Lookout: UCSC – Maximizing benefits from the state’s composting program
A team of researchers led by Environmental Studies Professor Elliott Campbell won a $1.99 million grant to study implementation strategies for California’s plan to reduce methane emissions by diverting 75% of organic waste from landfills
Global Change: Fifth National Climate Assessment Findings
Some of the Findings. Without substantial and sustained global mitigation and regional adaptation efforts, climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over
Trust For Public Land: A Historic Tribal Land Return and National Monument Access Effort
In the months and years to come, TPL will work in close partnership with the National Parks Service, the Penobscot Nation, and the regional community to return nearly 30,000 acres of land lost to the
Washington Post: World’s richest 1% pollute more than the poorest two-thirds, Oxfam says
Nov 20 – Rich People Will Cause A Million Deaths This Decade As They Ruin The Planet: The world’s richest 1% created more carbon emissions than 66% of the rest of the world’s population in
E&E News: EPA readies $2B for environmental justice grants
Nov 21 – EPA Will Spend Big on Environmental Justice. The U.S. EPA this week announced that it would begin rolling out $2 billion worth of grants for lower-income communities on the front lines of
Monterey Bay Air Resources Board: Take the LEEP! Transition to zero-emission equipment!
There is currently a total of $80,000 available for residential funding and a total of $315,000 available for commercial funding. The Monterey Bay Air Resources District is pleased to offer the Landscape Equipment Exchange Program
Frans Lanting Supporting Monarch Protection in Mexico
“In 1996 Frans Lanting photographed Alejandro Mondragon Posadas when he worked with Monarch butterflies as a community guard at El Rosario, an important overwintering reserve that is owned and managed by local people in Michoacan,
Optimist Daily: Caribbean Marine Protected Area
In a monumental move for marine conservation, the Caribbean gem, Dominica, is set to establish the world’s inaugural marine protected area dedicated to safeguarding the endangered sperm whale. This reserve, which covers approximately 300 square
Earthjustice: The Sacred Kept Safe From Drilling
For more than 10,000 years, the Badger-Two Medicine area near Glacier National Park in Montana has provided strength, subsistence, and cultural identity for members of the Blackfeet Nation. But the Blackfeet aren’t the only ones