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☆ How Climate Week in New York Turned Into ‘Burning Man for Climate Geeks’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s almost like the climate crisis has gotten itself a new team of publicists, judging from the boggling array of sessions, panels, VI.P. dinners, workshops and fireside chats happening this week as part of Climate Week NYC. This was in addition to two sold out Earth-focused drag shows, “SAVE HER!” hosted by the eco-drag queen Pattie Gonia, and the spectacle of Prince William wading into New York’s East River to visit the Billion Oyster Project, which works to restore reefs using mollusks. There were hundreds of less glittery events too, focused on decarbonizing agriculture, deforestation-free cattle ranching, carbon removal, environmental justice, food waste, green steel and session after session on climate finance and climate tech. Chaotic, sprawling, and borderline circuslike, Climate Week NYC, which officially runs from Sept. 17 to 24, is in many ways a showcase of human innovation, the countless ways people in many industries are working to slow and potentially reverse the enormous harms humans have done to the planet.

Persons: Pattie Gonia, Prince William Locations: Climate, New

☆ How New York’s Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On the menu at New York City’s 11 public hospitals is pasta with Bolognese sauce, without the meat. NYC Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest municipal health system, has made plant-based food the default for inpatient meals. That means the food contains no meat, dairy or eggs. Now, a year after it made those sweeping changes, the hospital system has reduced its food-related carbon emissions by 36 percent, according to the mayor’s office. And, jokes about hospital food aside, the changes seem to be a hit with patients.

Persons: cornbread, Samantha Morgenstern Organizations: New York City’s Locations: New, American, Sodexo

☆ Tiny Forests With Big Benefits
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The tiny forest lives atop an old landfill in the city of Cambridge, Mass. Its aspens are growing at twice the speed normally expected, with fragrant sumac and tulip trees racing to catch up. It has absorbed storm water without washing out, suppressed many weeds and stayed lush throughout last year’s drought. Tiny forests have been planted across Europe, in Africa, throughout Asia and in South America, Russia and the Middle East. Now tiny forests are slowly but steadily appearing in the United States.

Persons: it’s, they’ve Organizations: Griffith Locations: Cambridge, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Russia, East, India, Japan, United States, Washington, Los, Northeast

☆ Save the Planet, Put Down that Hamburger
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The study found that, compared to meat-heavy diets, vegan diets resulted in 75 percent less land use, 54 percent less water use, and 66 percent less biodiversity loss. A vegan diet avoids all animal products, including meat, eggs and dairy. Vegan diets had the lowest totals, accounting for 5.4 pounds of carbon dioxide a day. In terms of land and water use and effects on species’ extinction, vegetarians, fish eaters and low meat diets had similar results. The study also found that vegans and vegetarians were on average younger than fish and meat eaters.

Persons: Dr, Scarborough

☆ Want to Help Feathered Friends Beat the Heat? Get a Birdbath.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Record temperatures, drought, smoky air and loss of habitat make it increasingly difficult for feathered and other winged creatures in urban and suburban areas to find the water they need. But there’s a simple way that humans can help them out: install a birdbath. “A source of clean, fresh water can be one of the hardest things for birds to find,” said Kim Eierman, an environmental horticulturist and the founder of EcoBeneficial, an ecological landscape design firm, who teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Putting in birdbaths is something that’s easy for homeowners and even apartment dwellers and tenants of commercial spaces, she said. “You’re increasing the health of the birds by providing a resource that’s really tough to find,” said Ms. Eierman, who lays out nature-friendly tips in her book “The Pollinator Victory Garden.” “In the summer months, it’s way more important than putting up birdseed.”

Persons: ”, Kim Eierman, “, Eierman Organizations: New, Botanical, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Locations: Brooklyn, birdbaths

☆ To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is cool to the touch, even under a blazing sun, Dr. Ruan said. Unlike air-conditioners, the paint doesn’t need any energy to work, and it doesn’t warm the outside air. In 2021, Guinness declared it the whitest paint ever, and it’s since collected several awards. While the paint was originally envisioned for rooftops, manufacturers of clothes, shoes, cars, trucks and even spacecraft have come clamoring. Last year, Dr. Ruan and his team announced that they’d come up with a more lightweight version that could reflect heat from vehicles.

Persons: Xiulin Ruan, didn’t, Ruan, Guinness, they’d Organizations: Purdue University, Guinness World Records

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