For #EarthDay I'm going to post some photos from the amazing Climate Protest in NYC last year. Huge numbers turned up. It was about half and half, young and old.
Passed by a smokey diesel BMW sports car with washington plate BTV4810 on the back covered with soot, missing plate on the front, on a neighborhood greenway in Portland 😒 #EarthDay#DriverAccountability
Earth Day 2024: 4 effective strategies to reduce household food waste.
The global food system produces enough food for everyone, yet, in 2023, 333 million people worldwide were food insecure and 783 million were chronically hungry. An estimated 1.3 billion tons of food — 14 per cent of all produced — is lost or wasted globally every year. #EarthDay
"We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves." #CesarChavez#EarthDay
North Korea has celebrated Earth Day by not turning any lights on for the 26,280th day in a row.
Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un praised the courage and indefatigability of himself in ensuring the North Korean people don’t engage with capitalist, western ideas like light bulbs and cooked meals.
He also confirmed he had further reduced North Korean carbon emissions by having underlings carry him to breakfast this morning rather than being driven there as usual. #Earthday#humour#humor#satire
To us the #Earth is sacred, we work every day to inspire the people of #Mastodon to make them realize that they can be a solution to fix the #ClimateChange.
Composting has the power to limit the waste we send to the landfill and the problems it generates.
Life depends entirely on our topsoil and homemade compost empowers you to create at your place a rich soil and make your #GrowYourOwn plants and #Trees.
To believe your actions do not matter is a gross mistake. If you plant a tree every day in a lifetime you will have planted a forest.
"Is Earth Day greenwashed and obsolete?" a Salon writer asks. Has its core message been diluted as corporations use the annual event for marketing purposes?
"[Earth Day] might need to be more explicitly political and less universally inoffensive. A useful Earth Day might not look like a product you can buy but a fight you can sign up for—and an affirmative vision of what winning the battle might look like."
Today is Earth Day. National Geographic tells the story of the first time the event was held, in 1970. It was the result of outrage at a devastating oil spill in Santa Barbara in Jan. 1969, which killed thousands of birds and stained beaches along California's coast.
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. CNN explores one place where a lot of it ends up: the Western coast of Java in Indonesia.
Inbox: The DOJ proposes a consent decree with Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources for their Christmas Eve 2022 oil spill at Ingleside, TX. Flint Hills will pay $989,212.80 in Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act fines.
SCOOP: I was told by Cyndi Valdes, Executive Director of Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association, that residents hadn't heard about the proposed consent decree until I approached them for comment.
Here's IOBCWA's statement. Still awaiting a response from Flint Hills.