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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

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Importantly (and often misunderstood), he meant not that we are gods, but instead that technologies have given humanity powers that had previously been exclusive to the gods. I thus wrote the paper “ Earth System Interventions as Technologies of the Anthropocene ,” which was published (open access!)

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ESA Urges All Nations to Take Climate Action at COP28

ESA

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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The global conversation about solar geoengineering just changed at the UN Environment Assembly. Here’s how.

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But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing. Implicit in this position was a sense of primacy of the natural sciences – and knowledge about biophysical climatic effects – over the social and political sciences.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Martin Grow As A Company Public Participation -- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb. Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp., . -- Save PA Forests Webinar Feb.

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105 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Comitta: Let's Work Together To Address Climate Change, But Stop Rehashing The Same Old Arguments Against RGGI That Are Not Protecting Our Planet And Our People [PaEN] -- Courier Express: Fmr. GW Of Clean Energy In PA, 4 Other PJM States Saving $1 Billion A Year [PPL included] -- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets Feb.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

11th Annual (Virtual) Pittsburgh Sustainability Conference May 6-7 -- PA Master Naturalists Celebrate Arbor Day In Spring Field Notes Newsletter; May 11 - Bringing Nature Home -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests: Wildflower Walk May 2; Foundation Dinner Sept. 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. This bill creates a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases NSF’s overall authorized funding level to $29 billion by fiscal year (FY) 2026. International. Scientific Community.

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