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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. E-commerce is expanding globally.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

This affects not only issues like education, but the states policies and resource allocations related to issues like climate, energy and the environment. The final budget included a progressive Real Estate Excise Tax that charges more for the sale of more expensive homes (although using it for tax breaks), an important precedent.

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Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters

Planet Pulse

Our mission is to help fill gaps in the emerging global ecosystem of methane and CO 2 monitoring systems by delivering data that’s timely, actionable and accessible for science-based decision making.” These home-grown satellites are a game-changer. To read the press release in full, click here.

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A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice

Mr. Sustainability

Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. About a third of the size of the Christophe de Margerie gas tanker, the Polarstern is almost like a second home for polar scientists. But it will.”

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents.

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Carbon Dioxide Equivalent – Applications for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Business Bureau

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). The three main sources of human-induced CO2 emissions are transportation, electricity, and industry. Major Greenhouse Gases. Fluorinated Gases.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

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