Environmental Library

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Our collection is divided into five sections: Climate Change, Southern California, In the Biosphere, Solutions and Advances, and Environmental Activism. Articles are from a wide range of reputable sources, including the New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian. They are arranged chronologically, with the newest on top.

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• 1/27/22: "Environmental education is falling short. Activism can help"

• 11/15/21: "California Community Colleges deserve more support" CalMatters

• 5/6/22: SEI article in Academically Speaking, DAS

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(older articles are archived here)

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Climate Change ​​​​ 

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• 9/15/22: "European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy" NYT

• Sept. 11, 2022, NYT Opinion, Ezra Klein, “All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live”

• 9/11/22: "The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World" CNET

• 9/9/22: Brookings, "The SDGs will need action, bonding, and ritual: Lessons from collective intelligence"

• 9/10/22: "New Study More Than Triples Estimated Costs of Climate Change Damages" Naked Capitalism

• 9/6/22: "A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought" WaPo

• 9/5/22: "Dangerous Mountain Valley Pipeline Has No Place in Manchin’s Deal With Democrats" Truthout

• 8/22/22: "Whether you’re a climate ‘doomer’ or ‘appeaser’, it’s best to prepare for the worst" Guardian

• 8/22/22: NYT, "Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here’s How."

• 8/24/22: "Report of an ancient methane release raises questions for our climate future" WaPo

• 8/10/22: "A victory at whose expense? Climate activists grapple with political compromise." WaPo

• 8/4/22: "These Communities Are Trapped in Harm’s Way as Climate Disasters Mount" Mother Jones

• 7/26/22: Guardian: "“We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction”- Youth activists involved in End Fossil: Occupy!"

• 7/15/22: NYT: "The Worst Place in the World to Drill for Oil Is Up for Auction"

• 7/14/22: "70,000 Acres of Federal Land Were Just Handed to the Fossil Fuel Sector" Truthout

• 6/27/22: "Project Drawdown updates world’s leading set of climate solutions—adding 11 new solutions for addressing the climate crisis"

• 6/24/22: "Stretching of the continents caused extreme global warming"

• 6/13/22: "Scientists discover RNA viruses may shape ocean carbon capture" Axios

• 6/7/22: "Carbon dioxide in atmosphere reaches highest levels in millions of years, NOAA warns"

• 6/7/22: "World Has 42% Chance of Breaching 1.5 Degrees if Emissions Stopped Today, New Study Finds"

• 6/1/22: "We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist"

• 5/17/22: "Study Warns Many Fossil Fuel Sites Must Be Shut Down to Avert Climate Disaster" Truthout

• 5/13/22: "Climate Activist Peter Kalmus Calls for a Global Earth Rebellion"

• 5/8/22: "Utilities push back against growth of rooftop solar panels" NBC

• 4/26/22: Group Sues White House Over Oil & Gas Report That Didn't Mention Climate Change, GIZMODO

• 4/23/22: "Protesters Amass at White House, Demanding Action on Climate" NYT

• 4/16/22: “To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough” WaPo

• 4/6/22: "The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead" Atlantic

• 4/6/22: "ExxonMobil announces $10 billion oil investment the same day IPCC signals end for fossil fuels"

• 4/5/22: "IPCC Report Is a Prescription for Fixing the Climate Crisis—'It's Now or Never'"

• 4/5/22: "5 Takeaways From the U.N. Report on Limiting Global Warming" NYT

• 4/4/22: NYT "Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns"

• 3/24/22: "Methane Leaks in New Mexico Far Exceed Current Estimates, Study Suggests" NYT

• 3/23/22: "International Energy Agency Issues 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use" Treehugger

• 3/20/22: "After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever"

• 3/18/22: "It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted" WaPo

• 3/1/22: "These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike" NYT

• 2/28/22: NYT: "Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns"

• 2/28/22: "Urgent Action Needed on Climate Change Before Nature Is Unable to Adapt, New UN Report Warns" EcoWatch

• 2/28/22: "Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change" NYT

• 2/28/22: "ALEC Is Driving Laws to Blacklist Companies That Boycott the Oil Industry" the Nation

• 2/28/22: Truthout: "Irreversible Impacts on the Climate Are Getting Locked In, IPCC Warns"

• 2/23/22: "A Serious Climate Scenario" Medium (data)

• 2/12/22: "Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France"

• 2/23/22: “How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom” WaPo

• 2/18/22: "Energy-Hungry Bitcoin is Bringing Old Fossil Fuel Plants Back on Line"

• 2/16/22: "World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds" Guardian

• 2/15/22: "California Returns as Climate Leader, With Help From the White House" NYT

• 2/14/22: "The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud"  MIT

• 2/13/22: "Most Mega-Corporations’ Net-Zero Pledges Are Hollow, Report Finds" Truthout

