Current Efforts

Have you ever seen a freight train stretched out before you, a near-endless procession of wagons hauling coal? Maybe you were sitting at a railroad crossing, watching the cars clatter by, or standing on a bridge as the train thundered underneath. Think about what happens when all that coal is eventually burned at its destination. Where does that pollution go? Into the air you breathe, into the water you depend on ‒ sinking invisibly into the fabric of our shared environment.

Despite rising awareness and major gains in technological efficiency, fossil fuel consumption continues to climb. Emissions grow. Pollutants accumulate. The global economy hums along, generating unprecedented levels of output ‒ while also deepening the environmental crisis. We are, in many ways, more productive than ever before, but the benefits of that productivity are being offset, and often undone, by our sheer scale of consumption.