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Happy World Oceans Day!
Celebrated annually on June 8, World Oceans Day is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty of nature, encourage conservation, and take action to restore and protect our oceans.
The importance of protecting our oceans cannot be overstated. They regulate our climate, produce a significant portion of the world's oxygen, and serve as a vital source of food and livelihood for many communities.
The Biden administration just announced a first-of-its-kind ocean conservation plan that prioritizes Indigenous knowledge
The Smithsonian and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just announced the rollout of a first-of-its-kind National Ocean Biodiversity Strategy. It's the first nationwide strategy aimed at taking action to save marine life (and, subsequently, all life).
The new strategy calls for a "stronger, more unified and inclusive approach to ocean conservation."
Importantly, the first step in the strategy brings together federal agencies, states, Tribes, and local communities to document the economic and cultural values of the ocean, ensuring all costs of a degrading ocean ecosystem are understood and included in decision-making.
Why is this good news? The total ocean territory under U.S. management covers an area larger than all 50 states combined. While protections for marine life have increased in recent years (globally, too!), much of it remains unprotected or misunderstood.
The new strategy aims to close those gaps by working alongside local and Indigenous stakeholders.
The process itself is nothing new, but this mile-long project marks the first time that geothermal energy has been used to heat and cool a shared network of buildings on this scale. (Boise, Idaho has a similar setup in place for its downtown buildings!)
Residents in the neighborhood say they feel like they "won the house lottery" when their community was handpicked for the project. It's expected to reduce the residents' greenhouse gas emissions by 60% — and cut their average utility costs by 20%.
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Paris is turning an industrial neighborhood into Olympic Village — it will become permanent housing post-Games
Potentially the first to take this kind of approach to its Olympics buildout, Paris is keeping the city's future in mind as it creates the 2024 Summer Games' Olympic Village.
Rather than the usual approach — figuring out what to do with Olympics-specific buildouts as an afterthought — Paris is building a new low-carbon, mixed-use neighborhood in a part of the city that needs more housing. Olympic athletes will just be its first residents.
Once the 2024 Games — historic already as the first to achieve gender parity — are over, the neighborhood will resume "normal" operations with rental housing, apartments for sale, offices, and more. Paris is also adding bus stations, bike paths, a park (where the athlete bus areas will be), and retail space (the athletes' medical facilities).
Why is this good news? The essentially single-use construction of the traveling Olympics is a notoriously wasteful aspect of the Games.
Aside from an incredibly sustainable and innovative way to approach construction (not the first time Paris has led the way in that regard!), the neighborhood they chose needed to be revitalized in this way. It's so thoughtful of the city to build for its needs outside of hosting the Olympics.
National parks just got $700 million in federal funds to fight climate change — and it's already making a difference
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the National Park Service was given $700 million to make its land more protected and resilient to inevitable climate change — and conservation and restoration projects are already underway across the country.
In Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks, for example, efforts are underway to preserve and protect whitebark pine trees, which are now a threatened species on the Endangered Species list.
While their goals are wide-ranging — from protecting coral reefs to studying fish in warming streams — all the projects underway will help federal lands weather the climate-changed future.
What's the nuance?While the IRA funds are a welcomed and much-needed boost to these resiliency efforts — they're mostly helping in the short term, and more support will be needed to help the parks prepare for the impacts of climate change.
A British town's first-ever Pride celebration will celebrate "inclusion" in hopes of building a lasting legacy
Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, England prides itself on being a "very inclusive place" — but there's just been one thing missing: a Pride celebration.
That all changes this year, as the town is set to stage its first Pride celebration ever, complete with a parade, family disco, drag takeover, and local businesses participating in their own unique ways.
Wotton Pride's director said she hopes the celebration will create a lasting legacy for the town — and more personally, show her own children that "growing up in a same-sex family is just the same and just as legitimate as everybody else."
Why is this good news?Everyone deserves to feel welcomed, celebrated, and safe in their community — during Pride and all year long. Pride celebrations in communities large and small do so much good to set the tone for inclusivity all year long.
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