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Thank you for taking the time to educate your viewers on how the weather patterns in California impact the global climate. We need more news coverage and anchors to cover the impacts of global climate change. Thanks for having me on the show and covering this important topic! It is always a pleasure to talk with you 🙏🏾 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tIO5bmKnE
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Recent research has found that these appliances, used in approximately 35% of American households, may be responsible for a staggering 12.7% of childhood asthma cases in the country. That’s comparable to the risks associated with exposure to secondhand smoke. But it’s not just asthma that we should be concerned about - gas stoves have also been found to emit pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, even when turned off. The natural gas industry accuses the authors of pursuing a “headline-grabbing approach” and argues the authors lacked scientific rigor. The oil and gas industry often uses this technique to increase public skepticism and doubt toward the scientific method. It’s time to take a stand and demand change. I am excited to see the progress made by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ensure the safety of consumer products. We have better technological solutions. Let's use them, and work together to make sure our homes are safe and healthy for all. Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/06/gas-stove-pollution-causes-127-childhood-asthma-study-finds/
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Asthma severity is higher in homes with more nitrogen dioxide in the air, and gas stoves are a major source of indoor nitrogen dioxide.
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If its true that gas has allot effect on our health,then we need to change ASAP and end this.
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@zelda_ninga_442 learnt that it emits pollutants even when turned off..Not the best news to hear though
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"A roadmap for climate progress, thriving nature, equity, & prosperity" The report to the National Climate Task Force was recently released in November 2022 and highlights the integral role nature-based solutions play in combating climate change. It builds upon President Biden's 2022 Earth Day promise: restoring nature and using nature-based solutions a core tenant of national policy. With the IRA act, President Biden allocated direct funds to help implement nature-based solutions: over $8.7 billion to support nature-based solutions and other approaches to build climate resilience into transportation systems from the ground up, and another $8.6 billion to restore and conserve coastal habitats. The report offers five concrete policy recommendations to operationalize and design nature-based solutions. Importantly, these recommendations prioritize nature-based solutions as the go-to option in fighting climate change, nature loss, and inequities: "Nature-based solutions, like protecting forests or restoring coastal marshes, are a fundamental pillar of fighting the climate crisis, just like reducing greenhouse gas emissions, deploying renewable energy, and increasing energy efficiency. Natural solutions can reduce emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere and lock it away, make ecosystems more resilient, and lower climate change risks for people. These solutions are often lower in cost than conventional alternatives and compatible with existing technology. Nature-based solutions are known to be highly effective and create multiple benefits, including improving human, economic, and ecosystem health. Yet, they are not adopted at the scale and pace that are both possible and urgently needed. Despite notable progress on nature-based solutions, this report finds that significant challenges remain. This report provides a roadmap with five strategic areas of change needed to unleash nature’s full potential: Update policies; Unlock Funding; Lead with Federal Facilities and Assets; Train the Workforce; and Prioritize Research, Innovation, Knowledge, and Adaptive Learning. " This is the right kind of leadership that the United States, and the world, need! Discover more here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Nature-Based-Solutions-Roadmap.pdfmkt_tok=MjExLU5KWS0xNjUAAAGIgSKVxp8JTgs3epVYHdU1QsNBjREmiFGCMqCYGje2rRZquBIHyGNSqpxzelTm8awuBaEmhv8_xRGuJ86fkfzj6CbNrJ-0kkXKfpa7z10IaQ
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Sure. Nature based solutions should be scaled up.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has grown to cover a surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers in 2022. That's an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France. Finding solutions to plastics is critical to tackling our floating garbage problem. Protein Evolution has been working to address this problem: 1. First, they identify a type of plastic waste to recycle and save from entering the environment (a plastic water bottle, for example). 2. They leverage artificial intelligence and natural science to engineer an enzyme that can break down the bottle in an economical, sustainable way. 3. They take the engineered enzyme and grow it in fermentation tanks so there’s enough enzyme to break down large quantities of plastic. They combine the enzymes with plastic waste to break down the waste into its “building blocks” in a low-emission, eco-friendly process. 4. They use the grown enzyme to recycle the plastic water bottle, breaking it down into its building blocks to create good-as-new plastic bottles, textiles, and other infinitely renewable plastic products. By 2023, the Protein Evolution team expects to launch its first commercial partnership, addressing the needs of global consumer brands seeking to recycle and transform textiles and mixed-plastic waste. They also plan to license their recycling process, selling the engineered enzymes to customers within the chemical industry, to scale this solution. Read more about their innovative solution here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2022/10/31/protein-evolution-engineers-supercharged-organisms-to-break-down-plastic-waste/?sh=1ee6e60e7a02
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Fo sure it’s a good way to reduce plastic
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Dear Sweta Chakraborty Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Protein Evolution and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Muhammad We Don't Have Time
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This is a great solution to the plastic menace.
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After a decade of research, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered a way to harness the energy from nuclear fusion. It is a major milestone! "It’s a technology that has the potential to one day accelerate the planet’s shift away from fossil fuels, which are the major contributors to climate change. The technology has long struggled with daunting challenges. Scientists have long understood how nuclear fusion has worked and have been trying to duplicate the process on Earth as far back as the 1930s. Current efforts focus on fusing a pair of hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — according to the Department of Energy, which says that particular combination releases “much more energy than most fusion reactions” and requires less heat to do so." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-energy-department-announces-major-breakthrough-in-fusion-energy-research
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This is just a distraction from what we need to do witch is immediately switch to clean and SAFE energy
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Impressive. Great share @Sweta.
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The fossil fuel industry continues to profit from the demise of our planet's health. The latest Guardian article highlights this discrepancy better than ever. We are close to irreversible tipping points and 1.5-degree temperature warming, yet the fossil fuel industry is expected to amass $4tn in 2022. We need to call on the fossil fuel sector to transition. These profits can still save our climate. But, as Dr. Rockstrom says, "time is really running out very, very fast”. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other .
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a sad truth!
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it's illogical to prioritize profits at the expense of people's well being
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https://evermind.media/a-garden-of-hope-sister-true-dedication-about-mother-earth/# buddhist way in
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Rishi Sunak's decision not to attend COP27 derails efforts made by other global leaders to tackle the climate crisis. We need leaders to attend, to come to the table with serious propositions, and to operationalize climate solutions. We don't have time for leaders to back out on our planet. As Labour's shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband told the BBC: "You've got world leaders from around the globe gathering together to talk about how we can tackle the biggest long-term threat we face [...] and our prime minister can't be bothered to turn up. I think that is a total failure of generations today and generations in the future." https://apple.news/A5QBt948qQW6hADgfOrbNiQ
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He has changed his decision.
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This is a big shame ... How are we going to achieve the targets of saving the planet if those who we rely on to lead us and make policies that could save humanity start backing off from attending COP27
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Shame! shame!
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The sooner we stop burning fuels the more we can shape
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Sky News Arabia Climate studio is very impressive! Thanks for inviting We Don't Have Time to your important news program about the climate. https://youtu.be/WL5i3d1LQ-I?t=481
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Awesome!
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The alternative-milk industry is often less carbon-intensive than traditional cow-dairy milk. However, Ripple Milk has successfully shown that the alternative-milk industry can do even better. Increasingly, alternative milk is coming under scrutiny for its not-so-friendly environmental practices: soy milk has been linked to deforestation practices, almond milk is criticized for its abundant water usage, and oat milk for the use of pesticides. Pea milk isn't perfect either. However, Ripple has taken its sustainability seriously. Made from yellow legume peas, this milk is nutrient-rich and resource-conserving. Peas are nitrogen-fixing, meaning they replenish the nitrogen content in the soils as they extract nitrogen from the air. These yellow legumes are also water efficient, GMO-free, and can be used as a transition crop by commodity farmers. In 2016, Ripple Milk came under scrutiny by a journalist at The Guardian. The Guardian discovered that Ripple Milk shipped yellow legumes across the Atlantic from France. Since then, Ripple shifted their sourcing from Europe to Midwest and reduced its overall carbon footprint of transport. In addition, all of their products are made from 100% recyclable PET plastic. Pea-Milk can still do better. But Ripple has proven that it can learn from valid criticisms and that sustainability is a process. It is time the alternative-milk industry follows their lead!
