We exist to reverse climate change We'll do it by connecting millions of people to projects that reduce pollution and restore nature. The results? A happier and more sustainable future for everyone. Empowering climate action CarbonClick empowers businesses and their customers to tackle climate change, by making carbon offsets simple, trustworthy and cost effective. Integrate... Continue Reading →
Future of Blade-less Wind Turbines – Solid State Wind!
For Decades the wind turbine has been at the center of renewable energy generation. But the future of blade-less wind turbines is interesting, as it is poised to decentralized wind energy production. So what does solid state wind turbines look like, and what impact will they have? Video Source!
In coastal Louisiana, climate change forces an indigenous community to flee
In 2020, five major storms slammed the Louisiana coast, the most ever in a single season. For many living here, this unprecedented barrage was a final warning. Now Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribal members have decided to leave. Pointe-Aux-Chenes, and its neighbor, the Isle de Jean Charles, are about 90 minutes southwest of New Orleans. At some points,... Continue Reading →
This Carbon-Negative Dream House Ships In A Box
With both homelessness rates and the cost of homes continuing to climb in the U.S., one startup described as the “IKEA of houses” is determined to make beautifully-designed, affordable housing more accessible. What truly sets NODE's homes apart is that they’re designed to be carbon neutral, and some even carbon negative. The startup is confronting... Continue Reading →
A leaked draft report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the accelerating danger caused by human use of coal, oil, and gas. It warns of coming unlivable heat waves, widespread hunger and drought, rising sea levels and extinction. To understand the report's warnings, William Brangham turns... Continue Reading →
A leaked UN report warns ‘worst is yet to come’ on climate change. Here’s how you can help
How We’re Accelerating Towards The Perilous 2 Degree Milestone
Climate Change: How We’re Accelerating Towards The Perilous 2 Degree Milestone | NBC News NOW The Paris Climate Agreement has a goal to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. On Earth Day, NBC News’ Al Roker explains how the road to that milestone is getting shorter and what the devastating... Continue Reading →
It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity | Bill McKibben | The New Yorker Magazine Rising air temperatures remind us that our bodies have real limits. It’s hard to change the outcome of the climate crisis by individual action: we’re past the point where we can alter the carbon math one electric vehicle at a time,... Continue Reading →
a crucial ‘Must-Read’ climate related article… (June 23rd, 2021)
As the South Bay grapples with the impacts of climate change, people there are creating solutions by relying on arguably the most fundamental element of conversation: listening. This process began in East Palo Alto, where community groups and scientists are helping residents understand how warming temperatures are raising water levels in the bay — already... Continue Reading →
‘Communities Know Best’: Climate Solutions in The South Bay Start With Listening
A panel convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation will publish the legal definition of ecocide on Tuesday, seeking to pave the way for acts of environmental destruction to be incorporated into the International Criminal Court's mandate. "The people that are destroying the planet are actually fairly few in number and are causing massive harm to... Continue Reading →
Ecocide: How a fast-growing movement plans to put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes…
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals HOUSTON – (June 21, 2021) – Rice University engineers have created microscopic seeds for growing remarkably uniform 2D perovskite crystals that are both stable and highly efficient at harvesting electricity from sunlight. In a study published online in Advanced Materials, chemical engineers from Rice’s Brown School of Engineering describe how... Continue Reading →
Solar energy collectors grown from seeds
Why Lawns Must Die…
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why the American lawn must die. Specifically, I look at the grass lawn's history of class exploitation and settler colonialism and how that ties into the American lawn culture we see today. The lawn began in Europe as an elite status symbol that... Continue Reading →
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