A jewel of the Hispanic Caribbean culture, Puerto Puerto Rico is no stranger to environmental challenges, especially in current times. But their model for adaptability and success remain their humanity and natural understanding of environment. This is about the true adaptation of Puerto Ricans.
Reimagining a world where we all deemed essential can lead to a better (re)alignment and distribution of resources -including human talent, precious natural resources, and financial capital.
Like a splash of ice-cold water, humans had to start adapting to the harsh ecological realities of COVID-19. “The world gives us our reality,” says Dr. James de Jarnette. “We cannot completely shut ourselves from the rest of the world and go merrily along because the environment doesn’t work that way.” So, naturally, humans are forced to adapt.
Great things will come to those taking swift #ClimateAction. The past five decades of celebrating Earth Day has proven that with focused and deliberate reinforcement of environmental unity, we can make consistent progress that results in a more sustainable world.
Now is our time to be open to the silence that connects us all. For it is in this silence that we will not only grow, but also discover the common ground by which we rise together to live as one with peace, prosperity and purpose.
The biggest climate conference of 2020 will be the Earth Day Week No Fly Conference, a public, free, online event, where 100 key experts will meet virtually to share creative solutions to build a better future and avert humanity's most serious crisis - climate change.
"We're all in this together," health and government officials have been repeating this refrain ever since the novel coronavirus and the deadly disease it causes, COVID-19, emerged in Wuhan, China at the end of December 2019.
Greta Thunberg has become for many, a beacon of hope and inspiration as she calls on all governments and people of the world to wake up to the realities of climate change and take more progressive action on human-induced environmental degradation.
A jewel of the Hispanic Caribbean culture, Puerto Puerto Rico is no stranger to environmental challenges, especially in current times. But their model for adaptability and success remain their humanity and natural understanding of environment. This is about the true adaptation of Puerto Ricans.
Like a splash of ice-cold water, humans had to start adapting to the harsh ecological realities of COVID-19. “The world gives us our reality,” says Dr. James de Jarnette. “We cannot completely shut ourselves from the rest of the world and go merrily along because the environment doesn’t work that way.” So, naturally, humans are forced to adapt.
Now is our time to be open to the silence that connects us all. For it is in this silence that we will not only grow, but also discover the common ground by which we rise together to live as one with peace, prosperity and purpose.
As a student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, I was able to network through one of my professors to receive an internship at the North Carolina Coastal Reserve at Masonboro Island. I was particularly interested in the internship because it would allow me to combine both of my majors.
Just over 200 years have zipped by since humans began to truly command the planet’s resources in ways that have taken humans to unprecedented heights and advances in modern living.
The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment. Relatively overnight, it dramatically changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles.
