Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by:  Brandon Pytel  joined Earth Day Network in 2019 as a communications manager/writer. This is  from an original blog on EarthDay Nothing is stronger than love — except maybe climate change. With February 14 around the corner, you may be thinking about things other than the environment. But climate change affects everything, including all the special trappings we use to celebrate Valentine’s (and  Galentine’s ) Day. Valentine’s Day is a multi-billion-dollar industry, with the  United States dropping about $27 billion  to celebrate love each year. In a warmer world, however, many of our February favorites — like chocolates and wine — will be at risk, and some are just plain unsustainable — like roses. We’re not here to ruin  your date night  but to kick you into action: The sooner we  act on climate , the sooner we can preserve these cherished traditions. Or at least adjust these traditions to accommodate a warmer wor...

For this year’s Earth Day (22 nd of April) which happens the same day that Heads of State sign the Paris Climate Agreement in New York it’s time to reassess the impact of Rio+20.  The Climate agreement is of course a daughter of the 1992 Earth Summit. It is  a huge achievement. At Rio+20 it was clear that neither some of the large NGOs nor the majority of press understood the significance of the conference. Perhaps it’s because it was compared to Rio 1992 which at the time I and other explained was the wrong comparison – but hay isn’t getting headlines much better for fundraising for some NGOs. To quote John Vidal the Guardian environmental journalist two weeks after Rio+20: “Read the post mortems and commentaries from Rio+20, and you'd think a global disaster had taken place. The UN multilateral system is said to be in crisis, the environment is falling off the edge, and every blade of grass and hillside is for sale. Pundits and NGOs scream that it was "the ...

The  first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970,  it   activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark  Clean Air Act ,  Clean Water Act ,  Endangered Species Act  and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 50,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. If you are interested  in getting involved then: The Climate Petition Sign up!  Join the largest climate petition to save the world. Tell local, national and international leaders to phase out carbon. Support Environmental Education Sign up! . Did you know that Congress is currently in the process of sett...