Brazil’s Indigenous Leaders Sue President Jair Bolsonaro For Crimes Against Humanity Two of Brazil’s most influential and well-known Indigenous leaders filed an international legal challenge this week against the country’s leader, alleging that far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies toward Indigenous tribes and the Amazon rainforest constitute crimes against humanity. Chief Raoni Metuktire, the leader of... Continue Reading →
Hey Martin! It’s been over 4 years since you founded ecoligo and started your journey to transform the energy landscape in emerging markets. Who came up with the idea? And why? Back in 2013, ecoligo’s co-founder Markus Schwaninger and I met at a solar energy conference in Nairobi. We were living and working in Kenya and Ghana,... Continue Reading →
How to invest in solar energy: a conversation with ecoligo
Take AIM at Climate Change (listen to the words…)
An upbeat invitation to "Take AIM at Climate Change" - with "AIM" standing for Adapt, Innovate, Mitigate. The lyrics are based on the latest science of Earth's changing climate, with the music a mix of rap and pop. Four verses connect changes in the Arctic and Antarctic to conditions around the planet, with choruses encouraging... Continue Reading →
What is the world that you want to live in? In 2019, NY Renews passed the nation's most progressive climate justice legislation in the country and established a legal mandate to eliminate fossil fuels. Now, we need to fund the just transition. The Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA) does just that by raising $15... Continue Reading →
Let’s Build The World That We Want – New York
If one wanted a basic rule of thumb for dealing with the climate crisis, it would be: stop burning things. Human beings have made use of combustion for a very long time, ever since the first campfires cooked the first animals for dinner, allowing our brains to get larger. Now those large brains have come... Continue Reading →
To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents.... Continue Reading →
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980
How Carbon Capture Networks could help curb Climate Change
What if we could build a global waste disposal service for carbon? In this forward-thinking talk, carbon capture advisor Bas Sudmeijer proposes building CO2 networks: partnerships between cities around the world that would share the cost and geological resources needed to trap emissions deep in the earth -- and give us a shot at stalling... Continue Reading →
RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is mostly restricted to scientific topics and will only rarely get involved in any political... Continue Reading →
Real Climate – Climate Science for Climate Scientists…
The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change
We've totally beefed it on climate policy for 30 years, let's try a new approach. - ClimateTown Source Note: This video is extremely informative and well-done. Get educated quick about an issue of great importance to all of us. Please support ClimateTown for great work. Visit his YouTube page and see his links.
Eat For The Planet is the leading podcast covering the people, ideas, and technologies shaping the future of food. About: WE NEED A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE WAY WE PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, AND CONSUME FOOD IF WE WANT TO AVERT AN ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND HAVE A THRIVING HUMAN POPULATION ON EARTH BY THE YEAR 2050. Eat... Continue Reading →
Eat for the Planet
Climate disasters started early in 2020—and kept on coming. The catastrophic fires in Australia in early 2020 were a holdover from 2019, but they were soon followed by flooding in Indonesia, a super cyclone hitting the coast of India and Bangladesh, and then more flooding, this time in Kenya and wide swaths of Central and West Africa. Next came the record-breaking fires in... Continue Reading →
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