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4 votes
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Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
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Planet Money - Episode 926: So, should we recycle?
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Oslo may see just fifty days of snow deeper than 30cm in 2050, down from eighty days today and 140 days in 1900
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
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Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
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The audacious effort to reforest the planet
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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America’s radioactive secret: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year
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California's new groundwater law explained
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Greta Thunberg: ‘Forget about net zero, we need real zero’
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Stockholm street just became the first in Sweden to ban old diesel cars – 4,000 of the 24,000 cars that use Hornsgatan every day will now be forced to take a detour
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The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
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David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
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New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Norway says its new giant oil field is actually good for the environment – critics call it climate hypocrisy
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How bad is the environmental impact of shipping/delivery?
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than...
I've recently started trying to improve my environmental impact, so I apologize for what might be a very basic question, but how bad is it to have items shipped/delivered to you, rather than picking them up from a store near you?
I'm specifically interested in two situations:
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If I'm buying a specialty, zero-waste product that's not available in stores nearby, which is worse: having it delivered directly to my house, or having to drive a good distance in my own car to get it? Are the two roughly comparable, or is one considerably worse than the other?
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I use a service called PaperBackSwap that is sort of like a big, distributed, online used bookstore. You give away books from your collection to people who request them, and for each book you send out you can request one to be sent to you. I like that it's putting books in the hands of people who specifically want them (as opposed to donating them or selling them to a used bookstore where they might be shelved indefinitely or pulped), but now I'm sitting here wondering how bad it is for that single hardcover of mine to travel halfway across the country. On the other hand, the book is getting reused, potentially multiple times if it then gets requested by others after that. Should I be considering this good reuse, or a waste of resources?
Outside of those two, I'd welcome any primers on the topic at large, as well as any best practices with consumer goods that I can start putting into place. I've already done a lot to find plastic-free alternatives to a lot of what I use, but I don't know if I'm trading one ill for another by getting them from places that have to send them from hundreds of miles away.
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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology
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Microsoft announces their plan to be carbon negative by 2030
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Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
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US electricity generation from renewables surpassed coal in April
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The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
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Year of the planet, environmental activism, and us
Hi! I'm Micycle_the_Bichael! I'm a pretty passionate local environmental activist. Short summary: I think climate change is bad, but even if climate change wasn't happening the way we interact...
Hi! I'm Micycle_the_Bichael! I'm a pretty passionate local environmental activist. Short summary: I think climate change is bad, but even if climate change wasn't happening the way we interact with nature is still gross and leaves a lot to be desired (ex: over fishing, whaling, landfills). While there definitely needs to be governmental action on corporations on climate change, there are still changes that can be made in your daily life to help make the world a better place! Enter the year of the planet. This is a community group for making one small change a month to help the environment. Some may be things you're already doing, some may be new. For example: the January goal is to start using a reusable coffee cup when ordering coffee at a cafe since most paper coffee cups are lined with polyethylene and thus not recyclable. The biggest difference for me between this and many other (very great and valid) projects like it is that it heavily emphasizes building a sense of community.
The group who organized this is The Good Empire, who describe themselves as:
"Year of the Planet is an initiative of Good Empire. We’re makers of startups and projects for good.
Inspired by and aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, we bring ideas to life that are good for the world. We help change the things that need to change.
And most importantly, we’re a tribe. A global community of good people, united in purpose, to help create a better and more sustainable future for all.
Good Empire is not a registered charity, but we partner with registered charities in everything we do.
We will take no management fees from Year of the Planet, nor will any of the funds raised come through us. All donations will go directly to our charity partners."Some of those partners being Wildlife Emergecy Fund and the seabin project which is a project close to my heart along with the ocean cleanup project
This post has been what feels like a really long rant on a couple of groups and causes that I'm very passionate about. I'll probably DM one of the other Tildes members who does scheduled posts and see about making a bi-weekly environmentalism thread to discuss what people are doing to make a positive change not only in the local environment, but in their community (a lot of good environmental initiatives also make your neighborhood/local community nicer and happier places :) ), struggles people are having, questions, products they have found, etc. and we'll see if it sticks or if it is just me shouting into the void.
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Welcome to Hawaii's 'plastic beach', one of the world's dirtiest places
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How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change
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IBM’s lithium-ion battery uses seawater materials instead of heavy metals, charges in just five minutes
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The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
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A News Corp employee has accused the organisation of a "misinformation campaign" filled with "irresponsible" and "dangerous" coverage of the national bushfire crisis
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Too much combustion, too little fire
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
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Assessing the US Climate in 2019 - Warmest year on record for Alaska, second wettest for contiguous US
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Australia’s bushfire catastrophe in photos
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Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary
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How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them
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Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050
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Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – the main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was from a foehn wind
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A blizzard of “sustainability” labels
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Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting Australian government's bushfire response
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722 For the non-Aussies,...
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response
Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722
For the non-Aussies, and for the Aussies who aren't political tragics like me... the reason everyone's up in arms is that this video has been released by the Liberal Party, not by the Australian government. We can tell by the "Authorised by" statement in the final frame. Government information comes with the Commonwealth coat of arms and says "Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra". Party political advertisements have to be "authorised by" someone within the political party. In other words, this is a political ad, not a government press release. The Liberal Party (not the government!) is promoting itself on the basis of what the government is doing for the bushfires.
Scott Morrison has already been an utter failure during this crisis. He went on holiday after the fires started. He's done as little as possible since he returned. And people have noticed. People have abused him when he turned up to visit their town. People have literally refused to shake his hand (but he grabs their hands and shakes them anyway!).
But, despite all this wrong-footedness, this new advertisement is the most tone-deaf thing he's done (so far!). It reflects his background in marketing. Everything's a message for him. Unfortunately for him, the message here is "I'm using your suffering to promote myself".
Scott Morrison has fucked up yet again.
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Google, Amazon and Microsoft are now in the oil business
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How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map
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Australian government deploys army reservists, third navy ship to support firefighters
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Australian navy begins evacuation of beach where thousands had sought refuge from fire
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Common gas market for Finland, Estonia and Latvia launches following the completion of the Balticonnector pipeline last month
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Denmark sources record 47% of power from wind in 2019 – boosted by steep cost reductions and improved offshore technology
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveil a global prize to tackle climate issues in the next decade
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New Zealand 'blanketed' by smoke and dust from raging NSW and QLD bushfires
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Trawlers return to Pacific Ocean fishing area in rare environmental success story
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Why ‘nature’ has no place in environmental philosophy
4 votes