Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?: Review
It is well past the time to face hard decisions of how to reduce obscene levels of corporate production instead of fiddling with perpetual energy fantasies while the planet burns.
Environment featured
With “net zero 2050” and the 1.5°C in the same breath, Glasgow reeks of cognitive dissonance
One after another politicians, business leaders, journalists and NGO advocates talk about “net zero 2050” and the 1.5°C Paris goal in the same breath, and get away with it.
The Black Tears of the Sea (documentary film review}
A little-known menace lurks beneath the sea. In oceans around the world, thousands of sunken World War II vessels litter the seafloor, their fuel tanks rusting away and either actively leaking or poised to leak their contents into the environment.
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
Our recent study, which examined whether building denser and taller is the right path to sustainability, busts this myth: we found that densely built, low-rise environments are more space and carbon efficient, while high-rise buildings have a drastically higher carbon impact.
Can Detroit Return its Brownfields to the Indigenous Sacred Sites They Once Were?
What would Zug Island look like if the land were returned to Indigenous care, with federal funding for its restoration guided by Indigenous stewardship practices?
On the Road to Glasgow: What Does Biden Have to Offer?
I’m wondering what it is that President Biden and his entourage of 12 Cabinet members and assorted other high-ranking officials will be able to promise their counterparts from other nations over the course of COP26.
This Vancouver-based initiative is rethinking recovery and just transitions
The JCRT initiative aims to support companies that create safe, decent and meaningful jobs in the circular economy for job seekers facing systemic barriers.
Land reform in the UK: Reporting from the mass trespass
The secret has been exposed, people have rediscovered the value of the countryside during the pandemic and the debate has become even more pressing as further restrictive measures are proposed for those who most rely on mobility and access in the countryside.
The Global North caused the climate crisis. Now is the time to pay its dues
If the first pillar of climate change negotiations is mitigation – how can we work together to stop carbon emissions? And the second is adaptation – how can we change to cope with the changing climate? Then loss and damage is the third – an idea originally muted in the 1990s by small island states, but gaining increasing traction.
The Fight Against Extinction Requires Biocultural Restoration
Now’s the moment for us to learn from our eco-civilizations of the past to ensure we can have a civilization in our future.
State of the climate: Summer 2021 sets new high for average land temperature
The year so far has been one of extremes, featuring record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and flooding, as well as the warmest-ever meteorological summer – June, July and August – in the global land-surface record.
The blinding lights!
Light pollution threatens our planet’s ecosystem by disrupting the light and dark patterns of the natural world. The effects of light pollution are felt not only by humans but they also have a significant impact on wildlife.
