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Misogyny, sexim, ageism, xenophobia, homophobia, climate change denialism
UK cabinet ministers musing on Tony Abbott becoming trade envoy…
The Horrible Aftermath of the SHEIN-pocalypse (Salem Tovar)
Burnout: The truth about overwork and what we can do about it (DW Documentary)
World Meteorological Organisation update (9 May 2022)
There is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Read the WMO press release to read the full article.
How climate change has impacted Houston
Lester Holt speaks with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the impact climate change has had on the city.
The trees are blooming these fragrant, delicate blossoms, and the world is ending. Both of these things are true, neither cancels out the other.
Frogs Once Sang, voiced by guest narrator Shakira Searle and prompted by Ingrid Lin!
Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn’t have to.
Even if you are one of the virtuous few who try to make a home-cooked meal every night, some nights cry out for takeout or delivery. Someone else taking care of dinner for you after a long day — it can be just what the doctor ordered.
And it’s popular: Food delivery is a $43 billion business in the US today. In many cases, not only are these services delivering food, they’re delivering lots of extra stuff: bags, boxes, wrapping, napkins, utensils, packs of condiments, colorful branded bits and bobs.
These little containers and wrappers may not seem like a big deal, but in the U.S., packaging makes up the largest category of municipal waste.
On top of that, single-use items like disposable plates and utensils, junk mail, and paper towels make up another 10% of our discards.
It piles up in our landfills, while manufacturing, shipping, and disposing of all of this stuff — often used for mere seconds — creates big greenhouse gas emissions.
“We really do need to prioritize reduce and reuse over recycling,” said Anne Krieghoff, solid waste and recycling program coordinator at the University of California Irvine. “Recycling is great to deal with a product once it’s already in your hand. But waste minimization is more important.”
Under Krieghoff’s watch, UC Irvine has reduced waste to the point that it now diverts 80 percent of its garbage from landfills. The goal: zero waste. UC Irvine isn’t alone: cities, counties, and large companies across the country are shooting for zero waste.
Watch the video above featuring to learn more about some simple ways that we can drop our single-use habits.
Is it really possible to live a zero-waste life?
Lauren Singer lives a nearly trash-free life, but she didn’t go zero waste overnight. Her story, and some easy tips to get started on reducing your own waste.
A growing number of waste experts think that shooting for zero waste is realistic, not just for individuals, but for large organizations, even cities. And there’s good reason to try: waste is a major contributor to global warming, both in the production of goods that end up in the trash, and the emission of greenhouse gases from the trash itself.
Conservation International CEO and UCLA Visiting Researcher M. Sanjayan talks with Lauren Singer about how she went from an average trash-producing person, to someone who can now fit five years of garbage in a small jar. Singer provides simple tips to help you start down the road of reducing your waste, even if you never hit zero.
And the University of California is committed to going zero waste by 2020. Across the UC system, we’ve already diverted 69 percent of our solid waste from landfills.
To learn more about UC’s zero waste initiative and how you can help, visit zerowaste2020.universityofcalifornia.edu.
This year Seattle and Minneapolis proclaimed the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day. They are the latest U.S. cities to join the trend that began in Berkeley in 1992 to supplant Columbus Day with a formal recognition of the people who have survived over five centuries of genocide, war, dislocation, discrimination, and social exclusion in the nations that were subsequently developed in the Americas. Multinational corporations have replaced kingdoms, empires and the Catholic Church as the prime agents of devastation and wealth extraction, but the exploitative dynamic remains fundamentally the same 522 years after Christopher Columbus first dropped anchor in the Caribbean. http://goo.gl/KaO3D8
Russell Brand and the author Naomi Klein have called for a “revolution” that could potentially see oil giants like Exxon Mobil dismantled. Speaking to Brand as part of a podcast exclusively shared with The Huffington Post, Klein agreed with the comedian’s call for a political and economic revolution, but warned: “It’s not going to happen in the right way if we don’t talk about the distribution of resources.” The pair zeroed in on multinational oil giants such as Exxon Mobil, referring to them as companies that were “addicted to stupid money”, with Klein arguing that the world could convert from fossil fuels to renewable energy within 15 years. “What the hell’s going on,” said Brand. “Is there no money in it? Why don’t people do it? They could still make money out of windmills couldn’t they?” http://goo.gl/hzc6N4
Everything, from workplaces to parks, could be within 15 minutes of walking for Parisians.
The city is working hard in making itself as independent from cars as possible, investing over 300 million euros in its projects. Car parking lots are replaced with parks while bicycle lanes become more common.
Such a move will drastically improve Paris’s carbon emissions which not only helps in the fight against climate change but also makes the city a better place to live.
Going zero waste needs to be a systematic change! Not just an individual’s choice. China, the European Union and some other countries and counties seem to get the idea but haven’t yet reached this ideal.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Boris Johnson expressed his support for a new coal mine in the North of England. The UK will host the Cop26 UN climate summit in Glasgow in November…
Woodhouse colliery would be the first new deep coalmine in the UK for three decades.
This decision is truly the a terrible one that must be reversed at once. Not only is it detrimental to the global climate but it also sends mixed messages to countries world-wide about tackling climate change, which is the last thing we need in this fight.
This must be stopped at once.
Yup. Mining Bitcoin sure is bad for the planet with an estimated 37 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
To put into perspective how much CO2 that is, we’d need to let grow 155 million mature trees for 10 years to suck out the carbon dioxide emissions caused by Bitcoin mining alone for only one year.
Half of all the crypto mining in the world is done in southwest China where power is provided through the burning of coal. The rest aren’t innocent either as most of the world still gets most of its energy from non-renewable sources that emit powerful greenhouse gases.
The fact that crypto mining is so energy intensive combined with the sources of this energy are what makes it a terrible choice for our planet. This could be prevented if renewables were used for meeting the energy demands.
Sources:
https://www.icos-cp.eu/science-and-impact/global-carbon-budget/2020
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrCLRnFc6y/?igshid=1ce9kl0wf3ryu
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/17/power-one-tree-very-air-we-breathe
President Joe Biden just signed “an executive order to supercharge our administration’s ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.”
He is pledging a million new jobs in the US automobile industry which will be generated by the federal government switching its entire fleet to electric vehicles.
This all is amazing but he then stated again that he will not ban fracking…
Switching to electric cars is great if your (or in this case the government’s) cars are old and need to be changed anyways. It’s also important that the energy they run on doesn’t come from non-renewable sources.
Is this move doing more harm than good by replacing functional vehicles with new electric cars? This executive order seems at best symbolic and at worst damaging.
It’s amazing that he tries to tackle climate change (unlike Trump who refused to acknowledge its existence), but if he truly wants to help he must do it in an effective way that goes beyond his public image.
It’s official! Joe Biden just signed the executive order that will bring the United States of America back in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Author of the photo: @ZekeJMiller on Twitter
Demonstrating the consequences of deforestation, and the importance of trees
Author: Jackson3OH3 on gfycat
2020 had good parts after all. This Zero Waste shop has opened in December last year and it’s the first of its kind in the city of Bucharest!
90% of the profit generated is either reinvested in the shop or donated, with a whopping 40% going to the Global Ecovillage Network which is a global organization dedicated to building a more sustainable reality for everyone everywhere.
The shop’s Instagram can be found here.
Post created by @qdinaaa on Instagram
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