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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023, CC BY-ND. Like all other living organisms, we survive by using Earth’s resources. We are still in the green for ozone-depleting chemicals. And we’re now in the danger zone, where we – as well as every other species – are now at risk.

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

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health. This knowledge is essential, though, to making daily health decisions and strengthening community climate resilience.

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How Much Work is Needed to Make Recycling Economically Sustainable?

Green Living Guy

Environmental issues like acid rain, global warming, ozone layer depletion, climate change, and water pollution have raised major concerns for several nations, organizations, and groups. Conscious nations and organizations have started taking action by playing.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity

Unsustainable

Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth. The nine PBs regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. Johan Rockström is a Professor in Environmental Science. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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Event - Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Green Market Oracle

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. A variety of creative thinking and imaginative responses to such challenges can be found across the Global South.