Environmental Professionals Connection

‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps

New Scientist

APRIL 12, 2024

Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but a study based on thousands of hours of observations suggests the real story is more nuanced

Earth911 Podcast Special: Water For Peace With Model And Water Philanthropist Georgie Badiel

Earth 911

APRIL 1, 2024

The post Earth911 Podcast Special: Water For Peace With Model And Water Philanthropist Georgie Badiel appeared first on Earth911. Join Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe for a special World Water Day conversation with model and activist.

WeConservePA: Neighborhood Gardens Trust Preserves Peace Garden in North Philadelphia

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Neighborhood Gardens Trust kicked off the new year with the preservation of the Peace Garden, their 53rd protected green space. The Peace Garden was created in 2001 under the auspices of New Jerusalem Now (NJN), a nonprofit focused on addiction recovery, founded by the Medical Mission Sisters. Sylvia of New Jerusalem Now.

2001

2001 2008 Cooling 2024

Webinars

Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

MORE WEBINARS

Peace has led to more deforestation in Colombia

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. The consequences of peace and armed conflict for deforestation depend on the location, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Difference between reserve and cattle ranches in Colombia.

Deforestation

Deforestation 2001 Environmental Science Conservation

Monica Montgomery – Policies for Peace

Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Today, we discuss Monica’s journey into policymaking, the importance of representation, and the intersection of peace and policy within society. . Following on from that, how do you feel the advancement of science and technology affects peace and security in society? Photo credit: Monica Montgomery. on disarmament issues.

Climate Change

Climate Change Technology Technology Government

Frontiers’ volunteers: Editing Support for Peace Boat Disaster Relief

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This week, we talk to fellow Fronton Sarah Jay , who works at Publishing Development department, about her volunteering work with Peace Boat Disaster Relief , an organization that assists disaster-affected people by strengthening disaster resilience of communities. Peace Boat Disaster Relief’s Team (photo credit: [link] ).

2020

2020 2021

Karen Strier – Lessons from the world’s most peaceful primate

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of the most interesting discoveries I made during that first year about Muriquis is that they live in peaceful societies where males and females have egalitarian social relationships. Their peaceful society shows no evidence of agonistic dominance or hierarchies that you see in baboons and chimpanzees. Photo credit: Carla B.

Conservation

Conservation 2005 2010 2016

Ecological Threat Report 2021: Understanding Ecological Threats, Resilience, and Peace

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the report covers over 2,500 subnational administrative units or 99.9 Download the document. This is the second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which analyses 178 independent states and territories. per cent of the world’s population.

2021

2021 Climate Change

Amid Tensions in Myanmar, An Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Karen people of eastern Myanmar have long fought for autonomy over their lands. In a bold move, they have turned a war zone into a protected area that respects their cultural traditions and looks to save the Salween, one of the world’s last free-flowing international rivers. Read more on E360 ?.

Three Things from Oppenheimer that are Happening Again

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

In prior wars, peace meant a return to normal. Eisenhower named the entanglement of defense and private industry the military-industrial complex, warning that its outsized influence over the government was a threat to peace and democracy. The war machine, having fulfilled its purpose, was dismantled. In 1961, US President Dwight D.

Politics

Politics Atmosphere Government Waste

What Peace Speech -- the Benign Twin of Hate Speech -- Says About a Country

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Technology

Technology Technology

How Should We Remember the Invention of the Atomic Bomb?

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 6, 2023

The Peace Memorial Museum then sends the list to Motomachi High School. But even though I had been taking peace education classes since I was in the first grade of elementary school, I still thought of the atomic bombing as something that happened in a different time, in a different world, and that had nothing related with me.

2007

2007 Politics 2020

Colombia's peace treaty accidentally sparks increase in deforestation

New Scientist

AUGUST 16, 2021

The end of Colombia's civil war in 2016 unwittingly caused an increase in deforestation across the country as Marxist guerrillas no longer protect the land

Deforestation

Deforestation 2016

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Spending a month in jail protesting plans to expand a fracked gas storage facility taught Steingraber the value of using “all peaceful means possible” to safeguard environmental and public health. By Liza Gross For many, a cancer diagnosis is a deeply personal, private matter.

Fossil Fuels

Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Cultural Heritage

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 24, 2021

Africa Day celebrates independence, freedom from colonialism, and looking forwards to a peacful and thriving future in the 55 African Union nations. This year’s theme is “Arts, Culture and Heritage” and UCS is helping to raise up climate change in that context.

Climate Change

HotSpots H2O: In Besieged Ukraine, Water Again a Locus of Conflict

Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2022

Sometimes it feels like peace and running water were from another life,” one mother told UNICEF in 2020. Russia and Ukraine are engaged in peace talks to end the war, though thus far they have failed. The village of Pavlopil, a community of 450 people located in the Donbas region, has not had a stable water supply since 2014.

