FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For media inquiries, please contact: demarines@sustainableeartheating.org Earth Reaches Alarming 1.5-Degree Celsius Temperature Increase for 2023, Scientists Raise Urgent Concerns Meat production implicated Washington, DC 2.22.2024 – In a concerning milestone, the global average temperature on Earth has now surged to a 1.5-degree Celsius increase for the current year, prompting widespread apprehension among […]
1-11.2024 Letter to the Editor: A Green Diet for a Green Earth: The Benefits of Plant-Based Eating By Jane DeMarines, Executive Director, Sustainable Earth Eating Our modern lifestyle is becoming unsustainable. Greenhouse gases are warming the planet more and more each year. Chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes are becoming the norm. And the […]
Read on…and including one BIG WISH for the World—from MD’s 8th District Congressman Contact: demarines@sustainableeartheating.org Washington, DC–12/29/2023 – As 2023 slides into the past, we’re all hoping for great things in the new year. Here is what climate leaders, including Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, wish for the Planet and all of us in the New […]
For Immediate Release: Contact: Sustainable Earth Eating: demarines@sustainableeartheating.org 202-997-8785 www.sustainableeartheating.org Sustainable Earth Eating Calls on Pope Francis to Reinstate Meatless Fridays in New “Environmental Encyclical” Washington (11.09.23) — As the global community grapples with the urgent need to address the environmental crisis, Sustainable Earth Eating, a leading climate, and food organization, has officially reached out […]
For Release 9/13/23 Contact: demarines@sustainableeartheating.org Climate Scientist Joins Sustainable Earth Eating Advisory Board Washington, DC – Sustainable Earth Eating’s (SEE) Chair Edgar Ndjatou announced that David E. Blockstein, PhD, Co-Director, Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week, reaching more than 100,000 students in 70 countries, has joined SEE’s advisory board. Blockstein is an ecologist and […]
Eat Smart to Save the Planet Sustainable Earth Eating Raises Concerns on USDA’s Greenhouse Gas Strategy WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sustainable Earth Eating (SEE) has submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding its “Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors,” open for public feedback until […]
By Elizabeth Weise with USA Today Summers are always hot. But this summer is different in some profound ways. Record-breaking temperatures are hitting multiple cities. Phoenix recorded an unprecedented nineteen consecutive days over 110 degrees. Death Valley reached 128 on Sunday. Records are falling everywhere. It’s not your imagination: This is not a typical summer. The extreme temperatures […]
Washington, DC – June 28, 2023: As the country prepares for 4th of July celebrations with backyard barbecues, a new survey of consumers shows broad awareness of meat production’s massive impact on the environment, including rainforest deforestation, huge water and land use and animal species decimation, and showed a high level of willingness among participants […]
Many, if not most of us, will celebrate Memorial Day and warmer weather with food, friendship and outdoor and indoor gatherings– often focused on grilling meat, barbecuing ribs or certainly burgers—as we honor our Nation’s veterans. It is a tradition in the United States to make meat part of the celebratory events—but maybe it’s time […]
Contacts: Lisa DeCrescente, lisa@farmusa.org Nicole Berger, n.berger@sustainableeartheating.org 104.1 DJ Soul Emcee’s Planet Bethesda Food & Music Festival, Shares Inspirational Health Journey and Dance Party Beats Event Spotlights BIPOC Food Vendors, Multicultural Foods (Bethesda, MD – May 25, 2023) When the Planet Bethesda festival returns to Elm Street Park on June 4, 2023, the party will be pumping […]
Contacts: Lisa DeCrescente, lisa@farmusa.com Nicole Berger, n.berger@sustainableeartheating.org (Bethesda, MD – May 9, 2023) In less than a month, the Planet Bethesda festival returns to Elm Street Park on June 4, 2023, building on the success of the inaugural event in 2022. The food and music festival celebrates World Environment Day and the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. […]
Contact: n.berger@sustainableeartheating.org (Bethesda, MD – Apr. 25, 2023) Sustainable Earth Eating applauds a settlement announced by the D.C. Attorney General that will further curtail pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the U.S., largely caused by animal agriculture. According to D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb, a proposed settlement was reached on April […]
Northern Ireland’s capital city, Belfast, has joined five other UK councils and major world major cities such as Amsterdam and Los Angeles in signing on to a campaign to curb climate change by curbing humanity’s appetite for meat, vegconomist reported. The global Plant Based Treaty calls for the cessation of land use change and ecosystem […]
Damage to farming, infrastructure, productivity, and health from climate change will cost an estimated $38 trillion per year by mid-century, according to a German government-backed study, Riham Alkousaa reported for Reuters. Yet less than a sixth of that amount is all it would cost to limit global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) of […]
Tens of thousands of people died in climate-change-influenced weather events around the world last year, according to a review of data, Samantha Harrington reported in Yale Climate Connections. By 2030, such deaths could hit 250,000 annually, the World Health Organization says. Featured in the article is nine-year-old Carter Vigh, who lived in British Columbia, where […]
After decades of prioritizing oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining, and livestock grazing on public lands across the country, the federal government will auction off “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve the lands, Maxine Joselow reported in the Washington Post, as a new far-reaching rule from the Interior […]
According to Washington Post (4/29/24) reporter Sarah Kaplan, for nearly a week at the beginning of April, the temperature in Bamako hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The cost of ice spiked to 10 times its normal price; an overtaxed electrical grid sputtered and shut down. With much of the majority-Muslim country fasting for the holy […]
Climate Diet CEO Jane DeMarines joined Plant-based Chef Erin DeMarines for Dr. Sailesh Rao’s Quarterly V-COP conferences on climate on April 28th by Zoom. (Rao is CEO of Climate Healers, Phoenix). The two DeMarines’ teamed up first laying-out disturbing climate records being set (see below) while the younger DeMarines addressed solutions available to all of […]
In a desperate search for financing to secure Belizean land against deforestation, conservationists are pinning their hopes on carbon credits, an emissions reduction incentive that has been criticized for allowing corporations to continue to pollute and not achieving real reductions, Nicholas Kusnetz wrote for Inside Climate News. Elma Kay, managing director of the nonprofit Belize […]
In an open letter organized by the student-led Plant-Based Universities campaign, more than 650 academics have called on British universities to commit to vegan meal catering to fight the climate crisis, likening such a move to the fossil fuel divestment to which 101 UK universities have already committed, Damian Carrington reported for the Guardian. “We […]
Having identified a growing market in the production of plant-based products, Irish shellfish producer Errigal Bay is planning an oat milk facility in the county of Donegal, in an area originally intended as a seafood cold store, which the company no longer sees as viable, according to a report at vegconomist.com. A third of Irish […]
The greenhouse gas emissions data the world’s nations report to the United Nations climate convention are typically out of date, inconsistent, and incomplete, Fred Pearce wrote for Yale Environment 360. Therefore, compliance with agreed emissions targets cannot be verified, analysts say. However, according to the article: “Satellite data shows methane emissions from oil and gas […]
Home to 80 million dairy farmers whose 303 million cows made 231 million tons of milk last year, India is the world’s third largest emitter of planet-warming methane, Sibi Arusa wrote for the Associated Press, describing how the country is responding to the climate crisis. Livestock produce about 48% of India’s methane, and the federal […]
Since 2010, when its conservative legislature passed a resolution essentially writing denialism into state policy, Utah has been hit hard enough by climate change to shift its politics on the issue, Marcus Baram reported for Capitol & Main. Two self-professed climate candidates are running to succeed Mitt Romney in the US Senate in light of […]
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