My latest: Mass timber buildings are significantly more sustainable than carbon-intensive concrete or steel. But can a high-rise wood building survive a catastrophic earthquake? I went to San Diego to find out. Free story link.
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. wrote about the thousands of species imperiled by deep-sea mining, one of which will live in my nightmares bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Would you drink beer made from recycled wastewater?
We asked our colleagues to try it out trib.al/45Cr1cX
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Good news: The world can successfully keep global warming below 2C if every country meets their climate pledges made through June 2022
Medium news: To do this, countries need to meet 2030 goals & goals for 2050+
Bad news: This will be really hard
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FEATURE: Competition for increasingly scarce water resources is sparking fights in Spain. It's a sign of what's coming for the rest of Europe as it faces the second consecutive year of extreme drought
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Tired: abandoning oil wells
Wired: plugging abandoned oil wells
Inspired: plugging abandoned oil wells and turning them into batteries to store renewable energy (for real)
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Who owns the North Pole? As polar ice melts, countries are vying to claim more of the Arctic seabed in a contest with big implications for global power—and the climate. FREE to read, incl amazing maps of nations' redrawn continental shelves:
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Americans are demanding the longest battery ranges in the world for their electric vehicles — and that's perfectly OK.
A practical, technological, and environmental defense of American Range Exceptionalism 🇺🇸
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"New York City sanitation officials estimate that it would be possible to move trash to containers on 89% of residential streets. To do so, however, will require removing 150,000 parking spots, and up to 25% of parking spots on some blocks." nytimes.com/2023/05/03/nyr
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What happens to an upstart electric car when its upstart electric carmaker goes under? looked at the past, present and future of 'zombie cars' bloomberg.com/news/features/
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“It’s not about the people who are going every 2 years to Marbella,” says the director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute. “It’s about the people who are flying once or twice a week.”
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Nixing private jets wouldn't have a major climate impact: They account for just 4% of CO2 emissions from aviation. But proponents of the idea say it's the unfairness that rankles. The richer half of the world accounts for 90% of air travel emissions.
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Schiphol's attempt comes about five months after hundreds of climate activists stormed its tarmac, calling for fewer flights and a ban on short-haul routes and private jets.
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Globally, private jet use is also on the rise. The # of PJs doubled over the past 20 years, and there were 5.3 million private flights last year. Private jet emissions are up 23% since the start of the pandemic.
In Europe, the # of private flights increased 64% last year.
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Schiphol Airport said 17,000 private jet flights crossed its runways last year, generating 20x more CO2 emissions per passenger than commercial flights. At least 30% of those private flights were to holiday destinations.
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Last month, the Netherlands’s largest airport said it would ban night flights and private jets starting in 2026, citing excessive noise and CO2 emissions. The aviation industry was *not* happy.
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A campaign is afoot from climate activists, to relabel "natural gas" as "methane gas" or "fossil gas" bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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The Chrysler Pacifica hybrid is the only minivan to make the list of EVs eligible for a full US tax credit, "like a parent chaperone at a high school prom," writes
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Heat pumps are an amazing climate fix — and yet deeply difficult to get jazzed about. For , asked three design studios to help us design heat pump ad campaigns that don't make people want to fall asleep bloomberg.com/features/2023-
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Backed by Hollywood, the Climate Emergency Fund is quietly financing a new generation of in-your-face environmental activists
new from bloomberg.com/news/features/
The movie based on Andreas Malm's manifesto is out, and... it's a blast.
and I have a review.
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Battery-swapping failed to catch on in the West, but a handful of Asian companies are turning it into an easy fix for EV adoption -- at least for the region's millions of motorcyclists and three-wheel rickshaws drivers
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The US Navy shuttered the Concord Naval Weapons Station in 2008, but plans to redevelop it for climate-friendly homes and a park are moving slowly bloomberg.com/news/features/
Sales of secondhand clothes, shoes and accessories jumped 28% last year, led by Gen Z
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Never has coastal erosion made me more emotional than in this story about Happisburgh, an English village with 1,000 years of human history that is being rapidly swallowed by the North Sea bloomberg.com/news/features/
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There is no regulatory framework when it comes to mining deep sea ecosystems for valuable metals, but a UN-affiliated organization will soon begin accepting applications to do just that
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You hear all the time about battery innovations in a lab that may or may not ever make it into an EV. Silicon anode isn't one of those.
This is ramping up for mass production now and offers an immediate 20%+ boost in the longest vehicle ranges 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Why isn't every Walmart covered in solar panels?
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Attention documentary filmmakers! We want to see your view of our climate future. Submit your short film to our Bloomberg Green Docs competition by September 1, 2023.
Grand prize: $25,000
Please RT to help spread the word!
Official Rules: bloom.bg/3qiOFPe
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Unilever saw a 2% increase in emissions tied to its net zero goals last year, thanks in part to... higher post-pandemic deodorant sales
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A car that runs on solar power is still a pipe dream, but supplementing an EV with rooftop cells — what calls the "dad jeans of solar driving" — could become commonplace bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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🚽 THIS TOILET WORKS OFF THE GRID
South Africa is spearheading a revolution to change toilets: no sewage connection, no chemicals, no additional water required
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The backlash against fast fashion has been greatly exaggerated — there's no particularly clear evidence that it even exists
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“We’re talking about ChatGPT and we know nothing about it. It could be three raccoons in a trench coat.”
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Let's take a minute to talk about what was actually in the DOJ rule that Republicans in Congress, along with a few Dems like WV's Sen. Manchin, are so against 1/
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A day after House lawmakers voted along mostly party lines to overturn a recent DOJ rule on ESG investing, the Senate voted against the Biden rule as well setting up Biden's possible first presidential veto news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re
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RELATABLE: Keeping queen honeybees in temperature-controlled "queen banks" helps more of them survive hot summers
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TUNE IN: Our investigation traces much of the aluminum used in the electric Ford F-150 to a mine in the Amazon rainforest and a refinery accused of sickening thousands of people.
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