Can Seaweed Help Curb Global Warming?

October 24, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

It’s time for planetary-scale interventions to combat climate change — and environmentalist Tim Flannery thinks seaweed can help. In a bold talk, he shares the epic carbon-capturing potential of seaweed, explaining how oceangoing seaweed farms created on a massive scale could trap all the carbon we emit into the atmosphere. Learn more about this potentially planet-saving solution — and the work that’s still needed to get there.

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Capturing Carbon – Ecosystem Restoration: a Super Solution

September 16, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Farmers in the Eastern Cape in South Africa have replanted indigenous thicket on 330 plots, to kick-start, arguably, one of the largest ecological experiments in the world.

This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral — It’s Carbon Negative

May 29, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country’s mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.