Reichart Blog Amalgamation

The best of Mike Reichart, the cool stuff of others.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Wins Best Actor For ‘The Revenant’

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Our Changing Climate from Jack Harries on Vimeo.

Over the last couple of months we embarked on making a short documentary about climate change. We had the opportunity to witness the effects of our changing climate firsthand and to meet the people on the front lines of campaigning for action. The film wouldn't have been possible without the support of WWF.

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EMS student among first in world to earn society’s sustainability certification | Penn State University

Mike Reichart is passionate about sustainability, and he is part of the first cohort of individuals worldwide to receive professional sustainability certification through the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. A student in Penn State’s Energy and Sustainability Policy online degree program, Reichart received the ISSP’s Sustainability Professional Certification Jan. 7.

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ESP Student Mike Reichart earns Sustainability Associate Certification

                                                                                                                     Submitted by Haley Sankey on Mon, 2016-01-11 19:22                                Penn State student in Energy and Sustainability Policy BA program earns new international sustainability certification Mike Reichart, a student in Penn State's Energy and Sustainability Policy BA program, is one of the first to earn a new Sustainability Associate Certification granted by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP). Designed for sustainability professionals, the ISSP certification requires that applicants pass a 2-hour proctored exam of 75 challenging questions. No study guides or sample questions were available in advance. In pursuing this opportunity for international sustainability certification, Mike joined a pool of candidates from around the world, with a wide range of experience and from many professional backgrounds. Only 5% of the certification candidates were students. Mike says the questions were of a wide variety and complex. He thanks Penn State's online Energy and Sustainability Policy BA program for helping him "to become one of the first" to achieve ISSP-SA status! The ISSP's sustainability certification program is the first of its kind. It includes an entry-level Sustainability Associate and advanced Sustainability Professional program. Mike participated in the inaugural beta testing of the certification program offered in November 2015. The next round of exams will be held in the second quarter of 2016. The organization plans to make exam prep material available when the program fully launches. For more information, please see ISSP Sustainability Certification.    

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New Year Resolutions

Mike Reichart's New Year Resolutions

As we enter 2016, New Year resolutions always come to mind. Of course the only problem with these resolutions is that they call for extreme changes in our lifestyles. Sure, we all need to make changes to be healthier people, but realistically it is so damn difficult to make what seems like punishing changes in 24 hours.

In order to be easier on ourselves, and maybe even keep some our resolutions,…

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President Obama addressing the country this afternoon on the completion of the Paris Climate Accord. As have been many of his speeches, this one is good.

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Success!!

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Success @COP21

We must. We can. We did! #COP21 #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/qGm7nF5yv1 — Christiana Figueres (@CFigueres) December 12, 2015 Success at COP21 will allow future generations to live comfortably in a sustainable world.  My generation must now prove that we are able to take action to limit global temperature increase through mitigation and adaptation. But for this weekend…let’s celebreate!!  …

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Global Investment in Climate Change Mitigation Reaches All-Time High in 2014

The Climate Policy Initiative indicates that climate finance has significantly increased over the last year, adding further support for a Paris climate deal. The Climate Policy Initiative’s new report, The Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2015, presents “The most comprehensive information available about which sources and financial instruments are driving investments, and how much climate finance is flowing globally.” According to the latest figures, global climate finance flows reached an all-time high of at least USD$391 billion in 2014 as a result of a steady increase in public finance and record private investment in renewable energy technologies. This is an increase of 18 percent from last year’s USD$331 billion. The majority of this climate finance went to climate mitigation projects, representing more than 90 percent of total global.

You like wonky? Try this! (I stared at it, trying to figure out where to start, sort of did that, starting studying it but then felt like all I was doing was diving down into bunny holes.)

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To Do List Spend money. Change your hairstyle. Sell your old clothes and pursue your new style with the money you get from it.

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The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Is Right Outside Your Door

One of the “most promising” ways we can engineer our planet is also one of the oldest.

When people talk about technologies that might offset climate change, they often evoke not-yet-invented marvels, like planes spraying chemicals into the atmosphere or enormous skyscrapers gulping carbon dioxide from the clouds. But in a new report, Oxford University researchers say that our best hopes might not be so complex .In fact, they are two things we already know how to do: plant trees and improve the soil. Both techniques, said the report, are “no regrets.” They’ll help the atmosphere no matter what, they’re comparatively low-cost, and they carry little additional risk. Specifically, the two techniques it recommends are afforestation—planting trees where there were none before—and biochar—improving the soil by burying a layer of dense charcoal. Between now and 2050, trees and charcoal are the “most promising” technologies out there, it said.

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A Brief History of Geoengineering (September 2015) from Inhabitants on Vimeo.

Climatologists have confirmed it is now too late to avoid certain global warming and that a shift to a low or zero carbon economy is thus vital. This implies an urgent transition to renewable energy sources as well as radical adaptive measures, which collide against established industrial monopolies. This episode gathers several geoengineering patent applications, and through these documents presents the history of these emerging technologies and the private interests, actors, think tanks, and corporations behind them.

Within the debate of climate change mitigation, geoengineering—the technological management of weather patterns and carbon capture processes—occupies an especially politicized place. It has slowly entered climate change discussions, including those of held by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. While the legitimate use of such technologies and their regulation remains unaddressed by the U.N., a rush to patent these technologies is underway.

For more series episodes and further information visit: inhabitants-tv.org/

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50 Things You Should Stop Buying & Start Making

As a society, we have become over-reliant on “ready made” products. We have lost the ability to make things from scratch. Rather than blend up some peanuts to make delicious, tasty and fresh peanut butter, we’ll spend many dollars on a jar from the store that contains artificial preservatives, unnecessary packaging and that simply lines the pockets of huge, unethical multinational corporations. Aside from foods, you… [read more]

Just a useful list of “products” - mostly food, health, and personal care stuff - you can make instead of buying.

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Fair Trade 101 with Dean

Fair Trade 101 with Dean

Dean’s Beans is a fantastic coffee company, who provides customer with REAL Fair Trade, and REAL organic coffee.    I urge you to try his coffee. My first cup of fresh ground of the Ring of Fire blend changed my definition of a good cup coffee. Thanks to Dean I currently am beginning an adventure by delving into roasting my own…

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My first video-  Discussing methods to solve climate change

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A Walk in the Woods

A Walk in the Woods

I can’t wait to see it!!

By Marcus Schneck | [email protected] Email the author | Follow on Twitter on September 02, 2015 at 9:20 PM, updated September 03, 2015 at 10:30 AM

The Robert Redford and Nick Nolte characters in A Walk in the Woods never make it even half-way along their intended 2,180-mile hike of the…

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The climate change denier who owns Fox News bought NatGeo magazine last week...

Some hot tips on climate change from Murdoch himself. (WARNING: Major misinformation included.)

But he already owns NatGeo’s TV channel, so this most recent deal is largely a solidification of something that was already happening. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re aware that National Geographic has been the nonprofit publication of the National Geographic Society, a group devoted to science and exploration, since 1888. Needless to say, the media has made a big fuss over a science grant-making magazine being bought by a climate denier. Salon has an interesting take on the real issue here being America’s deplorable lack of public broadcasting and the vicious cycle of TV channels that start out high-minded and then realize that there’s more money to be made by dumbing down. 

Incidentally, Murdoch also owns 20th Century Fox Studios, which made James Cameron’s environmental-allegory film Avatar. Fox Studios has been working to green their events for some time now. Maybe this means Murdoch won’t meddle with his newest publication, as he has with others? 

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Some more insights into the NatGeo buy out.