
Read more...Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry now appears to have become a climate champion.
Read more...Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)
Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.
Read more...“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions
COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.
Read more...Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic
Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.
Read more...Save the Birds: Study Adds to Calls to Ban Dogs from Beaches During Shorebird Nesting Season
Study shows nesting shorebirds are flushed from their nests during nesting season by dogs, whether or not on leads.
Read more...Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...New Jersey’s “Best in US” Plastic Ban Still Very Limited, Makes Concessions
A new law in New Jersey makes clear how far we have to go on getting rid of plastic.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Plastic Pushers Seek to Use Trade Negotiations to Rescind Plastic Bans
Plastic pushers attempt to strongarm Kenya and the UK into using more plastic under the guise of free trade as world oil prices collapse.
Read more...Will There Be a Second Dust Bowl? And What Happened to the Topsoil From the First One?
A rise in airborne dust over the Great Plains has scientists worried, and rightly.
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