Having such a heavy concentration of people, industry, and energy use in small industrial areas, one can only imagine the environmental impacts cities have. “According to UN Habitat, cities consume 78 percent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.”
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Crafting Green Space and Cycling Paths in Wausau, Wisconsin
Small town vibe: huge eco heart.
Texas Winter Storm: A Climate Change Warning
When I moved to Texas, I thought I was done with the harsh winters I had endured in New York. I had expected cold rainy weather and a couple of chilly days, but nothing to the magnitude of what was to come during winter storm Uri. A saga of deregulation, profit optimization, and negligence created the right conditions to nearly bring the entirety of Texas’ grid to collapse during one of the worst extreme cold weather crises the state has ever experienced.
Why We Must Expand Our Understanding of Conservation: Reviewing ‘Black Faces, White Spaces’
In Carolyn Finney’s Black Faces, White Spaces, we get a good look at the intertwined history of the environmental movement and African Americans in the United States. Finney guides us through the complicated way race, nationalism, and the ‘Great Outdoors’ manifest into a narrative about conservation that does not necessarily consider people of color’s perspectives and concerns. The book criticizes the historical absence of African Americans from mainstream environmental rhetoric. It explains how this creates invisibility that shapes how Black folks relate to and understand the natural world.
Eating Dirt: Improving Soil Health Through Regenerative Farming
Regenerative Farming is a “new” farming practice that offers a way to utilize carbon, promising to decrease temperatures, and reverse the effects of climate change over the next two decades, alone.
Securing Healthy Food & Clean Water for All, Without Sacrificing the Earth
In considering these mounting challenges, we can see that innovative solutions to providing healthy food and clean water have become more important than ever. It has also become evident that due to the importance of water in all aspects of life, employing sustainable strategies for managing water might bring the answers we are looking for when it comes to growing enough food to feed our growing population.
Tips on How to Protect the Land & Rivers When Traveling Inland
Traveling is one of the best ways to escape from our ordinary lives and forget about all our worries. Consequently, as tourists we have a tendency to be careless, which can often lead to being disrespectful of the environment and the local people in the places we visit.
Overtourism has affected negatively various destinations that were once pristine and significantly important for the local people. In order to avoid that, we certainly don’t need to stop traveling, we just need to be mindful of the consequences of our actions.
Meet Maddie & Dalton: The Power Couple Working to Save the Ocean
Learn from marine power couple Maddie & Dalton as they discuss their work with the awesome organizations Debris Free Oceans & Rescue a Reef. Join us to hear how the University of Miami research pair connected over their shared passion for the sustainability of our ocean, what keeps them going in their line of work, and steps that we can all take to better the health of our ocean – whether landlocked or coastal. Because a healthy ocean is key to a healthy planet. 💙
Climate Change & Its Impact on the World
Climate change is no longer a future event to prepare for, and there is only limited time to act before it is too late to save the future of our planet. Because these impacts are human related, it is up to us to take the necessary measures to mitigate against these disturbances. Learn more about climate change, the weather patterns and trends associated with global warming, and how the climate crisis is threatening ecosystems and communities around the world.
Climate Change Education Starter Pack
Heat waves in the arctic. Snowstorms in the tropics. Erosion. Rising sea levels. Endangered organisms. Air pollution. Droughts. These unfortunate occurrences have one common denominator, which is one of the biggest environmental issues Earth faces: climate change. Though this writer can compose an astute piece about the subject, providing possible solutions, this article will provide a plethora of perspectives via different forms of media. From shows, films, documentaries, podcasts, and books, we at ecomadic have assembled a list of informative, thought provoking, and entertaining content to help you be the change in combating the climate crisis.
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