Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Researchers on the Polarstern’s MOSAiC mission—the largest polar expedition in history and the first modern vessel to spend a full winter close to the North Pole—are aiming to fill in the gaps of knowledge. On the long winter days, Agatha Christie-style murder mystery games are organized to kill the hours.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Climate connection: Historically, the range of blacklegged ticks has been constrained by environmental factors — ticks can’t survive winters that are very cold or conditions that are too dry. It was copy edited by Joseph Winters and fact-checked by Lina Tran. Art direction by Teresa Chin. 11 | 11×17.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

So, today, I’m turning the newsletter over to the capable hands of my colleague Joseph Winters , who covers the plastics industry and has been following the negotiations of the global plastics treaty for the past two years. “More important than an ambitious timeline is an ambitious treaty,” she said.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Arctic’s sea ice, typically 3 to 15 feet thick, freezes during winter and melts each summer. Researchers Joseph Shoapik and Jérémie Bonneau, both members of Derek mueller’s team, measure the temperature and salinity of the water in the rift in the ice shelf.

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Grist

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a story published today , Nieuwjaer told Grist’s Joseph Winters that she would be eating for free all winter, with imperfect or slightly-past-its-prime produce she sourced for free and then preserved. She estimates that she saves around 3,000 euros a year from her waste-reduction efforts. on Dec 6, 2023.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Read Next How the world’s favorite conservation model was built on colonial violence Joseph Lee The Supreme Court of the United States has also limited Haudenosaunee reserved rights, though from a different angle. It only infects chestnuts in the South right now, because root rot dies during winter freezes. Patterson lost that case.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Read Next Small victories and major frustrations mark latest round of plastics treaty negotiations Joseph Winters Some scientists accuse the chemical industry of “ weaponizing uncertainty ” to delay or kill regulation, a strategy they liken to Big Oil’s campaign to raise doubt about the reality of climate change.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Read Next The EPA’s proposed PFAS regulations ignore a major source of drinking water contamination Joseph Winters The product at the center of the lawsuit, which will be heard in the U.S. That cost will get passed on to consumers, unless the companies responsible for creating the contamination in the first place are forced to pay.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2023

” As Joseph Winters writes in the piece, many environmentalists gave up their trash jars because they proved to be unrealistic, holding the jar-holders to impossibly high standards in systems they couldn’t fully control.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 1, 2021

Try low-tech solutions like wearing thicker socks and a fleece bathrobe over your clothes so that you don’t need to turn the heater up as much in winter. If you have the money and own a home, a heat pump can cut your energy use in half. Add an extra blanket to the bed, and turn your thermostat down at least seven degrees at night.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 1, 2021

Try low-tech solutions like wearing thicker socks and a fleece bathrobe over your clothes so that you don’t need to turn the heater up as much in winter. If you have the money and own a home, a heat pump can cut your energy use in half. Add an extra blanket to the bed, and turn your thermostat down at least seven degrees at night.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 1, 2021

Try low-tech solutions like wearing thicker socks and a fleece bathrobe over your clothes so that you don’t need to turn the heater up as much in winter. If you have the money and own a home, a heat pump can cut your energy use in half. Add an extra blanket to the bed, and turn your thermostat down at least seven degrees at night.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

It was July 2019 — winter in Australia — but the temperatures in Broome still sat comfortably in the low 80s. Daniel’s uncle Joseph — who effectively led the anti-gas campaign and spent years dashing from rally to rally — died at 47, struck down by a stress-induced heart attack 10 months before Woodside canceled the project.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Joseph Winters. The more data points they collect, the better the accuracy of existing climate models — a 2020 study published in the journal Nature found that a lack of predictability in wind patterns above many of the world’s oceans has led to unreliable rain forecasts. How climate change is muting nature’s symphony.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Exelon CFO Joseph Nigro said that retaining its nuclear power plant fleet, which generates about 12 percent of the country’s carbon-free generation capacity, will make it a “key partner for state and local governments” seeking “long-term solutions to the climate crisis.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

Joseph Winters But the EPA has not offered or performed indoor testing in homes since April of 2023. “And if we went on the registry, from my understanding, they’d have to relocate a lot of people and it would possibly unlock federal benefits. I believe they’re just trying to avoid that economic burden.”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Read Next After years of pressure, 3M will stop making ‘forever chemicals’ John McCracken & Joseph Winters Jennifer Friday, a Peshtigo resident who lives in the PWSA, is pursuing yet another approach.

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