Monthly Archives: January 2023

The chemical giant was recently ranked the third most “negative and influential” corporation in the world when it comes to lobbying on climate policy https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/the-climate-blockers-basf-quietly-lobbies-against-strong-climate-policy-while-talking-a-big-game/

Link to a Guardian 37 minute podcast Companies across the world rely on carbon offsetting credits as a way to display their green credentials, but a Guardian analysis of scientific studies has found that many rainforest carbon credits are worthless. … Continue reading →

Planners want to plant trees to tackle climate crisis but often face a hostile urban environment In an effort to put a monetary value on trees’ benefits, Ana Luisa Soares, a landscape architect at the University of Lisbon adapted a … Continue reading →

They are gray and rectangular, and if you laid all 2 billion of them together they would cover an area roughly the size Connecticut, about 5,500 square miles. Parking lots have a monotonous ubiquity in US life, but a growing … Continue reading →

More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, potentially widening social inequalities as well as undermining the natural world’s ability to reduce CO2 emissions in the … Continue reading →

This issue is in progress but contains articles that are final and fully citable. [Note: From an academic journal. I haven’t read any of these articles yet but have bolded a number of titles which seem of interest to degrowth … Continue reading →

Glenn Hubbard, the former business school dean who brought the project to fruition, saw the need to break free from fealty to the unregulated free market economy that over decades has led to extraordinary wealth concentration. The idea that business … Continue reading →

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 12:01:19 -0500 From: Degrowth Collective <degrowthco Dear community leaders, Degrowth policies are very popular! A recent survey commissioned for the Club of Rome asked 20000 people in G20 countries if they wanted to transform economic … Continue reading →

In reality, commercially viable nuclear fusion is only infinitesimally closer than it was back in the 1980s when a contained fusion reaction — i.e. not occurring in the sun or from a bomb — was first achieved. A meaningfully just … Continue reading →