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Environment
fromEarth911
4 days ago

56 Environmental Innovations in the 56 Years Since Earth Day Began

Significant environmental legislation and innovations have transformed practices since the first Earth Day in 1970.
fromwww.bbc.com
16 hours ago

The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough

"A stellarator is a thing that is objectively very difficult to design, objectively very difficult to build, but if it works, it can control the burning hot plasma better than a tokamak."
Science
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
21 hours ago

Education to Improve the Planet's Health, and Our Own

Nature enhances human health, but environmental degradation now negatively impacts well-being, necessitating education reform for Planetary Health.
Design
fromArchDaily
8 hours ago

Light Structures, Heavy Footprints? The Environmental Paradox of Lightweight Materials

Richard Serra's sculptures create a sense of lightness through the organization of mass, transforming weight into dynamic spatial experiences.
#jet-fuel
Europe news
fromThe Local Germany
2 hours ago

'We must be ready': EU to lay out its plan to deal with jet fuel crisis

EU transport commissioner states there are no actual shortages of jet fuel, but preparations are underway due to pressure on stocks.
Europe news
fromThe Local France
2 hours ago

'We must be ready': EU to lay out its plan to deal with jet fuel crisis

EU transport commissioner states there are no current jet fuel shortages, but preparations for potential supply issues are underway.
Europe news
fromThe Local Germany
2 hours ago

'We must be ready': EU to lay out its plan to deal with jet fuel crisis

EU transport commissioner states there are no actual shortages of jet fuel, but preparations are underway due to pressure on stocks.
Europe news
fromThe Local France
2 hours ago

'We must be ready': EU to lay out its plan to deal with jet fuel crisis

EU transport commissioner states there are no current jet fuel shortages, but preparations for potential supply issues are underway.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
9 hours ago

Government to propose electricity price changes in clean power push

The government plans to weaken the link between electricity and gas prices to protect consumers from energy shocks.
Real estate
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 day ago

The GPS for equity: Building the industry's first true navigation infrastructure

The mortgage industry must shift focus from speed to helping borrowers navigate complex financial decisions.
Mental health
fromMail Online
11 years ago

The invention that provides Pacific sunshine in Britain

Real Sunlight clinics offer artificial sunshine to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder, which affects 2 million Britons, especially women.
#climate-change
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

A New Narrative for Planetary Health in the Hybrid Era

Perceiving crises as external leads to helplessness and disengagement, while recognizing agency fosters positive outcomes and behavior change.
Environment
fromNature
2 weeks ago

'Yes, we can': a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

A new 'clean' economy focused on sustainability can lead to a more efficient and prosperous society.
Agriculture
fromwww.dw.com
4 days ago

Climate change impacts India's harvest festivals

Communities in India are adapting to climate change impacts on agriculture while celebrating traditional spring festivals.
Media industry
fromThe Nation
5 days ago

A Burning House, a Quiet Media, a Silenced Majority

Media significantly influences public perception and action on climate change, shaping narratives that affect voting, consumer behavior, and personal discussions.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

A New Narrative for Planetary Health in the Hybrid Era

Perceiving crises as external leads to helplessness and disengagement, while recognizing agency fosters positive outcomes and behavior change.
Environment
fromNature
2 weeks ago

'Yes, we can': a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

A new 'clean' economy focused on sustainability can lead to a more efficient and prosperous society.
#data-centers
fromTruthout
2 days ago
Online Community Development

Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It.

Online Community Development
fromTruthout
2 days ago

Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It.

Local communities in the U.S. are resisting the construction of data centers due to environmental concerns and corporate influence.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
6 hours ago

Why cloud computing still runs on coal and gas

Data centers' energy demands are straining U.S. power grids, leading to reliance on fossil fuels and delaying renewable energy goals.
Germany news
fromThe Local Germany
2 days ago

Thousands rally across Germany to call for faster green shift

Thousands protested in Germany for a faster transition to renewable energy, criticizing the government for hindering progress towards climate goals.
#sustainability
fromThedrum
2 days ago
Marketing

Social for Good: How Allbirds Leverages Social Media to Amplify, Engage, and Drive Sustainable Change

Environment
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The problem with Earth Month isn't greenwashing

