It’s time to phase out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.
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UN biodiversity pledge: Brazil’s strategy to protect nature and address climate change
The world’s most biodiverse nation, Brazil, has belatedly published its UN plan for halting and reversing nature decline by the end of this decade.
Sisyphus, Science & Carbon Removal
The choice to back CDR is conditioned by a desire in society at large to meet net-zero whilst maintaining an economic paradigm and way of life.
To Build a Sustainable World, Academics need to Tear Down the Ivory Tower
Avoiding societal collapse means building bridges between science and the rest of the world.
Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Must Keep Heat On
It took a committed coalition and the increasingly harsh reality of climate change to push President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But sustained public pressure will now be needed to force politicians to take the next critical actions on climate.
From Cafeterias to Farms: How Students are Mobilizing their Universities to Build a more Local, Just, and Sustainable Food System
Thousands of students have united under the guise of a nation-wide campaign called the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a movement aimed at shifting $1 billion in institutional food spending to food that is sustainable, just, and local: in other words, ‘real food.’
New Pittsburgh Urban Ag Law Passes, Boosts Options for Residents
Good news for yardfarmers in Pittsburgh. A new ordinance now makes it easier to have chickens, ducks, goats, and more additions to your yardfarm!
While South Carolina Floods, U.S. Wrestles With Urban Stormwater
Among the devastating effects of the low pressure storm system that pummeled South Carolina over the weekend was the heavy damage the record-breaking rains caused to water transport and treatment infrastructure, and the release of a tide of contaminated stormwater.
Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives
Co-ops and their support networks have been a part of the recent rise in attention paid to economic justice, and our participation has allowed us to establish unique positions to solidify gains in policy.
The Movement Lives On: Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices impact institutions of power all over the world.
Four degrees of devastation
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world.
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
Canadian activists and artists call for action.
