Washington (GGM) Analysis | April 16, 2024 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: Noreen Wise
Have you seen the 2023 award-winning soil health documentary Common Ground, sequel to Kiss the Ground?
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | April 8, 2024 by Noreen Wise, and segment on Supervisor James Walkinshaw edited by Andrea Lewis; Image Credit: AdobeStock
The growing global plastic crisis demands urgent attention and immediate action. Recent headlines have warned that invisible plastic particles pose a very serious health risk. “Microplastics Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, Study Finds,” was reported by Healthline in March of 2024. “Landmark study links microplastics to serious health problems,” informed Nature the same month.
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | October 26, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Do daily food choices impact global warming?
The short answer is… Yes! A very significant impact. Can this be reversed? Yes, much the same way that the dirty fossil fuels negative impact is being slashed by the clean energy transition.
According to Ember, an independent analysis firm that relies on “data-driven insights” to assess where countries stand in their transition to clean energy from fossil fuels, “half of the world is past a peak in fossil power,” and 78 of these economies “have displaced fossil power with clean energy.”
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | August 10, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: AdobeStock
What we eat is quickly becoming a frontline battle in our effort to stay below 1.5ºC. The US food system amounts to 9 gigatons of CO2e (GtC) each year, roughly 15 percent of the annual greenhouse gases emitted in the US. This is more than the greenhouse gas pollutants of the entire transportation industry, including every car, bus, train, and plane that relies on fossil fuel. At the center of the heated debate, about what we can put in our mouths to lower our food system CO2e, is the cow.
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | July 13, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; All Image Credits: AdobeStock. Updated August 14, 2023.
Held v Montana was the first constitutional climate case to go to trial in the United States. The landmark legal battle, a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, was filed by Rikki Held, et al. — sixteen environmental activists aged 5 to 22 — in March 2020, the same month that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The defendants in the case are the State of Montana, its Governor, and various State agencies.
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | May 15, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: AdobeStock
As the sun rose on Puerto Rico September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in the southeastern coastal city of Yabucoa. The devastating Category 4 superstorm brought pounding rains, massive storm surge, and ferocious winds with sustained gusts of 155 mph. Maria thrashed and pounded the beleaguered island for hours until all that remained was a shattered mass of destruction.
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | April 11, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media
The world’s finance chiefs will be addressing the economic impact of climate change this week when they gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss the looming economic challenges that many countries around the world are facing as global warming continues to climb.
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | April 6, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media, Image Credit: AdobeStock
Protestors from a Coalition of climate justice and environmental organizations poured into DC on Tuesday in response to Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s (CCAN) call to action, chanting their demand for Environmental Protection Agency’s new Power Plant Rules. “EPA, don’t wait. Regulate.”
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | January 11, 2023 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Anecdotal examples across the United States suggest that daily surface wind speeds are strengthening, with wind gusts reaching the gale force level on a regular basis in some regions.
Is this troublesome trend being monitored? How will the higher wind speeds impact highway safety, air travel, and building integrity?
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Washington (GGM) Analysis | November 15, 2022 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Gallant Gold Media; Image Credit: AdobeStock; UPDATED February 12, 2024
Food waste in schools is epidemic. Elementary schools in particular have become food waste overachievers. From stuffed lunch bags and trays — which usually include fresh fruit, packaged applesauce, trail mix and similar snacks that health-conscious parents and school administrators endorse but can’t control — the daily mountain of nourishing food landing in school waste bins, headed for landfills, has reached crisis level.
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