California is responding to the year’s historic wildfires and heat waves with ambitious goals to phase out gas-powered cars and protect 30 percent of our land and coastal water by 2030. . ….

We get it—against the outsized backdrop of climate change, maybe it can be tough to remember that tiny actions like bringing reusable bags to the grocery store or opting for paper straws can really make much of a difference. ….

My heartfelt appreciation goes to David King and Rick Parnell for their Sept. 20 Outlook essay, “Saving the planet would be cheaper than battling covid,” regarding climate restoration. In particular, what resonates is the call to expand our thinking and commit to outcomes we want for our world…..

Having Failed on All Climate Goals, Humanity Still Can Make the Turn to Sustainability…

During more than a century of industrial development, we have released billions of tons of CO₂ into our atmosphere. How to remove them? The global forum on Climate Restoration promotes the use of technologies to achieve this in a commercially viable way….

Promising interventions exist, and it wouldn’t be all that expensive to deploy them.
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Almost daily we are exposed to images of disastrous droughts, hurricanes and deadly wildfires (including those caused by things like gender-reveal parties!). We’re presented with dizzying facts and figures about “climate crisis,” greenhouse emissions, and the importance of holding global warming at 1.5 degrees….

A scientist-turned-businessman believes he can make a profit by harvesting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turning it into synthetic limestone….

Perhaps you’re environmentally conscious at home, composting food scraps like a pro and saving water with a low-flow shower head. If that sounds at all like you, you’re probably ready to take your environmental stewardship to the next level by helping your neighborhood become more green….

With raging wildfires, plastic piling up in our oceans, and icebergs rapidly melting, there’s officially no getting around the fact that our planet needs our help….

THESE EARTH DAY TIPS FROM SUSTAINABILITY PROS WILL HELP YOU HELP THE PLANET.

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Officials with the Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU had a busy time at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month….

Proposed legislation in New York attacks a leading source of emissions that rarely gets noticed…..

Two months after a multitude of environmental activists implored Silicon Valley’s mass transit agency to address the global crisis, the VTA board of directors voted unanimously to declare a climate emergency — a resolution whose chief architect says will “force the board to be more mindful” of the environmental impacts of its actions…

A range of technologies — loosely defined as ‘geoengineering’ — are being explored as responses to climate change. Yet their effectiveness, and whether they should be implemented at all, is debated among scientists…

Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management has released a report projecting multitrillion-dollar opportunities and benefits they say could accrue from climate restoration efforts…

Los Angeles, United States – Gary Gero is the chief sustainability officer for Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the entire United States. Home to more people than 41 of the 50 states in the US, the area has a metropolitan economy that is the third-biggest in the world..

Davos, Switzerland – The Thunderbird School of Global Management released a new report today projecting that the world can realize at least $1trillion – $3trillion dollars in market opportunities and $3trillion – $5trillion dollars in broader economic, social and environmental benefits per year by 2030…

Imagine 2,000 elephants running into the ocean.

The Greenland ice sheet loses that much water in weight every second, according to Dartmouth climatologist Erich Obsterberg. It equals about 250 billion tons per year. Arctic sea ice as a whole has gone from 7 million square miles in 1979 to a little over 4 million in 2019. Meanwhile, Antarctica is wasting away at six times the rate it was 40 years ago..

Rick Parnell issues the following statement on the UK Parliamentary debate on restoring nature on a massive scale to prevent climate breakdown.

“More than 100,000 UK citizens took it upon themselves to petition their government to address the current climate emergency and become a world leader in natural climate solutions. In response, the UK Parliament today engaged in a formal parliamentary debate on measures to remove millions of tons of excess CO2 from the atmosphere……

Almost daily we are exposed to images of disastrous droughts, hurricanes and wildfires. We’re presented with dizzying facts and figures about “climate crisis,” greenhouse emissions, and the importance of holding global warming at 1.5 degrees…….

On Tuesday, September 17, several international organizations gathered at the United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber in New York for an event called the Global Climate Restoration Forum. Spearheading the event, and the idea behind it, was CCL volunteer Peter Fiekowsky……

Limiting temperature rises to 2°C above pre-industrial norms would still leave atmospheric carbon dioxide at well over 450 parts per million (ppm) (“What goes up”, September 21st). We evolved, and until less than a century ago, lived, on a 300ppm planet. We need to return the Earth’s climate to its pre-industrial state, without doing the same to our economy.…

The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR)’s CEO Rick Parnell joins us from the United Nations to tell us about their First Annual Global Climate Restoration Forum…

The recognition of the urgency of the climate crisis has stepped up a gear in the last few years, but with one depressing report on the global issue after another, you can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and wondering what can actually be done? …..

