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American Poet and Activist, Amanda Gorman​ 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman “stole the show” for her dramatic reading of her six-minute “The Hill We Climb” poem on January 20 before a global TV and online inauguration day audience. The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a “perfect union,” but as a country that has the grit…

In case you missed it… It’s us against greenhouse gases In an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes last night, Bill Gates, who was once a youth activist with a vision to change the world, laid it out there.”Without innovation, we will not solve climate change. We won’t even come close.” He also said, “We have more educated…

Environmentalists and Dam Operators, at War for Years, Start Making PeaceHow are unlikely partners getting more clean energy from hydro-power while reducing the environmental harm from dams? The industry that operates America’s hydroelectric dams and several environmental groups announced an unusual agreement to work together to get more clean energy from hydro-power while reducing the environmental harm from…

The Prince of Wales recently launched a 10-point pandemic recovery charter that challenges businesses to “put nature, people and the planet at the heart of global value creation” over the next decade. This up to date move is backed by scores of major corporates high profile names such as Unilever, BP and BlackRock. The Terra Carta is…

What could Biden’s ‘Climate Cabinet’ realistically accomplish? Biden’s Cabinet will be not only tackling climate change, but working to change and undo the damage done with agencies in disarray, rolled back environmental protections, suppressed climate science, loss of expertise due to attrition and firings to name a few of the obstacles to address. Climate change…

The ocean absorbs about 30% of human-generated CO2 emissions.
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