Seattle has long been considered one of the most sustainable cities in the country. But the city’s green reputation obscures a deep legacy of environmental racism. Just a few miles south of Seattle’s iconic downtown and waterfront lies the Duwamish Valley, a polluted stretch of land that is home toContinue Reading
Data collection Metagenomic project information was collected from the MGnify metagenomic database31. Currently (September 2021), microbiome data (sequence, taxonomic, and functional information, etc.) of 325,323 environmental samples can be found in this database. Often, microbes from similar ecological communities have been studied by different groups at different times and locations.Continue Reading
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DEVxDAO, the decentralized innovation community sponsored by Casper, is thrilled to announce a new collaboration in advanced communities. DEVxDAO, XPRIZE, Vatom, Menagerie, RampRate and Casper Labs are spending millions to develop a new philosophy for advanced, self-governing, online communities. Initial Grant toContinue Reading
Cases of bottled water are handed out in Jackson, Mississippi in August 2022 after the lost reliable … [+] water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. Getty Images Decades of systemic racism and infrastructural neglect came to a head last year in Jackson, Mississippi, whenContinue Reading
Comment on this story Comment Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! Brady Dennis, a domestic climate correspondent for The Washington Post, wrote the top of today’s newsletter. Maxine Joselow will be back tomorrow. But first: Funding for environmental justice is coming. Will it reach communities most in need?Continue Reading
Dow Published 34 minutes ago. About a 5 minute read. Image: WM Sponsored Content / This article is sponsored by Dow. To create a truly circular ecosystem for plastics, we need scalable innovations to close the gap between what consumers can recycle now and which plastics might become a regularContinue Reading
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) Thursday announced more than $42 million, which he secured on behalf of 51 Vermont projects, has been included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus legislation that passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday ahead of the Friday deadline. Sanders’ Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) projects forContinue Reading
Gulfport activists have taken their struggle for environmental justice to the national level, naming the U.S. Department of Transportation and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as defendants in a landmark lawsuit intended to halt a potentially disastrous road expansion project. How will Buttigieg—affectionately known as Mayor Pete when he wasContinue Reading
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $52 million in awards to establish 12 Regional Clean Energy Hubs to serve as centers of outreach, awareness, and education in regions across New York State and help foster residents’ participation, especially those in underserved or otherwise disadvantaged communities, in New York’s clean energy transition.Continue Reading
This commentary is by Sonia Johnson and Jake Clark, vice presidents of construction and development, respectively, at Encore Renewable Energy in Burlington, which focuses on sustainable and cost-effective community-scale solar and large-scale energy storage projects. The Vermont solar industry can help advance the energy transition away from polluting energy sourcesContinue Reading
