The future looks bright for solar and other renewable energy technology. FirstSolar, Enphase and SunPower are among the renewable energy stocks that are benefiting from a much friendlier administration in the White House, whose agenda includes tackling climate change and bolstering green energy. Their stocks soared last year, far outpacing the wider market’s gains. On... Continue Reading →
Key developments included governments' announcement to earmark 30% of their climate funding to nature-based solutions and the launch of the first global initiative to help prevent the next pandemic by reducing pressures on biodiversity PARIS, France (11 January) – World leaders have today highlighted the destruction of nature as increasing the risk of future pandemics... Continue Reading →
One Planet Summit: Leaders take action for human and planetary health, but step change still urgently needed
For years, we have ignored the silent crisis of biodiversity loss, but we cannot risk another damaging decade for nature COVID-19 is an unprecedented global health crisis. But it has also been a wake-up call to the risks posed by our destructive relationship with the natural world. The 2021 Global Risk Report, published this week... Continue Reading →
OPINION: COVID-19 has shown what happens when we destroy nature – 2021 must be the year we change course
The social cost of carbon is the “single most important number that nobody has ever heard of.” In the U.S., it’s about to get much higher. In the flurry of actions that President Joe Biden has taken to respond to climate change—rejoining the Paris Agreement, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, pausing oil and gas leases,... Continue Reading →
This single number could reshape our climate future
January 28, 2021 — Smoke rises between houses from fuels being burned for cooking, threatening both the environment and human health through carbon dioxide emissions and indoor air pollution. Meanwhile, diapers that have not been properly disposed of are polluting waterways and sewage systems and become a potential source of disease. What do these two seemingly... Continue Reading →
Can global innovation competitions help unearth the next sustainability solution?
Composting organic waste is so important because it improves soil health and strengthens the soil’s resilience to shocks such as drought. Of the 21 million tonnes currently landfilled in Australia, over 10 million tonnes is organics, including food and garden waste, that could be made into compost. Generating three centimetres of top soil takes 1,000... Continue Reading →
Life depends on healthy soil
Since the '50s, China has battled with the invading Gobi Desert or ‘yellow dragon’ from the North. In an attempt to halt its advancement, the Chinese government began planting a ‘Great Green Wall’ of trees in 1978. Decades and billions of trees later, the project has been proclaimed a success by the Chinese government, but... Continue Reading →
For decades China has been planting a wall of trees to halt an invading desert, has it worked?
In the final weeks before voters in Texas’ Twenty-Eighth Congressional District went to the polls in the Democratic primary between incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the most conservative House Democrats, and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros, a brand-new “dark money” group dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ads to boost Cuellar. The shadowy... Continue Reading →
Mysterious Dark Money Group That Backed ‘Big Oil’s Favorite Democrat’ Was Funded by Big Oil
The growing influence of TikTok is undeniable, especially for those aged 13 to 25. It isn’t surprising, then, that potentially the most pressing issue of this generation has a voice on the platform: the climate crisis. For the uninitiated, TikTok is an app where users create clips anywhere from just a few seconds to one... Continue Reading →
Meet the TikTok stars using viral videos to save the planet
President Biden has proposed ambitious goals for curbing climate change and investing in a cleaner U.S. economy. One critical sector is transportation, which generates 28% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – more than either electric power production or industry. Shifting from cars that run on gasoline and diesel to electric vehicles, or EVs, is a... Continue Reading →
To make the US auto fleet greener, increasing fuel efficiency matters more than selling electric vehicles
In a speech Wednesday outlining his new executive actions aimed at confronting the "existential threat" of the climate crisis, President Joe Biden said he plans to ask the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass legislation eliminating the tens of billions in taxpayer subsidies the federal government continues to hand Big Oil even as the planetary emergency wreaks... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 