Business Leaders for Climate Action

by makromedien | 9.Sep. 2019 | News | 0 comments

About BLCA

Business Leaders for Climate Action is a network of forward thinking businesses, associations, and industry leaders calling for Massachusetts to put a price on carbon.

Carbon pricing is quickly becoming “the new normal” across the country and the globe. In the US, 17 states either already have campaigns underway to put a price on carbon or are initiating them. Massachusetts has a tradition of leadership on major issues from abolition to women’s suffrage to healthcare. We can make history again by demonstrating that this innovative policy will not only reduce emissions but also improve our economy. Our leadership will help move policy forward in other states and at the federal level, showcasing Massachusetts at the forefront.

BLCA welcomes all businesses to our network to join the conversation, participate in monthly calls, and receive periodic updates on our campaign. Click here to connect with us.

Tackling climate change is the greatest challenge and the greatest economic opportunity of our generation.

Business Leaders for Climate Action is ready to take on this opportunity. Economists, politicians, and business leaders from all sides of the aisle agree that an economy-wide carbon price is the most efficient and cost-effective tool to achieve significant emissions reductions while ensuring a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy. Pricing carbon will harness the power of the market, encouraging clean energy and efficiency, spurring innovation and stimulating economic growth.

The Economic Success of British Columbia’s Carbon Pricing Policy

Jane Goodall gets awarded the Environmental Peace Prize 2019

by makromedien | 23.Aug. 2019 | News | 0 comments

Outstanding Environmental Peace Award 2019

The Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Environmental Peace seeks to recognize sustainable development, environmental governance, natural resource management, and environmental conflict management from an ecological perspective.

It can encompass a broad range of themes, including Food Systems, Water Management, Forestry, Coastal Resources, Climate Change, and Urban Ecology;
Can go to person, organisation, or physical area which builds peace directly and/or promotes culture of peace via environmental initiatives or practices;
Global coverage over the years.

Dr. Jane Goodall receives Award for Outstanding Environmental Peace 2019

Dr. Goodall, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, learned from her time studying wild chimpanzees and their habitats that everything is connected. This helped her innovate community-centered conservation, based on the idea that when we put local communities at the heart of conservation, we can improve the lives of people, other animals, and the environment. Founded in 1977, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) advances Dr. Goodall’s holistic approach through two main mission supporting goals and a tapestry of eight objectives that build on each other bringing the power of hope to life. Their objectives of Understanding Chimpanzees, Protecting Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes, Advocacy & Public Awareness, Chimpanzee Welfare, Roots & Shoots, Science and Technology, and Jane’s Legacy work together to create a healthy planet where people make compassionate choices to live sustainably in harmony with each other, other animals and the environment we all share.

Once people realize their power to make a difference in the lives of their families, communities, and environment, there’s no going back—only forward. The Jane Goodall Institute helps one success lead to another as they build on the impact made together: restoring critical habitat to save chimpanzees from extinction; improving health for women and education for girls; cultivating local livelihoods in harmony with nature; and helping young people become the informed generation of compassionate change-makers the world so urgently needs through JGI’s Roots & Shoots youth program in more than 50 countries. Over nearly three decades since it was founded by Dr. Goodall, young people of all ages in more than 100 countries have been involved in the program.

charity:water – providing access to clean water for everybody

by makromedien | 7.Aug. 2019 | News | 0 comments

Our Mission

charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries

663 million people live without clean water. That’s nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, or, twice the population of the United States without access to life’s most basic human need. The majority live in isolated rural areas and spend hours every day walking to collect water for their family. Not only does walking for water keep kids out of school and take up time that parents could be using to earn money, but the water often carries diseases that make them sick.

When a community gets access to clean water, it can change just about everything.

It can improve health, increase access to food, grow local economies, and help kids spend more time in school.

The water crisis is huge, but it is solvable. We work with local experts and community members to find the best sustainable solution in each place where we work, whether it’s a well, a piped system, a BioSand Filter, or a system for harvesting rainwater. And with every water point we fund, our partners coordinate sanitation and hygiene training and establish a local Water Committee to help keep water flowing for years to come.

We invite you to learn about the stories of the men, women, and children living without clean water, and how you can help. Find Someone Like You.

Then, join us and make an impact. For $30, you can bring one person clean water. Join our monthly giving community The Spring, and give the gift of clean water all year round.

Please watch this very inspiring video on how it all began and what was achieved eversince…

Find more inspiring stories and informations on CleanWater:The Spring Project here …

Urban Terrazzo – new materials gained out of demolition waste

by makromedien | 18.Jul. 2019 | News | 0 comments

Whenever an old building has to be demolished or its core removed, an enormous amount of demolition waste is produced.

