A much wider concept of Sponge Cities is now developing. Often referred to as Ecosystem-based Adaptation, it creates an absorbent urban environment within flood-prone areas, to allow surplus groundwater to drain away safely, or be collected for cleaning and reuse.
Daisy Hernandez provides some tips on how to make your holiday wrapping a bit more eco-friendly this year in Popular Mechanics. “There are also alternative options if you want to commit to a more environmentally friendly holiday season—and who knows, maybe it’ll become a small change that becomes a year-round habit for birthdays, anniversaries, and...
oday the Conservative Energy Network CEN) released polling data that gauged voters’ attitudes toward issues of the economy, energy, and the environment.
COP’s fringe events were a success, and a cause for optimism on climate policy. All that’s required now is for those market voices on conservation issues to penetrate and percolate the UN’s main event, and have the self-evidentiary superiority of their solutions outshine inefficient socialist spending.
"So, we can’t mine and burn coal. We can’t drill and burn oil or natural gas. We need to end the use of internal-combustion engines. And now, we can’t mine lithium. Sometimes I think these anti-modernity throwbacks won’t be satisfied until we return to the caves."
When we talk about climate change, we too often are focused exclusively on energy and industry emissions. While that is an important conversation, we cannot afford to miss the forest for the trees by ignoring the potential of natural climate solutions.
"The development required for net-zero carbon is increasingly meeting local resistance on the ground, including from people who identify as environmentalist."
Youngkin’s success is a blueprint for Republicans nationally, which bodes well for durable solutions on a host of fronts, including climate policy.
The entire piece is worth a read. Several other pieces, including our own, have similarly argued that doomist attitudes not only fail to follow the science but can often be very counterproductive.
"It’s time to stop telling our children that they’re going to die from climate change. It’s not only cruel, it might actually make it more likely to come true."
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