Could Sleeper Trains Replace International Air Travel?
After years of decline, night train services are again expanding, in part to cater to passengers who try to avoid air travel for environmental reasons.
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Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.
Read more...A European Green Deal Will Not Work Without Refocusing Productivity
A welfare-oriented European Green Deal needs to focus on resource and energy productivity, not raising labour productivity.
Read more...Lake Erie, Toxic Algae, and Mobilizing to Protect Toledo’s Drinking Water by Declaring the Lake a Person
How Toledo citizens mobilized to protect the Lake Erie ecosystem by declaring it to be a person with rights, the reaction of the corporations and the State, and how you can help.
Read more...For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
The work of building biodiversity into our food systems has two distinct challenges. One is preserving the genetic material contained in the seeds and the centuries of agricultural knowledge that have developed alongside them. And two is nurturing a relationship with the seeds as living beings.
Read more...How Climate Change Influenced Australia’s Unprecedented Fires
Looking harder at the Australia and California fires.
Read more...So, You Want To Live Tiny? Here’s What To Consider When Choosing a House, Van or Caravan
Discussing tiny house considerations.
Read more...Like Adding ‘Five to Six Hiroshima Bombs of Heat Each Second,’ Study Shows Oceans Warming at Record Rate
Ugly climate change news on the oceans front.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Senate Passes Save Our Seas Act 2.0
Senate pauses Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, which fails to address the issue of overproduction of plastics.
Read more...New Songbirds Discovered in Indonesia
Scientists announce discovery of ten new types of songbirds on a cluster of tiny Indonesian islands close to the Wallace Line.
Read more...Fossil Fuel Interests Applaud Trump Administration’s Weakening of Major Environmental Law
Trump administration capitulates to fossil fuel industry with proposed roll back of bedrock environmental protection law, the National Environmental Policy Act.
Read more...Jane Fonda Is Pitching For Our Future. Lend an Ear.
Jane Fonda gave an engaging yet forceful talk on climate change at the Press Club.
Read more...Climate Change: Bad News from Australia, Indonesia, and the US
NOAA releases summary of US climate data from 2009, including catastrophes, while Australian burns and Indonesia floods.
Read more...Oil and Gas Emissions Are Reversing Progress from Coal’s Decline
More grim emissions news….
Read more...2019 in Climate Science: A Continued Warming Trend and ‘Bleak’ Research
Not surprisingly, recent climate reasearch is downbeat.
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