Climate change solutions news

• How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 21, 2024)

• Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024)

• Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
• International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
• Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)

• The Rise of the Carbon Farmer, wired.com (Apr 18, 2024)
• ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2024)

• ‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
• I was a kitchen snob who would only cook on gas. Now an induction hob is my new flame, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2024)
• Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)

• Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
• Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)

• How reindeer help fight climate change, BBC Future (Dec 19, 2023)

• ‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network, theguardian.com (Nov 30, 2023)
• ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)

• France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 18, 2023)
• People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2023)

• One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique, bloomberg.com (Aug 08, 2023)

• Seville’s ‘Bioclimatic Bus Stops’ Could Cut Temperatures by 20°C, theenergymix.com (Jul 23, 2023)
• Is it time to choose sustainable rice?, Wicked Leeks (Jul 17, 2023) — You might not know it, but traditional rice cultivation emits serious levels of greenhouse gases. Clare Hargreaves interviews a man working with rice farmers to get climate-friendlier rice onto British dinner plates.

• The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums, BBC Future (Jun 29, 2023)
• The New Livestock Farm Is a Forest, Too, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 02, 2023)

• The Ancient ‘Wonder Material’ Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 22, 2023)
• ‘Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods, The Guardian (May 04, 2023)

• Does climate breakdown mean we’re doomed? No: if we’re brave, big change can happen fast, Gaia Vince, The Guardian (Apr 11, 2023)

• Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
• Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’, The Guardian (Aug 30, 2022)

• Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time, BBC News (Jul 05, 2022)

• The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows, The Conversation (Jun 21, 2022)

• Oceans and their largest inhabitants could be the key to storing our carbon emissions, The Conversation (Apr 11, 2022) — The new agenda would also shore up fish stocks and provide income opportunities for marginalised communities across the world.

• How elephants help pump planet-warming carbon underground, Nov 18^[1]
• Carbon capture can sit in the background, cleaning up our historic biosphere damage. But there's an acute battle for the metaphors around it. Jul 18^[2] "There is no reason why carbon-from-air machines shouldn't be as equally (and as locally) distributed as, say, wind farms, heat capture or other community-level generators of renewable energy. Indeed carbon dioxide has a whole planet's atmosphere to occupy. So the greater dispersion and localisation of the technologies drawing it out of the air, the better."
• Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero, May 18^[3]

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. That's the beauty of "active travel", Apr 30^[4]

• Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change, The Conversation (Apr 13, 2021)

• The ambivalence of cryptocurrency: Bitcoin takes so much energy to maintain…yet a "carboncoin" could pay us to save the planet, Apr 5^[5]
• How can cities that rely on consumption recover from the pandemic, while reducing emissions? Here's some good ideas. Mar 24^[6]

References

• Rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists, Oct 14^[1]
• Missing in action: natural climate solutions in England's national parks, Sep 29^[2]
• Planting Trees Won't Save the World, By Erle C. Ellis, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis. The authors are scientists. Feb 12^[3]
• Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers, Feb 7^[4]

I pioneered the four-day week – now policymakers must adopt it to fight the climate crisis, Andrew Barnes, Jan 29^[5]

• A European tour of climate solutions^[6]
• Make Australia green again, Jan 8^[7]
• Germany cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis, Jan 2^[8]

References

• The Key to Solving the Climate Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet, Dec 26^[1]
• Agave Power: How a Revolutionary Agroforestry and Grazing System in Mexico Can Help Reverse Global Warming, Dec 18^[2]

Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too. Nov 20^[3]

• Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so. Nov 13^[4]
• Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will, Oct 28^[5]
• Cross-sector 'third spaces' incubate social, climate solutions, Oct 9^[6]

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