Environment

Let There Be Light (Pollution) — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 21, 2021 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light/And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Genesis 1:3-5) Every now and then, I’m asked some variation of this question: When were you most awed by nature? Like most of you, I have a handful of examples to choose from… but the answer I usually se ...

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Wanna lose your mind? The sea squirts have it all figured out — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 17, 2021 “These big brains are more burden than bargain.” (Kurt Vonnegut) In your life, you may face no greater nemesis than your own mind. The tradeoffs for these la ...

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Moderate Geomagnetic Storm Watch For Sunday 25 April 2021 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

April 22, 2021 (NOAA) -- NOAA issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for Sunday 25 April 2021. A partial halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was associated with a C3 flare from Region 2816 at 22 ...

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Strange Days Dawning | John Michael Greer

Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...

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BOOKS: Bill Gates offers a hopeful take on climate change | Jeff Rowe

Credit: CC0 Public Domain "How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need," by Bill Gates (Knopf) Feb. 17, 2021 (AP) -- Watching Bill Gates in the news over the ye ...

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Sustainability: 3 Global Trends in 2020 — Mickey Z.

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 11, 2020 When we look back on 2020, one collective remembrance will be about how everything came to a halt. Well… not everything. Some ...

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All the Leaves are Brown | Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 16, 2020 “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” (Joni Mitchell) Each fall, even the most nature-oblivious humans can’t help but notice — and ...

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Big payoff if Nature 'restored' in the right places | Marlowe Hood

Returning wetlands to their natural state would bring the highest return on investment, both in preventing species loss and slowing the pace of global warming. Credit: AFP Oct. 14, 2020 (AFP) --Resto ...

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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ | Ann Gibbons

A 72-meter ice core drilled in the Colle Gnifetti Glacier in the Swiss Alps entombs more than 2000 years of fallout from volcanoes, storms, and human pollution. NICOLE SPAULDING/CCI FROM C. P. LOVELU ...

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The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer

July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to he ...

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Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque

Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, civil ...

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