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Powers hopes for fertilizer shortage to ‘hasten transitions‘ to compost and manure

USAID Administrator Samantha Power said that food shortages caused by Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine could lead farmers to fertilizer in favor of more environmentally friendly options such as manure and compost, a development she said would be a silver lining of the dire situation. Link to full article

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Europe needs to dramatically increase recycling of raw METALS used in electric cars and renewable energy sources if it wants to become ‘carbon neutral‘ by 2050, study claims

The study by Belgian university KU Leuven found that meeting the EU‘s ‘Green Deal‘ goal will require 35 times more lithium and up to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared with what Europe uses today. Link to full article

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