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On the agenda this Earth Day: A global treaty to end plastic pollution

Grist

Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely greenwashy PR pitches. But it struck me that Earth Day 2024 has a particularly timely theme: Planet vs. Plastics.

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Deepak Chopra, The Earth Day Network, H.R.H.

Earth Gratitude

Deepak Chopra, The Earth Day Network, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales: The Global Earth Day Gratitude Celebration and Ebook Deepak Chopra, The Earth Day Network, Life is Good, Ron Finley, Rainbow Light Join in the Global Earth Day Gratitude Celebration April 22, 2016. Ebook features H.R.H.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Happy Earth Day 2021! In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. Letterman was stunned, saying, “Due to air pollution? and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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Gas Group That Calls Climate Goals ‘Pie in the Sky’ Got $1.2M from BC Government

DeSmogBlog

The First Nations LNG Alliance was incorporated in December 2015, and public records show that the group received a “government transfer” of $270,000 the following year. government has transfered six-figure amounts to the FN LNG Alliance every year since 2015. The First Nations LNG Alliance has been funded for years by the B.C.

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I’m Using Up 3–9 Planets.

Earth Gratitude

At the rate I’m consuming, I’m using up 3–9 planets, according to the carbon footprint calculator at Earth Day Network. limiting the gasoline and pollution from trucking food from far away. All of this carbon pollution is generated to satisfy my needs and those of my fellow developed world denizens.

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EU approves 2030 climate goals, as US preps plan to halve emissions

Business Green

With just hours to go until the start of President Biden's high profile Earth Day meeting of world leaders, two of the world's largest economies have finalised plans for ambitious new decarbonisation targets for 2030 that promise to provide a major boost to global efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

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Earth Day History: Transformation of a Celebration – Part 2

Green Business Bureau

Earth Day History and Transformation. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. billion hectares in 2015. billion hectares in 2015. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015.