Brands are increasingly silent about their sustainability efforts, leading to a loss of market signals and support for regenerative practices.
Business
fromFast Company
4 days ago

Sustainability is maturing

Sustainability has evolved into a core business function, essential for resilience and long-term value in today's operating environment.
Marketing
fromThedrum
2 days ago

Social for Good: How Allbirds Leverages Social Media to Amplify, Engage, and Drive Sustainable Change

Allbirds exemplifies how businesses can achieve success through sustainability and social responsibility in their operations and marketing strategies.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 days ago

Everything in 2026 Is Disposable - Here's 5 Sustainable Trends Are Designed to Last Centuries - Yanko Design

Sustainability in 2026 emphasizes permanence, focusing on materials that last and promote ecological responsibility through architectural endurance.
Environment
fromEarth911
1 day ago

How You Can Invest in Our Planet

Investing in the Earth involves collective efforts from governments, businesses, and individuals to build a sustainable green economy.
Environment
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The problem with Earth Month isn't greenwashing

Brands are increasingly silent about their sustainability efforts, leading to a loss of market signals and support for regenerative practices.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Cracks are starting to form on fusion energy's funding boom | TechCrunch

Divergence in vision emerges among fusion startups as they consider going public and face concerns over premature market entry.
#california
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

They lost their homes to fire. Now they're rebuilding with all-electric.

Many fire survivors in California choose to rebuild all-electric homes for health, cost savings, and climate concerns despite policy rollbacks allowing gas connections.
Environment
fromKqed
1 hour ago

California Is Transitioning From Fossil Fuels to Electric Power. It's Going to Get Messy | KQED

California faces high electricity costs but is making significant progress in transitioning to renewable energy sources.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

They lost their homes to fire. Now they're rebuilding with all-electric.

Many fire survivors in California choose to rebuild all-electric homes for health, cost savings, and climate concerns despite policy rollbacks allowing gas connections.
Environment
fromKqed
1 hour ago

California Is Transitioning From Fossil Fuels to Electric Power. It's Going to Get Messy | KQED

California faces high electricity costs but is making significant progress in transitioning to renewable energy sources.
fromresund Startups
3 days ago

Investor Dialogue: building circular portfolio with Nordic ecosystems

The circular economy is not just a trend-it's a necessity for sustainable industrial and economic growth. However, investors often face challenges such as 'death by pilot,' regulatory hurdles, and the gap between technical readiness and market entry.
London startup
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 days ago

AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition | Computer Weekly

Cloud providers offer sustainability metrics, but lack standardization makes it difficult for enterprises to compare workloads effectively.
London
fromArchDaily
4 days ago

Beyond the Street: Climate, Commerce, and the Evolution of Hong Kong's Elevated Networks

Hong Kong's elevated urbanism enhances connectivity but raises concerns about accessibility and the neglect of ground-level public life.
World politics
fromFortune
4 days ago

War in the Middle East hasn't triggered a coal comeback, but it is boosting renewables | Fortune

The global energy crisis is prompting a shift towards renewable energy sources despite a temporary increase in coal usage.
Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 hours ago

Clean electricity meets all new demand, curbing fossil fuels, says Ember

2025 marked a turning point for coal and gas power as low-emissions sources met all new global electricity demand for the first time.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

There's a version of strength that only develops in people who had to figure out the rules of a place nobody explained to them. They don't talk about it because the people who had the rules handed to them wouldn't understand what was hard about it, and the people who also had to figure it out don't need the explanation. - Silicon Canals

Onsighting in climbing parallels navigating social systems, emphasizing perceptual capacity over resilience in understanding unwritten rules.
Agriculture
fromIndependent
2 days ago

'This could be groundbreaking for Ireland Inc and the midlands' - New research reveals transformative potential of 'energy parks'

Bord na Móna is set to transform state-owned bogland into energy-parks combining windfarms, data centres, and manufacturing facilities.
Mental health
fromFast Company
3 days ago

How to navigate uncertainty in an increasingly uncertain world

Artificial intelligence advancements are creating job insecurity and uncertainty for millions, compounded by geopolitical tensions and personal health challenges.
Venture
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days ago

