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Feb 9, 2023

Vegan pies, shirts made from coffee grounds, and fan urine-based fertiliser: how Forest Green Rovers became the world’s first carbon neutral club

Third tier English football club Forest Green Rovers are grabbing the footballing world’s attention through their climate friendly practices. The world’s first carbon-neutral club have a fully vegan half-time menu, shirts made from recycled coffee grounds, and are now fertilizing their fully organic pitch with the urine of away fans. They lead the

Feb 8, 2023

By 2050, Washington might need to buy energy from other states

With the state’s power needs expected to double, it will have to import wind and solar to meet the demand. By John Stang / Crosscut.com For years, Washington has exported some of the electricity it produced. The state sent more than 18 percent of its generated power out of state in 2021, but

Feb 8, 2023

Rekindling the Practice of Cultural Burning: An Act of Climate Hope

Indigenous-led prescribed fire is helping to restore depleted lands and long-suppressed cultural practices. After more than 100 years of suppressing the West’s fires, land managers and government agencies are finally warming to the idea that fire can be beneficial — and necessary — for many landscapes. This idea is far from new among

Feb 7, 2023

Explainer: How Water Intensive Is Animal Farming?

The largest saltwater lake in the world is on the verge of collapse. Thanks to excessive water use, the Great Salt Lake in Utah is now reaching perilously low levels, with scientists and conservationists alike sounding the alarm. Fluctuating between 1,000 and 3,000 square miles over much of its history, the lake once

Feb 7, 2023

Afghanistan: single women and widows are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions

Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia Jamila*, a widow living in Herat, lost her husband in a suicide attack about eight years ago. She has an 18-year-old daughter who is blind and a 20-year-old son who lost both legs in a mine blast. Jamila used to be a housemaid and bake bread for

Feb 7, 2023

Serotonin: A Controversy That Never Was

The media went crazy when a study showed low serotonin doesn’t cause depression—but this was something scientists had known all along. The confusion caused some patients to go off effective psychiatric medications, exposing an information gap it’s been hard to bridge. We can do better, and here’s how. By Ben Rein For decades

Feb 6, 2023

Native Americans have experienced a dramatic decline in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic – but the drop has been in the making for generations

Indigenous patients who live in rural areas often have limited access to medical care. THE PALMER/E+ via Getty Images Allison Kelliher, University of North Dakota Six and one-half years. That’s the decline in life expectancy that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought upon American Indians and Alaska Natives, based on an August 2022 report from

Feb 6, 2023

Bay Area Plans to Refine Biofuels Could Derail Climate Goals, Warn Environmentalists

Oil companies may end up relying on environmentally questionable crop-based fuels. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call for regulators to “accelerate refinery transitions away from petroleum to the production of clean fuels” was part of a larger effort to reduce climate pollution from California’s transportation sector, the largest source of emissions in the state. Since

Feb 3, 2023

Danske Bank Quits New Fossil Fuel Financing

Denmark’s biggest bank has declared an end to fossil fuel financing, after concluding that 99.9% of its carbon footprint comes from financed emissions. Danske Bank supports “an orderly transition to low-carbon economies and will, for that reason, not offer refinancing or new long-term financing to oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies

Feb 3, 2023

VUCA 2.0: un nuovo significato

L’acronimo VUCA è nato negli anni ’80 ma viene citato molto spesso in questo periodo storico proprio per il suo significato di Volatilità, Incertezza, Complessità e Ambiguità che sono caratteristiche dell’attuale scenario globale che stiamo vivendo: V= Volatility, cioè volatilità, intesa come instabilità, mutevolezza U= Uncertainty, cioè incertezza, emblema di questo momento storico

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