Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
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Plastic Watch: Ocean Cleanup Array to Arrive Today in Hilo for Necessary Repairs
Ocean Cleanup Array arrives today in Hilo for necessary repairs; not yet clear that the system will succeed in collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Policy
A close reading of Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...UN Backs Seed Sovereignty as Defense Against Multinational-Led GMO Projects
The anti-GMO UN declaration was written by and for peasants from every continent.
Read more...Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change
Sound is a powerful indicator of environmental degradation and an effective tool for developing more sustainable ecosystems.
Read more...10 Costliest Climate-Driven Extreme Weather Events of 2018 Caused at Least $84.8B in Damage: Analysis
The world’s weather is becoming more extreme before our eyes—the only thing that can stop this destructive trend from escalating is a rapid fall in carbon emissions.
Read more...Fracking in 2018: Another Year of Pretending to Make Money
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on the fracking beat. The industry lacks even the excuse of profit to justify the environmental costs it inflicts – yet this is a story too little told in the rest of the media, which instead promotes further investments in this sector.
Read more...Waste Watch: UK Plan Opts for ‘Polluter Pays’ Approach
UK announces long awaited waste plan, which crucially, embraces the ‘polluter pays’ principle. It’s a step forward, despite at least three major flaws.
Read more...Don Quijones: Retail Melts Down Before Christmas in the UK, Spreads to Continent
After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible. Can we make out any a silver lining in this retail meltdown, signs of a shift necessary away from fast fashion toward a more sustainable future?
Read more...COP24: Paris Agreement Rulebook ‘Does Not Deliver What The World Needs’ on Climate Change
Summary of the depressing lack of progress at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, where the participants punted on agreeing to take significant action to confront climate change.
Read more...Sustainable Fashion: Reduce, Reuse, Exchange
Some short notes on recent efforts to improve the sustainability of the notoriously wasteful fashion industry – by reusing trash as treasure, embracing the circular economy, and reusing plastic harvested from the sea.
Read more...Warning of Solar Geoengineering’s Dangers, Group Recommends a Global Ban
A Harvard team intends to shoot particles into the air to slow or halt global warming. The unknown risks of geoengineering could be catastrophic, and some scientist support an outright ban.
Read more...Major Health Study Shows Benefits of Combating Climate Change
The medical journal The Lancet published a new report on the association between human health and climate change.
Read more...Do Climate Policies ‘Kill jobs’? An Economist on Why They Don’t Cause Massive Unemployment
Sadly, an upbeat take on what “green” policies might means for jobs greatly understates the depth of economic restructuring needed to reduce the pace of climate change.
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