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Earth Day: Agile Science in the Anthropocene

Planet Pulse

On the first Earth Day in 1970—with boot prints on the moon fresh in our memory—humanity was buzzing with a desire to make a conscious, global effort to be better stewards of our planet, and endowed with the confidence that we can do great things. One of these will look at the capacity to monitor changes in cropping patterns….

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Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2

GreenBiz

Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans. It hopes to establish an open-source integrated algorithm and protocol that will enable governments, nonprofits and companies to deploy this solution with predictable results.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

Knowing that the Earth is a planet, however, isn’t quite the same as seeing it with your own eyes. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” Government missions have sparked enthusiasm too.

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

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. For simplicity, when defining scope 2 emissions, think bought.

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Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2

AGreenLiving

Project Vesta: Enhancing natural weathering to capture CO2 in ocean-bound volcanic sand Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world’s oceans. Gross then described the solar-powered DAC process his team at Heliogen has designed.

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Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2

AGreenLiving

Project Vesta: Enhancing natural weathering to capture CO2 in ocean-bound volcanic sand Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world’s oceans. Gross then described the solar-powered DAC process his team at Heliogen has designed.

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Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2

AGreenLiving

Project Vesta: Enhancing natural weathering to capture CO2 in ocean-bound volcanic sand Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world’s oceans. Gross then described the solar-powered DAC process his team at Heliogen has designed.