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One tip for a more sustainable diet includes starting out with just one plant-based meal a week or one meal a day. Start out with making plant-based breakfasts, like fruit smoothies with oats or a chickpea omelet, then go for a plant-based lunch or dinner the next day. (Pablo de la Fuente
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Lots of people nowadays are eager to do their part to help the environment, and there are so many ways to make a difference. In our community, actions like switching to the PuRE renewable energy program, making your next car an electric one or recycling at home and at work can all make big differences. Making small changes can add up to reduce your carbon footprint, and making simple switches in your diet is a great place to start.
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Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he will hike the carbon tax over 10 years from $30 to $170 per tonne, just when a second COVID-19 wave is spiking and the economy is shuttered again, with terrible consequences for millions of Canadians, especially small business owners and their employees. Trudeau took that controversial action even though he had promised before the last election not to do it and his minority government is vulnerable to defeat in a non-confidence vote.
Is it too cynical to dismiss the possibility Trudeau is willing to lose an election to defend a worthy public policy? His government’s track record betrays scant evidence of that lofty principle, although the power of ideological fervour cannot be definitively ruled out. More likely, he believed Canadians are willing to suffer hardship for climate redemption and voters might even reward him for doing the ‘right’ thing.
The Weekly Planet: The Only Way to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Flight, According to an Airline Robinson Meyer
Or, well, let me rephrase that: There are a lot of
ideas. Some companies argue that business commuters of the 2040s will take short hops, such as from D.C., to Philly, on six-seater electric vehicles that take off and land vertically. But these vehicles sometimes felicitously called “flying cars,” though their formal name is VTOL, for “vertical takeoff and landing” can go only so far, and the most successful VTOL prototypes have barely gotten off the ground. For medium distances, such as from New York to Cleveland, Airbus says it is trying to develop a zero-emissions jet that uses hydrogen as its main fuel source.
Biochar Traps Water and Fixes Carbon in Soil, Helping the Climate. But It’s Expensive
As droughts become longer, the soil additive could save on irrigation water and, if mass produced, might compete with energy sources such as oil and gas.
December 11, 2020
A farm worker applies biochar in the field during a demonstration at a farm near Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Oct. 8, 2020. Credit: Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua via Getty Images
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Biochar, a charcoal-like substance made from burning organic materials in a low or zero-oxygen environment, can improve the quality of soil and trap carbon dioxide in the earth for potentially hundreds, or even thousands, of years.