Earlier this week, Scott Pruitt announced his agency’s sad, but unsurprising plan to withdraw the Clean Power Plan (CPP) - one of the strongest climate mitigation policies ever taken up by the US.
Goodbye to All That Clean Power
Take Me Back To How It Used To Be
Ecological restoration “is the process of reestablishing to the extent possible the structure, function, and integrity of indigenous ecosystems and sustaining the habitats they provide”.
Money Matters
How can we be capable of space travel and artificial human life, yet so helpless when it comes to climate change? The sad truth is that, as always, it’s all about the money.
The Water May Look Nice, But Little Do You Know
Back home in North Carolina there is plenty of soil to absorb normal amounts of rainfall, but NYC is nearly all paved over with impermeable surfaces, creating an excess of stormwater runoff.
First the Ocean’s Waters, Now Yours
I know the plastic we use each day doesn’t simply disappear into thin air once disposed of. Yet, somehow, I’m struggling to wrap my head around how, of all places, it ended up in our drinking water.
Siempre Echan la Culpa a El Niño
El Niño - Southern Oscillation or ENSO (pronounced “en-so”) occurs in the Pacific every two to seven years and is divided into three stages: El Niño, La Nina, and Neutral.
Deny, Deny, Deny
The first step to recovery is accepting the truth.
Earth, Skinned Alive
Around “46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost each year - equivalent to 48 football fields every minute.” - WWF
Half World, Full Good
If given a choice, would you be willing to set aside half of the world’s land and ocean for nature?
#beinconvenient
“What were you thinking? Couldn’t you hear what the scientists were saying? Couldn’t you hear what Mother Nature was screaming at you?” - Al Gore
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