climate and environment
value Connection›Sustainability
subject How we live together›Earth & what we build on it›Living world
created 2026/03/28 modified 2026/09/19
- En-ROADS Climate Change Solutions Simulator: models economic, environmental, and other metrics for any set of conditions affecting energy, population, tech advances, carbon capture, etc.
- CarbonPlan: improving the transparency and scientific integrity of carbon removal and climate solutions through open data and tools
- Think globally and act locally: on decarbonization strategy — Noah Smith
- Shopify's playbook for investing in carbon removal
- Speed & Scale: John Doerr et al.'s engineering breakdown of climate change solutions
- Giving Green: recommendations for nonprofits to donate to, based on the idea that policy change is most important now
- Pachama: company using remote sensing and AI to validate and monitor carbon capture projects (e.g. reforesting efforts)
- India's river-linking megaproject: an effort to balance flooding & drought by connecting major rivers — built on the flawed assumption that river basins are independent, with hydrological data kept as a state secret — Hakai Magazine
- 200 years of climate history, told through tree rings — Washington Post (may require subscription; the original gift link has expired)
- Some insight into the tension between clean energy and fossil fuels in 2023 — Semafor
- Why our climate change debates are out of date — Noahpinion
- "Rewilding can be among the best nature-based climate solutions available to humankind."
- Another disastrous effect of climate change — the destruction of our cultural history — and how communities are coming together in ethical preservation efforts — The New Republic
- On rethinking the concept of lawns... and the places where lawns are actually illegal (100% support this idea) — Food52, New York Times
- How a community used a board game to spark serious discussion about addressing flood risks — Hakai Magazine
- A human look at the catastrophe of coral bleaching, and the innovative technique of 3D-printing coral nurseries one Brazilian community is pioneering — Grist
- Another technique to hack coral restoration, with cool pictures and a hopeful tone — Vox
- How climate change is affecting your jam — the fruit's threatened, too — Currant
- An older article, newly award-winning, questioning whether the destruction of the Amazon should be considered ecocide — Inside Climate News
- Caffeine is hurting marine ecosystems — Hakai Magazine
Related
- Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
- On Time and Water — Andri Snær Magnason
- Beloved Beasts — Michelle Nijhuis
- Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change — Degroot et al.
- After Geoengineering — Holly Jean Buck
- A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough
- How Renewable Energy Jobs Can Uplift Fossil Fuel Communities and Remake Climate Politics — Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, Caroline George
- Under a White Sky — Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth's Ancient Rock Record — Peter Brannen
- The Future Earth — Eric Holthaus
- The Greatest Climate-Protecting Technology Ever Devised — Matilda Jarvis
- Inconspicuous Consumption — Tatiana Schlossberg
- How the Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone's Crisis — Klein, Wallace-Wells, Stokes
- Coral Versus Climate — Kingdon