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It's great that they listen to the critics as well and changed their sourcing
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Glad to note they learned from valid criticism for the positive sustainability process. Kudos for their effort to lower carbon footprint.
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E-waste is a major source of pollution and concern. Without integrated solutions for recycling e-waste, we continue to pollute landfills with harmful chemicals and contribute to the extraction of raw rare source materials. Jabil is taking the first steps in setting sustainable goals: rethinking circularity in its production process. "At Jabil, we believe there is a fourth principle to minimizing environmental impact: rethink. It takes a lot of time, money, and dedication to examine the entire product lifecycle and rethink how products should be designed, made, delivered, and reused. But this whole process should be rethought at the beginning to better plan for optimal end-of-life for every piece and component that is included in the product and how they are put together." - Jozsef Kocsis, Senior Business Unit Director, Jabil Environmental Technologies. Great first steps! Looking forward to seeing the solutions in action.
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Thinking of the end before you implement.
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Good step towards not wasting the waste!
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A reoccurring concern in the field of sustainability is the financing of small and medium (SME) enterprises. How do we finance and accelerate the transformation of innovative businesses? One such company offering a solution to this is Urban-X. Urban-X helps start-up companies build breakthrough and scalable solutions to pressing urban issues. With six years of experience, Urban-X has worked with 72 start-ups across nine countries and 32 cities. They have worked with start-ups in the urban sectors of waste, energy, mobility, food, and the environment, to provide the resources and tools necessary for success. With an ambitious aim to cross-pollinate and replicate urban solutions globally, they are well on their way to creating an extensive network of innovators with scalable urban solutions. See more here: http://urban-x.com/article/6-years-of-urban-innovation-heres-what-weve-learned/
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Great solution
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Pitch your climate solutions at COP27 Climate Hub, Climate Dragonfly's Den in front of a jury with representatives from the United Nations and other global climate experts. The winners win a year's proactive partnership with We Don't Have Time worth 12000 EUR. Previous contestants have gotten international attention, leading to everything from partnerships with the UNDP to investment opportunities. It's just three short weeks until COP27 kicks off in Egypt. Register well ahead of the event for our daily live broadcasts from Sharm el-Sheikh. We Don't Have Time will bring you 75 hours of live broadcasting from the diplomatic zone where governments, business leaders, scientists, climate activists, & policy-makers will be coming together over many much-needed climate solutions. Register below: https://wedonthavetime.org/cop27 To bring new climate ideas and solutions to this event, we're hosting a new iteration of Climate Dragonfly's Den, where people with fantastic climate initiatives, startups, or projects can pitch their solutions to a panel of global experts! The Dragonfly's Den will take place from November 8th to November 11th, between 19:00 and 20:30 Eastern European Time, with different pitches each evening. Each pitch will be limited to 5 minutes, alongside a short Q&A with our experts from United Nations and other global climate experts. The top candidates will qualify for a finale on November 16th. It could be you! So, if you want to pitch your climate solution at our Dragonfly's Den, send the following to adam.wallin@wedonthavetime.org: - The name(s) and title(s) of the person/people who will be pitching (Max 2 people) - The name of the project/initiative/company - A short description of what you will be pitching about - A high-resolution image, 16:9 ratio, which will be shown during your pitch and which you can use to support you as you’re speaking If you are lucky, your company, startup or NGO will be selected to pitch in front of millions of viewers. Watch the Climate Dragonsfly's Den at STHLM+50 to see the format and how to deliver a successfull pitch that the jury will love! The winners of the STHLM+50 edition, Terraformation, Plogga and the New Weather Institute, will return to the final on November 16th, along with all participants that qualify from the pitches in the first week of COP27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1834&v=cd_hwsseYkM&feature=emb_title
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Good luck everyone
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The Stockholm +50 pitch was great! Good luck to all participants.
