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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 →
There is a question hiding underneath almost every conversation about artificial intelligence and the climate, and almost nobody asks it out loud. Where does the computing happen? When you type a prompt, that request usually travels away from you. It leaves your laptop, crosses a network, lands in a building you will never see, gets... Continue Reading →
Most of us grew up learning to recognize certain dangers on the Internet. Do not open a strange email attachment. Do not give your password to someone who asks for it. Be suspicious of messages announcing that you suddenly won a prize. Do not click links from strangers. But cybersecurity has changed. Today, danger does... Continue Reading →
August 30, 2026 Some mornings I can move from one science story to the next and quickly realize that the most interesting part is not any single headline. It is the connections between them. This morning's reading moved from groundwater in Africa and Brazil to urban trees, extreme heat, wildfire smoke, ocean circulation, glacier hazards,... Continue Reading →
The Global Anthem of Shared Humanity Music has always had the power to cross borders, languages, and identities. Few songs demonstrate that more clearly than “7 Seconds,” the 1994 collaboration between Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry. More than three decades later, the song remains striking because its message begins with something almost impossibly... Continue Reading →
Inside Climate Tribe Social's Climate Emergency Control Center Inside Climate Tribe Social, our Climate Emergency Control Center collection is being developed around a simple idea: people need more than information about the Climate Emergency. We also need places where we can think together, prepare together, share what we know, and explore what practical response can... Continue Reading →
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”—Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Thoreau’s observation was written more than 170 years ago, yet it still speaks to a recognizable modern condition: the sense that time is passing while one’s deeper capacities, commitments, or aspirations remain unrealized. The problem is not that everyone must pursue a... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/uxMRgponxD0?si=-CX8ECmqmibYmtxI Featuring the Soul Purrfection Version No comment necessary? Almost. For those of us who grew up with Marvin Gaye, “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” can feel as if it has always been somewhere in the background of our lives. But hearing it again today — especially this Soul Purrfection version, with its intimate vocal... Continue Reading →
Mail-In Voting, Democratic Guardrails, Ordinary Voters — and Why This Matters to the Climate Emergency I will begin with something simple: I am not a political or voting-law expert. I am learning. And today I found myself trying to understand a Supreme Court decision involving mail-in voting that, at first, sounded technical and distant. The... Continue Reading →
“There will come a time — sooner than many expect — when the weight of our choices will decide whether we rise together or fall alone. In that moment, many of the lines that once divided us will matter far less than we imagined. It will not matter what flag we waved, what title we... Continue Reading →
An Earth Day call for cities to stop waiting and start learning Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, is Earth Day, and this year’s global theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.” That theme matters because it reminds us that climate action is not only about national pledges or international summits. It is also about what happens... Continue Reading →
Saturday was a beautiful day in Astoria Park, Queens. I arrived with my conga drum, my daughter’s dog, and a need I had been carrying for some time: the need to play. The dog was thrilled. It may have been her first visit to a dog park, and she seemed to take in every sight,... Continue Reading →
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