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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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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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5 growing environmental nonprofits to support in 2020

AGreenLiving

The Foundation for Climate Restoration Probably best-known for its work with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and Earth Day Network, The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) is a nonprofit with a mission to restore the climate by 2050. Take the Climate Restoration Pledge and make a donation (one-time or monthly).

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5 growing environmental nonprofits to support in 2020

AGreenLiving

The Foundation for Climate Restoration Probably best-known for its work with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and Earth Day Network, The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) is a nonprofit with a mission to restore the climate by 2050. Take the Climate Restoration Pledge and make a donation (one-time or monthly).

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Palm Oil Giant Indofood Subsidiary Loses Sustainability Certification Over Labor Abuses

Green Living Guy

February 7, 2019 / Suspension of RSPO Membership Looms / San Francisco, CA The world’s largest palm oil certification scheme, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), ordered the suspension of the “sustainability” certificates of Indonesian palm oil giant Indofood’s subsidiary, London Sumatra (Lonsum).

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

On Earth Day and during the United Nations Climate Week, it published 85 letters to the editor in local newspapers on “behalf” of cattle farmers proclaiming that beef is sustainable. He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. the next day, fundamentally changing the composition of the forests across the West. The idea behind Earth Day originated in California in 1969. Thirty years later, it tightened that approach, striving to extinguish all fires by 10 a.m.