On Earth Day, take the time to think about and reduce the environmental impact of your daily choices. Use your Earth Day to start inventorying the items you have in your home. Identify non-biodegradable items like plastic, which litter our landscapes and oceans and can spend centuries in landfills. Your list will help you make more sustainable choices when it’s […]
In 2009, as global financial markets shuddered, David Dorr became interested in the possibility of putting a price on nature. Dorr is a Cayman Islands-based global macro trader, attuned to what he calls the “butterfly effect” of geopolitics and other international forces on financial markets. The economic crisis, Dorr had realized, paled beside the looming environmental one. “Nature, holy shit, […]
I made Cool For You, a new animated film that explains the cause of the climate crisis in a simple story children can understand and enjoy, to help my kids prepare for the world in which they’ll live. Like so many people, my life and my motion design business came to an abrupt halt in March 2020, with the pandemic. […]
“Fashion is one of the most highly polluting industries on earth. Unlike the construction or tourism or tech industries that are also highly polluting, fashion is damaging to every sector of the environment, whether terrestrial or aquatic,” says Shelley Rogers, Fashion for the Earth coordinator at EarthDay.org. Fast fashion, with its focus on short-term trends and low prices, is the […]
How we think and feel about the climate response, whether optimistic, pessimistic, cynical, or pragmatic, shapes our perceptions of possible solutions. Too often, we argue over emotional perceptions and not hard climate data. But hard data is sterile, it doesn’t necessarily engage the passions that move us to act. So, we tell stories, often focusing on what can go wrong. […]
Enock Bwambale stopped at the lip of the dying glacier, its blunted nose arcing steeply down to scoured rocks, then shouted up to his fellow guide Uziah Kule that the ice was too sheer to descend on foot. Hacking his axe into the crusty surface, he twisted in an ice screw so I could rappel down the stubby face of […]
Changing habits is hard when you can’t see and understand the impact of your actions. In this installment of our Carbon Calculating series, learn how to estimate your driving-related carbon footprint, including how to factor in the embodied carbon emitted during the manufacturing of your internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, whether it’s a car or light truck that runs on […]
By Jeremy Williams Permafrost has a particular place in climate change discussion. It doesn’t come up often, and when it does it’s frequently in the apocalyptic tone of tipping points and catastrophe. Fundamentally, it seems under-studied, or at least insufficiently explained for non-academic audiences. So I was interested to see a new book on the subject. Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood […]