There’s a new nature conservation strategy in town – and it means business. During the 1970s, 80s and 90s the main tactic to protect wildlife was to highlight the plight of charismatic “flagship” species (remember the WWF Save the Panda campaign?). Since the millennium, however, a new strategy backed by major conservation organisations such as... Continue Reading →
A strategy for supporting and listening to others
As a police officer, Jeremy Brewer interacts with individuals experiencing trauma and loss on a daily basis. Giving us a peek into this little-discussed aspect of the job, Brewer shares thoughtful insights on why respecting people's space is sometimes more important than trying to fix an unfixable moment -- and explains how you can use... Continue Reading →
Coronavirus: What has Covid done for climate crisis? – BBC News
When Covid-19 sparked lockdowns around the world, emissions of one of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, atmospheric carbon dioxide, plummeted. But is this record drop a short-term effect of the 2020 pandemic or a 'new normal'? BBC Weather's Ben Rich explores the impact of coronavirus on the global climate. Continued at source...
Two pension funds in the Netherlands and one from Japan have invested a combined half a billion dollars in Brazil’s top three meatpackers. These investments in cattle ranching, an industry that’s the main driver of Amazon deforestation, contradict the environmental stances of the respective funds and their national governments. The fund managers and other experts... Continue Reading →
Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation
Il existe une quantité de mesures gouvernementales possibles pour lutter contre le changement climatique, mais il n’y en a qu’une qui réduit directement l’usage de combustibles fossiles et fait donc baisser les émissions de CO₂ : une contribution directement reliée à la production de combustibles fossiles (aussi appelée taxe carbone). L’échange de quotas d’émissions de... Continue Reading →
Lobby Climatique Citoyen (France)
Democratic progressives introduce legislation to mandate action by Biden. 2/4/2020 - Special Alert Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, introduced legislation today that would mandate President Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” The bill compares the action needed on the climate crisis to the wartime mobilization... Continue Reading →
“It’s past time to declare a climate emergency.”
Hundreds of scientists, writers and academics from 30 countries sounded a warning to humanity in an open letter published in the Guardian in December: Policymakers and the rest of us must “engage openly with the risk of disruption and even collapse of our societies.” “Damage to the climate and environment” will be the overarching cause,... Continue Reading →
Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable
The World Turns to Climate Action EARTHDAY.ORG is honored that the Biden Administration has decided to convene a global climate summit on Earth Day 2021. Many important environmental events have happened on Earth Day since 1970, including the recent signing of the Paris Agreement, as Earth Day continues to be a momentous and unifying day each and every... Continue Reading →
Earth Day | Climate & Environmental Literacy
this diminishes fear…
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. - Rosa Parks
our individual truth toward enlightenment…
“Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on the brink of evolutionary change means that new ground is being broken and new consciousness is being raised. Truth is of the essence – we have no dogma, no set formula, no prescribed... Continue Reading →
in an hour of grief and bereavement…
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us... Continue Reading →
