HFC-FREE FRIDGE HASSLE
Pound for pound hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) trap thousands of times more heat than CO2. Increasing global demand for cooling and[…]
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Author: Gail McCormick
Gail McCormick has been a leader in climate change activism for over 40 years. Her relevant award-winning art has been shown in museums, university galleries, and at the landmark UN Rio Conference. As a board member of HealthLink, she helped eradicate antiquated Massachusetts coal power plants and has been chair of Sustainable Arlington, MA. She has a Master’s degree from Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @GailMcCormick20.
ACCELERATED ARCTIC ICE LOSS
Partial photo: William Justen de Vasconcellos Arctic ice levels logged in the last two years have reached record lows,[…]
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WONDERFUL WHEATGRASS
Photo from Land Institute website Kernza, a wheatgrass, is a distant relative of regular wheat. It doesn’t produce nearly as[…]
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EMISSIONS FROM WATER BODIES
Partial photo: Leon Ephraim Rivers and streams are a large source of greenhouse gases with water pollution making their emissions[…]
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INEXPENSIVE WAVE ENERGY GENERATORS
Photo: Universities of Trento, Bologna and Edinburgh, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa A simple, low-cost energy generator could produce the equivalent[…]
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CLIMATE REFUGEES
Partial photo: Chris Gallagher More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes thanks to climate change impacts—including[…]
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TERRIFIC TRAIN
Photograph: Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon The world’s first battery-electric freight train, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, underwent successful trials in California[…]
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FOX IN THE HENHOUSE
I avoid bringing up politics in this blog, but the following is beyond the pale. Senator Joe Manchin, West Virginia[…]
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STUPENDOUS SEA OTTERS
Partial photo: Anchor Lee Sea otters keep themselves warm by eating a quarter of their body weight in food a[…]
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GREENLAND ICE–GOING, GOING, GONE
Partial Photo: Alexander Marinescu More bad news for the Arctic Circle. For the first time in recorded history, in August[…]
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