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All the best to the participants
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I could not agree more than with Dr. Johan Rockström's commentary on the urgency of supply chain transformations. Businesses must take concrete actions to protect nature and the climate from tipping points. 1. Companies must adapt their supply chain models to be in line with a net-zero world 2. Companies need to create nature-positive supply chains 3. Carbon credits need to be high-integrity in order to allow businesses to invest in nature and climate solutions For the full commentary see here: https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/comment-how-urgent-action-protect-nature-now-will-shield-us-growing-climate-2022-10-05/
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This really is the crux of the carbon issue, as without supply chains adapting to a net zero commitment, we are really never going to see the changes required in time.
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💡 Renewable energy keeps the lights on 💡 Even during natural disasters. An eco-conscious and 100% solar-powered community in Florida endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power, water, or internet. This is by no accident. The developers prioritized climate resilience by planning for Florida’s severe storms. Through native landscaping, flooding infrastructure, and electric self-sufficiency, this community survived Hurricane Ian with minimal damage. As residents of the community say: “it worked, that this was the vision, this is the reason we moved here”. This is a great example of how nature-based solutions and renewable energy make our communities resilient. https://apple.news/A95arhCwmSx2Gw2D5wYYB3w
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clean energy is the way to go
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Renewable energy is the solution
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Like many of you, I am watching Hurricane Ian make landfall in Florida and in Cuba over the last 36 hours. These strong Category 4 storms spark countless questions about the best climate adaptation strategies. No strategy can address it all. We need different solutions that can cover everything from flooding to electrical outages to supply chains and food security. Rather than resigning to despair, we should use these challenging times as an opportunity to collaborate and strategize. I am a strong believer in nature-based solutions. What other promising climate adaptation initiatives are there? Let me know what you are working on! https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3636010-a-natural-ally-for-climate-resilience-disaster-mitigation/
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Proud to see We Don't Have Time is rapidly climbing the charts of the Global Ratings of Twitter Influencers in Climate Science! From #140 to #15.... and still climbing! https://sustmeme.com/top-500s/climate-energy/
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PARTNER UPDATE. Since its beginnings a decade ago, Aspiration has pioneered the category of Sustainability as a Service for both individuals and businesses. Founded in 2013, the company has earned the trust of its over 7 million members by helping them spend, save, shop and more importantly invest with more sustainable practices in mind. Now, as the newest partner of We Don’t Have Time, they’ll be leveraging their experience, expertise and know-how as a leader in this vital industry to share how their industry-breaking shift can and should be adopted by both businesses and individuals alike. We sat down with their founder, Andrei Cherny, to learn why he decided to create an industry-challenging sustainability company, and to learn how they plan to leverage our social platform to drive change in industries and people worldwide. For those who aren’t familiar with what you do, could you give a brief introduction to what Aspiration does and who you work with? ”Aspiration is the leading Sustainability as a Service platform enabling people and businesses to automate their sustainable impact and integrate it into their daily lives through banking. Founded in 2013, Aspiration has earned the trust of our more than seven million members by helping them spend, save, shop, and invest in both “Do Well” and “Do Good.” In practice, this is manifested in a number of climate-friendly financial offerings for consumers, as well as opportunities for leading brands to achieve their net zero carbon goals through our investments in nature-based carbon offset projects around the world. This includes our proprietary reforestation program to deliver carbon removal at an unprecedented scale, with the goal to plant 1 billion trees by 2030. In addition to the more than seven million consumer members of Aspiration, we partner with organizations including the LA Clippers, Boston Red Sox, Deloitte, Blue Apron, and Lime, among others to help broaden the range of stakeholders who are able to drive sustainability goals in line with our values.” What inspired you to set up Aspiration? ”I've been engaged in the fight against the climate crisis since I was a young aide to then-Vice President Al Gore in the White House twenty-five years ago, as we grappled with what we were then calling "global warming." Seeing the slow state of political changes and even across industries, I realized that Climate change isn’t waiting and the transition to a greener future is not happening fast enough. Change has to happen from the bottom-up. We each have a personal, moral responsibility to do our part. Every day I see how many consumers express deep desires to combat the climate crisis, but who do not have a banking and investment option that supports these sentiments. So, we set out to create the first financial firm with a conscience where everyday people