(The is the 1st draft of this post, the final one can be found at climatechangecommunity.com using the same featured images...) Three powerful commentaries by filmmaker Matthew Cooke expose the connections between ethnic domination, economic exploitation, and the dangerous illusion that elections alone can rescue a broken political system. Three Crises. One System. And a... Continue Reading →
Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency
Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency In an age of storms, scrolls, and synthetic media, how carefully we vet what we read, and how thoughtfully we share it, may be one of the quietest and most important forms of courage left to us. Claude AI... Continue Reading →
AI: It Isn’t the Machine That Worries Me. It’s the Hands on the Controls.
A personal reflection on AI, greed, the Five Emergencies, and what we owe our children I want to begin with something personal, before any statistics, before any argument. I am worried. Not in the abstract, headline-scrolling way, but in the way that sits in your chest when you think about the children you love and... Continue Reading →
“You Too Woke”: A Word Worth Waking Up To
A few weeks ago, a woman walked up to me, said “You too woke,” and walked away. No conversation, no explanation. Just a label, delivered and left behind like a note on a windshield. I shrugged it off at the time. But ever since, I hear that word everywhere: in political speeches, on the news,... Continue Reading →
Methane Is Still Rising: Why the World Should Be Paying Much More Attention
Forget Halloween, this is some scary sh$t! A fact-checked look at the methane problem: how fast it is growing, where it comes from, what the newest science says about the recent surge, and why cutting it is one of the fastest climate wins available to us. There is a climate story that deserves far more... Continue Reading →
Start Small, Start Now: Building Adaptive Resiliency for Ourselves and for Each Other
Test blog post... testing local-based AI... Why self-preservation and collective preservation are no longer separate projects, and how neighborhoods can begin the work this week There is a quiet question sitting underneath most conversations about the Climate and Ecological Emergency right now. It is not "Is this real?" Most of us have moved past that.... Continue Reading →
Sujétate la Lengua: Hold Your Tongue
“This isn’t about anyone in particular; it’s about all of us, me included.” El chisme, la crueldad y la comunidad que nos merecemos / Gossip, cruelty, and the community we deserve Versión en Español- English Version Follows Below: Escucha primero: Eddie Palmieri – Sujétate la Lengua (feat. Ismael Quintana): https://youtu.be/2WopF0paqT0?si=P6mi6fBZ__wLY2OkFind another link for a longer... Continue Reading →
The 2026 Mid-Term Elections: In the Raw — Through the Whispers!
There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from what you really are inside.You never gain from telling lies; the truth wears no disguise.— The Whispers #MidTermElections2026 #Whispers #MoralLeadership #HumanDignity #VoteWisely #Democracy #LatinasYLatinos #TheFiveEmergencies Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, 2026 An appeal for truth, integrity, human dignity, and the moral courage to choose our leaders wisely.... Continue Reading →
What Our Voting Messages Reveal About Us…
Racism, division, cruelty, and hate say more about the people using them than about the people they target.
Three Free Doorways to a University-Level Education
Turning Knowledge into Climate Competence, Community Empowerment, and Adaptive Resiliency Why free education may be one of our most powerful tools for confronting the Climate and Ecological Emergency—and why nobody should be excluded from learning because they cannot afford tuition. Protecting our children, biodiversity, and the future of a habitable Earth begins with knowledge. There... Continue Reading →
Dire Warning: We Are Paying to Destroy the Life That Keeps Us Alive
Cold Reality: Our governments promise to protect nature in one room and then write checks to destroy it in another. As the COP17 Biodiversity Summit opens in Armenia, the numbers reveal a planet being dismantled with our own tax dollars The short version: Nearly 200 nations are meeting in Yerevan to check on the promise... Continue Reading →
Elections 2026: Hold Me Accountable
With the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3, just weeks away, there are three words I would love to hear from everyone asking for our vote: "Hold me accountable." For those who refuse to be held accountable, especially some of those holding office right now, those three words are like garlic to a vampire. And... Continue Reading →