This is the Week This Friday!
This is the Week This Friday!
Have we learned nothing?
This is the Week This Friday! 5 quick-and-smart briefs about happenings in the environmental space! When life gives you lemons, build a pipeline – Alberta Minister of Energy “Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more than 15 people,” Sonya Savage, […]
Adopting a sustainable diet can not only help mitigate the climate crisis, but can also improve your health.
‘I don’t want to keep your environmental awards; I want you to keep your promises.’ This phrase basically sums up how Greta Thunberg feels about the praise from the climate work she has been doing. From declining awards such as the Nordic Council’s Environment Award 2019, to telling world leaders […]
This year Earth Overshoot Day was the earliest ever, falling on July 29 as the day humanity collectively used nature’s resource budget for the entire year. Scientists, environmentalists, activists, and the world’s youth have made loud and clear demands for radical and progressive policies to curb humanity’s environmental footprint.
Almost all environmental concerns lead back to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. I mean, of course it all leads back to the climate crisis. Most people can agree that it is primarily caused by human activities such as resource extraction and use and agriculture.
In the race to remove the trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, the treatments we choose for this problem ought to at least be slightly better than the problem itself. We have proposed solutions on the table, but the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) landscape is complex, risky, […]
To be honest, when I first started researching this article, I wasn’t 100% certain what 100% renewable energy really meant. It sounded good, but I definitely couldn’t give you a definition of it. And that’s a little surprising, given how often it’s discussed by governments, academics and the media. But […]
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