TORONTO -- Canada's first modern-day milkman service that delivers brand-name groceries and household goods to doorsteps in reusable packaging is set to launch in the Toronto region on Monday. Loop, an online shopping platform started by U.S.-based recycling company TerraCycle, has teamed up with grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. and leading consumer goods companies like... Continue Reading →
For a growing number of Bay Area families, a chunk of their food is coming from backyards and rooftops. The coronavirus pandemic has resurrected a new interest in urban farms because they address the issues of food sustainability and climate change. Bluma Farm is a rooftop farm in Berkeley. The views are stunning, but what’s... Continue Reading →
Urban Farming: How Rooftop Gardens Are Feeding Families and Helping the Planet
Representatives from throughout the supply chain recently reflected on how batteries and electronics can find their place as greener solutions in the circular economy. Technologies like electric vehicles and wind turbines were designed to help reduce the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels or support other “green” lifestyle changes, but more work needs to be done... Continue Reading →
Representatives from throughout the supply chain recently reflected on how batteries and electronics can find their place as greener solutions in the circular economy.
(Not outlined in this article as I understood it in another article which appears to have been removed, but the idea is the food is in refrigerators being grown in the store, you go in and pick it right there. A pretty cool idea, but this idea below is also nice.) Featuring Marco Kesseler’s evocative Polytunnel... Continue Reading →
Selfridges brings nature to Oxford Street during lockdown
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Agupubs Online Library – (A resource for Scientists…)
Tsinghua University in Beijing researchers conducted a sound wave-based experiment in Tibetan Plateau and found promising results. The use of water has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. Water scarcity has also begun affecting every continent and the threat of drought is increasing. But a team... Continue Reading →
Sound Energy Can Increase Rainfall in Drought Prone Areas, Find Chinese University Scientists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency told lawmakers on Wednesday he will consult with states and other stakeholders as the agency determines how to deliver on the administration’s plans to tackle climate change and clean up pollution hotspots. The comments came during an unusually cordial Senate confirmation... Continue Reading →
Biden’s EPA pick assures lawmakers he will listen to states in climate fight
A 30-year high in East African rainfall during 2018 and 2019 resulted in rising water levels and widespread flooding. The new study shows that emissions of methane - the second most important greenhouse gas - from flooded East African wetlands were substantially larger following these extreme rainfall events. The study, led by Dr Mark Lunt... Continue Reading →
Huge methane emission rise follows extreme rainfall in East Africa
The way food is grown around the world threatens 24,000 of the 28,000 species that are at risk of extinction, according to a report published Wednesday that calls on world leaders to urgently reform the global food system. Plants and animals are dying out at a rate that is at least tens — if not... Continue Reading →
How We Grow Food Could Determine Whether 28,000 Species Can Survive
The case for a national clean electricity standard. Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned on a bold climate plan that included cleaning up America’s electricity system by 2035 with a federal Clean Electricity Standard (CES). A national CES, which would require utilities increase their share of renewable and carbon pollution-free electricity, is an old... Continue Reading →
This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list
It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention. In December, ABC News ran an article with the headline “Why green hydrogen is the renewable energy... Continue Reading →