What seems like a pile of rubble, which usually ends up on our local dump sites,

can actually be the beginning of a great new material story …

WHO ARE THEY?

‘They Feed off Buildings‘ is a design and architecture collective from Berlin (Germany), which specializes in material research and design installations. The studio works in a core team of inventors and a broad network of collaborators. In their projects they unite a team with an expertise in design, material research, architecture, film and photography. Their performative design installations explore a new perspective on architecture, design and its materiality.

The project ‘Urban Terrazzo‘, which travels through various cities to explore the utilization of available material from architectural demolition, illustrates one of those experiments. The products developed during those explorations show new possibilities for the contemporary application of sustainable building materials.

The Core Team

Luisa Rubisch – Design & Urban Planning

Rasa Weber – Design & Interior Architecture

The TFOB collective works in a core-team of developers and founders.

Project-based TFOB works in a broad network of collaborators from the

creative industries, technology and industrial production, in order to tell unexpected

material stories of the future and create new circular models of production.

Read all about this amazing venture, winner of the

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and winner of the German Design Award 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY / Photosources : all rights belong to HANNES WIEDEMANN AND THEY FEED OFF BUILDINGS

Transparent Solar Panels Developed at Michigan State University

by makromedien | 17.Jun. 2019 | News | 0 comments

photo source: Richard Lunt/Michigan State University – no copyright infringement intended

Imagine a city that’s actually a vast solar energy harvesting system. A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a technology that can turn transparent surfaces, from building windows to cell phones, into solar collecting surfaces – without obstructing the view.

Watch the video and read all about this groundbreaking invention here…

I imagine my cellphone cover glass being able to collect solar energy while I’m exposing it to daylight. Wouldn’t that be just a genius strike? This and a lot more now seems possible, since reacherchers from Michigan State University developed this incredible see-through version of a solar panel.
Go read all about this groundbreaking new invention in this article by The Open Mind Staff Contributor.

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Art Project “In Your Face” against microplastic in cosmetics and cleaning products

by makromedien | 12.Jun. 2019 | Event, News | 0 comments

Photo Source: Ranga Yogeshwar: Physiker, #Scientists4Future – Luisa Neubauer: Akivistin #FridaysForFuture – Dieter Hallervorden: Schauspieler © Saskia Uppenkamp

Project

“IN YOUR FACE”

50 Beaches – 50 Faces

Art meets science, meets politics!

We must strongly oppose the pollution of our oceans with all available means. Now!

Ocean.Now! is a young NGO, who aims to raise awareness of the damage being done and condition of our seas through public relations and dialogue between science, art and politics.

By using art, we want to viscerally highlight current environmental problems in the oceans and, thereby, stimulate dialogue between politicians and citizens and, in particular, make decisions makers in politics and society think twice. The destruction of the source of all life on earth, the oceans, demands that we fight vigorously NOW.

For this reason, we cooperated with the artist Swaantje Güntzel for our first project (autumn/ winter 2018). Together we used her piece “Microplastics II”, which illustrates the destructive character of microplastics, and projected it onto politically significant locations within Berlin to attract attention to our petition under the motto #banmicroplastics.

Currently, we are collecting donations for our second project being held on the “World Day of the Oceans”, where we are exhibiting a special art installation associated with our petition against microplastics in cosmetics and cleaning products. Until now, our petition has over 30,000 supporters and we hope to further increase awareness of microplastics and our petition by an additional media-effective art installation, which will be presented offline around Berlin and online, on social media.

Moreover and as part of the handing over of our petition, we are planning a gathering of politicians, scientists and art to create awareness through education; because there is no time to leave next generations to set the course for tomorrow!

photo: all rights by https://zerowasteverein.de/

Sign the petition and help to legally abolish all microplastics in cosmetics and cleaning products!

“We have to convince the people in the world that they should tell the politicians that they’re concerned.”

– Sir David Attenborough

Ocean. Now! is a collective accelerating ocean protection. We work with the medium of art to end the destruction of the Ocean. Now!

50% of all oxygen on earth is generated by the ocean
The ocean absorbs 90% of our global warming
33% of the global population survives due to ocean proteins

Sign our open letter to the ministry of the environment!

Here’s an excerpt:

“Sehr geehrte Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze,

wir fordern Sie auf: Verbieten Sie den Zusatz von Kunststoffen in Kosmetik und Reinigungsmitteln – und zwar generell. Das heißt nicht nur die gemeinhin bekannten Mikroplastikkügelchen, sondern auch flüssige, gel-, pasten- und wachsartige Kunststoffe müssen verboten werden.”