By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Bob Berwyn, Dan Gearino, Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News President Biden urged Congress to come back to Washington to pass an emergency spending bill, citing the “billions” needed to ease the suffering of storm-lashed Americans. People ride bicycles through storm debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton on Thursday in …
Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change
By Cecilia Nowell, The Guardian Water flowing down the Klamath River where the Copco 2 dam once stood in Siskiyou county, California. Photograph: Swiftwater Films/AP Dam removal concluded a decades long fight on 2 October, which also saw Chinook salmon return to the waters. With California’s Klamath Dam removal project …
Today’s Workforce Is Woefully Underprepared for Tomorrow’s Challenges
Sustainable Brands Two recent studies point out that workers largely lack both the hard and soft skills necessary to help future-proof their organizations in a climate-challenged world. Demand for climate-related talent far exceeding supply Climate change is increasingly dominating policy-making decisions at the highest levels of government and business — resulting …
Dutch supermarkets are trying to get shoppers to choose plant-based proteins over meat
By Sophie Kevany, Corporate Knights Dutch grocer Jumbo turned heads this year when it stopped discounting fresh animal meat. Other European supermarkets are also trying to shift protein sales to improve diets and cut emissions. European supermarkets are helping customers eat less meat and more plants in a bid to …
Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border
By Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits. Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier. The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of …
Climate change is tricky to teach. Here’s how to get students excited about it
Fast Company Climate change is a tricky topic for secondary students to learn. Not only is the science conceptually difficult to comprehend, but it can be psychologically difficult for them to accept and address the looming threat of climate change. Climate change is among the more difficult but important topics to …
Growing green jobs
Fast Company The increasingly visible effects of climate change—extreme weather, drought, rising sea levels, and other ecological disasters—have driven individuals and organizations around the world to search for solutions. Governments are spending billions of dollars on infrastructure. Consumers are demanding that companies provide more sustainable products. Companies are investing heavily …
Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged
By Damien Gayle, The Guardian Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy by specific times could trigger benevolent cascades, report claims. In the terminology of the climate and ecological crises the phrase “tipping point” is loaded with dreadful implications. It evokes a climate breakdown supercharged by the mass escape …
People in this Dutch city will never see a fossil fuel billboard again. Here’s why
By Adele Peters, Fast Company Next year, if you walk down the street in The Hague, you’ll no longer see billboards advertising new cars—unless the car is electric. You also won’t see ads for flights, cruises, or anything else that runs on fossil fuels. The Dutch city is the first …
Climate Uneducation in the US, Part 2: Failing High Schools
By Roberto Guerra, Sustainable Brands 1 in 3 US high school students say they feel helpless when it comes to climate change and its effects. Much of this can be attributed to the lack of adequate teaching on the subject, and instruction on how students can feel more empowered. In part …