could feel good about how and where they spend and invest their money. We need to speed the largest, fastest shift in behavior in human history and we need more businesses like Aspiration that help everyday people spend and save their money in ways that help, not hurt, the planet.” What internal policies or practices have you put in place to make Aspiration a climate-positive business (i.e. how do you practice what you preach?) ”Money has a powerful impact -- and the decisions you make every day on how to spend and save your dollars can either help fuel or fight the climate crisis. The fossil fuel industry prioritizes short-term profits over long-term sustainability via opaque business practices that leave many of their consumers in the dark. Far too many of these institutions tell their customers that they care, yet still perpetuate business practices that ultimately harm us all in the long run, simply because they can sometimes quickly turn a profit. At Aspiration, we set out to quite literally put our money where our mouth is, setting new standards for the financial services industry by incorporating these sustainability and climate fighting values into actionable steps for the average consumer and creating new possibilities for the industry. Our Aspiration community – the seven million individual members of Aspiration as well as our hundreds of business partners – has funded the planting of 125 million trees in the past year and a half. This is, we believe, the largest private reforestation endeavor in the world. We work with leading reforestation partners around the world, to plant native tree species that restore and protect biodiversity, enhance native ecosystems, and support local communities with good jobs, wages, and health benefits.” What sort of tangible (climate/environmental) positive impacts do customers and businesses gain from working with Aspiration? ”For consumers, Aspiration offers checking and savings accounts, alongside credit cards that all contain sustainability features, including the option to round up every purchase to fund the planting of one tree. In 2021, we debuted our Aspiration Zero credit card, which can entirely offset the average user’s daily carbon footprint with just one swipe per day. With every purchase made, we plant one tree and give the customer the option to round up their purchase and plant another. The card itself is made from recycled materials, not plastic, and allows customers to track their carbon footprint and the impact of their purchases on the environment, unlike any other credit card on the market. On the enterprise front, Aspiration has announced several significant partnerships with major organizations over the past year to help them reach their climate goals in a number of ways. In the sports realm, we have partnered with the Los Angeles Clippers to build the first climate positive arena, and we are partnering with the Boston Red Sox to create the first carbon neutral baseball fan experience. We are supporting Lime and our joint program to support tree planting with every ride, as well as bringing reforestation initiatives to Deloitte. We have also released a co-branded credit card with Blue Apron that includes the same features as the Aspiration Zero credit card. Through partnerships like these, we work with businesses to find ways to reduce their carbon footprints and take climate action in unique ways that reflect their individual values. No business is without its stakeholders, and the beauty of what we do is that we’re not just able to service a climate-conscious community, or enable our own sustainable practices, we’re able to leverage our platform to help our partners do the same!” What are your business goals going forward to see your climate-friendly policies through? ”One of our biggest goals is to plant 1 billion trees by 2030 through our proprietary reforestation program, Plant Your Change. Reforestation has proven to be one of the most cost-effective methods to fight climate change and capture carbon, but it is still underutilized throughout the world. Tree planting offers long-term and low-maintenance solutions in comparison to most other carbon capture technologies. We are working with leading, verified reforestation partners around the world to ensure that our tree planting initiatives restore and protect biodiversity, enhance native ecosystems, and support local communities. Currently, our tree planting operations are located around the world in countries such as Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Honduras, Brazil, and the United States.” People might look at you and think, why are they concerned about climate change more than, say, an energy company - could you explain a little about what role you see Aspiration playing in the climate crisis? ”We set out to build Aspiration with the idea of bringing actionable sustainability solutions to the everyday consumer. Although many Americans understand that climate change is a real issue, few have a grasp on what actions or first steps they could take to reduce their own carbon footprint. Most of the solutions that we commonly think of first, such as electric vehicles or solar panels, are major decisions and expensive investments. Aspiration was founded to change that. By integrating the ability to fight climate change into people’s day to day spending and saving, Aspiration is putting automated climate action directly into the hands of consumers. We are in the midst of a global transformation, one that necessitates the largest, fastest shift in human behavior in history as we move toward sustainability on an individual basis, across every business, and throughout society.” What sort of visibility do you provide to your stakeholders to show the climate-positive impacts they and you are having through Aspiration? ”Aspiration was founded on the idea of bringing actionable sustainability solutions to