Our Fragile Earth – Page 32 – Climate Crisis Blog

FUTURE RECYCLE OF FABRIC

Around 92 million tons of textiles are discarded everyyear worldwide with over 85% ending up in landfillseven though much could[…]

Revenues from oil and gas projects backed by European and U.S. companies financed Vladimir Putin’s regime to nearly USD 100[…]

About 2% of the 80 billion pounds of food the U.S. discards annually comes from food manufacturing and processing –[…]

Photo: Boston Seaport Sea level rise from the melting of arctic ice appears to be accelerating. Levels rose about 9[…]

There’s now federal funding for building out a national network of 500,000 EV chargers to accelerate creation of zero-emission vehicle[…]

Scientists have identified 27 global warming accelerators (feedback loops like warming in the Arctic, leading to melting sea ice, which[…]

Using structural materials like steel or cement comes at a high cost in dollars and CO2 emissions, with building construction[…]

There’s currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of[…]

Buildings consume 32% of our global energy supply. That’s expected to double by 2050. Designing facades like the skins of[…]

Worldwide glaciers are melting rapidly, leaving massive glacial lakes in their wake. If a lake rises too high or the[…]