Surprise!@leonardodicaprio joined us at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival to urge climate action. Who’s with us in the fight to save our planet before it’s too late?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We started a Team Trees campaign! If you want to join us in donating money for planting trees, you can do so at teamtrees.orgbut make sure to write “The Climate Crisis Movement” in the “Team” section.
Let’s see who plants the most trees in this campaign! Send us a screenshot of your donation and we will happily repost it!
Bringing back this post to say that, having visited Vienna recently, there were people that actually turned off their cars when waiting for the light to turn green or even when waiting for a few seconds for a pedestrian to cross and then turning them back on to go about their day.
Would love to see this get adopted more widely.
It’s an attitude that makes sense if you want to save up on fuel and help the climate and the air quality.
Since y'all apparently don’t like reading all that much, I’m going to keep Tumblr posts short and image driven while the longer articles will be posted on our new Medium page. (we got three articles: one on why Sweatcoins sucks, another on bee free honey and lastly one on the permafrost)
Have a happy Earth Day and let us continue fighting against climate change!!
Our hiatus continues as we organize our schedules (student life hit us all hard) and the team as a whole. We will be back by the end of 2021. Until then, please stay tuned!!
we are very grateful to the @DCSouthKarachi Great conversation, great breakfast and memorable ride. You made it very remarkable & we thoroughly enjoyed reconnecting with you.
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Irshad Sodhar for their incredible support.
#human #LGCF
Thank you for sharing this lovely example of a human social gathering that is somewhat revolving around climate change!! :)
Hello everyone! We will take a break from posting due to the fact that most of the people in the team are students and we all got exams and what not in the following few months. We will resume our activity at a greater speed and quality (+ a website!!) somewhere around the end of August if not earlier or later. We still got two or three posts in the making that we’ll post next week.
Take care and keep fighting for the climate! We will do so too even as our journalistic activity subsides for a bit.
Even though methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas, it remains in the atmosphere for (only) about 10 years, making it a more approachable target in the short-term fight against climate change.
While CO2 does remain the more prevalent culprit, its effects are to be evaluated in the long-term. Because it lasts for hundreds of years once in the atmosphere consequences are to be expected in the second half of our century.
The research, supported by the National Geographic Society and published today in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, estimates that atmospheric warming from all of these sources combined now appears to swamp the forest’s natural cooling effect.
The effect can still be combated and reversed through the halting of deforestation as well as rebuilding the destroyed ecosystems.
When #YEARSproject correspondent Gisele Bündchen heard about the latest threat to the Amazon Rainforest, she joined a coalition of environmental and indigenous groups to push for action. And Brazil’s President noticed…
This piece was inspired when I heard about the terrible fires raging throughout the Amazon rainforest. I thought today would be a good day to post it here in honor of the #climatestrike. Let’s save our planet!
