Hopes for a worldwide plastics treaty gained some momentum at the fourth of five scheduled summits to hash out an agreement. But while the week-long session of the UN International Negotiating Committee made some headway, it didn’t leave environmentalists feeling overly optimistic.
Earth is at risk: a global cultural shift is needed.
An interesting review article that calls for an urgent paradigm shift to replace the exploitative, wealth-oriented capitalism with a sustainable, resilient and just economic model.
Climate organization puts $120M into 2024 election
League of Conservation Voters statement:
"Trump and MAGA Republicans have been clear that if they are in control, they will stop at nothing to dismantle #climate progress and our democratic institutions in favor of fulfilling Big Oil’s agenda. Meanwhile, President Biden has done more to fight the climate crisis than any other president in our country’s history.”
South Australia is going a long way to shifting steel making from a very carbon creating process to creating Green steel
Using excess renewable energy during the day to create hydrogen that will be used to power peaking plants when the renewable supply falls
Tom Koutsontonis, the energy minister is across the details in a refreshing way and continues his leadership for SA to have a modern renewable powered, manufacturing industry https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-takes-another-bold-leap-into-deep-green-energy-future/
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After 2+ years of preparation, we welcomed today >160 students (80 Major/80 Minor) at the Irchel campus. Many thanks to all who are involved & provide teaching.
"he led the work which described a link between air pollution and kidney disease and – separately – described the global and national burden of diabetes attributable to air pollution" https://publichealth.wustl.edu/people/ziyad-al-aly/