Depending on the administration, environmental regulatory compliance can be a moving target. Compliance with environmental regulations is considered a baseline. But if you go above and beyond regulations, can that ultimately make life easier for you and your organization? Regardless of your role in environmental management, you probably tracked the regulatory rollbacks enacted during the... Continue Reading →
The Climate Psychology Alliance welcomes anyone and everyone to its membership who wants to engage in addressing the psychological aspects of the climate emergency. The Climate Psychology Alliance welcomes anyone and everyone to its membership who wants to engage in addressing the psychological aspects of the climate and ecological emergency. Whoever and wherever we are... Continue Reading →
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Climate Change: Can We Stop Deadly New Phase? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)
Has the world left tackling climate change too late and have we hit the climate change tipping point? With forest fires and serious flooding, this spate of extreme weather has triggered studies to find out if it has become more chaotic. But is it too late? Dr. Michael Mann joined Thom to discuss whether climate... Continue Reading →
"Only when you are able to face the future as it is—not as it was or as you dreamed it would be—will you fully grieve and be ready to move on."
Facing the Climate Emergency: Grieving The Future You Thought You Had
A four-year-old startup says it has built an inexpensive battery that can discharge power for days using one of the most common elements on Earth: iron. Form Energy Inc.’s batteries are far too heavy for electric cars. But it says they will be capable of solving one of the most elusive problems facing renewable energy:... Continue Reading →
Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries
Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis. MANY PEOPLE HERE think they are safe from climate change, the journalist from a German newspaper explained to me. They don’t see it as an immediate threat, like Covid-19. They see the Greens as scolds who... Continue Reading →
STUCK IN THE SMOKE AS BILLIONAIRES BLAST OFF
How net zero pledges can lead to false solutions for Amazon rainforest and climate protection Trading forest protection for continued greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) presents a false and dangerous "solution" to the climate crisis. Instead, emissions must be drastically reduced, forests must be protected for their own sake, Indigenous forest stewardship must be recognized and... Continue Reading →
The Amazon Rainforest-Sized Loophole in Net Zero
The recent leak of a draft of the next IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warns that recovery from climate breakdown may be impossible as the impact of tipping points leads to far-reaching and perhaps irreversible disaster. Well, it turns out we don’t need the IPCC report to point that out. We’re getting a... Continue Reading →
What do Heat Waves, Wildfires and Banks Have in Common?
ALDEA XUCUP, PANZÓS, Guatemala — Here, in the small Mayan indigenous village of Xucup, men and boys pack tightly and stand in the back of pickup trucks in the early morning, heading to the fields to check on their crops after a night of harsh rain. It’s early June — and any strong storm has the... Continue Reading →
It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis.
Climate Denialism Organizations
Here are some anti-science, paid entities and/or willfully ignorant individuals, companies or organizations are very sneaky and there are also a number of individuals, groups and organizations (not all listed here) that their sole purpose is to mislead, generate confusion, unsubstantiated information and anything that either halts or slows down the growth of both Climate... Continue Reading →
Hemp conversion to graphene and diamond. Smart carbon capture?
Hemp has been celebrated and vilified in equal measure over the centuries. It has fantastic properties for textiles and ropes, but it comes from the cannabis plant, so it arouses deep suspicion among some policymakers. What is unarguable though, is that it is an extremely fast growing plant that stores a large amount of carbon.... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 