Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 19, 2021

Climate change is already harming people’s health worldwide. If we do nothing to protect the environment, the impact could burden future generations with disease and illness. Since air pollution and plastic pollution are getting worse year by year, immediate actions… Read More How to Encourage Children to Be More Sustainable.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

Here are five fledgling nonprofits you may not have heard of yet, but that are already inspiring movements, pushing for legislation and combating climate change. The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The objective of the convention was to: “ Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climatic system.” – UNFCCC , What is the United Nations Framework on Climate Change?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 30, 2020

It sounds too good to be true — spread some rocks on a beach and the ocean will do the work to remove carbon dioxide from the air, reversing global warming. It’s very clear at this point that in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming, reducing emissions will not be enough,” Green said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

The group, which is the beef industry’s largest trade association, plastered the New York Times (including its popular podcast The Daily ) and the Washington Post with climate-conscious food messaging. But he uses that to say, ‘Oh, because [livestock’s climate impact] is not a relative problem in the U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. The idea behind Earth Day originated in California in 1969. The Western U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 15, 2020

This is an Earth Day like no other that has gone before. Although it may be hard to fathom from where we are today it is also a hopeful time that may augur the change we so desperately need. In 2020 we are celebrating the 50th Earth Day and the theme this year is climate action.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Earth Day History and Transformation. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. More than 50 years later, what has changed? The global population has more than doubled since 1970, increasing from 3.7 Earth Day History of the 1990s.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

How Earth Day Has Transformed Through Changing Trends. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. More than 50 years later, what has changed? The global population has more than doubled since 1970, increasing from 3.7 C) per decade.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

There’s a simple rule when it comes to corporate climate commitments: when they come out on Earth Day, you know they’re often too good to be true. What’s taken denial’s place is a more insidious form of climate disinformation: greenwashing. From Denial to Greenwash.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

2C global warming threshold target of the accord. The UK was among those to ramp up its 2030 goal in December, and the US and Japan are among those reportedly mulling over ambitious new goals, but even so the global commitments remain far off what is needed to avoid the worst climate change outcomes.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

10 Earth Week developments that bode well for climate tech. By the time President Joe Biden articulated it officially Thursday on Earth Day, the new U.S. pledge to halve emissions over the next nine years was one of the worst-kept secrets in climate action circles. Climate Change. Climate Tech.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

reach global climate targets to limit global warming to 1.5 In a Thursday report, Energy Innovation, whose co-founder Sonia Aggarwal recently joined the White House climate policy team, laid out a policy pathway to hitting the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to keep warming below the most dangerous levels.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

president is also busy with COVID-19 deaths surpassing 500,000, the climate just can’t wait. As Biden said to the Munich security conference, “We can no longer delay or do the bare minimum to address climate change. This is a global existential crisis, and all of us will suffer if we fail.” Although the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A poll from the Yale Program for Climate Communication showed that 70 percent of voters favor federal COVID-19 stimulus funding going to clean energy rather than fossil fuels. In 2019 it was becoming clear that Americans were increasingly at odds with their government on climate action. Roughly 79 percent of Americans said the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Climate Change is a Women's Issue and so is the Clean Economy In terms of climate change impacts women have the most to lose and in terms of engaging climate action they have the most to gain. Climate change is a critical issue for everyone, but it is especially hard on women.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 14, 2021

By Jonna Hamilton President Biden recently unveiled his American Jobs Plan — a two trillion-dollar package with significant investments in infrastructure, advanced technologies, and jobs that will reduce our global warming emissions.

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