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ChatGPT said: Before you click away, please take a moment to scroll down and explore the extended list of links at the end of this article. You will be hard-pressed to find another collection this long, this carefully selected, and this focused on honest news, media ethics, and the realities of the Climate and Ecological... Continue Reading →
Why can China build an electric car for around $5,000 while America struggles to sell truly affordable new vehicles? Que Humanidad / Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced | Image from Pexels - not vehicle mentioned A new video from Motion Evolution Studio asks a provocative question: why can China build an electric... Continue Reading →
The speed of our response, as nations and as a species, is not matching the speed of the problem. Que Humanidad / Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Earth is shared. We share it with every living thing that swims, flies, crawls, roots, and breathes. More recently, we have begun sharing it with... Continue Reading →
Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Some weeks the news arrives in a trickle. This week it came in all at once. Four research releases published on ScienceDaily between September 6 and September 23, 2026 tell four separate stories: a surprise snowfall surge in Antarctica, a weakening Atlantic Ocean current, a record-low Lake... Continue Reading →
A Learning Out Loud installment for the SDL5.org community It started in a comment section. A YouTube video was working through the power of deception wielded by the very rich, and someone dropped a line into the comments and kept moving, the way people do: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the... Continue Reading →
Every Sunday I set aside time to work through the week's news and updates in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It is not a hobby and it is not doom-scrolling. It is preparation. Running websites, online communities, email systems, and public-facing climate-education projects means that the decisions I make about technology affect other people — their... Continue Reading →
COP, Three Decades of Climate Diplomacy, and the Road to Antalya Global climate talks. Real-world consequences. On November 9, 2026, delegations from nearly every nation on Earth will file into the Antalya EXPO Center on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast for COP31, the thirty-first United Nations climate summit. For two weeks, ministers and negotiators will argue over... Continue Reading →
Dissecting “Make America Great Again” — and What the Slogan Costs Us Now I turn 26 on September 11th. (For the purpose of this article lets pretend that I turn 26 on September 11th. Which means I was one year and one day old when the towers came down. I have never drawn a single... Continue Reading →
And it is not the only thing pressing on us The Climate and Ecological Emergency is not only reshaping coastlines, ecosystems, food systems, and public health. It is also reshaping how people feel, cope, sleep, grieve, work, and imagine the future. From acute trauma after disasters to the quieter ongoing strain of climate worry, the... Continue Reading →
(Pulled from Climate Tribe Social's - Health Challenge Space - this space opens soon...) There is a question that sounds simple and turns out not to be: is the food on our plates as nourishing as the food our grandparents ate? The short answer is that some of it is measurably not — and that... Continue Reading →
Americans have always been known for being kind, proud, and helpful. That is still true. It is true on my block, it is true in the churches and bodegas and union halls, and it is true in the hands of the people who show up when something breaks. Many trusted the words of someone running... Continue Reading →
How judgment, assumptions, and blame quietly dismantle the relationships we need most A message sits unanswered for three days. On the fourth, you stop checking. By the second week, you have decided what the silence means — and you are no longer speaking to someone you loved, over a story you told yourself. Relationships rarely... Continue Reading →
