Amy Boyer

Coral hospitals in Brazil: Porto de Galinhas is working on setting up coral hospitals where coral fragments can recover from heat waves and then be transplanted, thereby keeping tourism and fisheries going. They are hoping to get tourists involved, and to spread this model to other coral areas.

 Claire Inciong Krummenacher

Talking food justice: The latest episode of America Dissected with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed features Malik Yakini, co-founder of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. They discuss the disproportionate harms industrial agriculture inflicts on low-income Black communities, building a more just food system through both sustainable and regenerative growing methods, and Yakini's vision of self-sustaining food security in Detroit.

 Courtney White

The case for investing in nature: Climate journalist Fred Pearce has an article in Yale 360 about how nature-based solutions continue to be overlooked by funders in favor of costly engineering approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation. Despite the successful track record of nature-based solutions, funders would prefer to pay engineers to build seawalls against rising tides, for example, rather than restore mangrove forests—even if seawalls often make the problem worse. More work is needed to change attitudes.

 Emily Jensen

Energy’s magic number: This new study from Stanford looks at how much energy one person really needs in order to live a happy, healthy life. They identified 75 gigajoules a year as the magic number—about a quarter of what the average American uses annually. Researchers recommended individual actions to reduce consumption (like flying less, zonal heating, and washing clothes in cold water) along with changes at the policy level (like better transportation infrastructure and stricter energy efficiency standards).

 Juliana Birnbaum

Speaking up for saguaro: Emergence Magazine, located in my neck of the woods in West Marin, publishes incredibly thoughtful multimedia pieces with regenerative themes related to nature, migration and Indigenous worldviews.  I've been struck by Arizona's magic and appreciated this piece on the rights-of-nature movement and the coalition of native voices speaking on behalf of saguaro cactus at the U.S.-Mexico border where the building of a border wall and climate change threaten the iconic desert beings.

 Kavya Gopal

Crop diversity matters: The Guardian recently published a piece that maps the increasing homogeneity in our crops and our diets. No surprise, this homogeneity makes our global food system extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The piece argues that valuing crop diversity and saving endangered foods like wild arabica coffee will need many hands, with agroecologists and regenerative farmers leading the way.

 Robert Denney

A new way to store renewable energy: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a prototype for a “freeze-thaw battery” that could help with renewable energy’s intermittency problem. The prototype works by freezing molten salt, which can then later be reheated to let trapped energy flow out. This creates a battery that can retain 92% of the energy stored in it for 12 weeks. Molten salt also has the benefits of being cheaper than lithium-ion batteries and avoiding the use of rare materials.

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