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I happened upon a New York Times article titled This New Year, Resolve to Green Up Your News Feed, which recommended the climate news website Grist. Highlighting climate solutions and climate justice, Grist works “to show that a just and sustainable future is within reach.” Even as it provides much-needed encouraging news—Indigenous people defending their land and fighting for climate justice, for instance, or a new insurance model for flood-prone communities—this site’s reporting pulls no punches in revealing underreported bad news or efforts toward sustainability that just aren’t panning out. ...

Veganuary The logo for Veganuary This week, I stumbled upon a rather intriguing article, Meat-eaters more likely to be disgusted by meat after taking part in Veganuary, study reveals. The premise, as outlined by the Guardian, is that: Meat-eaters who abstain to take part in Veganuary are more likely to think that meat is disgusting after giving it up for the month, researchers have found. Studies by psychologists at the University of Exeter also found that some people identify less as meat-eaters after trying to avoid animal products during January. ...

Photo by amine photographe Last weekend, I introduced Elizabeth Kolbert, one of my favorite climate and environmental writers. This week, I’d like to recommend David Wallace-Wells, the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. This book really opened my eyes to just how serious the challenges of climate change are. The idea of more than 2 degrees of warming by 2100 is grim, but I appreciate what David said in an interview: ...