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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. On some of the beaches in Hawaii’s Big Island, as much as 15% of the “sand” is actually grains of microplastic. California’s recycling rate is down from a high of 50% in 2014 to 44% in 2016.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

On May 4, 2016 he visited Flint to see first-hand the devastation to the lives of Flint's citizens as a result of their lead-poisoned water supply. That visit resulted in the declaration of a federal state of emergency in January 2016 and contributed to a nationwide awareness of the city's critical situation. So here I am."