Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
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Trump’s Gift to the Climate Movement
How Trump’s climate change denialism helps activists.
Read more...Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
Read more...Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...Apple Battery Debacle: Yet Another Reason to Support a Right to Repair
The Apple iPhone battery debacle lends support to the right to repair movement, as well as benefits services such as iFixit.
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Study Evaluates Climate Models — Best Ones Also Show the Most Global Warming
A new study of the performance models shows more convincingly than ever that we are cooking our collective goose.
Read more...Judge Sides with Big Oil in Maine Pipeline Case
Judge allows oil company challenge to city ordinance to proceed, to allow pipeline company in theory to transport Canadian tar sands oil.
Read more...Rotten Eggs: USDA Reverses Organic Animal Welfare Policy
Trump USDA reverses predecessor’s last-minute policy requiring more humane living conditions for hens that produce organic eggs.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb
A tiny bit of good, or perhaps more accurately, less bad news on the climate change front.
Read more...Stop Talking Affordable Water and Start Talking Poverty
By David Zetland, who worked on water policy for 10+ years and is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Originally published at Aquanomics Circle of Blue published this long, aggravating article of the efforts of activists, water managers and (far too many consultants) to “find a compromise” on the […]
Read more...Fast-Fashion’s Environmentally Destructive Habits
Fast fashion is cheap for bad reasons.
Read more...More Climate Change Refugees Means More Walls
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that since the early 2000s, Defense Department analyses have been anticipating climate-change-induced mass migrations. As this post describes, they are happening at at an accelerating pace. By Todd Miller, who has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on […]
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