What Allbirds needs to do to make its Hail Mary AI pivot succeed

Allbirds plans to transform into an AI compute company after selling its shoe business, but faces significant challenges in funding and expertise.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says people who grew up poor in the 1960s and 70s develop a specific relationship to waste - they can't throw away a half-used candle or a rubber band or a piece of foil, not from habit, but because their nervous system still treats abundance as temporar - Silicon Canals

Scarcity during childhood shapes the brain's stress-response architecture, leading to lasting changes in emotion regulation and threat detection.
Mental health
fromFast Company
3 days ago

'Bouncing back' is a myth. Here's what real resilience looks like

Resilience is not about toughness or bouncing back, but about moving forward after loss and trauma.
#renewable-energy
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Global electricity demand growth in 2025 was fully met by renewable sources, marking a significant shift away from fossil fuels.
US Elections
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Clean Energy Industry Launching Campaign of Vengeance

The renewable energy sector faces significant challenges due to policy changes and political opposition during Trump's presidency.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Global electricity demand growth in 2025 was fully met by renewable sources, marking a significant shift away from fossil fuels.
US Elections
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Clean Energy Industry Launching Campaign of Vengeance

The renewable energy sector faces significant challenges due to policy changes and political opposition during Trump's presidency.
Europe news
fromArchDaily
6 days ago

Reimagining the Complete Neighborhood through Urban Renaturing

ReGreeneration project aims to transform European cities to remain livable amid climate change.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution

The village deliberately chose to spend solar income on welfare rather than individual dividends, a decision Jeon says residents made themselves rather than being persuaded. If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected.
Agriculture
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

The Guardian view on the looming energy shock: ministers need to show they have a plan | Editorial

Public reassurance is essential for government during crises, but leaders often struggle to manage events effectively.
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

Exclusive: This energy startup's bet on 100-year-old grid tech is paying off | TechCrunch

"We were considering multiple forms of capital when we started. It just felt like the opportunity is so large that venture capital gives us the opportunity to take those risks upfront and have the possibility to generate an outsized return."
Venture
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
6 days ago

Greens pledge to transform Scotland at manifesto launch

Scottish Greens propose free bus travel, dental care, and new green jobs, funded by taxing the wealthy and polluting industries.
#middle-east-conflict
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
Non-profit organizations
fromNature
3 weeks ago

'Continuity over novelty': why environmental science needs to rethink its focus

The closure of forest-service research offices threatens long-term ecological research and institutional memory in the US.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 hours ago

Wildlife and humans thriving in Unesco-protected sites

Unesco-protected areas support stable wildlife populations despite global declines, but face severe threats from climate change and human activities.
Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
15 hours ago

Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world's top environmental award

The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded to an all-women cohort of grassroots activists from six countries for their environmental efforts.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoQ
3 weeks ago

Green IT: How to Reduce the Impact of AI on the Environment

AI's energy consumption and hardware churn pose significant challenges for green IT, necessitating sustainable design and transparency in usage costs.
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago

Designing for Obsolescence in an Age of Perpetual Upgrades

In the nineteenth century, entire railway networks became obsolete almost overnight, not due to physical deterioration, but because of changes in the technical standards that supported them. The expansion of railroads across Europe and North America adopted different track gauges, and as a dominant standard gradually emerged, these infrastructures became incompatible with one another.
Renovation
fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico

The Trump administration has teed up the entire Gulf region for a Deepwater Horizon sequel with its approval of BP's extremely risky ultra-deepwater drilling project, said Brettny Hardy, senior attorney at Earthjustice, one of the groups.
Environment
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Who'd have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot

Donald Trump has accelerated the energy transition despite fossil fuel companies' efforts to halt it.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
1 month ago

The Climate Crisis

At a young age, I learned quickly how oil wealth and power could burn the land while people struggled. I saw heat rise off the streets, the Nile strained, and the air thickened with injustice. In my teenage years, through Aotearoa, being on the edge of the Pacific, I felt the ocean breathing heavy, swallowing the shores of islands that have done the least to cause this harm.
Photography
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Colombia convenes climate coalition of the willing' to break global fossil fuel deadlock

Colombia is hosting a global conference to transition away from fossil fuels amid rising energy prices and geopolitical tensions.
Artificial intelligence
fromDanielmiessler
1 month ago

