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We're Back And Open For Business
Little Blue Marble editorial is back from our wandering ways. Some of the more observant among you might have noticed that we've also updated our submission policy: we are now fully open to submissions for an indeterminate amount of time, so please pass along your great climate change stories for our perusal. Feel free to […]
Cornell Launches Free Climate Change Course On Sept. 11
Looking to learn about more about climate change? Consider taking Cornell's free climate change course which starts on Sept. 11 and runs until Oct. 1, 2017. You may register no matter where you live. More details here.
If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef
James Hamblin at The Atlantic examines the results of a study by Helen Harwatt at Oregon State University that examines how a single food substitution affects greenhouse gas production: beans for beef. A relatively small, single-food substitution could be the most powerful change a person makes in terms of their lifetime environmental impact—more so than downsizing […]
Gone Walkabout
If the new posts and updates are a little thin around here for the next little while, it's because Little Blue Marble editorial has gone walkabout. If you happen to be in Helsinki next week, you can join us at the 75th World Science Fiction convention where we'll be on a panel discussing climate change […]
On The Flip Side - Corporate Responsibility For Climate Change
Our last post discussed individual options for reducing one's carbon footprint. However, that can seem like a drop in the bucket when one looks at where, exactly, most carbon emissions are coming from. The Carbon Majors Report (pdf) “pinpoints how a relatively small set of fossil fuel producers may hold the key to systemic change on carbon […]
What Are The Most Effective Lifestyle Adaptations for Mitigating Climate Change?
In the absence of being able to affect what happens on the global corporate scale, many people are looking for ways to change their lifestyles to help mitigate the effects of climate change. Switching to a hybrid or electric car, composting and recycling, changing your lightbulbs from incandescent to LED, driving less, adding solar panels […]
The Uninhabitable Earth
According to David Wallace-Wells in New York Mag, we're all going to die (I read between the lines, but you could drive a truck through them). Does that sound uncomfortably alarmist? Perhaps it's beyond time we stopped coddling ourselves into thinking we've got everything more or less under control. In his well-researched "The Uninhabitable Earth", […]
150 Years of Canada
Today we celebrate 150 years of Canadian Confederation. Little Blue Marble is proud to be Canadian, but is also a citizen of the world. After a brief interlude where it seemed Canada was drifting into anti-science and anti-environmental policies, for the benefit of corporate gain, Canada has once again become a beacon of progressive values […]
Welcome to Little Blue Marble
Welcome to Little Blue Marble, a clearinghouse for the latest developments involving the climate crisis. Our mission is to bring you the best climate and sustainability news from around the web, as well as original fiction and articles exploring alternative visions about our future living with the climate crisis. Little Blue Marble got its start […]
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