by Admin | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Business, Climate Change
It’s not unusual for large businesses to weigh in on national policy – in fact, it could be said that it’d be strange for them to abstain – but General Motors and Walmart are not typically names one would expect to see on a lobbying action for climate...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles, Business, Conservation, Sustainability
Isaac Graubard is thirteen years old, and he learned something this year during lockdown. “After doing some research,” he said in an interview with CBS2, “I only found out that 9 percent of plastics get recycled, and it’s sickening to think that we try so hard...
by Admin | Nov 11, 2020 | Articles, Conservation, Sustainability
The Superbowl has long been about consumption. From Superbowl parties and barbecues to the world-famous commercial competition, the prom of sporting events is very much a “bigger-is-better” occasion. In 2020, nearly 100 million people tuned in to watch Kansas City...
by Admin | Oct 14, 2020 | Articles, Green Energy
The demand for energy in South Australia, Australia’s fifth-largest state (by population), is estimated at just over 1700 megawatts per hour (MW). That demand comes from 1.76 million people, and approximately A$50 billion in business a year. On Sunday, October...
by Admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change
This September was, on average, 0.05C hotter than the average temperature last September, according to the European Union weather service Copernicus. That may seem like a small difference to a layman, but it also means that September 2020 is the hottest September on...
by Admin | Sep 30, 2020 | Articles, Conservation
It’s easy to imagine that we know most all of the species we share this planet with, and that new discoveries are rare. But the truth is that we don’t even know how many species there are. More than 4,000 new species of plants and fungi were found in 2019...
