Finding the right message for taking the sustainability movement mainstream
How to use the power of advertising for the fight against climate change.
The Forest Service’s Carbon Dilemma: Carbon Capture on National Forests or Sustainable Forestry?
The U.S. Forest Service is floating a new rule to potentially grant “perpetual rights of use and occupancy” for carbon waste injection under national forests and grasslands. Such rights may include constructing extensive infrastructure such as pipelines, injection wells, and
Open Planet Is a Growing Library of 4,500 Free Videos Documenting Nature and Climate Issues Around the World
Climate science has a communication problem. Abstract data, figures, and projections into the distant future can be tough to comprehend. Without effective storytelling tools to convey the severity of the crisis and what’s at stake if we don’t act, it can be difficult to motivate the broader public to advocate for change.
The team at Open Planet wants to bridge that gap. A collaboration between Studio Silverback and Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab, the new digital library contains a growing collection of climate and nature footage available for free use. More
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Calls grow in Europe for a wealth tax to finance the green transition
While a wealth tax still has a long way to go to make a major comeback in Europe, there is movement in Brussels.
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The Drifters Project Harnesses Community to Clean the Oceans and Visualize Global Plastic Pollution
In 2006, Pam Longobardi traveled to Ka Lae, the southernmost tip of Hawaii’s Big Island, for a residency. Cradled by a rugged coastline and high cliffs towering over the Pacific Ocean, the point marks a confluence of currents where marine life and debris gather on shore, making it a popular fishing spot and unintentional waste collection site. “There I saw an immense multitude of colors and forms of plastic that was being vomited out of the ocean, piled so deep it was beyond my arm’s reach to the bottom,” Longobardi tells Colossal. More
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