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At least not until now.  Healthcare giant UPMC has opened up community COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Lawrence and Mercer counties and, unlike the earliest days of vaccine distributions, patients dont need a computer to find an appointment.  Instead, representatives from the healthcare system began calling patients age 90 and older to see if they wanted an appointment and to help them schedule at one of three clinics being held each week. "Our approach is really an outreach-based approach, "...

During Black History Month, a local running group is mixing history with their workouts. Members of the RIOT (Running is our therapy) Squad are running to places significant to Baltimore's Black history, as they work out stress from the pandemic.

Feb 19, 2021 11:12 PM EST (Photo : Mike Cohen/Getty Images) He encouraged the countries to implement policies that promote the consumption of 100% sustainable synthetic beef. In his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster the Microsoft founder features various recommendations addressing climate change and the inevitable crisis that follow. Mr. Gates, who has invested in many synthetic meat corporations, insisted that federal regulations reducing greenhouse emissions should be enforced. MIT Intervi...

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Opinion: Environmental justice must be foundational to the new School of Sustainability Artwork created to support the first comprehensive Intro to Environmental Justice course at Stanford, first offered in fall 2018. By Stephanie Muscat, used with permission. on January 27, 2021 Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther ...

January 26, 2021 There is no way to stabilize the world’s temperature without an aggressive plan to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates than more than 3 to 7 gigatons (GT) of CO2 will need to be removed per year by 2050—up to 15 GT by the end of the century—to limit warming to 1.5° C. That’s akin to “running the fossil fuel industry in reverse,” says Rob Jackson, an earth system science professor at Stanford University who lead...

Elon Musk just bought $100 million in publicity for climate change Quartz 1/26/2021 © Provided by Quartz There is no way to stabilize the world’s temperature without an aggressive plan to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates than more than 3 to 7 gigatons (GT) of CO2 will need to be removed per year by 2050—up to 15 GT by the end of the century—to limit warming to 1.5° C. That’s akin to “running the fossil fuel industry in rev...

Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy The new president moved immediately to review more than 100 Trump administration actions and restore the protection of federal lands and the regulation of greenhouse gases. January 21, 2021 President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article...

The Globe and Mail JOEL SCHLESINGER Published January 19, 2021 Bookmark Gold was the bright, shiny object of 2020, attracting haven-seeking investors as the pandemic weighed on global economies and markets. While gold has pulled back from its record highs in August, many investors are hanging onto their holdings as insurance against continuing market volatility and the threat of rising inflation. ETFs that hold physical gold and the miners that explore and produce it are considered the eas...

But emissions reductions came at huge cost and will likely rebound as vaccines are distributed, authors say