Tag: Climate Change
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Extreme Heat in Prison, Jail and ICE Detention
Experts share their best tips for investigating rising temperatures behind bars in a webinar from The Marshall Project’s Investigate This!
#oneaday Day 775: Perambulation
I've been for a walk out on the Common for the last three evenings. Tonight, I gave myself permission to take the evening off, because three days in a row is solid going, there is no need to go every single night, whatever the "sergeant major" part of my brain might say, plus my feet...
The Daily Planet #108: The China Shock, Part 9
At the recent U.N. Climate Change Conference held in Belém, Brazil, Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) played a prominent role by transporting many world leaders, signaling Brazil’s growing reliance on China for its transportation and economic transformation. While Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in a Chevrolet, most other dignitaries were chauffeured in Chinese electric and hybrid cars, highlighting China’s strong presence in Brazil’s EV market.
Journalists: How to Investigate Dangerous Heat in Prisons
Exposing the risks posed by heat behind bars requires coverage at the intersection of public health, climate change and criminal justice.
Why 2012 was the best year ever - and how 2013 can be even better
The Spectator explains why 2012 was the best year in the history of the world: It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll infli
Living sustainably in a digital society: is it even possible?
I had an interesting conversation about sustainable lifestyles on Twitter this morning. I believe that climate change is a major threat to our planet, and that we're in danger of reaching a tipping point beyond which there is no return. More generally, because my personal mission statement is to have a positive impact on the world, I'm conscious that I don't want to make an unsustainable amount of waste. Which of course, I do. Although I try to be a good citizen - I consume locally-produced pr