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Getty Images The Pacific Coast of North America represents the world’s fifth largest economy, a region of 55 million people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion. But like most of the world, it has a big food waste problem. The Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) has joined key players from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to build a low-carbon economy, and food waste is one of its main focuses. Pete Pearson, senior director of Food Loss and Waste, World Wildlife Fund...
Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto, Japan. Photo by Eleonora Albasi on Unsplash. This story originally appeared in Inside Climate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This report also was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists. As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a "Harry Potter" book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, "War and Peace" and weed. Sometimes reading, some...
The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double—and maybe even six times—the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees. By Audrey Gray Related Share this article This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists. As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket,