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BlogNews (September 12, 2019) By Ayate Temsamani, Climate Fellow
The Impact of Telecoms
The US telecom industry uses vast amounts of energy, with the major four companies collectively using over 30 million megawatt hours (MWH) of electric power every year—enough energy to power all the households in New York City.Â
This has mostly come from dirty energy sources, emitting 20 million tons of CO2 every year.…
BlogNews (August 29, 2019) We’ve all seen images of the Amazon on fire. You may have already heard the news that these fires are more extensive than those in the past, with over 80,000 fires this year. You may have also heard folks explaining that this is fire season, and this is normal.
Here’s why it’s not normal: The fires in the Amazon Rainforest this year are not the result of lightning strikes or even…
BlogNews (August 26, 2019) The Problem
Green America recently launched Cool It, our campaign to address harmful emissions causing the climate crisis. The campaign focuses on hydrofluorocarbons, or “HFCs”, extremely potent greenhouse gases that are used as refrigerants in refrigerators and A/C Units.
HFCs are leaking into the atmosphere from faulty equipment and irresponsible disposal, which is dangerous…
BlogNews (August 8, 2019) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Climate Change and Land on August 8. While the report is academic in tone, the warnings coming out of it could not be clearer. Our current agricultural and forestry practices, and the resulting climate emissions, are already having devastating impacts on the planet:
The climate crisis is…
BlogNews (July 11, 2019) Amazon is full of deals, but those deals come at a big cost to people and the planet. So, before you click on that deal that sounds like a steal, check out Green America's 10 Reasons to not shop Amazon.
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Exploits workers and fights unions. This article from The Guardian discusses how Amazon has surppressed unions in its warehouses and how unions could help its workers…
BlogNews (July 10, 2019) Summer is underway and Green America’s work is in high gear! Thanks to our members' generous support, every day our programs are advancing the policies and systems needed for safe food, clean energy, responsible finance, and fair labor on which the health of people and the planet depends.
Whether we are taking our message to the streets, to legislators, to consumers and investors…
BlogNews (July 8, 2019) This article was written by Matt and Kara Rutter, founders of Project Victory Gardens, an agritherapy program in Aiken, South Carolina that brings together and supports veterans and a sustainable food system. They are also Climate Victory Gardeners, excited to share insight about how they identified and got started on their project.
Dig on for Victory
We have all seen the…
BlogNews (July 1, 2019) Plantain, known as Plantago major, grows all over North America and around the world. It is commonly found in yards and gardens where pesticides aren’t used. Chances are, if you’re a Climate Victory Gardener, you’ve come across this plant. And, while we’re often tempted to pull weeds to make space for fruit and veggies to grow, biodiversity and keeping plants like the plantain…
BlogNews (June 24, 2019) The United States uses over a billion pounds of pesticides each year, many that contain chemicals banned in other countries. These toxic chemicals have major impacts on both people and the planet. US regulation has fallen behind other major agricultural producers to side with the agrochemical industry at the risk of our health.
Brazil, China, the European Union, and the United…
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