A recent Canadian Climate Institute report, Independent Assessment — 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, describes Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan as “a watershed moment in Canadian climate policy that has the potential to drive emissions reductions across all sectors and all major sources of emissions.” Five Major Policy Pathways Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan... Continue Reading →
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers. For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances... Continue Reading →
We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. In a portrait of land degradation across the globe, the report describes entire forests razed for timber or pasture; sensitive grasslands and wetlands lost to sprawling cities; and over-exploited lands that have dried up into... Continue Reading →
United Nations warns that humanity has ‘degraded’ 40 percent of Earth’s land
Food policy leaders release report calling on Congress to tackle pervasive food waste. Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, in collaboration with NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), ReFED, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), released “Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill,” a new report detailing how Congress should... Continue Reading →
The Next Farm Bill Can Save Money, Reduce Food Waste, Address Hunger, and Combat Climate Change
Rewilding—the reintroduction of native flora and fauna—is critical in the fight against climate change. Here, six important projects from Argentina to the Maldives. For 10 years now, one book has held a place in my ever-changing pile of bedside reading: Caroline Fraser’s Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Metropolitan Books, 2010). When I... Continue Reading →
6 Ways to Support Rewilding Projects Around the World
You May Be Practicing Some Permaculture Already Permaculture is a sustainable approach to the use of land, no matter its size. If you are a mindful home gardener, chances are that you are already practicing permaculture without being aware of it. What Is Permaculture? Permaculture, a term coined from “permanent agriculture”, was developed in the... Continue Reading →
How to Start a Permaculture Garden
It is difficult to imagine that when Li Zhenhai and his wife Jiang Kaizhi came to live in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region nearly four decades ago, there was no electricity, tap water or fresh vegetables. Even more difficult to imagine is that under the harsh living conditions they... Continue Reading →
Man’s dream greens barren mountains
Those who are not in denial about the climate crisis are in despair. And no-one has a good argument as to why the protesters are wrong. I don’t have time to write this article. I am submerged under a snowdrift of undergraduate marking, overdue corrections on a book manuscript, labouring through a PhD thesis I will... Continue Reading →
Why we need to confront denial over the climate crisis
We speak with one of the leaders of a new study that finds one in five reptiles are threatened by extinction. The results of the first comprehensive study of over 10,000 reptile species around the world were just published in the journal Nature and found multiple causes, including deforestation, urban encroachment, hunting and the climate... Continue Reading →
World Risks Losing 1 in 5 Reptile Species as Human Activity Destroys Ecosystems, Says Report Author
Regenerative Systems: How we could redesign a thriving lasting economy | William Reynolds | TEDxDuke
While our economic systems have brought us so much good, we also face increasingly complex environmental and social issues. Our economy has existed for the last 300 years. Common (regenerative) patterns across natural systems might offer the basis for a new economy that humanity can grow upon for millennia. Will Reynolds left New Zealand in... Continue Reading →
We speak with a leading Indian climate scientist about the punishing heat wave that produced the hottest weather ever recorded in April for India and Pakistan. Temperatures have climbed above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, causing power outages, school closures, crop damage and health warnings. Scientists link the early onset of the region’s intense summer to the... Continue Reading →
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