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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. degrees Celsius (2.7

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5 growing environmental nonprofits to support in 2020

AGreenLiving

With the new year already upon us, the need for efficient organizations battling the climate emergency is only growing. This year, consider donating to and volunteering with nonprofit organizations and charities that are transparent about how they use their funds and their time. Related: Can’t make the climate strikes?

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5 growing environmental nonprofits to support in 2020

AGreenLiving

With the new year already upon us, the need for efficient organizations battling the climate emergency is only growing. This year, consider donating to and volunteering with nonprofit organizations and charities that are transparent about how they use their funds and their time. Related: Can’t make the climate strikes?

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The aim is to help the entity understand its climatic impact. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Can manufacturing green sand beaches save our planet?

AGreenLiving

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. Carbon dioxide removed from the air becomes bicarbonate, which helps grow the shells of marine organisms and is stored in limestone on the ocean floor.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

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. Instead, they are required to contract with “ industry-governed organizations ” — private trade associations — to promote products.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

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.