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News reports bombard humanity with a dire warning: the planet is heading to a runaway climate breakdown. The good news is there are hundreds of solutions at hand to limit global temperature below 1.5 C.
According to Project Drawdown, stopping food waste and eating plant-rich diet are two of the top 10 climate solutions in terms of potential impact– beating solar farms and rooftop solar panels combined. The Lancet also released a report backing plant-rich diet as a way forward for a healthier body and a healthier planet.
Rowena’s new initiative: Climate Action Starts from the Kitchen. Anyone who is involved in gardening, cooking, permaculture, and other sustainability-related matters may get in touch with Rowena.
Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon at the Westvale Community Garden. (Photo: Denis/Weekly Star)
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change. The president said this would put an end to the “war on coal” and “job-killing regulations”.
The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor, and boosts fossil fuels, BBC reports .
However, as much as Trump and his oil-soaked administration want to make fossil fuels great again, the global clean energy revolution is gaining speed to the point of being unstoppable. Here are a few reasons the renewables revolution will continue without Trump’s blessing.