Climate Action News: Susanné Wallner, will go live July 29 at 15:00 CEST / 9.00 am EDT How can municipalities use We Don't Have Time to increase their citizen engagement? Meet Susanné Wallner, Business Manager for Mariestad Municipality, who has answered that question by hosting a citizen dialogue in Mariestad to great success. Learn more... Continue Reading →
From cotton to wool, or leather to cashmere, most clothing begins life as a raw material on a farm or rangeland. For this reason, the future of the fashion industry is inextricably linked with the future of agriculture. Though agriculture is currently a major driver of biodiversity loss and climate change, it can be transformed... Continue Reading →
Regenerative Fund for Nature
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. Purchase book: Amazon “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times “A fiery, hopeful manifesto on how to make sense... Continue Reading →
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate
"Only when you are able to face the future as it is—not as it was or as you dreamed it would be—will you fully grieve and be ready to move on."
Facing the Climate Emergency: Grieving The Future You Thought You Had
The mission of Grand Rapids Climate Action: To work to make Grand Rapids a leader and a model for other cities in Michigan and nationally in the fight against climate change. To mobilize residents of Grand Rapids and the region to insist on meaningful, just, rapid action locally in this unprecedented challenge. “You want to... Continue Reading →
Grand Rapids Climate Action
SCEN believes that local organizations are best positioned to bring about equitable and sustainable energy systems across the Southeast when they share a common vision and collaborate with a broad range of partners. To effectively collaborate across multiple states and issue areas, the network aims to leverage our collective power to provide leadership, training, funding... Continue Reading →
SOUTHEAST CLIMATE & ENERGY NETWORK
The South is unique for its biodiversity, culture of resiliency, and incredible diversity. It has long been the home of the most destructive extractive industries and the dumping ground for waste. Our region has a unique need for sustainable development due to its systemic underinvestment, over-extraction, and poor infrastructure. Very little has been done to ensure... Continue Reading →
Southern Communities for a Green New Deal
Who We Are Gulf South for a Green New Deal (#GulfSouth4GND) is a regional formation of more than 200 organizations advancing long-existing work towards climate, racial, and economic justice in five states across the Gulf South: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. Rooted in bottom-up organizing and driven by frontline leadership, we move together on policy, regional... Continue Reading →
Gulf South for a Green New Deal
NRDC senior program advocate Sasha Forbes explains what it means to be displaced by climate change and why cities must invest in long-term housing affordability—and a self-sustaining future—for their low-income communities and communities of color. The cycle is all too familiar: Affluent residents move into lower-income neighborhoods in cities and make their mark on the... Continue Reading →
What Is Climate Gentrification?
This podcast is dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South. Despite the South being the most biodiverse, diverse, and one of the largest economic engines in the world, we are underfunded and often barred from the decision-making table. So we decided to pull up a chair and... Continue Reading →
Let’s Talk Climate Justice, Y’all!
The population of kelp forests, which help clean the air, has fallen dramatically. That has environmentalists worried. ANACAPA ISLAND, Calif. — Frank Hurd gently parted the curtains of giant kelp that reached upward through the cold waters of the North Pacific, looking for signs of life. Kelp forests cover a quarter of the world’s coastlines,... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 