It’s true that I didn’t fancy the idea of getting a bucket of water over my head to avoid making a charitable donation. And it’s true that I could be more charitable. But, this video is a memorable way of delivering the message: Water is precious, look after it. People in Ireland (where there’s relatively …
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Category:5 Environment
It’s just melting.
The planet that is. But it’s doesn’t even warrant an exclamation mark because it’s been going on for years now. Sad. Maybe that’s where everyone’s been getting the water for the ice bucket challenge – haha. Arctic sea ice continued its long-term decline in 2014. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), …
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Demand for action on climate change is getting loud.
Today’s UN climate change summit has provoked peaceful demonstrations around the world and drew significant media attention. The number of people changing their own behaviour and demanding change from leaders is growing. This is what is required to change the culture of permissiveness that pervades the worlds of money and politics. Some leaders appear committed …
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The end of fossil fuels.
The Rockerfeller Foundation plans to divest fossil fuel assets in its portfolio. The Fund will first focus on limiting its exposure to coal and tar sands, with a goal to reduce these investments to less than one percent of the total portfolio by the end of 2014. It is planning for further divestment as quickly …
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To save nature, just say NO, thank you.
The Economist offers analysis and a guide to curbing greenhouse gases, as the UN conference on climate change approaches. Here’s their summary table. Notice that the Montreal Protocol achieved the most by a wide margin. The next most effective policy has been China’s one-child policy. The effectiveness of both is supported by the simple discipline …
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Is Amazon destruction your fault?
Sadly, the truth is that we are all to blame. We demand the paper or burgers or whatever it is for which the tropical woods are consumed. Ok, so you want to deny it or ignore it. That’s OK. Today. But tomorrow we’re all going to have to face the truth. Sooner or later we’ll …
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We’re 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“Low Carbon Economy Index,” a report released by the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, has numerous stark warnings. Sadly they are unlikely to be heeded by those that matter – big companies, governments and people like you and me – because those are the culprits identified in the report. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, “the gap between …
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The planet is melting faster and faster. What are you doing to stop it?
So, the ozone hole has stopped shrinking. That’s good to know. But I’m cynical about how good the news is because the Montreal accord banning CFCs occurred in 1987 more than a quarter of a century ago and we’re spewing out more greenhouse gases than ever. And the weather is still wacky. A surge in …
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We don’t need an education to save the planet …
I’ve liked this video since coming across it by accident about a decade ago. It’s still relavant and rocks …
Regulation doesn’t work, but what else is there when people don’t care?
A report by the watchdog Natural England says many farmers responded to impeding grassland protection laws by digging up their meadows before the tighter rules could be introduced. Some 98% of English meadows have already been lost to intensive farming and the rate of loss nearly doubled after announcement that rules would be changed. Rules …
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