Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance

The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) is a collaboration of leading global cities working to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80-100% by 2050 or sooner — the most aggressive GHG reduction targets undertaken anywhere by any city.

Cities – CNCA

Environmental Documentary Series is Showing: The Reluctant Radical

Showing this Wednesday at the 7th Environmental Documentary Series

Info about place and time: http://sustainability.sienaheights.edu/environmental-documentaries.html

If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary?

THE RELUCTANT RADICAL follows activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change. Ken breaks the law as a last resort, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. After twenty years leading environmental organizations, Ken became increasingly alarmed by both the scientific evidence of climate change and the repercussions for civilization as we know it. Ken pushed for a crisis level response from inside environmental organizations. Those efforts failed, and he now embraces direct action civil disobedience as the most effective political tool to deal with catastrophic circumstances.

reluctant-radical

NASA Sea Level Change Portal

NASA keeps track of sea level change and its causes from space. Find out more about how NASA satellite observations help our understanding of this complex topic.



NASA Sea Level Change Portal

TONIGHT: Dirt Rich - The Movie

http://sustainability.sienaheights.edu/environmental-documentaries.html

Today, 20-Mar, showing Dirt Rich, 88 minutes

Topics: Food, Climate Change, Solutions

Dirt Rich shifts focus from greenhouse gas emissions to carbon draw down which is the only viable solution for reversing the effects of runaway global warming in a timely manner. Through exploration of geo-therapy strategies, Dirt Rich shines light on their value and beauty which undeniably are our last hope for protecting life as we know it on this challenged planet. Through regenerative agricultural practices, reforestation of abandoned land, protection/restoration of carbon rich wetlands and keystone species, Dirt Rich illustrates how implementing these strategies will return our atmosphere to safe levels of carbon while growing soil, our most precious resource.

Dirt Rich - The Movie

Game Changer Fund – CNCA

Cities have limited access to early-stage risk capital for implementing some of the riskier strategies for decarbonizing key systems at a scale considered “transformational.” In response, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) created a new “Game Changer Fund” in 2018 to foster even greater capacity within CNCA and other cities to implement critical, groundbreaking work that advances the global field of deep urban decarbonization. The Game Changers Report, released below, highlights seven transformations occurring across our CNCA cities.

Game Changer Fund – CNCA

UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless

Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.

Climate change, a global major extinction of animals and plants, a human population soaring toward 10 billion, degraded land, polluted air, and plastics, pesticides and hormone-changing chemicals in the water are making the planet an increasing unhealthy place for people, says the scientific report issued once every few years.



UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless

Dynamic flood modeling essential to assess the coastal impacts of climate change | Scientific Reports

Coastal inundation due to sea level rise (SLR) is projected to displace hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the next century, creating significant economic, humanitarian, and national-security challenges.



Dynamic flood modeling essential to assess the coastal impacts of climate change | Scientific Reports