Sustain 2024🍃🌎#38

Earth: Good News

by Alexis McCarthy April 2024

Where is your favorite place on earth

How is the changing climate affecting it

Who are the people in your life you love

Talk more about positive changes coming

Increased savings from energy efficient changes

More jobs created by the clean energy economy transition

Try out plant based recipes

Engage in your favorite pastimes with less of an impact on the earth

Discover vacation alternatives closer to home

Support earth friendly candidates

Help others identify levers of change in their own lives

A first step:

Take care of your surroundings, know how valuable your environment is to you and think about how best to protect it

Learn 

Innovations, Innovators, Thought Leaders, Changemakers, New Ideas, New Frontiers 

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7

• Speed & Scale

• Local solar gets a boost

• Wyoming- Tribe and city pursue clean energy funds

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Making plastic creates large emissions

• Cloud powered technologies for sustainability

• A happy battery recycling story

• Green building with hemp

• Understanding how successful cleantech companies scale

• Clean energy investment jumps 17% reaches $1.8 trillion

• Methane emissions crackdown on Federal lands

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION SDG 12

• Blueberries and bell peppers high pesticide risk

• One third of US adults interested in cutting back on meat -Yale report

• Simple steps for a greener future

EQUITYSDG 5&10

• Gender lens investing update

• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation act

• More gender diversity on boards linked -higher credit ratings- Moodys

• No equality for working women in any country

CLIMATE ACTION SDG 13, 14 & 15

• 1st climate accountability lawsuit in PA Bucks county sues fossil fuel industry

• Hay for cattle accounts for 45% of Colorado River water usage

• Dutch accept the weeds and compete to remove garden pavers

MEDIA/BOOKS

• Perfect Days- Wim Wenders

• Silent Spring- Rachel Carson

Act  

April

showers bring May flowers. They also bring significant risk, so make sure you are prepared for increasingly significant rain events.