Sustain 2024🍃🌎#37

Sustainability+Hope

by Alexis McCarthy March 2024

Hope for solutions and positive change:

Increased awareness of the issue of a warming climate

More people are talking about it

Increased investment in the clean energy transition by large investors

Community is coming together to come up with innovative solutions to switch from fossil fuel energy to renewables 

People are supporting candidates that support a clean future  

Staying hopeful, positive and solutions focused

Helping others identify levers of change in their own lives

Making the world a better place

A first step:

Understand what you care about and how a warming climate will have an impact on those people, places or things

Learn 

Innovations, Innovators, Thought Leaders, Changemakers, New Ideas, New Frontiers 

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY SDG 7

• Universities going geothermal

• More about geothermal power

• Decarbonizing your home- a journey

INDUSTRY INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE SDG 8, 9 & 11

• Excess heat recapture-huge potential energy source

• Plastics-oil companies next growth area-lobbyist working hard

• Livestock’s long shadow-sophisticated lobbying efforts to deny it

• 2023 UK emissions fell to lowest level since 1879

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION SDG 12

• Paper towels: two rolls a week-like burning 11 gallons of gasoline

• Oatmeal- chlormequat- highly toxic agricultural chemical-who knew

• Greenhushing-leaders going green but not publicizing it

EQUITYSDG 5&10

• More gender diversity on boards linked -higher credit ratings- Moodys

• No equality for working women in any country

• War is bad enough-few think about this side effect too

• Mansplaining at the driving range- female pro golfer endures

• Native artifacts on Lehigh U land to be returned to delaware nation

CLIMATE ACTION SDG 13, 14 & 15

• Rewilding in Japan

• Rewilding in Scotland

MIND BODY SPIRIT

• Greener snowmaking

• Add your garden here: natural carbon storage

• Personal electrification planner

MEDIA

• Clean power hour podcast

Act  

March

Spring has sprung . Commit to changing one of your habits to contribute to a cleaner environment.