The Covid-19 epidemic is currently dominating the news, conversations and our everyday lives. With our graphic we wanted to spread a little optimism and present three facts that give us a bit of courage and help us feel more positive at this time. Our designer Raphael Hammer has accordingly created an animated graphic that gives…
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Greta Thunberg Arrives in New York
Greta Thunberg, a sixteen-year-old Swedish girl, has captured the world’s attention with her year-long climate change activism. She is the genesis of “Fridays For Future” as more than 2 million teenagers have followed her lead and taken part in “climate strikes”. The movement began in August 2018 when Thunberg began skipping class to sit outside…
World Environment Day 2019
Today, China hosts the global World Environment Day celebrations with the theme: #BeatAirPollution. Approximately 7 million people worldwide die prematurely each year from air pollution, with about 4 million of these deaths occurring in Asia-Pacific. World Environment Day 2019 will urge governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together to explore renewable energy and green…
Canada launches Smart Cities Challenge
On November 23, Canada’s Minister of Infrastructure and Communities officially announced the Smart Cities Challenge. The challenge is open to all communities in Canada, including “municipalities, regional governments and Indigenous communities (First Nations, Métis and Inuit). The Challenge encourages communities to adopt a smart cities approach to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data…
BBC News: First CO2 rise in four years puts pressure on Paris targets
BBC News is reporting that, according to the Global Carbon Project, CO2 emissions are projected to rise in 2017 for the first time in four years. The main cause is attributed to increased coal use in China as their economy expands. “Global CO2 emissions appear to be going up strongly once again after a three-year…
Miami City Hall Goes Green in Support of the Paris Climate Agreement
Tonight and this weekend in support of #climateagreement @Tomas_Regalado @kenrussellmiami @FrankCarollo_ @FrancisSuarez @KeonHardemon W Gort pic.twitter.com/XnvKOSoA1Q — City of Miami (@CityofMiami) June 2, 2017 Tonight and this weekend in support of #climateagreement @Tomas_Regalado @kenrussellmiami @FrankCarollo_ @FrancisSuarez @KeonHardemon W Gort
Health First: Reimagining the Conversation on Sustainability
Could a greater awareness of our own health become the catalyst for transforming the way we think about the wellbeing of our planet? That is the question Paulette Frank, Vice President of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability at Johnson & Johnson asks in this video from the Sustainable Brands 2016 Copenhagen summit Today, people are thinking…
Politicians Discussing Global Warming
This photo has been making the rounds of Facebook and Instagram with the title “Politicians Discussing Global Warming”. It is from the “Follow the Leader” series staged in Berlin in 2011 by artist Isaac Cordal, and included in his book, “Cement Eclipses”. Cement Eclipses is a critical definition of our behavior as a social mass.…
Sweden Plans to Be a Fossil-Free Country By 2030
As in fossil-fuels, not dinosaur bones. Sweden is already ahead of other nations in reducing fossil-fuel use by producing energy from their waste – so much so that they have to import garbage from the UK, Norway, Denmark and other neighboring countries. But Sweden wants to go even further by becoming entirely fossil-free by 2030,…
France Mandates Green Roofs For All New Commercial Construction
EcoBuilding Pulse reports that a new law, passed by the French Parliament last week, requires all new buildings in their commercial zones to have a living roof or solar panels. This is less stringent than the original proposal by French environmental activists, which called for complete roof cover by greenery, but is still a huge…