The impact of COVID-19 measures on Belgian traffic and air quality

Coastal Bend Bays Foundation (CBBF) is super excited to hold our 23rd annual Earth Day-Bay Day festival in person! Our goal is to provide education and outreach in a fun, family environment FREE for all Coastal Bend residents and others visiting our “Sparkling City by the Sea.” Since 1999, the CBBF has hosted this local event to help promote and encourage citizens to learn about our bays and estuaries, wetlands, native plants and animals, recycling, sustainability, conservation and other environmental issues through interactive activities and local exhibitors.

Join us on Friday, November 20th for the Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s next virtual forum, Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia. The forum will explore COVID-19’s impact on supply chains for local producers, buyers, and our emergency food system and how the growing agri-tech sector is…

In its 2020 Impact Report, Tesla says, “In 2020, Tesla customers helped accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy by avoiding 5.0 million metric tons of CO2e emissions.” The company’s focus is on more than building electric vehicles. Here’s what Tesla has to say about its mission: “We are designing and manufacturing a complete energy and transportation ecosystem that is fully vertically integrated. By doing so, we are creating affordable products that work together to amplify their impact, leading to the greatest environmental benefit possible. We seek to achieve this through our research and software development efforts as well as through our continued drive to develop advanced manufacturing capabilities.” “Climate change is reaching alarming levels globally due in large part to emissions from burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity generation. The world cannot reduce CO2 emissions without addressing both energy generation and consumption. And the world cannot address its energy habits without first directly reducing emissions in the transportation and energy sectors.

YouTube is where preschoolers go for their Baby Shark fix. It’s where beauty bloggers rejoice as they unbox their new favorite lipstick. As it turns out, the website—my 3-year-old niece’s one and only true love—also contributes to climate change in a fairly significant way.

In the lead-up to One Planet’s 3rd Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme, Christopher Béné – Senior Researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) – shares his views on what he sees is a huge and still increasing challenge of accurately…