2014

2014 2020 Electricity 2022

Killing of rare Italian bear raises fears for future of its subspecies

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The shooting of Amarena, one of around 60 remaining Marsican brown bears in central Italy, raises doubts about whether large carnivores can coexist peacefully with humans

Reporting on COP: Just Peace through Climate Action

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The remarkable people I have met here continue to inspire me with their dedication to champion Just Peace, through Climate Action. Reporting on COP: Just Peace through Climate Action. appeared first on. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

Paris Agreement

Paris Agreement Climate Change 2016 Law

'Constructive Arguing' Can Help Keep the Peace at Your Thanksgiving Table

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

People with different perspectives don’t have to butt heads. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed, Starting April 25

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

The events webpage will be updated regularly as additional information, including links to host websites for registration, becomes available for later events. Click Here to register for an event here.

2024

2024 Conservation

Moral Righteousness Can Worsen Conflict

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Research on morality shows that it can counterintuitively impede peace and progress

These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World

Scientific American

JUNE 9, 2021

Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

Conservation

Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In the complaint, the Plaintiffs argued that they were likely to suffer damage from air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases by the coal-fired power plants and those would violate personal rights or the right to a peaceful life of the Plaintiffs. Those two rights were invoked for the first time in this case.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse

An Open Letter to President Obama

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. March 7, 2014 Dear Mr. President, I am writing you this letter to ask you one simple question, will you please oppose TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline? I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman. I am a scientist. I am a soon to be.

2014

2014 Law

Peace Is More Than War's Absence, And New Research Explains How To Build It

Scientific American

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A new project measures ways to promote positive social relations among groups. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

A New Hurricane Season Begins With Forecasts For Less Activity but More Uncertainty

Inside Climate News

JUNE 1, 2023

For a dozen years, the river brought them peace and joy. By Amy Green ASTOR, Fla.—Dana Dana Land and his wife, Ava, live on a bend in the St. Johns River, the water lapping not far from their back door. Then last fall, Hurricanes Ian and Nicole transformed the waterway into a threat that flooded their home for weeks.

Climate Change

Immigrants Held in For-Profit ICE Jail Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown

Corp Watch

MARCH 21, 2024

democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. pratap Thu, 03/21/2024 - 13:34 Tuesday, March 12, 2024 [link] This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Wallabag ID 18247890

2024

HotSpots H2O: Trouble Areas Emerge as Summer Looms

Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2023

Florian Krampe, the director of the Climate Change and Risk Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, is optimistic that water managers and politicians can respond in the future as they generally have in the past – with cooperation. Climate shocks, despite the hazards they present, are not destiny, though.

Climate Change

Climate Change Politics Government 2011

A forgotten mangrove forest around remote inland lagoons in Mexico’s Yucatan tells a story of rising seas

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes. by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico.

Rainforest

Rainforest Natural Resources Climate Change

Statement: Frontiers stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine

Frontiers

MARCH 1, 2022

It has undermined progress and damaged the prospect of creating a safer, more peaceful environment both now and for future generations. It is our hope that peace is reclaimed immediately and that the important work for a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future is restored for all. On behalf of Frontiers, Kamila Markram, CEO.

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation request for water rights

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2023

Kavanaugh said an 1868 peace treaty between the United States and … Continue reading Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation request for water rights The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Navajo Nation’s attempt to force the federal government to do more to secure water for its huge and arid reservation in the West.

Government

Government Law

Humpback whales in Alaska thrive in absence of cruise ships

Inhabitant

AUGUST 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed humpback whales in Alaska to enjoy some peace, according to a new study. Researchers say that reduction in noise caused by cruise ships is to thank for the positive changes being witnessed in whales' social lives.

A forgotten mangrove forest around remote inland lagoons in Mexico’s Yucatan tells a story of rising seas

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes. by Sula E Vanderplank, San Diego State University The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico.

Rainforest

Rainforest Natural Resources Climate Change

Great Power Competition is a Dead End: Dialogue is the Only Path Forward

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Inclusive Quad This “ Inclusive Quad” is a civil-society response to growing concern about our ability to preserve peace and prosperity in East Asia. We were joined by six Japanese Diet and Korean National Assembly members, who made valuable contributions to the discussion and will carry our message to their fellow legislators.

Politics

Politics Waste Government Law

ESA Stands with Ukraine

ESA

MARCH 4, 2022

We join the scientific and global community in vehemently calling for peace and an immediate end to this conflict. Additionally, the potentially catastrophic environmental impacts of the war pose both immediate and long-term threats to human rights, health, welfare and livelihoods.

Beautiful Oaxacan villa is built from reused materials

Inhabitant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Casa Volta sits peacefully just 328 feet (100 meters) from the south Oaxacan coastline, yet makes a loud statement about sustainable architecture with reused materials and a balance with nature.

Keep PA Beautiful: Register Fall Cleanups Now To Be Part Of International Coastal Cleanup; Free Cleanup Supplies Available

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Contact Keep Erie County Beautiful/Erie County Planning Department, Sarah Finegood, sfinegood@eriecountypa.gov or 814- 451-7326. -- Tidings of Peace Trash-A-Thon - Sat, Sept. Tidings of Peace Christian School, 220 North Eberts Lane, York, PA 17403. 16 at 8:00AM - 12:00PM.

