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Past the tipping point and towards a new clean economy

Business Green

The escalating climate threats more companies are dealing with are also putting the spotlight on other massive, interconnected economic risks—biodiversity loss, water pollution and scarcity, deforestation--that threaten to undermine business operations and supply chains. The bet that new fossil fuel investments are a viable runway.

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We are on the Cusp of the Collapse of Civilization

Green Market Oracle

We’ve reached a crossroads where our own future is at stake if we don’t move away from fossil fuels and end wildlife exploitation, and at the same time, necessarily, address poverty and injustice." I take your water, you take my energy, they take our food, we take their medicine. Extinction is a political choice.

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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

AGreenLiving

For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction. When species become endangered , the ecosystem and its biodiversity equilibrium are imbalanced, triggering chain reactions where one loss leads to another.

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. For instance, projects include extensive agricultural training and the commercialization, collection, transport, and sale of açaí, rubber, and medicinal plants.

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Negative Emission Technologies are Our Last Hope

Green Market Oracle

Even under the most optimistic scenarios the transition from fossil fuels to clean sources of energy like renewables will take time and if we are to have a shot at keeping global temperatures below the upper threshold limit GHG emissions will need to be prevented from reaching the atmosphere.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Hemp (a variety of Cannabis sativa L. Additional Resources.