Environment mostly relates to environmental policy, or action human beings take (or do not take) to prevent or moderate our impact on nature.
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The prebound effect https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09613218.2012.690952 Editorial Comment: Urban Solar Energy Association found similar results with the households in which USEA had done solar barnraisings back in the late 1970s. Net...
by gmoke
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on Sat Nov 08, 2025 at 07:38 PM PST
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Food forests are everything: creating edible landscapes helps nature thrive in Afro-descendant lands https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/23/environment-biodiversity-afro-descendants-latin-america-food-forests-aoe Sky gardens in Fujian...
by gmoke
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on Fri Nov 07, 2025 at 11:24 AM PST
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Harvard’s Growth Lab is publishing Greenplexity (https://growthlab.app/greenplexity) which evaluates 10 green value chains powering the energy transition on a country by country basis. Every country in the world, 6000 products. They are also working on...
by gmoke
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 08:17 PM PST
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On October 29, 2025, Mark Z Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, gave a succinct one hour lecture to Elders Climate Action (https://www.eldersclimateaction.org) on 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for...
by gmoke
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 09:50 AM PST
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For the past 16 years, the UN Environment Program has produced an annual Emissions Gap Report. This year’s edition shows a slight improvement in predictions from the 2024 report. However, even if every country lived up to the national emission cutting...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Nov 07, 2025 at 09:00 AM PST
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Chevron and WSPA again dominate lobbying spending in California The oil and gas industry spent $26,095,530 in the first three quarters of 2025 in their successful effort to stop the Make Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, AB 1243 and SB 684, and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Nov 01, 2025 at 11:09 AM PDT
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Gonetoon: The White House is Next. Our ‘KKKing’ is already seeing to it. Buynott! Please note: I’m currently traveling for work and so, my participation in comments will be minimal.� ~~~~~ ...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Oct 30, 2025 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The enduring agony of Trump 2.0 has been on full display this past month. Most of us can cite a litany of negative impacts from the regime’s actions and inactions. Many of us know people or are people whose livelihood and very lives are harmed by his...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Oct 31, 2025 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appeared on CNBC Tuesday to argue that it’s those damn environmental regulations preventing the United States from using gas to power AI.� “There's a whole ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 01:55 PM PDT
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Hurricane Melissa, already. a strong category 5 hurricane has continued to intensify while coming ashore with sustained 185 mph (156kt) winds. Hurricane Maria, with category 4 winds caused massive destruction of large swaths of Puerto Rico. Structures...
by FishOutofWater
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on Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 08:03 AM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Oct 26, 2025 at 03:28 PM PDT
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Los Angeles, CA — As the international Boycott Chevron campaign targeting the company’s abysmal human rights and environmental record builds momentum, a massive explosion took place at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery on Oct. 2. The event shocked South...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sun Oct 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM PDT
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A new article takes on some big topics that have been relatively understudied: rentier capitalism, technofascism, and commons destruction. Is rent the form of ‘fixated surplus profits’ and is there increased pressure on those sectors considered “the...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 26, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm. By Liza Gross for Inside Climate News Employees at the...
by Inside Climate News
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on Sun Oct 26, 2025 at 02:00 PM PDT
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A cartoon by David Horsey.
Related |� In Trump's America, your tax dollars will help wreck the ...
by David Horsey
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on Sun Oct 26, 2025 at 05:29 AM PDT
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SACRAMENTO — Opponents of the Delta Tunnel project last month celebrated their successful campaign against Newsom’s trailer bill to fast-track the Delta Conveyance Project through the State Legislature, but the zombie project continues to slowly move...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Oct 25, 2025 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Los Angeles – While the national mainstream and “alternative” media often portrays California as the nation’s “green” and “progressive” leader, the victims of the largest methane blowout in U.S. history have a much different perspective. On the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Oct 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM PDT
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Gun Show bros & No Kings revelations🙏🏼 Clear signs da 🤡’s support is crumbling. BUYNOTT! NBF This past week I was served two savory ‘cold dishes’ of schadenfreude 😋 — one each from both political hemispheres. First...
by mikeymikey
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on Thu Oct 23, 2025 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Good morning, Gnusies! Welcome to our oasis of actual, factual news that will cheer you and inspire you as well as inform you. I found so much of it over the past week — yes, this past week that ...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Oct 28, 2025 at 04:00 AM PDT
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The naysayers said it couldn’t be done. For many years, the very vocal opponents of dam removal said that the salmon couldn’t return to the Klamath River and its tributaries to spawn as they had done since time immemorial. Some even claimed the salmon...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Oct 18, 2025 at 08:53 AM PDT
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