The Climate Daily

Planting one trillion trees by 2030? You betcha! Plus OneTreePlanted.org, and a focus on the apparel company established to plant trees: TenTree. And Meet TenTree Co-founder Derrick Emsley.  

Happy Earth Day! Cool EarthDay.org stuff, plus an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "Earth Rise." Biden's Earth Day Summit reminder and m ore cool stuff from EarthDay.org.

Thanks to a listener,  we can share with you  Winston-Salem NC's Virtual Piedmont Earth Day Celebrations, plus Winston-Salem passes clean energy/green jobs resolution. In Green Tech: It's CRISPR vs. Planting Shrubbery, and did you know shrubs can help slow climate change?  

University of Maryland's Student Government Association offers Earth Month Celebrations plus, Atlantic City/Fairfield Ct Earth Month Celebrations, too. Get ready for some NYU Earth Month festivities, and we highlight the must-see North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival!  

Lots on Biden's Earth Day Leaders Summit Leadup, and American Forests. Org Touts "Tree Equity."

Fond Du Lac Band of the Chippewa Nation temporarily halt Big Mining's copper mine construction, plus return of brown pelicans to Queen Bess Island. Meet climate champion and eco-artist Aviva Rahmani, and Outdoor Afro, a new way to commune with Nature.  

Looking for hope at the Piney Point fertilizer dam break near Tampa Bay, plus what is the Civilian Climate Corps anyway? Meet the mother of the environmental justice movement, our climate champion Hazel M. Johnson, and Happy 75th anniversary, Mark Trail!  

Pakistan's 10 Billion Tree Tsunami, plus updating the Bonn Challenge. Portugal steering toward a post-pandemic green economy, and Ethiopia's Teki Paper Bags Company employs the deaf while also saving the environment.

Amazon nixes warehouse development in Canadian wetland, plus building a global safety net for saving life on Earth. Introducing "We're All In," and can beavers help prevent climate change?  

Russia Pledges 1,000 Electric Buses on Moscow Streets by 2022, plus China Crushes Both America and Russia in the Race To Replace Diesel Buses With Electric. Maryland Passes The "Climate Solutions Now Act Of 2021" and A One Planet Summit Recap.  

We learn about S.A.F.E. Cities, plus Long Island, NY Could Solar Power Itself and More Each Year. Ocean Cleanup's Solar-Powered Robots Head Toward Cleaning Up Top Ten Plastic-Polluting Rivers, and Rwanda Criminalizes More Plastic Waste.    

An Indian engineer's revolutionary air-cleaning/energy-producing technology attracts the praise of the United Nations,  plus a deadly mudslide survivor vows to protect his city's environment. Want Healthier Kids? Let 'Em Play Outdors, and the first US city to ban new gas stations.

Dutch float huge solar panel project in a lake, plus meet Canada's Sustainabiliteens! A great listen--The Climate Music Project, and Climate Champion Emma Lim.  

Why Green Roofs matter, plus Minnesota pollution control agency  proposes $2.9 million sewer resilience improvement legislation. Red Lakes Band of Chippewa Tribe goes solar, and happy 10th anniversary of the Adaptation Fund!    

Making construction board from wheat straw, plus the city of Sevilla, Spain turns its leftover oranges into electricity. Grid scale battery storage a reality, and three days of Earth Day climate action!    

Dominion Energy to build electric car power stations along the I-95 & I-81 corridors in Washington, DC, plus t he BBC produces the world's first emissions-free outdoor broadcast. You can plant trees just by surfing the Internet with the Ecosia search engine, and  t he Global Forest Watch implements new technology to see clearly the forest and the trees on cloudy days.  

Meet youth activist climate champion, Franciso Vera, plus a Baltimore Community Restores Degraded Forest.  How many trees can two people plant, anyway? And, a mystery bird reappears after being lost to science for 172 years.      

Britain's Climate Action group halts construction of UK's largest gas-fired energy plant, plus a Maryland county makes record-breaking electric school bus purchase. Germany needs more renewable energy storage to keep up with its renewable energy production, and in our Climate Culture series, it's "Storytelling with Saris."

Solving the Oceans' Ghost Gear Problem, plus U.S./Canada enter into a lithium-ion partnership. Going net-zero could add a trillion dollars to US GDP, and welcome to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration!

Cloning brings black-footed ferret from the brink of extinction, plus thirty thousand Armenian students to get a digital climate education. Costa Rica ups its climate-saving goals, and Loudon Wainwright's "A Hard Day on the Planet" finds a new audience.

Climate Policy News--Biden Forms Cool New Federal Climate Agency, Lab-Grown Wood, Green Latinos Organize, Land Rover/Jaguar Goes All-Electric by 2025!

Mushrooms as a natural alternatives to Styrofoam, plus Generation Green New Deal takes on solar energy challenge. A profile on climate champion, Monica Jahan Bose and a new project to combine affordable housing with vertical farming.    

Drones are the new Johnny Appleseed, plus can seed-pooping animals restore degraded forests? Maryland's Climate Crisis & Education Act, and Maine startup grows kelp to eat CO2.

Turns out raw earth construction materials are great for the climate. In other words--Mud--it does your building good. Plus, Denmark plans to build an artificial island as the world's first clean energy hub. In our International segment -- the dominican republic tackles its trash problem, with an assist from germany, and oil giant Shell corporation promises to reach net-zero emission goals sooner...

Montgomery County, MD passes legislation enabling on-farm food scrap composting, plus 25 things we should do to help save the planet after the pandemic. A new study reveals the health benefits of climate action, and in our "climate and culture" segment, we meet The Climate Stories Project.