H&M caught burning clothes in the Atacama desert
Dear eco-nnecters,
This week it seems that the headlines we were desperately fighting to avoid, are here. But don’t let this paralyze you, turn this anxiety into action. It’s a time of reckoning, but also of awakening! We are living in such a crazy system that 1/3 of food produced is wasted, and fast fashion empires are burning their excess clothes in the Atacama desert in Chile. This insanity had to stop at some point.
It’s time for a regenerative and circular system to replace this nonsense and there are a lot of beautiful people working on it already. So don’t let the headlines scare you, use them instead to empower you.
This Week in Climate News:
🌊 Deadly floods in Las Vegas, Death Valley, Tehran and Sydney.
🇪🇺 Europe’s drought intensifies: worst in 500 years, main rivers at all time low, and major crops wilting causing food prices to rise by 11% .
⛰️ Mountain huts in the Alps closing early due to lack of water.
⛳ Climate activists in France fill golf holes with cement in response to their water ban exemption.
🔥 20 passengers injured breaking out of a train engulfed by flames in Spain.
🇨🇳 China’s longest river, Yangtze, is at all time low, threatening crops.
🇺🇸 Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act, that includes the Climate & Tax Bill, into law.
📈 Cool Trends:
🔁 The Rent Revolution
What if you could rent your neighbor’s bike for the day? Or share your tool box with the house next door? Or rent your friend’s car while he’s away? What if we could beat overconsumption by sharing?
Well the wait is over. Here 3 startups disrupting how we consume:
Hygglo & Fat Llama: rent (almost) everything
Turo & Oui Car: rent your car out.
Circos Co: rent children’s clothes and gear.
🛣️ The Amazon Highway of Doom: BR-319
2022 might be the most important year for humanity. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s current president, is campaigning, whether he wins or loses this October will set the tone for the future of the Amazon rainforest.
Part of his campaign trail is a pledge to repave BR319, a highway connecting the largest city in the Amazon, Manaus, with the rest of Brazil.
Of course, a highway cutting across a pristine rainforest is damaging for obvious reasons, but what is really scary is how much easier it will be for loggers, land grabbers and miners to penetrate the forest. A study estimated that BR-319 would result in a fivefold rise in deforestation by 2030.
If you’re Brazilian, please vote wisely this coming election. The world depends on it.
💩 WTF? news
🦭 Freya the walrus, who charmed crowds in Norway, is killed by authorities.
📽️ Academy Awards apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather for Oscars speech abuse, 50 years later.
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching: The Farm Under the City
👁 Profile of the week: @remakeourworld
🤯 Crazy fact we learnt this week: Italy is the 2nd largest consumer of shark meat in the world.