the everyday consumer. Often, when most Americans think of ways to combat climate change and reduce their carbon footprint, many think about solutions like electric vehicles or solar panels, which are major decisions and expensive investments. By creating a company with positive climate solutions in mind, we are providing an option for any consumer who believes that we are in a climate crisis to use their money to affect change through their everyday purchases and activities. In the face of alarming headlines describing the massive heatwaves, historic droughts, and increasingly intense storms that are caused by climate change, businesses have the responsibility to step up and contribute to this fight. Those who think any organization should not care about climate change are ignoring the reality of the crisis we are currently facing.” You’re attending the Sustainable Investment Forum North America at NYC Climate Week – what are the conversations you want to see discussed there? ”Our Chief Sustainability Officer Olivia Albrecht will be on the ground at Sustainable Investment Forum where we’re looking forward to discussing decarbonization from top to bottom and the case for carbon credits — from the state of the current market and the risks and incredible opportunities in the space, to a vision of what a net zero future could look like at scale.” What motivated you to partner with We Don’t Have Time? ”We always look to work with like-minded organizations that are equally passionate and driven to move the needle on climate change. We Don’t Have Time is such a natural partnership fit for us to join forces and raise awareness about how people and businesses can have a positive impact on climate change.” What excites you most about the platform? ”We Don’t Have Time brings together highly engaged people who genuinely care about making the planet a better place, which is the same core audience for us at Aspiration. We’re excited to be a part of this platform to share ideas, have meaningful conversations about the environment, and share more about our mission.” How are you planning to use your climate dialogue page? ”Aspiration has a steady stream of exciting news and points of view that we’ll be sharing across the climate dialogue page. People can follow along to see the latest on new partnerships, discussions on how consumers can integrate sustainability into their daily lives more easily, or providing an update on our reforestation efforts and tree planting sites.”
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Great to have such an experienced partner in sustainability for this week's event. We can make more change together!
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Looking forward to learning more about Aspiration's mission during this week!
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"Our commitment is to plant 100 million trees in Africa over the next two years" Sweta Chakraborty sat down with Andrei Cherny, CEO of Aspiration at #CGI2022. Learn more about Aspiration's mission and commitments. Watch the interview https://youtu.be/Kbc1QJUbrcw
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"We cannot have a discussion about climate solutions without including women fully at the decision-making table". Daughters for Earth is supporting women-led, and women-operated projects working to protect and restore nature and regenerate the Earth. Watch our interview with Zainab Salbi, Co-Founder of Daughters for Earth at #CGI2022: https://youtu.be/A_0lo9zDmmE
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PARTNER UPDATE. Did you know that a small portion of seaweed in dairy cows’ diets can reduce their methane emissions by more than 80%? And that this can also lead to a higher income for the farmer. Neutral, the first carbon-neutral food company in the United States – and a new partner of We Don’t Have Time – will talk about this and other exciting climate solutions during Climate Week NYC. Neutral, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is on a mission to drastically reduce emissions from meat and dairy farms. The company was founded in 2019, and today its carbon-neutral dairy products can be found in 2,000 stores in 45 states. Having recently raised $ 12 million in its first series A funding, Neutral is now ready to move into the next phase of growth. ”Agriculture is a driver of climate change, but it can also be part of the solution. That’s why we founded Neutral”, says Ann Radil, Head of Carbon Reduction at Neutral. ”Neutral provides carbon-neutral staples found in most households, and we scale adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.” Neutral works with primarily organic, family-owned farms. Each collaboration begins with a detailed and rigorous accounting of all the greenhouse gas emissions embodied in the end product. This life-cycle assessment, LCA, includes everything from what the cows eat and what the cows burp, to transportation, the energy used to power the farm, and what happens to the milk carton at the end of its life cycle. ”What the rigorous LCA tells us is that 72 percent of the footprint of dairy occurs on farm. The biggest opportunities that we see are the solutions that address the largest greenhouse gas emission sources on the farm. Many of those solutions are related to reducing methane, for instance by introducing new ways of handling manure, and changing what cows eat. This year alone we’re investing over a million dollars in projects that will reduce and remove more than 65 000 metric tonnes over their lifetime.” https://youtu.be/oJp9ZOZjTUs To reduce methane emissions, Neutral tries to identify forage modifications that cows will love to eat, like tannin-optimized feed. Lately the company has also started experimenting with seaweed. Research has shown that even a very modest amount of seaweed in the cows’ diet can reduce methane emissions by 82 percent or