• 2/13/22: "Trump-Appointed Judge Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s Climate Efforts" Mother Jones

• 2/10/22: "Scientists fear soaring methane levels show climate feedback loop has arrived" NOC

• 2/9/22: "EXCLUSIVE New York pension fund to divest half its shale companies"  Reuters

• 2/9/22: "Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap" Atlantic

• 2/3/22: "More than two dozen major lawsuits are putting a price tag on the climate damage caused by fossil fuel companies" NoC

• 2/1/22: "NYT: "Meet the People Who Are Getting Paid to Kill the Planet" (15 minute video)

• 1/31/22: "Western Nations Are Climate Hypocrites, Emitting More Carbon in a Week Than Many Countries Do in a Year"

• 1/27/22: "Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands" WaPo

• 1/24/22: "Aerial surveys detect dozens of methane 'super-emitters' in Permian"

• 1/24/22: "400 Canadian Scientists and Academics Oppose Carbon Capture Tax Credits" Treehugger

• 1/21/22: "Tracking Biden’s environmental actions" WaPo

• 1/20/22: "‘Stuck in perilous moment’: Doomsday Clock holds at 100 seconds to midnight" Guardian

• 1/10/22: "U.S. emissions surged in 2021, putting the nation further off track from its climate targets" WaPo

• 1/10/22: "The last 7 years have been the warmest on record as planet approaches critical threshold" CNN

• 1/9/22: "Biden faces delays in undoing Trump’s war on efficient dishwashers, dryers and lightbulbs that made him ‘look orange’"

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Los Angeles and Southern California​​​​
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• 9/15/22: "Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill To Fund Free Transit For California Students" LAist

• 9/9/22: "Facing criticism, state amps up its climate change blueprint" CalMatters

• 8/28/22: "Mojave Desert tribes aim to turn a sacred mountain into a national monument" LAT

• 8/12/22: "The Coming California Megastorm" NYT 

• 8/12/22 "If not by drought then by megaflood: Climate change may have doubled risk of disastrous flooding in California"

• 8/4/22: "History of DDT ocean dumping off L.A. coast even worse than expected, EPA finds" LAT

• 7/27/22: "Delta tunnel: Salmon at risk from massive water project, state report says" CalMatters

• 7/14/22: LAT, "Environmental groups allege L.A. River Master Plan was approved without proper review"

• 7/1/22: EdSource: Local organizations bring STEM programs to Los Angeles Unified: The L.A. STEM Collective includes museums, aquariums and more from across Los Angeles County."

• 6/22/22: "Heal the Bay Releases Annual Beach Report Card & River Report Card 2022"

• 6/24/22: "California’s largest reservoirs at critically low levels – signaling a dry summer ahead"

• 6/15/22: "Is recycled wastewater the answer to California’s drought?"

• 6/3/22: "State officials draw fire after approving new oil wells in L.A. neighborhood" LAT

• 5/23/22: "Activists and residents slam Sacramento for gutting a bill to shut SoCalGas in Aliso Canyon"

• 5/20/22: "California’s New Climate Plan" (Medium)

• 5/14/22: "THE COLORADO RIVER IS IN CRISIS, AND IT’S GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY"

• 5/13/22: "California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren't fading away yet" NPR

• 5/11/22: "California braces for extreme summer drought after dismal wet season" WaPo

• 5/7/22: "The two largest reservoirs in California are already at 'critically low levels' and the dry season is just starting" CNN

• 5/5/22: "Caltech breaks ground on sustainability research center"

• 4/31/22: "California lawmakers want to build more clean energy — and faster" LAT

• 4/20/22: "State faces heavy lifting to become carbon neutral, but it can be done" CalMatters

• 4/19/22: "Angelenos are alarmed by air pollution and extreme heat. Poll finds they want action" LAT

• 3/23/22: "The deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater" NatGeo

• 2/17/22: "‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires"

• 2/14/22: "How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study Finds." NYT

• 2/1/22: LAT: "Could the L.A. River dry up? Fears grow as cities work to recycle more wastewater"

• 1/31/22: "Biden administration to give states $1.15 billion to plug orphaned wells" WaPo

• 1/12/22: "LA Has Ignored Its Urban Forest. Who Will Pay The Price For This Negligence?"

