The environmental impact of the teaspoon of sugar in your morning coffee pales next to the impact of the coffee itself and even the electricity required to brew it. But it’s not just a teaspoon of sugar. Americans eat more sugar than any other country in the world. At about 152 pounds per year, that’s... Continue Reading →
How do you decide where to order your take-out or delivery meal? Definitely, you want delicious food. And for some people, reducing waste is also an important consideration. These sustainability-focused folks factor in how the restaurant packages their meal. Does the restaurant package food in single-use plastic or Styrofoam? Do they automatically toss in excess... Continue Reading →
Apps Rate Restaurants for Eco-Friendly Packaging
Ed. Note: This is the first of a two-part series how climate change affects housing affordability and efforts to address those challenges. It is part of a year-long partnership between Gambit and the Solutions Journalism Network. Part 2 will run in the July 20 issue of Gambit. It was 117 degrees in the normally temperate... Continue Reading →
Home of Uncertainty: The costs of climate change hit housing
Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. In one of my favorite summer memories, my older brother and I run along our suburban Phoenix street during a monsoon. It’s after dark and the rain pours down warm and the wind blows wildly. When we reach the wide-open expanses of the schoolyard, we twirl... Continue Reading →
Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors
"Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book. Within its lively pages, Michael Shellenberger uses science and lived experience to rescue a subject drowning in misunderstanding and partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for the planet’s future, take heart." -- Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb... Continue Reading →
Praise for Apocalypse Never
"Buildings are collapsing into the sea. Infrastructure is melting. Hundreds are dying from extreme heat. Millions are without power. The ocean is literally on fire. The climate crisis is here." With hundreds of thousands of acres burning across swaths of the U.S. West that have already endured record-breaking heat this summer—and mounting concerns about the... Continue Reading →
‘Time for Incrementalism Is Over,’ Says Climate Movement as Extreme Weather Hits US
The Guardian’s new series of articles on fossil fuel companies’ culpability for the climate crisis is entitled “Climate Crimes.” Is this too extreme a title? After all, Exxon and the others were just working within our legal, economic, and political systems to provide a commodity we all use every day. They may have known that... Continue Reading →
Big Oil’s lies about climate change—a climate scientist’s take
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch for forest protection. Bad timing, however, turned out to be the easy problem. This forest was the first one that botanist Armand Randrianasolo had tried to protect. He’s the first native... Continue Reading →
The first step in using trees to slow climate change: Protect the trees we have
Since its ascension in 2018, the Green New Deal has defined the terms of the global climate debate. Perhaps no other climate policy in history has been as successful. Democrats and Republicans alike have been judged by how closely they seem to hew to it. The Sunrise Movement, the highest-profile American climate-activism group, rallies for... Continue Reading →
The Green New Deal Does Not, Strictly Speaking, Exist
An estimated 35% of Americans still use gas stoves. That’s despite the known benefits of their electric counterparts: While burning gas in a contained indoor space like a kitchen causes harmful and environmentally damaging air pollution, electric stoves are cleaner and safer and tend to outperform gas options across metrics. To knock out emissions, we... Continue Reading →
Why your stove may be the key to combating fossil fuels
Four days after torrential rains triggered deadly floods in western Germany, survivors have now turned their focus toward the daunting task of rebuilding. But with emergency services still busy looking for bodies and securing vital infrastructure, many residents are left to seek help from volunteers – or go it alone. And many are wondering if... Continue Reading →
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