land use
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Are farmers setting the Amazon ablaze in support of Bolsonaro?
Farmers reportedly organized a "day of fire" as a show of strength.
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IPCC report: Planting trees isn’t enough to save us from the climate crisis
Feeling your inner Lorax these days and want to speak for the trees? Maybe throw in a few good words for peat bogs and marshland.
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The group that was supposed to make palm oil sustainable just disappeared
Environmentalists pushed companies to sign up for the Indonesia Palm Oil Pledge — but now it’s gone.
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Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try.
Time to accept that Southern California wildfires are a simple fact of life.
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No place is safe from fracking, not even graveyards
No place blessed with an abundance of natural gas is safe from the possibility of fracking — not even cemeteries. In Texas, the president of the cemetery association has already been selling the gas underneath his graveyard, the Centre Daily Times reports: [John] Stephenson leased mineral rights under two of his cemeteries within the past […]
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Solar power can fit on existing land use
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. While large-scale solar creates contention between environmental advocates and renewable energy proponents, the truth is that there are thousands of acres in already developed land where solar can easily fit. This infographic explains a few of […]
