FAST FORWARD FIVE ARTISTS SHARE THEIR DREAMS FOR A REGENERATIVE WORLD Little Sun started as a simple idea to create a small, portable, solar lamp for people living without electricity in Ethiopia. We began as a social enterprise, selling solar devices around the world with the aim of raising funds to make solar lights and... Continue Reading →
Sarah Myhre talks climate communication
In this interview, John Cook and Peter Jacobs talk with climate scientist Sarah Myhre. She offers challenging advice on climate scientists being more vulnerable in public, showing how they struggle with their science, how we care about the ways that communities are impacted by climate change. She reflects on whether scientists should engage with the... Continue Reading →
A fraction of billionaires’ wealth could help end extreme poverty instead of buying private islands. Not many people can single-handedly transform the world — but billionaires can. Billionaires collectively have trillions of dollars parked in private foundations and donor-advised funds, tax havens, assets, and investment funds. It’s hard to visualize that kind of money, but the analogy of... Continue Reading →
6 Things Billionaires Keep Spending Money on Instead of Helping Solve the World’s Biggest Problems
How To End A Conversation Without Seeming Rude
(Tips for Zoom Meetings) Picture this. You're having a conversation, maybe with a friend, maybe with someone you just met. It might be the case that you actually like the person you're talking to but the conversation is numbingly boring. You might have something to do or you're just no longer interested in talking anymore.... Continue Reading →
Dubai has come up with a genius way to combat its scorching 50C/122F temperature problem by creating ‘enhanced rain.’ The United Arab Emirates city has been going through hellish summers and in response, the National Center of Meteorology has started using drones that fire electrical charges into clouds, causing them to clump together and create... Continue Reading →
Dubai has come up with a genius way to combat its scorching 50C/122F temperature problem by creating ‘enhanced rain.’
Desertification; land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It’s no secret that our beautiful planet is on its knees. Forests are burning, oceans are acidifying, ice caps are melting – we are currently experiencing a 6th major extinction event. As we hurtle towards... Continue Reading →
Desertification: Causes & Potential Solutions
Key Points Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build the project in the Netherlands. The idea of deploying solar panels on farmland has been around for many years. Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build a project in the Netherlands that plans to combine solar power with... Continue Reading →
Farming and solar power set to combine in Netherlands-based pilot project
It is unlikely that you know how much carbon was produced by making your driveway. But if you did, you might think about ways to build it better. That is the concept behind the “Buy Clean Colorado” legislation signed into law July 6 by Colorado Governor Jared Polis. Under the new law, future public construction... Continue Reading →
Colorado Passes Embodied Carbon Legislation — The Most Important Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard of
(yes, this is Climate Emergency related as in regards to Circular Economy...) iFixit co-founder and CEO Kyle Wiens has exposed how companies including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft manipulate the design of their products and the supply chain to prevent consumers and third-party repairers from accessing necessary tools and parts to repair products such as smartphones... Continue Reading →
iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction
As we face the urgent crises of climate and extinction, we need every tool available — including the law — to fight for life on Earth. By identifying “ecocide” as a prosecutable crime, as a panel of 12 lawyers recently proposed to the International Criminal Court, we can set up a practical framework for tackling... Continue Reading →
To fight ecocide, we have to criminalize it
Gas-fired stoves are emerging as a burning issue as American cities consider phasing out natural-gas hookups to homes and businesses to reduce carbon emissions. Many restaurant and home chefs prefer cooking on gas-burning ranges, and persuading some to switch to electric stovetops is proving to be a hard sell—a sentiment the natural-gas industry has seized... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 