https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0 Made with serendipity en-us 2018-06-04 11:38:49 UTC 2023-03-03 18:50:21 UTC hello@padlet.com justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265359696  The burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat-trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year

]]> 2018-06-04 11:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265359696 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265360682 The "greenhouse effect" is the warming that happens when certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat. These gases let in light but keep heat from escaping

]]> 2018-06-04 11:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265360682 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265361355 Ice is melting, weather is changing, and species are being impacted because of humans effects on the environment.

]]> 2018-06-04 11:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265361355 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265363065 In the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat.

]]> 2018-06-04 12:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265363065 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265363572 To reverse global warming, businesses need to become adept at two things: reducing carbon emissions on a sweeping scale and decreasing the amount of excess carbon already in the atmosphere

]]> 2018-06-04 12:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265363572 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265364181 Drains in the country’s capital city, New Delhi, are choked with plastic, while streets are lined with bags of trash and rivers are full of waste and pollution.

]]> 2018-06-04 12:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265364181 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265364312 2018-06-04 12:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265364312 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265613117  Less than a 10th of all the plastic ever made has been recycled, and governments should consider banning or taxing single-use bags or food containers to stem a tide of pollution

]]> 2018-06-05 11:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265613117 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265613930 Pollution blamed for filling Kanpur's hospital beds with growing numbers of chronic lung and cancer cases

]]> 2018-06-05 12:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265613930 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265614501 Every year, over 400,000 people in Europe die prematurely due to air pollution -- and there is clear evidence that the mortality rate is higher among people living in areas with more polluted air.

]]> 2018-06-05 12:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265614501 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265615056 About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans every year, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic being tipped into the sea every minute of every day. More than half comes from five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

]]> 2018-06-05 12:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265615056 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265649423 In the last 100 years, West Africa has lost about 90 percent of forest coverage. In many African countries the only forests left are reserved for permanent forestry, which means they are protected. 

]]> 2018-06-05 14:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265649423 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265650252 Under centralized Suharoot he rate of deforestation was between 550,000 and 1.7 million hectares a year; under a decentralized system the rate is now 2.8 million hectares annually.

]]> 2018-06-05 14:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265650252 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265652315 Over the past few years, the South has become the world’s largest exporter of wood pellets to fuel power stations in Europe under the guise of “renewable” energy. 

]]> 2018-06-05 14:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265652315 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265654225 This reduction in CO₂, a greenhouse gas, acts to cool the climate. When trees are cut down, we lose their ability to draw down CO₂ – worse still, if they are burned the carbon they have carefully locked away will be released back into the air.

]]> 2018-06-05 14:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265654225 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265851924 Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3 million square kilometres (890,000 sq mi) of forests around the world were cut down. That has led to the devastation of several species of animal, flora, fauna and homes of indigenous tribes.

]]> 2018-06-06 11:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265851924 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265853572 The state Department of Environmental Quality will take over the regulation of pollutant discharge into Idaho's lakes and rivers starting July 1. DEQ head John Tippets said that the change will not result in Idaho's standards becoming more lax.

]]> 2018-06-06 11:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265853572 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265855096  There's a mounting debate regarding state and local control over oil and gas development. Having spoken to people affected by fracking's spread, I believe it's clear why people are demanding a bigger say.A growing pool of scientific evidence indicates that living near oil and gas production can endanger public health.

]]> 2018-06-06 12:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265855096 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265856066 A local environmental group is urging state leaders to enact new legislation that would better regulate drinking water in Florida schools.

]]> 2018-06-06 12:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265856066 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265856696 The Senate resolution, passed by Illinois senators last week, also asks Illinois agencies to take whatever actions possible to protect against the loss of water, potential flooding and other ecological impacts that might result from the Foxconn deal.

]]> 2018-06-06 12:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265856696 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265882353 A law passed by the state legislature last year establishing the creation of the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality. The current environmental subsection will break off to form its own, independent agency, with the two main environmental advisory boards — focused on air pollution and water issues — merge to form one main board.


]]> 2018-06-06 13:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265882353 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265882605 2018-06-06 13:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/265882605 justin_bilderback https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/266122144 2018-06-07 14:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/justin_bilderback/rdomr5642uy0/wish/266122144