Environment

Activists in the Bay Area have been supporting efforts to prevent the construction of The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center near Atlanta through rallies, art builds, and political education. They’ve also been pointing out connections between the site’s construction and local actors. Residents in Oakland and throughout the Bay Area…

Brace yourselves for a globe-shaking marine ecological disaster. — Have you seen The Day After Tomorrow? This early naughties disaster movie’s whole plot revolved around climate change turning off global ocean currents and plunging the world into a sudden Ice Age. Many lambasted the film for exaggerating how soon these currents could collapse and how rapidly their knock-on effects…

When proof is visible, environmentalists must act — On the morning of Sunday June 22nd, 1969, a slick of oil floating on what Ohio residents knew was a notoriously polluted river called the Cuyahoga, burst into flames and burned for half an hour. In the end the blaze was extinguished and caused about $50,000 in damage. Though the…

The data analysis on 1992 to 2018 Fire Program Analysis fire-occurrence database (FPA FOD) shows — It has been over a week since the devastating wildfire started in Nova Scotia, and unfortunately consuming lands in western Canada. Compared to eastern Canada, this particular region is typically less prone to wildfires, yet as of now, according to latest reports, an 59,622 acres have been consumed by fire…

Yesterday, Mayor Adams walked out of Gracie Mansion, smelled the air, looked at the sky, and asked, “What the hell is this?” This, Mr. Mayor, is climate change. A truly stunning series of events is unfolding in New York. For the first time in recorded history, the AQI (air quality…

Virtue Ethics in the Context of Human Altruism and Resource Plentifulness In a world filled with abundant resources, where virtue ethics and rights-based ethics intersect, the irony of being truthful about our moral behavior becomes a fascinating and humorous exploration. From…

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Please answer the call to protect the Amazon rainforest and uphold indigenous rights — In the distance, across the Atlantic Ocean, I sit down to write here in Portugal, haunted by the echoes of a shared history with Brazil, where the struggles of the indigenous people and the fate of the Amazon rainforest intertwine. As a nation that bears the weight of being the…

In this post we will address a common question we have been seeing: “How long do water softeners last in Florida?” We’ve done a lot of testing recently in communities in Pinellas and Hillsborough County, Florida and have found that the TDS (total dissolved solids) count is double what is…