more. ”The research is really compelling. We’re actively working on a trial now with a seaweed supplement producer and one of our farmers, in partnership with Colorado State, to measure the effects in our supply chains. We think that there is a tremendous opportunity here.” Reducing methane burping may also improve milk production, thereby making the climate solution a good business case. And that’s just one of the economic benefits Neutral has discovered in their partnership with farmers. ”There is a fantastic business case here. In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, these products also yield co-benefits that the producers care about. It improves profitability, it improves soil health and resilience, it increases efficiency, and in some cases brings new revenue streams.” For many of the farmers Neutral are collaborating with, implementing these solutions is also about future-proofing their business models in an increasingly unstable climate. Extreme weather events, like forest fires and long-term droughts, are becoming increasingly common in many parts of the US. ”The farmers we work with are interested in solutions that will increase their resilience, for example soil health and water management. All farmers we work with today are in one way or another impacted by wildfire, which makes them start to rethink how they manage their herds, for instance.” Earlier this year, Neutral partnered with We Don’t Have Time. According to Ann Radil, it’s a perfect match. “You’re such a fantastic organization. We couldn’t be more mission-aligned. As a very nimble start-up, it’s been so important to us to have a very entrepreneurial partner in advocacy as well. Just the fact you gave us the ability to present a panel for South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. That was a huge opportunity for us to get together and highlight to a passionate audience what solutions are available and working. You need to have an entrepreneurial mindset to pursue some of these far-reaching opportunities to do this kind of storytelling, and we’ve found that to be the case with your group. We also love that you have a global audience. We’re going to look into various ways to engage with them.” On September 20, Ann Radil and Neutral’s CEO Marcus Lovell Smith will join the We Don’t Have Time broadcast The Road to COP27, a full-day live broadcast that is part of this year’s Climate Week NYC. ”We are really looking forward to networking with our partners and connecting with other leaders in this space, to share what we have learned, and to learn from others”, says Ann Radil. ”We’re also excited to wrap up some work we’ve been doing with food and agriculture working groups, which have been looking at how we collectively co-develop carbon accounting best practices that will incentivize the creating of insets versus offsets. We want companies to be incentivized to take responsibility for their own supply-chain emissions reduction. We’re not going to offset our way out of this problem.” By MARKUS LUTTEMAN
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Awesome approach in becoming part of the solution
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Thankyou for implementing best solutions. Looking forward to hear more from you on 20th. All the best to your endeavours of making our planet better!
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Thank you everyone for tuning in to our #ClimateWeekNYC broadcast today. 10 million viewers and counting. Did you miss it? Watch the replay on https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/the-road-to-cop27
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Amazing!
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This past Monday, the nonprofit think tank Carbon Tracker and the Global Energy Monitor launched the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels. This registry is a public use database that tracks the world’s fossil fuel reserves, production, and emissions, and includes data from over 50,000 oil, gas, and coal fields in 89 countries. This information encompasses three-quarter of the world’s fossil fuels, and is the first database of its kind. Prior to the launch of the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, much of this data was only available privately for purchase. This database is a huge step towards transparency and accessibility for the fight against climate change. The database allows a user to view snapshots of any country’s fossil fuel production, usage, and reserves. Other information includes the warming potential of that country, range of certainty, historical trends, as well as possibilities for the future based on various scenarios. Each country also has a ranked list of which fossil fuel extraction projects produce the most emissions, so that users can stay informed about what projects are having the most adverse effects on the environment. The registry provides a great deal of relevant information, and has the potential to change the way people view fossil fuels and their role in climate change. There are many possible uses for this database. For one, it could be used to visualize different warming scenarios as well as the impacts of not reducing emissions all across the world. It could also be used to hold governments accountable for their promises about fossil fuels. Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, discussed the database in a press briefing, stating that the UNEP will use the tool to their full advantage. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is a massive leap forwards for accessibility to critical climate information, and it will be very exciting to see what initiatives the database will be used for, as well as how the site continues to evolve and grow. Find the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels here: https://fossilfuelregistry.org/ Story first reported by the AP: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-russia-ukraine-science-climate-and-environment-caf483a62b314ad5842f2d3e70badd73
