Climate Crisis
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How to Reduce Your Internet Carbon Footprint
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About three years ago, I found out that the internet has a carbon footprint. While browsing, I clicked on an article about Bitcoin and discovered that mining cryptocurrencies uses unfathomable amounts of energy. In fact, it uses so much processing power that the best option for many cryptocurrencies is to house their servers in Icelandic…
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The #FlyLess and #NoFly Movements | Would You Stop Flying If You Knew Its True Cost?
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Let’s kick off with the good news: In the last few months people have started important conversations about the climate crisis. Some have even taken it to the next level and started walking the talk by making changes to their lifestyle to lower the damaging impact on our common home. Ranging from fast fashion and…
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Story of Change | Growing Our Way Out of Crisis: How to Dig for Victory
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The scandal of food waste is generating headlines and highlights a broken relationship with what we eat. But interest in growing our own is increasing, which could both bring a healthier way to relate to food and be part of the jigsaw of making the rapid transition towards preventing climate breakdown and protecting ourselves from…
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Why ‘Net Zero Emissions by 2050’ Needs a Green New Deal
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I remember the days when months would go by without anything much happening about climate change at all. Thinkers and doers called for stuff, politicians occasionally did a few things, but you could go on holiday for a month and come back and things were pretty much as they were. Not any more. The last…
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Don’t Snooze This Alarm | Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
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The alarm bells have been ringing for a while; at first sounded by well-meaning yet powerless scientists, then the activists chimed in, and more recently even the very young are joining the protests, marches, civil disobedience movements all around the world, and what they’re saying is that, had society started acting earlier, there would still…
