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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter

GreenBiz

Corporate conservation campaigns used phrases such as "Save the [insert your favorite animal]," which have been catchy, effective and oddly similar to the language we’re now using to educate people about the status of Black life in America. It’s much more powerful to ask, " How is racial bias at play here?". The tigers.matter, too!

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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. What powers your smartphone?”

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As the climate changes, language is evolving too

Business Green

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. An education in greenwashing. Going green or greenwashing?

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Anti-Net Zero Activist’s Claim She Was ‘Evicted’ from COP26 Rejected by Organisers

DeSmogBlog

Lois Perry, director of CAR26 – which questions whether carbon dioxide has a “significant role in global warming” – appeared on talkRADIO on Monday claiming security tried to “bundle” her out of the press area at the UN climate summit in Glasgow because “they don’t want free speech”. . I’m in the Disabled Loos’.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . This policy was Front and Centered legislative priority. **We

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Modular Tree-House School concept connects kids with nature

AGreenLiving

Designer Valentino Gareri has created a concept for the Tree-House School, a sustainable and modular educational building that highlights children’s relationship with nature. Each 55-square-meter module is made of cross-laminated timber and corresponds to 20-25 students per classroom connected by a central corridor.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

The WAIS holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by around 3.3 meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. . Coral reef die-off – Coral reefs are often described by scientists as one of the ecological systems that are most sensitive to global warming.