Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series. When people think of the work of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, economic development does not immediately come to mind. That is just how the woman who spearheads the Kellogg Foundations’s economic development work prefersContinue Reading
Communities in north-central Pennsylvania are taking action to limit outdoor artificial lighting that is encroaching on what has become a crucial resource in the region: darkness. Satellite data show the Pennsylvania Wilds, a rural region comprising millions of acres of mountains and forestland that feature sterling views of the nightContinue Reading
Volunteers collect garbage from the Nile in Egypt’s capital Cairo in a clean-up campaign, on March 7, 2020. Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country’s huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile. At aContinue Reading
Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series. When executive-level Kellogg employees part ways with their employer, over the years enough of them have decided to stay in Battle Creek that the city has secured its place as a national andContinue Reading
When proposals for the largest solar plant ever conceived for US soil started to gather pace – a plan that involves spearing several million solar panels into the flat farmland of northern Indiana – something in Connie Ehrlich seems to have snapped. Ehrlich, 63, is part of a longstanding farmingContinue Reading
“Do you know where your clothes come from? Would you wear plastic?” Those are questions Australian wool group Woolmark poses as part of its latest campaign. Launched last week, it features a strikingly haunting video of an oil-slicked trio scrambling from a pool filled with crude against apocalyptically overcast skies.Continue Reading
When Rhonda Caviedes arrived to visit her parent’s mobile home in March, she stepped outside and caught a whiff of something so foul that she immediately called 911. “The city fire department comes out, they investigated, looked over the fence and said, ‘it’s coming from the pond right over there,’”Continue Reading
Introduction On May 10, 2022, the Alberta Court of Appeal in Reference re. Impact Assessment Act1 ruled that the federal Impact Assessment Act (the “IAA“)2 and the related Physical Activities Regulations, SOR/2019-285, (the “Regulations“)3 are unconstitutional. The IAA and the Regulations came into force in August 2019, replacing the CanadianContinue Reading
New private-public partnership to protect standing forests has raised $1 billion a year More money raised in seven months for REDD+, the UN forest protection scheme, than in the past 14 years But Germany, Brazil and Indonesia among key players not taking part Activists fear LEAF could set off aContinue Reading
Last year, Congress pledged $3.5 billion to carbon capture and sequestration projects around the United States, which has been called the largest federal investment ever by advocates for the technology. Advocates say that the technology is much needed if the world hopes to transition away from fossil fuels, and theContinue Reading
