Inspiration from the 1970s for Today’s Young Environmentalists
Today’s young environmentalists can learn much from the example of the 1970s.
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Climate Change Is Muting Fall Colors, But It’s Just the Latest Way That Humans Have Altered US Forests
Like so many things, fall color season ain’t what it used to be.
Read more...Tiny Leaks, Big Impacts: New Research Points to Urban Indoor Methane Leaks
A new carbon reduction target: Researchers in Boston find buildings’ indoor sources emit much more methane than most experts thought.
Read more...Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
Read more...Villeneuve’s Dune: Reviewing the Reviewers (and a Review)
I would go see it again.
Read more...French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds
A new study has found Total knew about the links between climate change and fossil fuels 50 years ago.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...Moving Beyond America’s War on Wildfire: 4 Ways to Avoid Future Megafires
Under a changing climate, we will have to learn to coexist with wildfires in the U.S. West.
Read more...Supply Chain Crisis; A Brooklyn View
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Lots of recent sturm und drang regarding the global supply chain crisis.. These problems have yet to hit us, although I suppose it might be prudent to stock up on toilet papa= […]
Read more...In 2021, US on Pace for Most Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Since Records Began
“What we are seeing now with these increasing disasters is with just one degree of warming on our planet,” said one scientist. “We have to choose now between bad or terrible outcomes.”
Read more...Rural Alaska Has a Bridge Problem as Permafrost Thaws and Crossing River Ice Gets Riskier with Climate Change
In Alaska, bridges face a unique and growing set of problems as the planet warms.
Read more...Microsoft Endorses Right to Repair; Apple Doubles Down on Opposition
Microsoft responds to a shareholder resolution by supporting the right to repair, at least in theory; Apple remains opposed.
Read more...On the Economic Geography of Climate Change
A crucial aspect of human adaptation to climate change is geographic mobility. As a consequence, limitations to mobility will worsen the socioeconomic costs of climate change.
Read more...Waste Watch: U.S. Lags on Plastics Legislation
Despite leading the world in per capita plastics consumption, the U.S. lags in efforts to do anything about disposing of plastics waste.
Read more...Climate Advocates Voice Concerns Over Fossil Fuel Handouts in Stalled Infrastructure Legislation
One month after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, infrastructure and “build back better” talk ignores survival needs on climate crisis frontlines
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