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Highlighting Someone Awesome
Highlighting Someone Awesome Meet people from all walks of life and see how they are championing sustainability in their own unique ways. Inspiration and hope from awesome people! The following content is from the "Highlighting Someone Awesome" section of the What on...
Use That Bike! Enormous Health and Sustainability Benefits
Use That Bike! The Enormous Health and Sustainability Benefits of Regular Cycling Did you know that biking is actually safer than driving? Yes, I was surprised too. Even though bikers are more likely to get in an accident on any given trip, they end up living longer...
Hypermiling: Quick Tips to Drive More Sustainably
Hypermiling: How to Drive More Sustainably The strategy of getting the most distance out of your fuel This is not an endorsement for driving. As I say in “How to Effectively Fight Climate Change”, being carless is the best. However, the reality is most of us...
The Climate Silence…and What You Can Do About it
The Climate Silence and What You Can Do About it People aren’t talking about climate change enough. 65% of people in the US “rarely” or “never” talk about climate change. Only 20% say they hear people they know talk about climate change at least once a month. Nearly 2...
Invest in Sustainable Companies, Not Fossil Fuels
Invest in Sustainable Companies, Not Fossil Fuels This tool from Fossil Free Funds allows you to see how much of your money in mutual funds and ETFs is invested in fossil fuels. I was surprised to see just how many fossil fuel investments there were in a couple of the...
3 Ways to Help Climate Leaders Win on Election Day
3 Ways to Help Climate Leaders Win on Election Day When it comes to helping reverse global warming, every little bit helps, but not all actions are equal. Voting for climate leaders and, even more so, encouraging others you know to do the same are some of those things...
Reasons to Get a Home Energy Audit and What it’s Like
Get a Home Energy Audit! ...even if you got one several years ago Schedule a home energy assessment if you haven't recently (or ever) to improve your home's energy efficiency. We did one this winter and reaped immediate benefits including: Over $350 worth of LED...
How to Stay Cool and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Tips for Staying Cool and Minimizing Your Carbon Footprint The summers are getting hotter and hotter. And you absolutely should stay cool for your health (brain included), but here are some ways you could simultaneously reduce your energy bill and GHG emissions: The...
Conscious Consumerism: Buy Less (New) Stuff!
Conscious Consumerism: Buy Less (New) Stuff! Get smart about shopping The products we buy often consist of materials sourced from various parts of the world which are transported to a manufacturing facility, processed, and then transported to get to you. A lot of...
Conscious Consumerism: Sustainable Online Shopping
Conscious Consumerism: Sustainable Online Shopping When you do shop, be smart about it! People shop online all the time. The amount of packages delivered in the US has nearly doubled in the last decade. As a consumer, there are a couple of easy things you can do to be...
Ecosia: Plant Trees by Surfing the Web
Ecosia: Plant Trees by Surfing the Web You're going to love this one. So easy and good. Make Ecosia your default search engine! If you start using Ecosia, trees are planted thanks to your web searches. Sounds too good to be true right? That's what I thought,...
Call Your Rep!
Call your representative! You are more powerful than you think you are. Use that influence. It will take you 5 minutes, it makes a difference, and you'll be glad you did it. I am encouraging you to do this today, especially if you live in MA because we have an...
Wash Clothes in Cold Water for Your Wallet, Your Clothes, and Your Planet!
Wash Your Clothes in Cold Water! It's better for your clothes, your wallet, and your planet Like most people, I thought it needed to be warm water until a couple of years ago, but it turns out that’s not the case anymore. Why? Because they don’t make washing machines...
Take Sustainable Action
Take Sustainable Action A menu of things you can do to help reverse climate change. They are brief, simple, thoroughly explained, and often quantified. The following content is from the "Take Sustainable Action" section of the What on EARTH?! sustainability...
Random Quotes
Quotes A collection of the most thought-provoking and inspiring quotes that encourage growth or serve as a useful reminder. The following content is from the "Random Quotes" section of the What on EARTH?! newsletter: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if...
Governments representing over 10% of the world have officially declared a climate emergency
So far 1,216 governments in 26 countries have declared a climate emergency. They represent nearly 800 million people. Almost all of this happened in 2019. Why am I sharing this with you? Well, mostly because it's a BFD. Momentum is picking up. Governments are...
Carbon Pricing: What it is and Current Status Globally (2018)
Carbon Pricing is Picking up Steam Around the World! Hold on, what is carbon pricing exactly? The public (you and me) currently pays hundreds of billions of dollars annually (possibly trillions) for the societal damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions. These costs...
“We think the Economics of Renewables Are Impossible for Oil to Compete With.”
This is what BNP Paribas, the eighth largest bank in the world, is now telling investors. It comes from a recent analysis they did to answer the following question: "For a given capital outlay on oil and renewables, how much useful energy at the wheel do we get?" In...
Reflecting on the Last Year: Climate Movement Makes Massive Progress
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the "What on Earth" newsletter so I thought I'd take the time to: Briefly reflect on just how much this space has changed in the year since I started this journey. Give you an update on how Crowdsourcing...
Protesting for a Green New Deal: The Inside Scoop
Protesting for a Green New Deal: The Inside Scoop Last week I told you that I was traveling down to DC with the youth-led Sunrise Movement to pressure Democrats in the House of Representatives to form a Select Committee for a Green New Deal. What I did not tell you...
Green New Deal
The Green New Deal: Finally a Solution that Matches the Scale and Scope of the Climate Crisis On Sunday I'll be going down to DC with the Sunrise Movement to pressure the House to form a Select Committee for a Green New Deal before they've finalized their plans for...
Project Drawdown: A Plan to Reverse Global Warming?
A Project to Reverse Global Warming? Project Drawdown provides a roadmap of the top 100 solutions We can solve climate change while saving loads of money. "Project Drawdown is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming." Drawdown refers to the...
Canada Prices Carbon Pollution. Citizens Come Out on Top.
Canada Prices Carbon Pollution. Citizens Come Out on Top Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced carbon will be priced starting in 2019 as a part of their national climate action plan, saying, “It is free to pollute, so we have too much...
Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Training Recap
Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Training Recap Last week I was lucky enough to attend Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Training in LA and on the second day HE insisted that I take a picture with him! ...alright so a couple thousand other leaders photobombed...
California Will Have 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
California Will Have 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 California legislators passed a bill, called SB100, that requires: 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045. 60% renewable energy by 2030 50% renewable energy by 2026 This new law is historical. As the 5th largest...