Washington (CAR) Analysis | July 18, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Global food waste is one of the most upsetting failures in the complex web of our dirty energy linear economy, particularly food wasted in the United States where we’re so capable of creating systems to manage food efficiently, with little or no loss.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | June 27, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
The following is the requested feedback to Fairfax County’s draft Resilient Fairfax Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, put forth for public comment from May 16, 2022 through June 15, 2022.
With so many lives at stake, as well as the survivability of the human species, it’s vitally important for every single one of us to voice our positions, and our objections when something seems amiss with our local community/county’s climate action plans, including its timeline. Everything we do and don’t do in 2022-2024 will be hyper-analyzed in the future. The IPCC, the UN, many global leaders and thousands of scientists have repeatedly warned about the urgency to act immediately. Yet so few local governments are following through.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis |June 7, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
In a recent interview with American radio personality Thom Hartmann, distinguished climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann explained that our global climate is warming “on pace as the models predicted,” but the consequences of global warming are playing out much faster and more profoundly than anticipated. “We may be in store for more extreme weather than the models predict,” Mann emphasized.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | May 17, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
In a recent interview with Preet Bharara on his weekly podcast Stay Tuned, Dr. Pete Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, emphasized that every tenth of a degree matters in our fight to stay below 1.5ºC.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | May 9, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
The rush to stay below 1.5ºC is now in overdrive. We only have three short years to get ourselves into the groove of implementing and growing climate mitigation micro habits.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | May 4, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: Leonardo DiCaprio
Anyone who spends even the shortest amount of time on Twitter can instantly recognize how diplomatic Leonardo DiCaprio’s tweets are about the pressing need for immediate climate action, biodiversity restoration via rewilding, and the dangerous deforestation in the Amazon that not only threatens the survival of endangered wildlife, a cause very dear to DiCaprio’s heart, but also the survival of the entire human species.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 17, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise | Reprint from December 24, 2019; Image Credit: Noreen Wise
Exciting update on the “Ketchup in a glass bottle sold locally” search, a tale that has reached a positive outcome in just five weeks. Five weeks is a very short period of time. This proves that social media is a very powerful solutions driver.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | April 17, 2022 by Sarah J. Kings; Image Credit: AdobeStock
For years now, we have known that Keurig K-Cups are an environmental hazard. Made from plastic, these little cups are too small to be properly sorted by recycling centers and machines. Billions of K-Cups are piling up in landfills around the world, and many have been incinerated in Keurig’s program, Grounds to Grow On.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | March 4, 2022 by Climate Journalist Noreen Wise; Image Credit: AdobeStock
Deforestation numbers for January 2022 have just been released and reveal that a staggering number of trees were felled in the Amazon rainforest this winter. This, despite it being the rainy season when loggers usually stay away, and despite the fact that 141 world leaders, including Bolsonaro of Brazil, signed the Declaration On Forests and Land Use at COP26 in Glasgow to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.
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Washington (CAR) Analysis | March 2, 2022 by Sarah J. Kings; updated August 30, 2022; Image Credit: AdobeStock
EVs are now at the forefront of most consumer’s minds, fueled by the reality that climate change impacts are already being felt around the globe as extreme weather events pummel all 7 continents. EVs are responsible for much lower emissions than their gas-powered counterparts, and they cost less overall to maintain and drive. Still, with starting prices ranging from $29,000 to upwards of $100,000- depending on the make and model- some people may be hesitant to switch to electric as economic concerns grow.
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