Happy Thursday! Today we have an Earthy Thursday feed with earthquakes (caused by human activity); changes to farming in a climate-changed world; a zero-waste supermarket experiment in Germany; a town in Vermont goes 100% renewable; and combating climate change might just be --- free?
Those earthquakes swarms in (normally earthquake free) Oklahoma. The USGS recently concluded the high-intensity injection wells (aka "fracking") were responsible after all.
There's lots of losers (and a few winners) in future farming under climate change: big losers include the Midwestern U.S. (especially Texas), Brazil, Africa and most of Europe. Winners: mostly Russia and Canada.
Want to cut down on expensive (and unnecessary) packaging? Check out this experimental, zero-packaging-waste market in Germany.
This town in Vermont has gone 100% renewable for its electrical utilities.
A new economic analysis concludes that combating climate change will be effectively free -- because the cost of adaptation and mitigation will be much, much higher.