NYC carbon footprint: 54,349,650 tons a year = 148,903 tons a day = 6,204 tons an hour = 1.72 tons a second

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (equivalent) to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric pollution.

Carbon Visuals and Environmental Defense Fund make carbon emissions feel a bit more real - the total emissions and the rate of emission. Designed to engage the 'person on the street', this version is exploratory and still work in progress.

©SommerFilms, for EARTH PEOPLES

©SommerFilms, for EARTH PEOPLES

Ross MacFarlane, Senior Advisor, Climate Solutions sat down for an interview by James Epstein-Reeves of 3BL Media at the 2011 Ceres Conference held May 11th and 12th 2011 in Oakland, CA. Climate Solutions works to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.  In this interview MacFarlane talks about their project addressing sustsainable aviation in the NorthWest.

Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres in an interview by James Epstein-Reeves of 3BL Media at the 2011 Ceres Conference held May 2011 talks about working with companies to integrate sustainability from the Board room to the copy room. She discusses making Water issues a much, much higher priority.

(NASA) Earth's global surface temperatures in 2019 ranked second-warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global temperatures in 2019 were 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) warmer than the late 19th century, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. 2019's temperatures were second only to those of 2016 and continued the planet's long-term warming trend: the five warmest years on the instrumental record have been the five last years.

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Re-imagining City Dock - Speaker Series - Dr. Tim Chapin Jul 16 2019, City of Annapolis.

Autonomous vehicles (driverless cars) are coming!

What does that mean for Annapolis? Join Dr. Tim Chapin, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University, for a thought-provoking conversation on how historic communities can integrate autonomous vehicles and shared mobility into their transportation systems and the built environment. Let's learn together! The Reimagining City Dock Speaker Series continues with this engaging evening.

Sponsored by City of Annapolis, Historic Annapolis, Maryland Hall, Severn Savings Bank, Downtown Annapolis Partnership

Unungan wisdom keeper shares the words of the elders on climate change and how we can transition to a new paradigm of the heart.

This animation shows a full one year time lapse animation of CO2 surface concentration from Jan 1, 2016 until Jan 1, 2017. The data comes from NASA's GEOS-5 numerical weather model (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/GEOS/). Light colors represent higher amounts of CO2, whereas dark colors represent lower amounts.