By Robert English, The Cool Down “Freedom is being able to just simply walk out and access places.” In the small town just a light-rail trip away from downtown Phoenix, residents of a place called Culdesac in Arizona are one of the first non-urban communities in the U.S. to boast a walkable, car-free …
Parisians Vote in Favour of Tripling Parking Costs for SUVs
By Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian The referendum comes as the city aims to reduce emissions by targeting wealthy drivers in large, polluting cars. Parisians have voted to triple parking costs for sports utility vehicles (SUVs), as the city aims to tackle air pollution and climate breakdown by targeting rich drivers in heavy, …
FEMA Will Pay States to Install Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
By Justine Calma, The Verge Deploying solar panels can make communities more resilient to the consequences of climate change. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that it’ll start reimbursing local governments for installing solar panels and more efficient appliances after a disaster strikes. The move can help communities prepare for another calamity …
Inside the Amazon’s Tallest Treehouse, Where Peruvians are Taught to Combat Deforestation with Tech
By Euronews Green Education is changing the lives of Indigenous Peruvians in the Amazon. From a classroom in the Amazon’s tallest treehouse, young Peruvians are learning how to defend their rainforest home. Nestled in the crown of a strangler fig tree, the rangers have a bird’s eye view over the …
Navigating Nearshoring: An Evolution in Resilient Manufacturing
By Misha Govsteyn, Sustainable Brands By shortening supply chains, optimizing resource utilization and reducing waste, nearshoring enhances economic resilience and embodies a shift towards a more sustainable and environmentally conscious approach to manufacturing. As a strategic imperative in the face of global supply chain disruptions, the nearshoring (or reshoring) movement has emerged as a viable …
What If Our Society Valued Civics as It Does Entertainment?
By Ralph Nader, Nader.Org A teacher once said to me: “A society pays for what it values.” If so, our society values commercial entertainment, including spectator sports, orders of magnitude more than it values civics defined as the rights and duties exercised by citizens in a democracy. What if we …
Latin Americans Are Embracing Plant-Based Foods — a Growing Opportunity for Investment
By Roerto Guerra, Sustainable Brands Food investors and entrepreneurs would do well to mark the major focus on plant-based protein innovation happening for our neighbors to the South. Just like all disruptive industries, the ever-growing plant-based food industry has been through quite a rollercoaster ride over the last several years. But why are plant-based …
A Decades-Long Battle Against North Carolina’s Largest Landfill is Ramping Up
By Cameron Oglesby, Grist “There is not a house in this community that has not had a person who has suffered from some type of cancer or kidney failure.” Paul Fisher first heard about the Sampson County landfill on a radio talk show in the early 1990s. Folks were adamantly …
How Congress is Planning to Lift 400,000 Kids Out of Poverty
By Dylan Matthews, Vox We’re not bringing back the extended child tax credit. But this deal is better than nothing. The child tax credit has had a roller coaster of a decade so far. In 2021, the Democratic Congress and Joe Biden enacted the largest-ever expansion of the provision, making it a monthly benefit of up …
San Diego County Officials Applaud Mexico Groundbreaking of Wastewater Treatment Plant
By Tammy Murga, Los Angeles Times Debris gathers in a catch basin on the U.S. side of the border in San Ysidro. When it rains, trash and raw sewage flow through the Tijuana River Valley to the Pacific Ocean. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Mexico has broken ground on …