Los Angeles just announced its own Green New Deal
Los Angeles has big plans to clean up its smoggy, traffic-filled image. This week, while Congress is only discussing the Green New Deal, Los Angeles is announcing a version of their own—an ambitious plan to transform itself in order to tackle climate change. Under the plan, LA plans to run on 55 Read More...
World’s first ‘biosolar leaf’ to tackle pollution on London campus
Reducing the amount of heat-trapping emissions we are putting into the atmosphere is imperative in order to reverse climate change. But scientists and campaigners have warned repeatedly that governments are dangerously falling behind in meeting the rate of carbon emission reductions needed to Read More...
Researchers reveal pathway towards achieving 100% clean energy before 2050
In an attempt to show that transitioning to a global 100 percent renewable energy system is no longer a matter of technical feasibility or economic viability, but one of political will, a Finnish university has published a comprehensive global roadmap on how the world can reduce its carbon Read More...
Scientists have finally come up with a refrigerator that doesn’t pollute
While your refrigerator is busy cooling your foods, it’s also heating up the atmosphere. That’s because most conventional refrigeration devices rely on compression of gases to produce their cooling effect. It works, but gas refrigerators are energy-hungry, and the hydrofluorocarbons they use Read More...
Paul Hawken has 100 solutions to climate change, complete with models
We need solutions to climate change and world renowned author Paul Hawken as some. A total of 100, in fact. Hawken is a legend in environmental circles. Since the early 1980s, he has been starting green businesses, writing books on ecological commerce (President Bill Clinton called Read More...
To save the Earth, science says we must keep half of all land in a natural state
To stabilize the climate and spare the planet from the consequences of runaway climate change, we must let nature play a bigger role in our conservation plans. According to a comprehensive new study, countries should double their protected zone to 30 percent of Earth’s land area, and add 20 Read More...
High-tech indoor farming could be the answer to our agriculture problems
While agriculture is suffering from the impacts of climate change, it is also one of the leading causes of the problem. The production of this food is costly: meat and dairy have the highest global carbon footprint and the agriculture sector uses 70 percent of the world’s freshwater. This coupled Read More...
Nature is our most valuable ally in the fight against climate change
There is a wonderful but largely overlooked approach to averting the worst case scenario of climate change while defending the living world: natural climate solutions. By defending, restoring, and re-establishing sea beds and other crucial ecosystems, large amounts of carbon can be removed from the Read More...
A Dutch inventor has created a ‘cow toilet’ to reduce emissions from urine
By now you’ve probably heard about cow farts and the massive amounts of methane they squeeze into the atmosphere, but did you know cow urine also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions? As it turns out, urine can produce large amounts of nitrous oxide after spilling onto the ground, soaking into Read More...
These storm-resistant homes give Mozambique a blueprint to follow as it rebuilds
Last week, the African nation of Mozambique was hit by 100-mile-an-hour winds and more than seven inches of rain, causing a flood that destroyed thousands of homes and killed hundreds. Cyclones aren’t new on the coast of Mozambique, but climate change does intensify these storms and raise the Read More...