The EPA is awarding $7 billion for new solar. 100% of the Solar for All funding will benefit low-income and disadvantaged communities, and the projects are expected to create 200,000 jobs. Source: NRDC
Nature is now an official music artist. Streaming songs that feature nature—like ocean waves, birdsong, or falling rain—will help fund conservation through the new Sounds Right initiative. Source: Fast Company
The White House launched a new website to apply for Climate Corps jobs. Applications are now open for the American Climate Corps which will employ 20,000 young people to fight climate change. Source: NPR
Greece is expanding protected waters. Two new marine parks were announced in addition to banning trawling, or dragging heavy fishing nets across the ocean floor, and reducing plastic waste flow into water. Source: E360 Yale
Tylenol can be made without coal tar and crude oil. Researchers have devised a way of producing the pain-relief drug using poplar trees rather than petrochemicals. Source: New Atlas
13 million acres in Alaska will be protected from new oil & gas. The Biden administration said it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm. Source: Fast Company
Ocean conference raised $11 billion in conservation pledges. The 469 new commitments made at the Our Ocean Conference included pledges to establish marine protected areas; protect marine biodiversity; and fight climate change. Source: Mongabay
California to adopt nation’s first standard for ‘Erin Brockovich’ compound. The first national limit of 10 parts per billion comes more than three decades after Erin Brockovich recognized that hexavalent chromium was making residents of Hinkley, CA, sick. Source: The Hill
L.A.’s “sponge city” infrastructure is working. Changes like replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water, enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year. Source: Grist
It’s the last week of Earth Month —
🌱(4/25) False Solutions: Plastic Recycling, Green Colonialism, Carbon Capture at the Climate Museum in Soho NYC (RSVP)
🎟️(4/25) Earth to NightLife with CalAcademy and Earth Sessions in San Francisco (RSVP)
🌱(4/26) SF Climate Week Happy Hour: Climate Start-Ups Integrating Sustainability into our Daily Lives with Commons (RSVP)
🌼 (4/27) Earth Sessions: Earth Month event with Pinterest in San Francisco (Info)
🌱(4/28) Ferndale Cleanup and Meditation at Walking Lightly with the Cleanup Club (RSVP)
🌱(4/28) Venice Pier Public Beach Cleanup with Surfrider Los Angeles (RSVP)
🌱(4/30) Clean Creatives Catalyst Series Workshop: What your Agency Leadership Really Cares About (RSVP)