How do people in Asia live with climate change now? How will its impacts shape their future, and how will they, in turn, shape their environment? What are the most effective ways to support people to adapt to climate change, and how best can the media, governments, organisations and businesses communicate with them? These are the questions behind Climate Asia, the world’s largest study of people’s everyday experience of climate change. The project surveyed 33,500 people across seven Asian countries – Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam.

Canada believes that investments in clean technology, agriculture, sustainable forestry and climate-resilient infrastructure can assist in green economic growth.

As part of Canada’s climate-change actions, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today announced an investment of $200 million to establish a second phase of the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia. The Parliamentary Secretary made the announcement while meeting with Takehiko Nakao, President of the Asian Development Bank in Yokohama, Japan.

Frustrated by President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, several governors have joined together to create the United States Climate Alliance.

The alliance is the brainchild of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and California Gov. Jerry Brown, the first three states to join last week. All three are Democrats.

Victory: Ruling: Trump administration shortcut environmental review; Court seeks additional briefing on whether to shut down pipeline

Washington, D.C. — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.
A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock reservation, which were hastily issued by the Trump administration just days after the inauguration, violated the law in certain critical respects.

Years before Janice Nolen began keeping tabs on the nation’s air quality for the American Lung Association, her mother used to tell her about air pollution in her native Nashville that was so bad that people brought an extra shirt to work so they’d have a clean one to change into.

CEO reiterates target of selling one million electric cars and hybrids by 2025

For Volvo the internal combustion engine has run its course.

Satellite data confirms ‘calving’ of trillion-tonne, 5,800 sq km iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf, dramatically altering the landscape.

A giant iceberg twice the size of Luxembourg has broken off an ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea.

Google is Now 100% Powered by Renewable Energy

Google just announced they reached their target of 100% renewable energy.
It’s official. The fine people who brought slides into their workplace are now 100% powered by renewable energy, making them pioneers in both of these noblest pursuits.

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By BILL McKIBBEN JUNE 1, 2017

Reposted from the New York Times

People say, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. We should be so lucky. President Trump has a hammer, but all he’ll use it for is to smash things that others have built, as the world looks on in wonder and in fear. The latest, most troubling example is his decision to obliterate the Paris climate accord: After nearly 200 years of scientific inquiry and over 20 years of patient diplomacy that united every nation save Syria and Nicaragua, we had this afternoon’s big game-show Rose Garden reveal: Count us out.

Well, you’ve asked for it! And now it’s finally here!

We’re proud to announce the launch of Lee’s massive new green polemic, AWAKENING INTO UNITY!

Evolutionary Experiential Teachings in Innerbody Meditation and Conscious Leadership

As we experience increasing global destabilization and chaotic energies, we are challenged, perhaps like never before, to remain grounded, non-reactive and hold to our inner peace. In order to do this, we need to work within a new paradigm of spiritual practice and leadership.

If you live in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States you may notice something different in the sky this month. NASA plans to measure the levels of greenhouse gases in the air over the mid-Atlantic region this month via airplane. Researchers are specifically looking to measure the exchange of greenhouse gases that goes on between the air and the vegetation on land.

The agency has said it is updating the site to better reflect the Trump administration's priorities

U.S. EPA is continuing to quietly alter climate change information from the sub-pages of its website following the agency’s widely criticized decision more than a week ago to remove its main climate page.

Congress and the White House aren't going to address the climate crisis anytime soon. Will judges?

Last week, as hundreds of thousands of protesters descended on Washington, DC for the People’s Climate March, 14 young Americans, ranging in age from 9 to 21, held a press conference in front the Supreme Court.

Maryland regulators have approved two projects that, if built, would place America's two largest offshore wind farms in the waters off Ocean City.

A co-op leaves its power provider, whose reliance on coal kept prices too high.

In a dramatic move last year, the Taos-based Kit Carson Electric Cooperative ended its long-term wholesale electricity contract with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.

Climate change is one of many issues seen as dividing Democrats and Republicans. A dominant wing of the GOP has denied climate change exists, as some Democrats have tried to reduce air pollution and push for alternative forms of energy.