Bill McKibben and 350.org

Bill McKibben

William Ernest McKibben, commonly known as Bill McKibben, was born on the 8th of December 1960 (he is now 58 years of age). He attended high school in the suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts and in 1978 (age 18) he entered Harvard University. In 1980 after the election of Ronald Reagan he decided to dedicate his work for an enviormental cause. 

In 1989 McKibben released his book titled The End of Nature that is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and in the 2013 won of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize and in 2014 won the Right Livelihood Prize. He is also the founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide climate change movement. This organism which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country except North Korea and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

McKibben is still passionate about is work and wants to write about 12 more books and to expand his knowledge on Climate Change.

Thanks to Gabriela for sharing what she found out about Bill and his movement!!

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Environmental news this week...

The new diet that could save the planet!

According to a study about sustainable diet, we are allowed to eat 1 meat burger a week OR 1 steak a month in order to keep our personal resource use and carbon footprint at a sustainable level. The change is to eat more legumes, vegetables and nuts to get protein in other ways... and this would be more healthy too!

The article comes from a newspaper aimed at secondary school students called The Day

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Recent Environmental News...

Dog Food made from insects 

The first dog food made from insects goes on sale this week in the United Kindom. This is a new project to help reduce the damage we do to the environment. In present time it is estimated that our pets consume 20% of the meat and fish and is also responsable for a quarter of enviormental impacts of meat production. 

By making dog food from insects we reduce the amount of cow meat dogs have in there food. By doing this we also reduce the amount of demand we have on cow meat and by that we help on global warming since the gas the cows release is bad.

If you are worried about your dogs health there is no need. Insects provide a relatively high 40% of the protein, they are very nutritious, contain essential proteins, fats, minerals and amino acids and are also easy for animals to digest. 

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Thanks to Gabriela and Samuel for sharing the news!

Environmental News this week..

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet -- 61 centimeters -- higher by the end of the century compared to today. Also this has a great impact on the animals such as penguins and polar bears. The ice melts so the animals die. This can also cause greats tsunamis and flood.

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Thanks to Bruno Bofarull for finding the news!