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#HeyVNA Climate Hacks
So you’ve heard of a life hack, right? How about a climate hack? NBC Bay Area forecaster Vianey Arana has some ideas about how you can make small changes that will help you avoid feeding into the problem.
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Sustainable, Zero-Waste Lifestyle Shops in the Bay Area
From plastic toothbrushes to cotton rounds to squeezing shampoo out of a plastic bottle. In her Climate Hack series, NBC Bay Area forecaster Vianey Arana is sharing ideas about small changes you make a big difference for our planet. She’s also put together a list of shops across the Bay Area, all about helping people live a sustainable or zero-waste...
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Climate Hack: Toothpaste Tube Trouble
Have you ever stopped to think about the harm your toothpaste is doing to the planet? From the packaging to the harmful ingredients – none of it is good for Mother Earth. So what can we do? Stop buying toothpaste that comes in a plastic tube and look for the metal tube that can be recycled. Since a tube of...
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West Coast Sea Level Rising Faster Than Global Average
When we hear about our changing climate we often hear about rising sea levels, but where exactly is it rising?
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Urban Heat Island Effect: What It Is and What We Can Do to Fix It
Thanks in part to something called the urban heat island effect, summertime in most Bay Area cities is getting more and more unbearable each year.
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Urban Heat Island Effect: What It Is and What We Can Do to Fix It
It used to be that people didn’t need an air conditioning unit if they lived in cities by the San Francisco Bay, such as Berkeley, Oakland or San Francisco. But thanks in part to something called the urban heat island effect, summertime in most Bay Area cities is getting more and more unbearable each year. Melissa Colorado reports.
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Where to Find Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Shops in Northern California
To help stem climate change and keep our environment clean and safe, there are a number of eco-friendly shops in the Bay Area and Northern California that focus on reuse, recycling and zero waste.
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Sierra Snowpack Has Major Drop Over The Past Decade
Sierra snowpack is so vital to California as it provides one third of the state’s water supply and it seems more and more lately we are seeing this dwindle. You can see from 2002 to 2011 60% of the time the Sierra snowpack was 100% or better, a pretty good trend. But take a look at the data for Sierra…
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Green Wave: Many, Many More Electric Cars Are Coming
In addition to Tesla, other Bay Area companies are stepping up to offer more ways to go green behind the wheel.
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Climate Hack: Eco-Friendly Shampoo
Did you know there’s a better, more eco-friendly way to purchase and use your shampoo? Rather than buying a shampoo in a plastic bottle, you can go to certain shops to refill a reusable container.
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2020 Tied for Warmest Year Globally on Record
Despite many efforts to go greener our temperatures continue to rise. 2020 is now tied with 2016 for some of the warmest global temperatures on record.
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2020 Tied for Warmest Year Globally on Record
Despite many efforts to go greener our temperatures continue to rise. 2020 is now tied with 2016 for some of the warmest global temperatures on record. Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri reports.
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She Interned for NASA at 14. Now This Stanford Student Is Helping the World Better See and Understand Climate Change
Liza Goldberg, a freshman at Stanford University, is helping young people around the world better see and understand climate change.
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She Interned For NASA At Age 14, Now This Stanford Student Is Helping The World Better See And Understand Climate Change
Liza Goldberg, a freshman at Stanford University, is helping young people around the world better see and understand climate change. Garvin Thomas reports.
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Climate in Crisis: Could Arctic Sea Ice Reach an All-Time Low in 2021?
As we approach what is typically the peak for Arctic sea ice extent in March, the impacts from 2020 — the warmest on record for the region in the satellite era — are still leaving their mark.
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Climate in Crisis: Could Arctic Sea Ice Reach an All-Time Low in 2021?
As we approach what is typically the peak for Arctic sea ice extent in March, the impacts from 2020 — the warmest on record for the region in the satellite era — are still leaving their mark. Chief Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri reports.
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Climate Hack: Coffee Pod Catastrophe
Single-use coffee pods are great when you want to brew just one cup of joe. But they’re not so planet friendly. Worldwide, more than 120,000 are made every minute. Each of those pods takes 500+ years to break down. Switching to refillable coffee pods can help keep more than 56 billion single-use pods out of the landfill each year.
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Climate Hack: Paper Towel Mess
Sometimes, life gets messy. And when we go to clean things up most of us grab the roll of paper towels. But when we do that, we’re killing thousands of trees. There’s a simple swap you can make the next time you go to clean up a mess that will help save those trees!
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Climate Hack: Dirty Dishes, Dirty Planet
When we go to do the dishes, most of us reach for dish soap in those plastic bottles. And when the bottles are empty, pieces of them end up in the ocean instead of getting recycled. Switching to bars of dish soap can help eliminate plastic waste, keeping our oceans a bit cleaner.
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Taxing Our Lungs: What Wildfire Smoke Is Doing to Our Bodies
When a wildfire breaks out, it doesn’t just devour everything in its path. It also sends dangerous particles into the air.