Food policy leaders release report calling on Congress to tackle pervasive food waste. Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, in collaboration with NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), ReFED, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), released “Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill,” a new report detailing how Congress should... Continue Reading →
Rewilding—the reintroduction of native flora and fauna—is critical in the fight against climate change. Here, six important projects from Argentina to the Maldives. For 10 years now, one book has held a place in my ever-changing pile of bedside reading: Caroline Fraser’s Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Metropolitan Books, 2010). When I... Continue Reading →
6 Ways to Support Rewilding Projects Around the World
You May Be Practicing Some Permaculture Already Permaculture is a sustainable approach to the use of land, no matter its size. If you are a mindful home gardener, chances are that you are already practicing permaculture without being aware of it. What Is Permaculture? Permaculture, a term coined from “permanent agriculture”, was developed in the... Continue Reading →
How to Start a Permaculture Garden
It is difficult to imagine that when Li Zhenhai and his wife Jiang Kaizhi came to live in Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region nearly four decades ago, there was no electricity, tap water or fresh vegetables. Even more difficult to imagine is that under the harsh living conditions they... Continue Reading →
Man’s dream greens barren mountains
Those who are not in denial about the climate crisis are in despair. And no-one has a good argument as to why the protesters are wrong. I don’t have time to write this article. I am submerged under a snowdrift of undergraduate marking, overdue corrections on a book manuscript, labouring through a PhD thesis I will... Continue Reading →
Why we need to confront denial over the climate crisis
For those who wear the change New Standard was founded on the idea of change. We believe that transforming the fashion system is a necessity to face humanity’s greatest challenges across environment and climate – and everyone can make a difference. Our way? Weaving style, quality and comfort together with responsible practices. Creating the building blocks... Continue Reading →
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We speak with one of the leaders of a new study that finds one in five reptiles are threatened by extinction. The results of the first comprehensive study of over 10,000 reptile species around the world were just published in the journal Nature and found multiple causes, including deforestation, urban encroachment, hunting and the climate... Continue Reading →
World Risks Losing 1 in 5 Reptile Species as Human Activity Destroys Ecosystems, Says Report Author
Regenerative Systems: How we could redesign a thriving lasting economy | William Reynolds | TEDxDuke
While our economic systems have brought us so much good, we also face increasingly complex environmental and social issues. Our economy has existed for the last 300 years. Common (regenerative) patterns across natural systems might offer the basis for a new economy that humanity can grow upon for millennia. Will Reynolds left New Zealand in... Continue Reading →
A team of scientists at MIT have created a device that transforms brackish seawater into clean drinking water at the push of a button—and can be especially helpful for people living in seaside places like California who are dealing with climate change-fueled droughts. The new desalination device (a term used to describe a machine that... Continue Reading →
MIT Engineers Created a Portable Device that Zaps Seawater to Make Drinking Water
We believe climate change is a fundamental threat to the lives and livelihood of every human and future generations here in the United States and across the globe. We believe that bold action by public officials — at all levels of government — is essential to addressing the threat posed by climate change. Too many... Continue Reading →
We Are Climate Hawks
The UN’s annual report on mitigating calamities shows that a radical rethink is needed to protect those who suffer most If the world seems beset by constant disasters, from the pandemic to drought, we only have ourselves to blame. Over the past two decades, we have experienced up to 500 disasters a year as a... Continue Reading →
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