• 1/10/22: "Funding for schools, community colleges to break $100 billion in Gov. Newsom’s proposed budget" EdSource

• 1/5/22: "California’s Forever Fire" ProPublica

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In the Biosphere

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• 9/10/22: "U.S. declares disaster for tribal salmon fisheries on the West Coast" WaPo

• 9/2/22: "Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic"

• 8/30/22: "A failure of enforcement Deforesters are plundering the Amazon. Brazil is letting them get away with it." WaPo

• 8/23/22: WaPo "As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction"

• 8/3/22: "Global Forest Area Declined by 60% Since 1960, Study Finds" Ecowatch

• 7/15/22: "Scientists rush to save 1,000-year-old trees on the brink of death" the bristlecone pines of the White Mountains

• 6/2/22: "Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon’s destruction" AP

• 6/1/22: "‘Consequences will be dire’: Chile’s water crisis is reaching breaking point" Guardian

• 5/13/22: "Invasive Insects Will Kill 1.4 Million Urban Trees by 2050"

• 5/5/22: "Amazon Syndrome"

• 5/3/22: "Condors soar again over Northern California coastal redwoods"

• 4/28/22: "Deforestation Remains High, Despite International Pledges" NYT

• 4/27/22: From King Cobras to Geckos, 20 Percent of Reptiles Risk Extinction, NYT

• 4/28/22: NYT Warning on Mass Extinction of Sea Life: ‘An Oh My God Moment’

• 3/25/22: "‘Can’t Cope’: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Suffers 6th Mass Bleaching Event" NYT

• 3/7/22: "Amazon Is Less Able to Recover From Droughts and Logging, Study Finds" NYT

• 2/3/22: "Who Is Responsible for the 27-Mile Oil Spill in Peru?" NYT

• 7/5/19: In France, ancient forests are resurging — growing bigger every year

• 4/7/22: "Right-wing Supreme Court justices ‘just further poisoned your water’"

• 2/15/22: "Can the Vaquita, the World’s Smallest Marine Mammal, Be Saved From Extinction?"

• 2/16/22: "There are fewer than 10 tiny vaquita porpoises left. Can they be saved?" Guardian

• 2/16/22: "Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest"

• 2/11/22: "Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes an Unprecedented $1.1 Billion for Everglades Revitalization"

• 2/9/22: "Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation"

• 2/8/222: "Ancient trees form bloodlines that bolster forests for thousands of years"

• 2/7/22: "How overfishing threatens the world's oceans—and why it could end in catastrophe" NatGeo

• 1/28/22: "Monarch Butterfly Numbers Soar in California After Dramatic Losses" Smithsonian

• 1/20/22: How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction" Bloomberg

• 1/13/22: "Scientists Search for 10 Elusive Bird Species That Have Been Lost for Years" 

• 12/2/22: Forest fight: Germany invented “scientific” forestry. But a huge dieback triggered by climate change has ignited a fierce debate over how the nation should manage its trees" SCIENCE​​

 

 

Solutions and Promising Advances​​
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• 8/24/22: "B Corp Cultivates Future Environmentalists and Helps Companies Diversify Their Workforces"

• 7/13/22: "Service and conservation programs can lead to infrastructure careers" Brookings

• 5/30/22: "The Japanese carbon capture method is 99 percent efficient and twice as fast"

• 5/23/22: "Electric Cars and Lithium Extraction Threaten to Drive Even More Climate Harm"

• 2/8/22: "Why is permaculture gardening so popular?" INHabitat

• 12/12/21: "The Problems with the pro-nuclear left (CounterPunch)

• 12/8/21: "Nuclear Fusion: Why the Race to Harness the Power of the Sun Just Sped Up"

• 12/3/21: "Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)" NYT

• 10/28/21: "Chomsky and Pollin: COP26 Pledges Will Fail Unless Pushed by Mass Organizing" Truthout

• 10/22/21: "This Sleek Wind Turbine Wall Lets You Harness Enough Energy to Power Your Home"

• 10/21/21: "Global Concrete Industry Releases Road Map to Net-Zero Carbon"

• 10/11/21: "Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade Promises to End Wind Power Waste"

• 10/6/21: "Biden Administration to Restore Climate Criteria to Landmark Environmental Law"

• 10/7/21: "'Historic moment': Why the WHO endorsed the first malaria vaccine" Nat Geo

• 9/6/21: "‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers" Guardian

• 9/8/21": "Biden officials trumpet how solar can provide nearly half of the nation’s electricity by 2050" WaPo

• 9/8/21: "From 4% to 45%: Energy Department Lays Out Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Power" NYT

• 8/30/21: "Breaking ammonia: A new catalyst to generate hydrogen from ammonia at low temperatures by Tokyo Institute of Technology"

• 8/30/21: "Can the Soil Really Save Us? This Company Intends to Find Out"

• 8/29/21: "Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power" Guardian

• 8/22/21: "Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way" Guardian

• 8/21/21: "Experts are terrible at predicting the falling cost of clean energy

• 8/18/21: "Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow global warming" New Scientist

• 8/12/21: 'Biochar Study Highlights Efficacy in Global Drawdown"

• 8/10/21:"Hundreds of U.S. cities adopted climate plans. Few have met the goals, but it's not too late" USA Today

• 7/27/21: "Employment in the energy sector will dramatically expand as economies decarbonize"

• 7/21/21: "California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it" LAT

