Biden establishes Office of Environmental Justice & more environmental news.

[View this email in your browser]( Tuesday, April 25, 2023 "The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.” — Joshua Becker ‘A Sense of Place’: Three 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Protect Their Homes On Saturday, we celebrated our mother [Earth](. Now, it’s time to celebrate the human beings who defend her. The 2023 [Goldman Environmental Prize]( winners — chosen from all six continents for their grassroots environmental activism — were announced Monday and will be formally celebrated at the San Francisco Opera House at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time. “Now that the world has awakened to acute environmental crises like climate change, fossil fuel extraction, and pollution of our air and water, we are much more aware of our connections to each other and to all life on the planet,” Goldman Environmental Foundation President John Goldman said in a press release shared with EcoWatch. [Read More]( Related: [Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners]( Biden Establishes Office of Environmental Justice President Biden on Friday signed an executive order creating a new Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) within the White House Council on Environmental Quality. [Read More]( Related: [EPA to Fund Network of Centers to Help Marginalized Communities Access Environmental Justice Money]( North Sea Nations Promise to Quadruple Offshore Wind Capacity by 2030 Several European countries surrounding the [North Sea]( are ready to commit to quadrupling their [offshore wind]( power capacity by 2030 as they set out to turn the region into an enormous [renewable energy]( hub. [Read More]( Related: [Recycled Turbine Blades to Join One of the World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms]( Algae Growing Under Arctic Sea Ice Found Contaminated by Microplastics A new study has noted concentrations of microplastics in Melosira arctica, a type of algae that grows underneath sea ice in the Arctic. As a nutrition source at the bottom of the food web, scientists are concerned about wildlife that eat the contaminated algae. [Read More]( Related: [Microplastics Found in Lungs of Living People for First Time, and Deeper Than Expected]( Cut Down on Plastic By Making These 10 Kitchen Staples From Scratch Of all plastic produced, only 9% ever gets recycled, [according to National Geographic]( and 8 million metric tons make [their way into oceans]( year, much of which is single-use plastic. Cutting down on single-use plastics in your life might mean bringing your own reusable straw on a coffee run, swapping plastic bags for reusable totes, or ditching disposable water bottles; but, it’s time to take it a step further and address the waste we accumulate through our grocery choices. [Read More]( Related: [8 Reusable Kitchen Essentials]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2023 EcoWatch, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for EcoWatch Top News of The Day Our mailing address is: EcoWatch 1122 Oberlin RoadRaleigh, NC 27605 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](