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 →
So Can I: A 14-Year-Old, a Republic, and the Future We Owe Him
A human-and-AI collaboration. The questions are my nephew's. The heart is his too. My 14-year-old nephew has been watching. Not the way kids are supposed to watch — half-distracted, scrolling past. He watches the way you watch a storm coming in over water: closely, quietly, calculating. He has been studying this country's politics since the... Continue Reading →
The Empty Chair: Where Democracy Is Begging for a Leader
Democracy Is Begging for a Leader Somewhere tonight there is a town hall with the lights still on, and no one is certain who will unlock it in the morning. Not because the town failed. Because the ballot was blank, and no one came forward. We have learned to speak about the climate and ecological... Continue Reading →
Jon Batiste’s Tiny Desk Concert Is a Burst of Joy — Wait for It
https://youtu.be/ze4xcmBFvaE?si=jTw7VXaOSXdbXPtN Burst of Joy — Wait for It Some performances don’t just begin. They arrive. Jon Batiste’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert is one of those rare musical moments that feels like someone opened the windows, let the sunlight in, and reminded everybody in the room that music can still make people feel fully alive. From... Continue Reading →
Launch an Art Page on Twitter/X (Updated)
Climate Change Community & Climate Tribe Social Launch an Art Page on Twitter/X Climate Change Community and Climate Tribe Social now have a new temporary Art Page on Twitter/X: https://x.com/cCcArtCafe We are not exactly big fans of Twitter/X, so we are using it with gritted teeth until we can fully set this up inside Climate... Continue Reading →
Some doors only open after something breaks.
The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The setback is the setup. Hi friends, I lost my notes. All of them. Every electronic note I had built studying the CLCPA, the Scoping Plan, and the broader climate-learning tips I had been collecting along the way — gone in a single sweep. Months of careful work.... Continue Reading →
Growing Trees Fast: A Practical Guide to Quick Shade, Food, Habitat, and Climate Resilience
Fast-growing trees are more than a landscaping shortcut. They can cool homes, provide food, restore soil life, create privacy, support pollinators, protect against wind, and help communities adapt to a hotter, more unstable climate. Whether someone is planting a backyard orchard, a privacy screen, a school garden, a community food forest, or a small container... Continue Reading →
The Green Cabinet Is Coming…
“The Green Cabinet will not arrive because it is fashionable; it will arrive because reality will leave us no other choice.” - Tito The Green Cabinet Is Coming… It will arrive by necessity. There was a time when climate leadership could be treated like a niche issue, something for specialists, activists, or people who cared... Continue Reading →
Seven Years After the Warning: I Pressed Play Again — and the Earth Had Already Answered
A personal reckoning with David Wallace-Wells, then and now I pulled up the old episode again this week. The Doctor's Farmacy conversation with David Wallace-Wells — recorded in July 2019 — sat in my browser like a letter I had written to myself and forgotten to open. Back then, his book The Uninhabitable Earth was... Continue Reading →
How Google Tracks You — And Why It Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8clVdaRKA A field guide to the surveillance machine behind the search bar, and what to do about it. Google logged nearly 24,000 interactions with a single user in one month — and that user wasn’t even on Gmail. Every search, route, video, edit, and app download became another row in Google’s databases. This isn’t a... Continue Reading →
AI Is Compressing Cybersecurity Timelines: What Resilient Communities Must Do Now
Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity in one of the most important ways possible: it is compressing time. Threats that once took days or weeks to develop, test, and deploy can now move faster. Phishing messages can become more convincing. Impersonation attempts can become more personalized. Vulnerabilities can be discovered, analyzed, and acted on more quickly.... Continue Reading →
World Climate Day – May 15: When the Calendar Tells the Truth
World Climate Day, and the voices born for this moment Some days are coincidences. Today is not. May 15 is observed by communities around the world as World Climate Day — a day intended to wake the human family to what the atmosphere has been saying for decades. And by some quiet design of history,... Continue Reading →