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This is such a great and important initiative! 💚
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According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), approximately 150 million households around the globe are engaged in milk production, and 6 billion people consume milk and milk products. Milk production and consumption can be essential for some people's economic livelihoods, culture, and diet. Even with the dairy industry's significant climate emissions, dairy products remain a fixture in people's lives. Bridging the gap between milk's climate emissions and incentivizing immediate change within people's lifestyle choices can be a difficult conversation to start. However, Neutral offers a climate solution for dairy lovers and environmentalists alike. Neutral is the first carbon-neutral milk. You're probably asking yourself, how does Neutral separate itself from the rest of the herd? (Thank you for bearing with me on my dad-level cow pun). Neutral is different from others in the dairy industry because Neutral is mindful of its carbon footprint. Neutral examines the holistic lifecycle of dairy - from how farmers in the fields feed cows, how the dairy got to be in your fridge, and how the dairy cartons will be disposed of when you're done with it. The obsessive measurement of climate impacts on dairy farms enables Neutral to make climate-friendly adjustments to the dairy product supply chain. For example, the manure from cows on Neutral farms is transformed into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion. Neutral also works to finance and guide farmers to make climate-friendly changes in their operations. To ensure that every project is 100% carbon neutral, Neutral also uses verified carbon offsets from the Carbon Action Reserve. Verified carbon offsets eliminate the risk of invalid creation or double counting of Climate Reserve Tons, while providing transparency and accountability. Some environmentalists are switching to other milk alternatives like almond milk or oat milk; however, these are not without their faults. Milk alternatives also can cause havoc to the environment through deforestation or using large amounts of water to grow plant-based milk. Almond or oat milk brands are not taking steps to be carbon neutral, whereas Neutral has received its Carbon Neutral Certificate from SCS Global. What do you think about the dairy industry? How can it be improved? Is it able to be even greener? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments 👇📝👨💻
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I appreciate Neutral's ideas and work on reducing the carbon footprint of meat and dairy, but perhaps we need to do more than that. https://vengeio.online
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I don't know... I find it hard to justify ethically. Why not spare animals' lives if you can? Almond can be pretty destructive but oat, hemp and peas-based milk are good alternatives.
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I understand where you are coming from but we are not living in a perfect world. No matter what we do, there will always be people who will wanna eat meat and drink dairy. So personally, I think it’s good that Neutral is doing what they can to minimize the carbon footprint of meat and dairy.
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We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leverage the power of technology to address the climate crisis and build a clean economy. This is why GreenBiz is hosting VERGE 22— the leading climate tech event, bringing together thousands of leaders — from business, government, solution providers and startups — working together to address the climate crisis. VERGE 22 focuses on six strategic areas: - Clean energy - Sustainable transportation - Carbon removal - Regenerative food systems - Net-zero buildings - Startup ecosystems In San Jose, CA., climate tech visionaries, policymakers, startups, and business leaders will convene to share solutions and build relationships. As VERGE 22 focuses on solutions that reduce our environmental impact, we have taken steps to reduce the event's carbon footprint. With the world's biggest temporary renewable microgrid, constructed by GreenBiz to sustainably power VERGE 22, climate discussions will be elevated to a new level. However, we acknowledge that there are climate challenges for an event of this scale. Participants' travel alone is expected to create large emissions, but we believe that the value of face-to-face meetings to discuss and streamline climate solutions can not be overstated. What topics are you most interested in and excited to learn about? Learn more and register for VERGE 22 here: https://events.greenbiz.com/events/verge/2022?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=we-dont-have-time&utm_campaign=v22&utm_content=--partner-promo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqXriNv0-k
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This was great!
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Excited about the tech event looking forward to learn a lot from it
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I'm excited to learn about regenerative food systems!
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Dear Sweta Chakraborty Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Symone Sanders-Townsend and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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The media is an important medium of educating the masses on issues of climate change.. other media houses should borrow a leaf... Congratulations to @Sweta for the good job you are doing
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