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Ecological Civilization: Challenge and Opportunity
Ecological Civilization: Challenge and Opportunity Eric SchaetzleMember, ALICE Board of Directors For many years, and even more so today, there’s been a growing awareness that the health of living systems is the foundation for a healthy society, that these systems are...
Responding to Ecosystem Transformation: Resist, Accept, or Direct?
We present a framework that encompasses three strategies for fish and wildlife managers dealing with ecosystems vulnerable to transformation. Specifically, managers can resist change and strive to maintain existing ecosystem composition, structure, and function; accept transformation when it is not feasible to resist change or when changes are deemed socially acceptable; or direct change to a future ecosystem configuration that would yield desirable outcomes.
Alaska’s Got Climate Solutions
Alaska, the state warming twice as fast as the rest of the nation, is a canary in the coalmine for climate disruption. Across the state, the effects of climate change are being experienced – some areas much more poignantly and life altering than others.
It’s not PFD vs STATE. It’s BIG OIL GREED vs ALASKANS
In Alaska, the people own the natural resources. Unlike other states, Article 8 of our Constitution requires that those resources, including oil and gas, be used wisely for “the maximum benefit of its people”. Royalties from non-renewable oil and gas sales are collected and part of the earnings redistributed to Alaskans in the form of a Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) according to a specific formula.
ALASKA CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE FUND ACT OF 2020
DRAFT House / Senate Bill NO. _____ IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE – FIRST SESSION Sponsor(s): A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED “ALASKA CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE FUND ACT OF 2020: An act establishing the Alaska Climate Change Response Fund to...
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Sinkhole opens under Chefornak home, forcing family to evacuate - Alaska Public Media
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In Chefornak, a family was forced to evacuate their home because a sinkhole caused by thawing permafrost formed underneath it. That family had to move into a building intended to be a quarantine facil...History made: Renewable energy surpassed fossil fuels for European electricity in 2020
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Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende.Navajo woman chosen to head US Indian Energy
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‘As the original caretakers of this land ... tribes can lead the way’Biden likely to halt new fossil fuel leasing on federal lands and waters Wednesday
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The planned moratorium would halt oil and gas auctions for one year and coal leasing for three years.Report - Pathways to Net Zero: A Decision Support Tool - Transition Accelerator
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The purpose of this report is to provide a simple tool to help those concerned with policy and investment decisions to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.This content isn't available right now
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The approval sets the stage for construction in a largely undeveloped Arctic region that has seen increased industry attention in recent years.Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse.
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Two new papers reveal the growing toll that human-caused global warming is having on the planet's ice.Musk offers $100 mln prize for carbon capture
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Tesla founder Elon Musk is offering a $100 million prize for the best technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. Julian Satterthwaite reports.Oil Industry Reels as Biden Targets Fossil Fuels in First Days
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Hours after taking office, President Joe Biden made good on a campaign promise to cancel the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Later that day his Interior Department mandated that only top agency leaders coul...This content isn't available right now
When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Tracking Biden’s environmental actions
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President Biden is already unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy, while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.BC Ferries seeks support for full electrification of hybrid vessels
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BC Ferries is seeking letters of support from coastal communities to aid in securing federal funding for the Island Class Ferry Electrification Project.www.narf.org
A press release from our client, the Bering Sea Elders Group, and other tribal organizations of the Bering Sea region: January 21, 2021 As Tribes and Tribal organizations of Western Alaska and the Ber...Biden immediately slams brakes on oil drilling in Arctic refuge
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President Joe Biden imposed a “temporary moratorium” on all oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge shortly after taking office on Wednesday, citing the “alleged le...Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) - Climate Change (U.S. National Park Service)
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The National Park Service and several federal land management agency partners recently published a report titled Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD)—A Decision Framework for the 21st-century Natural Resource...Less Talk, More Walk: Why Climate Change Demands Activism in the Academy
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As climate scholars, it is our professional responsibility to engage in climate politics. First, we need to engage in radical scientific analysis: we must ask questions that get at the root of climate...Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses - IOPscience
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Biden is expected to soon reverse the efforts of the Trump administration and end a project proposed more than a decade ago.