Environment

New scientific report shows that 7 of 9 planetary boundaries are now breached

A new scientific study shows that 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries have been breached and both our societies and our ecosystems are in a dire need of a systemic turnaround.

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A nightmarish landscape after trees got cut.

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ : 7 out of 8 safety limits reached

To a new study published in Nature, “Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,”.

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The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty is a critical step to protecting our oceans

Earlier this month, nations finally agreed on the High Seas Treaty and it’s hailed as an historical event.

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Nature-based materials need to play a major role in construction

The construction sector emits large quantities of greenhouse gases and is very wasteful. Thanksfully, greener solutions exist and could become mainstream with the right support.

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The Great Barrier Reef is not dead, yet

Last week an obituary of the Great Barrier Reef went viral, but as scientists claim, this is premature. While the situation is critical, it is not completely hopeless. 

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Vanishing wilderness: 10 percent of Nature gone in 25 years

I admit it is hard to keep your head cool when you read such news, and this despite having discovered the power of positive psychology. To a new study the world has lost ten percent of its wilderness in as little as 25 tiny years… 

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Fighting the drought, water efficiency in California

For our Economics classes at Pinchot last year, I – with a few friends and classmates – worked on water in California. My part was focusing on the inefficiency and the leaks occuring in the State. The findings are quite unsettling.

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The plastic curse lives on in our oceans

I wrote as early as 2008 about plastic being a curse for our oceans. It seems the situation may completely out of control as according to the World Economic Forum plastic could outweigh fishes in our oceans by mid century. 

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Earth has three trillion trees but we are cutting them fast

This is according to some study the amounts of trees that are on Planet Earth nowadays. The good news : this is much more than what we previously thought. The bad news : we are cutting them down fast, to a rate of 15 billion per year.

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Nebia, a shower that saves 70 percent of water

This is important as water scarcity may well concern half of Mankind by the middle of the century according to an MIT study. Here comes the shower of the future. Nebia uses 70 percent less water than the US standard.

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