Life Lessons: Architects turn to biology for solutions to all that ails us. …

Climate restoration seeks to return the Earth’s climate within one or two generations to its condition before the start of the Industrial Revolution,” Archbishop Bernardito Auza, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, explained at a recent forum. The prelate added, “Increasingly bringing into the climate debate authentic love and care for the environment could inspire and persuade many more people, especially climate doubters, than visions of apocalyptic catastrophes would..

Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments. A group of researchers have found that millions of these spheres spread in a layer across swaths of Arctic ice reflects sunlight and helps keep the ice frozen.…

It’s NICOLE SANDLER, filling in again for Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen on the BradCast. The news about Brad’s dad isn’t good, so he’s with his family, doing what he needs to be doing. We’re holding down the fort until they can return. …

U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will find four parallel universes this week on the East Side of New York, where the U.N. General Assembly is kicking off in earnest. In the first universe, most countries will be blasting the U.S. for its diplomatic isolation on climate change. (More on that later.) …

Foundation for Climate Restoration CEO Rick Parnell tells Cheddar what it takes to create a healthier climate by 2050.
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Why are we doing this? The United Nations General Assembly, from the depths of the Cold War to today, is simply the world’s biggest diplomatic platform. Each year, representatives of nearly 200 countries gather in New York to press their agendas, network and gossip…..

Perhaps more than anyone else, young LGBTQ+ people know what it’s like to feel alone in the world — and how life-changing it is when they finally find their community.
For climate change activist Katie Eder, a 19-year-old lesbian from Milwaukee, this search for connection has defined her worldview and her work. …

As a growing number of companies sign up to close their doors in support of the Global Climate Strike this Friday, many of us are feeling more ready than ever to talk about and take action around an issue that is indeed keeping us up at night: climate change….

Good morning, early birds. Iran has confirmed that it is holding three Australians for spying within the country, and the ACCC seeks another inquiry into unfair conduct by the banks. It’s the news you need to know, with Rachel Withers…..

Nowhere in the Paris Agreement do the words “climate restoration” appear. “Mitigation” shows up 23 times in the landmark 2016 accord to slow global warming. The idea of rehabilitating the atmosphere to its pre-industrial state isn’t even mentioned. Publicly, the signatories’ stance is to avert the worst of climate change while adapting to the destructive warming now locked into the climate system.…

The Amazon is burning and so is Siberia, so it’s no wonder teenagers who deeply read the news can conclude that their future will be misery and mass death. But no more doom and gloom! The deeper truth is that we can give the future generations a healthy and safe climate….

n an effort to rally the international community around restoring a healthy climate by 2050 to ensure the survival of humanity, the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) and its partners are holding the First Annual Global Climate Restoration Forum on September 17, 2019 at the United Nations. With acceptance of the necessity of more ambitious climate mitigation and adaptation efforts and how carbon removal strategies play a role in battling the climate crisis, the event will showcase existing technologies and recent findings related to Climate Restoration methods, such as carbon negative building materials and large-scale reforestation.

In September 2019 – representatives from government, civil society, and the corporate sector will come together at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City to discuss important global challenges, from hunger and poverty to climate change and natural disasters. ….

Rick Parnell on Climate Restoration…

The Foundation for Climate Restoration has released a 10-year manifesto for its goal to “restore” by 2050 the climate by reducing atmospheric CO2 levels to those of a century ago using technologies that suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.…

There’s no easy way to say this: We’re not doing enough to address climate change.

Even leading global plans to slow the pace of our rapidly changing planet are dire: approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, loss of the Greenland ice sheet, death of 80 percent of the world’s coral reefs and an atmosphere that’s 450 parts per million carbon dioxide. Scientists and policymakers have painted a bleak picture of the future: a vision of widespread destruction that has left a lot of people feeling utterly hopeless, instead of inspired to implement sweeping, international reforms while we still can.…

A new effort to rally governments and corporations behind technologies that suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to help stave off disastrous global heating will be launched at the United Nations on Tuesday.…

UNITED NATIONS — Climate change is upending ecosystems, threatening to push more than 100 million people below the poverty threshold by 2050. But what if climate change — and nearly all of its impacts — were reversible?…

Some experts who study climate change – and even many activists who advocate a significant humanitarian response to global warming – may be too pessimistic to envision an ecological return to equilibrium

You might not have heard it put in these terms, but we humans are on the verge of polluting ourselves out of existence. To learn why, take time on September 17 to watch the Global Climate Restoration Forum, which precedes the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Action Week in New York. ….

Meet Dr. Paul Zeitz, an organizer of the UN Global Climate Restoration Forum this week in New York. A veteran of the AIDS crisis, during which he led the Global AIDS Alliance, he has joined the Healthy Climate Alliance to drive awareness and adoption of carbon removal technologies that can create a new trillion-dollar industry. He sees the rising incidence of extreme weather bringing people together to find a solution and recently published a hopeful and helpful memoir, Waging Justice: A Doctor’s Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold. ….

