VOICES: Consumption and climate change – The Garden Island

What you buy, how you use it and reuse it, and if you repair or recycle, all have huge effects on our planet’s climate. The unrestricted growth in consumerism has been a major factor in the increase in the generation…

Australia’s dismal climate record comes under COP26 spotlight – CNBC

This picture taken on November 4, 2021 shows steam rising from cooling towers of the power generating plants in the town of Singleton, some 70km (43 miles) from Newcastle, the world’s largest coal exporting port. Saeed Khan | AFP |…

Global warming’s great leap backwards – The Spectator Australia

Speaking in Milan in the lead up to the Glasgow Cop 26 global warming summit, professional truant, Greta Thunberg, lamented that despite countries around the world vowing to meet ‘ambitious targets’, the climate crisis was continuing to escalate. ‘Build back…

How Global Warming is Impacting Our Beauty Products – ELLE.com

When Nancy Gagnon, a formulator at the Designer Beauty Lab in Santa Ana, California, ventured out into a summer heat wave wearing a full face of makeup, the final look wasn’t quite what she was going for: “Half of my…

Couple Answers Loneliness With Organized Walks And Games in London – And Hundreds Show Up

A couple in their 30s were absolutely done with the constant isolation, following more than a year of COVID, and they decided to launch a community initiative this summer. Jake Williams and Charlotte Sinclair started Talk the Walk, which seeks to promote people getting together, exploring London on foot, and getting to know each other. […]

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Group Editorial: Readers share their take on climate change in the Poconos – Pocono Record

A few weeks ago, we asked you, our readers, if you thought climate change was having an impact on the Pocono Mountains region’s weather. Here’s how you responded. Interested in participating in our next prompt? Click here to learn more. …

COP26: Where Democracy (And Debate) Went Up In Flames

On my way to Glasgow for COP26, as part of a delegation from Iceland, I stayed at a hotel in London. While there, I turned on the news and started switching through the channels. All were carrying the same back-to-back…

Another Reason to Stop Global Warming: Save Millions from Air Pollution – National Audubon Society

Oil refineries in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP At its core, reducing carbon emissions isn’t about the atmosphere; it’s about people. Many policymakers focus on atmospheric temperatures, setting targets that would prevent a global rise of 1.5 or…

Chill out about global warming – JNS.org

(November 10, 2021 / JNS) At the United Nations Climate Summit (aka COP26) in Glasgow last week, President Joe Biden declared that climate change is “the existential threat to human existence as we know it.” Based on that judgment, he…

It Started With 5 Families, Now Hundreds are Biking to School Together With The Bike-bus

Every Friday morning in Barcelona, a special kind of bus collects kids on their way to school in the Eixample district. Dubbed the “Bicibus” or Bike Bus, it’s more like a caravan or an escort, one which started when five families decided to ride their bikes to school to advocate for bike lanes and safer, […]

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