Ocean

Ocean Environmental Protection 2023 Recycling

Studio. O. creates minimalist oasis in the heart of Warsaw

Inhabitant

AUGUST 10, 2021

Located in the heart of Warsaw, this home invites a peaceful minimalist lifestyle with all the comforts of a larger place.

Botanical gardens have a rich history, and still provide benefits now

New Scientist

JUNE 1, 2022

While botanical gardens have evolved from their medicinal roots in 16th-century Italy, their plants can still bring peace and joy to our busy lives, says Beronda L. Montgomery

Go glamping in Canada at this mirror cabin

Inhabitant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The newest project by Québec-based Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects aims to peacefully immerse visitors into nature, while making a minimal architectural footprint. Reflection consists of two cabins, each with room for up to six persons in the main living area with fireplace, two enclosed bedrooms, a bathroom and an outdoor spa.

Remembering Electric Vehicle Pioneer Ryan Popple, 1977-2021

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Rest in peace, Ryan. For a taste of his humor, humility, and wisdom, here’s a recording of a presentation he gave last year, which shows his astuteness at identifying broader societal and environmental trends and the companies that can address them. Download as PDF.

Electricity

Electricity 2021 2012 2025

Oppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful to History, But Some Critical Pieces are Missing

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

This is Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer: not just a physicist but a humanist and philosopher, a man who yearns for peace but also recognition, recruited to create a new weapon of unimaginable destruction.

Politics

Politics 2006 2017 Technology

Open Letter to Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault: Kick Polluters out of the Canada Pavilion

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Fresque de la biodiversité Québec. Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada. AbibiNsroma Foundation. Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet (GASP).

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels Waste Technology Technology

Allegheny County Conservation District Offering Gardeners Free Soil Lead Screening

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2024

Drop Off Locations Once you collect and label your soil samples, drop off at any location listed below during open hours between Wednesday, April 3 and Sunday, April 7-- -- EAST END: Grow Pittsburgh Garden Resource Center , 147 Putnam St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (Wednesdays & Fridays from 3 PM- 6 PM; Saturdays from 9 AM- 3 PM) -- SOUTH SIDE: Soil (..)

Conservation

Conservation Natural Resources 2024 2023

‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps

Earth911 Podcast Special: Water For Peace With Model And Water Philanthropist Georgie Badiel

Webinars

Trending Sources

WeConservePA: Neighborhood Gardens Trust Preserves Peace Garden in North Philadelphia

Webinars

Peace has led to more deforestation in Colombia

Monica Montgomery – Policies for Peace

Frontiers’ volunteers: Editing Support for Peace Boat Disaster Relief

Karen Strier – Lessons from the world’s most peaceful primate

Ecological Threat Report 2021: Understanding Ecological Threats, Resilience, and Peace

Amid Tensions in Myanmar, An Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born

Three Things from Oppenheimer that are Happening Again

What Peace Speech -- the Benign Twin of Hate Speech -- Says About a Country

How Should We Remember the Invention of the Atomic Bomb?

Colombia's peace treaty accidentally sparks increase in deforestation

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Cultural Heritage

HotSpots H2O: In Besieged Ukraine, Water Again a Locus of Conflict

Killing of rare Italian bear raises fears for future of its subspecies

Reporting on COP: Just Peace through Climate Action

'Constructive Arguing' Can Help Keep the Peace at Your Thanksgiving Table

A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed, Starting April 25

Moral Righteousness Can Worsen Conflict

These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World

Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe

An Open Letter to President Obama

Peace Is More Than War's Absence, And New Research Explains How To Build It

A New Hurricane Season Begins With Forecasts For Less Activity but More Uncertainty

Immigrants Held in For-Profit ICE Jail Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown

HotSpots H2O: Trouble Areas Emerge as Summer Looms

A forgotten mangrove forest around remote inland lagoons in Mexico’s Yucatan tells a story of rising seas

Statement: Frontiers stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation request for water rights

Humpback whales in Alaska thrive in absence of cruise ships

A forgotten mangrove forest around remote inland lagoons in Mexico’s Yucatan tells a story of rising seas

Great Power Competition is a Dead End: Dialogue is the Only Path Forward

ESA Stands with Ukraine

Beautiful Oaxacan villa is built from reused materials

Keep PA Beautiful: Register Fall Cleanups Now To Be Part Of International Coastal Cleanup; Free Cleanup Supplies Available

Studio. O. creates minimalist oasis in the heart of Warsaw

Botanical gardens have a rich history, and still provide benefits now

Go glamping in Canada at this mirror cabin

Remembering Electric Vehicle Pioneer Ryan Popple, 1977-2021

Oppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful to History, But Some Critical Pieces are Missing

Open Letter to Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault: Kick Polluters out of the Canada Pavilion

Allegheny County Conservation District Offering Gardeners Free Soil Lead Screening

Stay Connected