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When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand New Zealand passed its first rights for nature law in March 2017. In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. There, the Whanganui River, which flows across the North Island, has…

The “green” Joe Biden The United States officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement last week. The Keystone XL Pipeline was canceled. Climate action has been defined as an urgent national security threat. The federal government has committed to a transition to an electric vehicle fleet. The 11th hour, 59th minute Arctic Wildlife Refuge oil lease sale is…

The next big push for green buildingFor the building industry, reducing embodied carbon is the next big challenge. Green building uses less energy. Today, and in the years ahead, the building industry will need to think about not just a building’s operational emissions but all the energy that goes into creating it—from the harvesting and manufacturing…

Emissions impossible? Why meat and dairy companies need to be monitored Did you know that the average American eats 3 burgers per week? Our farm animals outnumber humans. The combined total of chickens (19 billion), cows (1.5 billion), sheep (1 billion) and pigs (1 billion) living at any one time is three times higher than…

Isra Hirsi / United StatesAt 17-years-old, Isra Hirsi is a climate and racial justice advocate who is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the US Youth Climate Strike. In 2019, she led the organization of hundreds of strikes across the country on March 15th and May 3rd. Hirsi started her climate activism her freshman year…

Fashion Trends Are Often Recycled. Now More Clothing Can Be, TooDesigners and tech start-ups are working to improve sustainability and interrupt the path to the landfill by as much as 20%. The process, called NuCycl, will update the initial recycling step of sorting, grading and shredding fabric by adding a camera that can more accurately identify…