April 7, 2021
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14 innovative projects helping to save the planet and make the world a better place
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Author: Natalie Marchant, Writer, Formative Content
Digital crowdsourcing platform UpLink was created to address the world’s most pressing problems.
The initiative seeks sustainable solutions to tackle issues such as climate change and social injustice.
Projects are also aimed at tackling the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Diana Johnstone
Classical essays • This is a Repost • First published on 28 August, 2020
Diana Johnstone considers the fun and games surrounding the possibility of a disputed U.S. election result and concludes that the future is being planned elsewhere, for instance at the next meeting in Davos.
President Donald Trump arriving in Ashville, N.C., Aug. 24, 2020. (White House, Shealah Craighead)
Dateline: Paris
Special to Consortium News
A small number of very rich men are quite sure they know what is best for the future of the world and have enough wealth and influence to believe they can make it happen. They can be called oligarchs, but the term is inadequate. They are a special category, the shapers of the Global Governance destined to replace bourgeois democracy. I can name two: one who is famous, notorious even, but very old, and another who is a generation younger, not yet so well known or so rich but probably even more influential.
Trillion Trees Act is One More Step Toward Bolder Climate Action
Dec 21, 2020
U.S. Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced the Trillion Trees and Natural Carbon Storage Act earlier this month. The bipartisan legislation aims to advance the nation’s climate action agenda and the preservation of forests.
An improvement in the Trillion Trees Act
The bill comes 10 months after U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) brought the Trillion Trees Act to the House of Representatives and was met with backlash from environmental groups. In response, the National Parks Conservation Association wrote a letter of opposition on behalf of its millions of members and supporters, and Greenpeace pulled together a petition to National Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). A major criticism of the bill was its supposed greenwashing of the logging industry.