• 7/14/21: "Farmers hatch plan to return area the size of Dorset to wild nature" Guardian

• 6/29/21: "I Wrote About This Environmental Injustice Decades Ago. It Hasn’t Changed" Robert Bullard NYT

• 7/11/21: "More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future" NYT

• 6/22/21: "Legal experts worldwide draw up ‘historic’ definition of ecocide"

• 6/17/21: "Renewables Are the Cornerstone of Decarbonization, Report Says"

• 6/14/21: "The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining"

• 6/10/21: "Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy" LAT

• 6/8/21: "To Combat Climate Change, Researchers Want to Pull Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean and Turn It Into Rock"

• 5/28/21: "Where Wind and Solar Power Need to Grow for America to Meet Its Goals" NYT

• 4/22/21: "The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements — here’s what organizers can do about it"

• 4/6/21: "The United States Department of Sustainability: Its Purpose and Moral Underpinnings"

• 3/29/21: "Wind and solar power generated a tenth of the world's electricity in 2020"

• 3/15/21: "Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment: By Margaret Renkl, NYT

• 2/26/21: "This EPA mapping tool could reshape environmental justice"

• 2/21: "Kenyan woman’s startup recycles plastic into bricks that are stronger than concrete"

• 2/1/21: "Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020"

• 1/28/21: "New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy"

• 11/3/20:"A Greenland Shark Living Today Could Have Been Alive in 1620"

• 11/24/20: WaPo, "An ancient people with a modern climate plan"

• The Drawdown Project: Climate Solutions (PDF report)

• Is BlackRock Announcement "Beginning of the End for Fossil-fuel System?" 1/21/20

• Indigenous Blockades Don’t Just Decry Destruction — They Affirm Life

• The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work 9/29/19

• The winning conservative climate solution 1/16/20 WaPo

• The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say 2/13/20 WaPo

• Georgetown University Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment

• Stiglitz on capitalism and climate: Fighting the climate crisis need not mean halting economic growth 12/9/20

• 3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy

• Towards a circular economy, Piketty

• 4 fastest growing green jobs pay up to 90K a year​

• What Wall St. wants- A way to price carbon

• The climate solution Democrats aren’t talking about 9/12/19

• How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)

• Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem 8/21/19

• Agroecology as Innovation 8/7/19

• Could Renewable Natural Gas Be the Next Big Thing in Green Energy? 7/25/19

• Massive Tree planting and climate reversal WEF 7/8/19

• Tree Planting and Climate Crisis GUA 7/4/2019

• The trouble with tree planting as a climate solution 7/5/19

• NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air 8/4/19

• Electric food of the future (10/18 Guardian)

• UN revises population projections downward 6/24/2019

• Forget Overpopulation. The World could soon face a population bust (LAT, 5/13/19)

• The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen WEF 5/7/2019

• LA is on the verge of becoming 100% renewable! CityWatch 6/13/2016

• The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYT 5/13/19)

• Kenya court votes down a coal fired power plant (6/29/19.350.org)

 

 

Environmental Activism:​​​
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• 10/6/21: "‘Eco-anxiety’: fear of environmental doom weighs on young people"

• 10/8/21: "Biden becomes first president to issue proclamation marking Indigenous Peoples' Day"

• 9/24/21: "Young global climate strikers vow change is coming – from the streets" Guardian

• 9/18/21: "The toll of environmental racism" Axios

• 9/8/21: "California Recall Vote Could Weaken the State’s Aggressive Climate Policies" NYT

• 8/11/21: "Why we shouldn’t give in to climate despair" WaPo

• 7/23/21: "How to Calm Your Climate Anxiety" NYT

• 5/13/21: "Why I Am Not a Climate Doomist" Patrick Mazza

• 4/22/21: "10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How it Works"

• 2/27/21:"Climatologist Michael E Mann: 'Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes'"

• 12/14/20: Greta Thunberg: 5 Years After Paris Agreement, World Is “Speeding in the Wrong Direction” on Climate

• 8/25/20 "Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite"

• Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

• 6/20. "Why Every Environmentalist Should Be Anti-Racist"

• The Environmental Burden of Generation Z 2/23/20

• Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science is Better Science

• Six Books to Read on Climate Crisis

• TED talk: Why I became a climate activist—and why you should too

• Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster 9/13/19

• 6 Environmentalists Inspiring Climate Action RSN 7/17/19

• Greta Thunberg and OPEC GUA 7/5/2019

• It's Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change MED 6/3/2019

• Sierra Club activists challenge LADWP on gas fired power plants

• Climate Despair ​VICE 7/11/2019

• How the Mental Health Community Is Bracing for the Impact of Climate Change 5/16/19

• Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask to what do we devote ourselves? TRTH 5/6/2019

• To stop global catastrophe we must believe in humans again, McKibben GUA 4/23/2019

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