How Decarbonizing Shipping Just Got a Push – From Banks
Come join researchers and practitioners from around the world at the first international Drawdown Conference, Research to Action: the Science of Drawdown, from 16-19 September at Penn State University. Decarbonizing transportation is vital to solving climate change. Solutions to decrease
Finding Our Future Leaders: An Interview with Maria Auma
Maria Auma is a successful and socially-conscious female entrepreneur. She is the founder of Blue Luxury Investments (BLI), an organization providing education and financial support to young people and budding businesses in their local communities. While the business initially started
Greenland’s Shrinking Ice Sheet May Accelerate Global Climate Crisis
This article is part of an editorial collaboration with Earth.Org. The Earth.Org Series can be found here. The original publication can be found here. Greenland is the world’s largest island with a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 sq km, roughly 80% of the
Making Waste Useful: An Interview with LONO
LONO is an organization based in Ivory Coast providing sustainable and affordable products and services for recycling agricultural waste to generate profit for users. We have reached Louise Bijleveld, Co-founder of LONO to find out more about her company. Can you
Is Oil Really Worth More Than The Planet?
In the fall of 2006, former presidential candidate Al Gore called global decision-makers to action: “It is your time to seize this issue. It is our time to rise again, to secure our future.” Over more than a decade since
The Carbon Tax Works For Billionaires: The Climate “Karma Tax” Works for the Rest of Us
Can we agree that corporate elites and billionaires are not our saviors for building a sustainable economy? In fact, quite the contrary, through their direct and indirect lobbying efforts and subtle influence as “elites”, they have delivered us a unique
Today’s Challenges Affect Our Future Plate: Climate Change and Its Impact on Food
In case we need any more evidence of the reality of climate change, besides the hundreds of scientific reports published over the last few decades, we can simply observe the changes in the seasons and weather. These shifting weather patterns
Disaster Management: Lessons Learned for Communities Near and Far
We live in an era where climate change will increase the number and severity of natural disasters — impacting more communities. Drought, wildfires, extreme heat events, and hurricanes will continue to afflict communities. This increase will occur not only in traditional
Climate Change: A Wake-Up Call for Action
Two books that changed the world: David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, makes it impossible to ignore the issue You are concerned with climate change but the avalanche of news numbs you. Don’t feel guilty, you are
Climate Change in the Arctic for Dummies — the Basic Facts We Need to Know to Care
We don’t have to be climatologists to acknowledge that climate change is real. Nowhere is it more noticeable than in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen two times as the global average. A quick Google search is enough to find
A Social Network Against Climate Change? Meet We Don’t Have Time
Could a social network help to save our planet? This is what Ingmar Rentzhog CEO and Founder of We Don't Have Time and his team believe, having created a social network with the purpose to fight climate change. Social networks
EcoMatcher: Helping Companies and Consumers to Plant New Trees and Fight Climate Change
If you believe — and you should — that planting new trees could benefit the environment and save us from climate change, EcoMatcher will definitely interest you. EcoMatcher is a certified B-Corporation founded by Bas Fransen with the aim of helping