“We’re mad,” says 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor. “We’re really mad.”
Fair enough. Along with the rest of her generation, Villaseñor is expected to face the brunt of human-caused climate change this century. It’s like her parents burned a box of pizza rolls and left her to clean up the mess — except instead of nuclearly hot tomato paste, the object of abuse is what remains of life on Earth….

In 1850, when Standard Oil was but a twinkle in the eye of John Rockefeller, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere was 285 parts per million. Today, CO2, the main climate-polluting gas, has jumped to 415 ppm. You know how we got here: extraction, combustion, emission — repeat. And scores of government agencies, international consortia, and environmental groups — along with a gaggle of presidential candidates — say they know how to get us out….

The Foundation For Climate Restoration works to “restore a safe & healthy climate like we had 100 years ago. Our mission is to catalyze action to build full capacity by 2030 to restore the climate by 2050.” Ambitious? You betcha. Necessary? Absolutely. The F4CR focused on realistic programs that are economically viable. In partnership with local governments, NGOs, and communities…

In the early hours of a November dawn, Dr. Leslie Field found herself motoring a snowmobile some 300 miles above the Arctic Circle, hauling straight toward the sunrise in below-zero temperatures. She was nursing a cold, and had expected to have a hard time with this trip from her home in California to one of the coldest and farthest corners in the country, during winter — when there are only 2.5 hours of sunlight per day….

Eduardo Brondizio’s observation – “We have been displacing our impact around the planet from frontier to frontier. But we are running out of frontiers” – is crucial. This frontier-based structure of thought, in which there is always a beyond, an outside, a domain of otherness, underpins the dichotomies of class and hence of economics (capital and labour); of race, religion…

So we need to have a little talk about concrete.
We take it for granted, but concrete is the foundation (no pun intended) of countless buildings, homes, bridges, skyscrapers, millions of miles of highways, and some of the most impressive feats of civil engineering the world has ever known. It’s the most widely-used human-made substance on the planet…..

Each year, when his children were young, Peter Fiekowsky took them to Yosemite for the 4th of July. Fiekowsky: “The high country was closed usually at the beginning of our vacation because there was still snow on the road. And that was in the early 90s. And by the mid-2000’s, the snow was gone long before vacation.” Such rapid change…

As a part of my series about “Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years” I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Fiekowsky. Peter is a physicist and entrepreneur who is committed to leaving behind a world he is proud of. Peter founded the Foundation for Climate Restoration and the Healthy Climate Alliance (HCA), a nonprofit…

As a part of my series about “Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years” I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Fiekowsky. Peter is a physicist and entrepreneur who is committed to leaving behind a world he is proud of. Peter founded the Foundation for Climate Restoration and the Healthy Climate Alliance (HCA), a nonprofit…

Despite cold temperatures and even snow in the Bay Area, climate change is happening. Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is warming the planet, increasing chaotic weather patterns and melting Arctic ice. But there are ways to to rebuild Arctic sea ice and drawdown excess carbon dioxide, according to the father-daughter team of Peter Fiekowsky and Erica Dodds, leaders of…

It’s become part of climate-change lore: Just weeks after Donald Trump won the election in 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown took to the stage during a conference in San Francisco and proclaimed that “California will launch its own damn satellites” to track climate change if the new president continued to deny its existence. At first, people laughed in recognition…

Peter Fiekowsky, a physicist and entrepreneur, hates silver bullets. But at a climate summit in California last month he found himself pitching one. In partnership with the company Blue Planet, he was demonstrating a low-tech-looking machine that can pull carbon dioxide from the air and store it in construction materials. If every new building for the next 30 years was…

Earth has many friends. Earthlings have participated in many marches. This week in San Francisco and around the world, citizens will band together at the Global Climate Action Summit to turn their love of the Earth into the power to change climate policy. The event has already catalyzed marches, but there will be a lot of action behind the scenes…

Climate change is killing our planet. The excess production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are filling the atmosphere and warming the Earth faster than natural processes can effectively negate them. Since 1951, the surface temperature has risen by 0.8 degrees C, with no sign of slowing. So now it’s time for humans to step in and rectify the…

Peter Fiekowsky joined Earth911’s Sustainability In Your Ear podcast recently to explain direct air capture, a technology that extracts carbon dioxide from the air. Peter also spoke with Earth911 in June about ocean iron fertilization, another approach to sequestering carbon on the ocean floor. His organization, the Healthy Climate Alliance, is working to lobby and build funding for carbon reduction…

The earth’s environment was damaged by climate change 30 years ago, but the good news is there are remedies that can halt or reverse the loss of polar ice and escalating CO₂ levels, according to a featured speaker at today’s ARE DAY summit. “Climate Restoration is the New Climate Policy Goal” will be introduced by Peter Fiekowsky of the Healthy…