Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), a member of the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, today unveiled the Clean Cars... Continue Reading →
A key part of the United States' clean energy transition has started to take shape, but you may need to squint to see it. About 2,000 wind turbines could be built far offshore, in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast, in the next 10 years. And more are expected. East Coast states from Maine to... Continue Reading →
Offshore Wind Power Is Ready to Boom. Here’s What That Means for Wildlife
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Our Nation has an abiding commitment to empower our workers and communities; promote and protect our public health and the environment; and conserve our national treasures and monuments,... Continue Reading →
Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis
The leader of the United Nations warned Monday of “existential threats” to the global climate and biodiversity. Speaking to the World Economic Forum, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that today’s world suffers from “fragility,” invoking issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and resulting job losses. “We also see fragility in the climate and biodiversity crisis. Both... Continue Reading →
UN chief warns of ‘existential threats’ to climate, biodiversity…
Christmas Eve of 2020 brought a storm to the Hudson Valley that one might describe as tropical. Temperatures reached upwards of 60° Fahrenheit, wind speeds hit 60 miles per hour, and parts of the region received over two inches of rain. This followed, by about eight days, a winter storm that in a matter of... Continue Reading →
How Hudson Valley Farmers Are Experiencing Climate Change
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. At JRF and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT), we share two overarching outcomes: Everyone has a decent home in a good place. Everyone has good living standards and prospects. Through research, policy, collaboration and practical solutions, JRF aims to... Continue Reading →
Inspiring Social Change (UK)
After a depressing and dreary 2020, the new year has not come a moment too soon. The coronavirus pandemic has not yet ended its whirlwind of destruction, and it promises to loom large over the first half of 2021. But one day soon, we can reasonably hope it will be over. In an effort to... Continue Reading →
Adults should listen to children to understand the severity of the climate crisis
The Policy Platform About the Green New Deal The Green New Deal (GND) was introduced through House Resolution 109 on February 7, 2019, by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Ed Markey. The Green New Deal’s core priorities include aggressive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, widespread green job creation, and addressing... Continue Reading →
A vision for the future of Public Housing in the U.S.
The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon
Forests burn, glaciers melt and one million species face extinction. Can we humans save the planet from ourselves? In a new film, alumni Sir David Attenborough and Dr Jane Goodall DBE, and leading Cambridge University researchers, talk about the urgency of the climate crisis – and some of the solutions that will take us towards... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 