The Great Transition

Multiple simultaneous transitions are reshaping how knowledge moves from private expert domains to public accessibility through AI and LLMs, fundamentally transforming knowledge work and expertise value.
Alternative medicine
fromNatural Health News
3 months ago

Apocalyptic warnings mask a prosperous reality at COP30

Historical data contradicts climate chief warnings of climate-induced famines; modern hunger stems from conflict and politics, not environmental factors, while CO2 increases have enhanced agricultural productivity.
Public health
fromNature
2 months ago

How to eat well and within Earth's limits

Dietary choices drive human health and planetary stability; shifting to minimally processed, protein-rich and plant-forward diets reduces emissions, water use, pollution, and premature deaths.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a plan to fix that

An agent-based global economic super-simulator could forecast crises and guide policy, with a ~$100m build cost and massive potential ROI from crisis prevention.
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

At the Doorstep of Tomorrow

The war began the week of my 26th birthday. There was a lightness on that day, something born from what remained of our childhood. Sparks like candy, crackling in our mouths: colorful letters; laughter leaking out through voice notes; hearts adorning our text chats; an abundance of cake. But the days that followed are laid out like burnt matchsticks; once the first one was lit, the flames consumed the rest. The war spared nothing on the calendar; I have had no other birthdays since.
World news
fromMindful
2 months ago

Can Compassion Save the Planet?

When British author Karen Armstrong won the TED prize in 2008, she used the money to convene a group of religious thinkers from a wide range of faiths to craft an updated version of the Golden Rule for the 21st century. What emerged was the Charter for Compassion, which calls on people around the world "to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and put another there, and to honor the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect."
Philosophy
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

A World on Fire Needs More Climate Reporting-Not Less

Covering Climate Now was formed in 2019 in response to the climate silence that then prevailed in much of the press, especially in the United States. Over the years that followed, hundreds of newsrooms joined our effort, and press coverage of the story began to reflect the scale of the crisis. Newsrooms beefed up their climate reporting teams; they confronted misinformation that sought to play down the problem; they thought creatively about how to find the climate connection on every beat.
Environment
Environment
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Letters: Global warming isn't a hoax; it's a scientific consensus

Scientific consensus from 97-99% of climate scientists confirms Earth is warming primarily due to human activity, not natural cycles alone.
#biodiversity
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How protecting nature could make the world safer

Ecosystem collapse poses direct national security threats through food insecurity, resource scarcity, and geopolitical instability across continents.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

The global economy must be transformed to value environmental health, human wellbeing, sustainability and equity rather than GDP as the sole measure of progress.
Environment
fromNature
1 month ago

Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies - but disaster is not inevitable

Global water systems face crisis from overuse, pollution, and climate change, requiring urgent strengthening of international water-sharing treaties with dynamic monitoring systems.
Environment
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Our Missing Climate Tools Are Psychological and Evolutionary

Humans must evolve culturally and deliberately through effective decision-making to manage climate challenges, overcoming short-term thinking as animals demonstrate rapid evolutionary adaptation to environmental change.
Environment
fromEarth911
1 month ago

Earth911 Inspiration: a Dozen Highly Effective Policies

A dozen highly effective policies in the largest countries can initiate a decisive post-carbon transition if implemented now.
Environment
fromNature
2 months ago

Exceeding 1.5 C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy

Global temperatures have exceeded 1.5°C, requiring rapid pursuit of net-negative emissions, expanded adaptation, loss-and-damage response, and accountability to prevent further harm.
fromEarth911
1 month ago

Sustainability In Your Ear: The Net Zero Accelerator's Colin Mangham on Nature's Rules for Building A Sustainable Infrastructure

Since 2019, the accelerator has helped over 100 companies in a six-month program that stands out by putting real technology pilots into actual buildings with dedicated partners, then tracking the results. This approach has led to more than 60 pilot projects in California and beyond, providing the proven results that founders and investors need to move forward. Colin offers a unique mix of experience to this field.
Environment
Environment
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Opinion: AI is destroying our planet. We must act to check its growth and save ourselves.

AI's environmental impact is severe, with 2025 freshwater consumption exceeding global bottled water use and projected energy demands by 2034 matching India's entire consumption, requiring immediate action.
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