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Alerts Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed world. Advertisement Bryant was used to guiding people through their relationship conflicts, anxieties about the future, and life-changing decisions. But this ...

Clean energy purchasing blitz allows tech giant to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by 94 per cent in three years, company announces

April 13, 2021 By Michele Learner Earth Day, April 22, is quickly approaching. Read on for a look at some of the main activities, many virtual and all centered around this year’s theme, Restore Our Earth. We have also recently published a feature on continuing advocacy on the Child Tax Credit expansion, the most significant opportunity to reduce U.S. child poverty in many years; a look at the daunting problems Venezuela faces, despite its status as an oil-rich, previously middle-income nation...

Yves here. While this article has a lot to recommend it, I have to voice some reservations. The first is that it jumps on the “Biden as FDR” bandwagon, which Lambert debunked yesterday. The second is the New Deal brand expropriation by Green New Deal advocates. As we’ve stressed repeatedly, the Green New Deal proponents will not acknowledge, let alone promote, far and aways the most important and urgent measures we can take to combat climate change: radical conservation. They aren’t eve...

Close Authorship The engine behind green business is the same as any business: capital. And while social, human and natural capital are all critical, financial capital is the one form that systemically fails the companies and leaders working on the most impactful solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. Venture capitalists decide who gets to be a billionaire and what solutions reach billions in market penetration. Real asset investors choose what critical infrastructure is built, where ...

Before COVID-19 transformed all of our lives, one of the main public health concerns was the opioid crisis. In Connecticut, overdoses from opioid use went

Save this story for later. Three years ago, I had a baby. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that she is extremely cute, and I enjoy being her mother. A few months after her birth, I was scrolling on my phone, and I came across news of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It described a future world that will have experienced 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming. In this world, the oceans are acidifying, and most coral reefs have been bleached to death...

By Susan Gonzalez April 7, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Clockwise top left: Daniel Chabeda, Megan He, Ronald Hood, and Sarah Zhao. Four Yale College juniors — Daniel Chabeda, Megan He, Ronald Hood, and Sarah Zhao — are among the 410 college students from across the nation to receive Goldwater Scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year. The scholarships, named in honor of the late U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, enco...

Markus Winkler / Unsplash Before COVID-19 transformed all of our lives, one of the main public health concerns was the opioid crisis. In Connecticut, overdoses from opioid use went up in 2020.  And the Health Department says they’re still rising. This week on The Full Story, we begin a two-part series on the opioid crisis in our region.   First, we check up on the state of opioid addiction in Connecticut and New York and find out what local health officials and lawmakers are going to d...

Guest Columnists: Mark Reynolds and Linda Butler BRANDEN CAMPIn this 2017 file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nations top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.. World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned.  BRANDEN CAMP Published: 3/15/2021 10:14:29 AM A few weeks into the new administration, the feder...