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Climate, Consciousness, and Community

by Sari

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Kosmos Associates, a non-profit organization, in association with Transition Town Media and Pendle Hill Quaker Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, announce a regional Climate Summit to be held the weekend of Easter, Passover and Earth Day – April 20-23, 2019 in Media, Pennsylvania. The Kosmos Climate, Consciousness, and Community Summit is a participatory investigation into how we can steward a resilient future on a…

Positive News About Climate Disruption!

Posted on March 27, 2019

by Marion

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Tired of all the bad climate news? Take heart—there’s plenty of positive news. It’s time to stop despairing about climate disruption and start focusing on what we can do about it. We need a completely new mind-set. We can let go of fear, listen to climate innovators, and take meaningful action with other people. Let’s re-imagine what’s possible. Read on…

How Soil Health Affects Climate Change

Posted on March 20, 2019

by Marion

Healthy soils play an important role in regulating climate. Soil health changes depending on how it is managed. If soils are poorly managed or harmed by unsustainable agricultural practices, carbon contained in soil is released into the atmosphere in the form of CO2, contributing to climate change. Restoring degraded soil and maintaining healthy soil decreases CO2 release into the atmosphere, increases carbon storage,…

How Reforestation Can Help Stop Climate Change

Posted on March 13, 2019

by Marion

Forests play an important role in regulating our climate because they absorb CO2 from the air and store it in trunks, branches, roots and leaves. Deforestation–especially the destruction of rainforests for creating palm oil plantations—contributes significantly to climate change by releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Scientists estimate that forest loss and other changes to land use cause 23% of CO2 emissions. According to…

Why Climate Change is Causing A Public Health Emergency

Posted on March 6, 2019

by Marion

In addition to floods, droughts, wildfires, monster storms, and a host of other problems, climate change is responsible for a looming public health emergency. New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations, National Institutes of Environmental Health, and American Public Health Association are all sounding the alarm. Scientific evidence from the US Global Change Research Program’s fourth National Climate Assessment shows…

Climate, Consciousness, and Community

Positive News About Climate Disruption!

How Soil Health Affects Climate Change

How Reforestation Can Help Stop Climate Change

Why Climate Change is Causing A Public Health Emergency

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