Sustainability

Seems like simple solutions.

Interesting article about how cutting emissions has NOT led to economic loss, as critics always argue!

Thought I would post this piece a friend of mine wrote a few days ago. It's about the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline and its impact on Native American and First Nation people. This piece gives a great historical and cultural context for the controversy surrounding the installation of the pipeline. Olivya Caballero is an enrolled member of Northern Arapaho Tribe and also identifies as Sicangu Lakota. She just finished her first year at Columbia University.

This article shows the harsh conditions that Ugandan gays live under..

Time is running out.

I'm Ben Schlegel, a 15-year old sophomore at Manchester-Essex Regional High School in Massachusetts. I consider myself an environmentalist and am part of the Manchester Essex Green Team, a group of high school students who work to bring sustainable solutions to our community, like school composting and a recent school waste audit.

A new political science study that's gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States -- not so much in practice. The government caters to the affluent few and organized interest groups, the researchers find, while the average citizen's influence on policy is "near zero."

Posted: Print Article This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network: It's beyond sobering and bordering on infuriating: Almost every piece of plastic ever made still exists today - and plenty of those bottle caps, lighters, pen casings, and plastic bottles have ended up in the ocean, where their accumulated debris have formed giant bits-of-plastic gyres in every major ocean on Earth.

Not only does going green help the earth, it saves everyone money.

One man is using technology to literally bring education to the doorsteps of rural homes. This article shows how technology can be used in the classroom in ways other than iPads and overhead projectors in the classroom.

It is possible to avert disaster.

This is another example of Green Tech advancements. This shows how engineers are adjusting existing technology to create a whole new and useful process.

This is amazing. Talk about green tech advancements. The Tesla car has a lot of promise and if brought down to an affordable price, it would change A LOT. "If somethings important enough, you should try it even if the probable outcome is failure". -Elon Musk

Climate Change impacts already seen.

We can see a silver lining to this event and article. The superstorms, ice cap meltings, and ocean acidification are primary examples of issues that are the forefront of the world's news. When these events happen, they are sad and devastating, but the more they happen people become aware of the problem. And when the UN and political leaders are taking pro-environmentalism stances on the issue of man made global warming, more people will start paying attention and possibly change their anti-environmentalism into pro-environmentalism. This can lead to a desire to make change, and support green technology.

This is a link to a slide show of environmental technology advancements over the past 35 years. Show's us how far we've come, and a good list of technological breakthroughs.

This is a prime example of utilizing our waste to create energy. A good example of a "Green Technology" achievement.