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...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...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...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...The medical journal The Lancet published a new report on the association between human health and climate change.
Read more...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.
Read more...Some background on the demands the gilets jaunes are presenting to French president Macron.
Read more...Why we need the biggest change program in history and must deploy state-created money to mobilize resources.
Read more...While parties to the 2015 Paris Accord conduct negotiations in Katowice, Poland, the EPA has opted to weaken coal emission standards promulgated during the administration of Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.
Read more...Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...PADI, the world’s largest scuba diving training and certification group, and British conservation charity Reef-World Foundation, have joined forces to support the Green Fins scheme, to mitigate the impact of recreational diving on already-stressed coral reefs.
Read more...Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee conducts hearing on waste in the fashion industry – particularly, ‘fast fashion’.
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