by Deborah Phelan | Apr 24, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
Earth Day 2018 marked the 20 year anniversary of climatologist Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” chart, which detailed the pattern of unprecedented warming in the later part of the 20th century and attributed it to the impact of fossil-fuel-driven...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 19, 2017 | 2050, Climate Change, Global Goals, Global Health, TIme Capsule, UN SDGs, Youth and Climate Change
By 2050, projections suggest that 2/3 of the world’s population will be residing in cities, a statistic that affirms the need to convert urban landscapes to sustainable, healthy, and environmentally prosperous environments. “Is future urbanization going to be a good...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Global Health, Water
“The Dharma informs us, however, that craving, aversion, and delusion within the human mind are the root causes of vast human suffering … Climate change is perhaps humanity’s greatest teacher yet about how these mental forces, when unchecked in ourselves...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
A USDA research team investigating the ancient soil amendment biochar to address food security is suggesting that, with its potential to store one gigaton of carbon per year by 2050, biochar could be a “game changer” in addressing global warming. In field and lab...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 26, 2016 | Climate Change, COP21
Despite years of research pointing to the inadequacies of limiting global warming to 2° C, the UNFCCC scored a long awaited PR victory on Earth Day 2016 as leaders from 171 countries convened at the UN to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. As scientists continue to...
