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TED Talk: Women and Girls, You are Part of the Climate Solution

Sustainability Consulting

Everyone loves a good TED Talk, here’s one of our favorites: Educating and empowering women and girls is one of the most important things we can do to confront carbon pollution and could result in a reduction of 80 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions says Omani scientist, activist, and athlete Rumaithat Al Busaidi in her compelling TED Talk.

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Greater action required to prevent irreversible outcomes for farming

Envirotec Magazine

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. But it’s in farmers’ best interests to start acting on climate change and nature recovery now, where on-farm action can make businesses more resilient.”. “We

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Online Event - Collective Resilience Summit

Green Market Oracle

The Collective Resilience Summit will take place May 12 - 17, 2020. This free, online and highly interactive summit will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom, skill and compassion. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Founder.

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New green infrastructure framework “is an opportunity to brighten millions of lives”

Envirotec Magazine

million households – lacking easy access to nature (and the huge health and wellbeing benefits that come from it), the voluntary organisations coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has warmly welcomed new Green infrastructure Standards from Natural England (announced on 31 January). Let’s get these standards in law.”

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Coalition Leadership Statement on I-2117

Front And Centered

The following is a statement by the Front and Centered Coalition Leadership regarding I-2117: The campaign to repeal these recently enacted laws represents a reckless and bad faith effort by a wealthy individual and his politics of despair and division to undermine well-intentioned policy for the environment, education, and healthcare.

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Comprehensive Plans and Climate Justice: HB 1181 in Action

Front And Centered

The Growth Management Act (GMA) is a state law that requires this work, and it’s really important! The GMA is a state law that determines how cities and counties plan to manage population growth by dictating what can be built where, which type of projects should be prioritized, and how the jurisdiction will be livable for its residents.

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Pandemics, Plans, Perceptions

Varuna

Those same facts also suggest that our systems – public health, governmental, technological, - are actually more fragile than we thought. So, while we are in the middle of COVID19 what can we learn to aid our plans to ensure we are better prepared, resilient, for the next shock or pandemic? Resilience Planning. Or any pandemic.