Waste Not, Want Not
Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...BECCS has big problems with its inputs and its outputs. Perhaps other solution to global warming should be prioritized.
Read more...Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...The fracking industry has a wastewater disposal problem and finds itself in a pick your poison situation, with no good alternatives. Americans will continue to bear the environmental costs of the nationwide fracking experiment.
Read more...Young climate change activists and AOC push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, despite expected hostility in the Senate.
Read more...Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Another sign of climate change induced stress, this one from Australia.
Read more...A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
Read more...Plastic Watch: The European Parliament recently approved a plan that will ban outright certain single-use plastics. Alas, these measures fall far short of what’s necessary, both in timing and scope, to address the burgeoning plastic crisis. And they would only apply to the EU.
Read more...Some back of the envelope estimates show that the economic cost of climate change is already cutting into growth in a big way….and it will only get much worse.
Read more...Does capitalism breed pathology?
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