Wandering around the sprawling 6.2 million-sq.-ft. Lordstown Motors assembly plant in Ohio, it’s tempting to imagine a green future that is full of jobs. The company’s signature product is a high-performing electric pickup truck, and around the facility workers are buzzing about, getting ready to bring it into production. In one corner, according to company... Continue Reading →
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system. Though long committed to being “market neutral,” some are even starting to push greener investments. Climate change is rattling the world’s central bankers. With unprecedented heat and... Continue Reading →
As Disasters Mount, Central Banks Gird Against Threat of Climate Change
Carole King, Rod Stewart, Melissa Etheridge, Sia, Kesha also join call for developers to create solutions to climate change issues Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Carole King, and Rod Stewart are among the artists who will take part in the United Nations Human Rights’ Call for Code initiative on Saturday, June 5th, which is also UN... Continue Reading →
Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Cher Align With United Nations’ ‘Call for Code’ Initiative
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise... Continue Reading →
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
Hello and welcome to the first edition of The Burning Issue — Grist’s limited-run newsletter about all things fire. My name is Zoya Teirstein and below, you’ll hear from my colleague Nathanael Johnson. Every week, Grist will send you an email that will arm you with everything you need to know about this wildfire season.... Continue Reading →
An obsession with suppression
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. We estimate that over 8 million environmentalists did not vote in the 2020 presidential election and over 12 million skipped the 2018 midterms. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on a simple, high-leverage solution to this problem: with a 5-year... Continue Reading →
I’m thrilled to announce the Environmental Voter Project’s brand new website!
We are raising funds to get Latin American and Caribbean climate activists to COP26 in Glasgow! *Thank you to Climate Live for being our legal entity and holding funds. The next big climate change conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), is scheduled to take place in Glasgow, UK, from the 31st of October to the 12th of... Continue Reading →
Get Latin American & Caribbean activists to COP!
Get Your Ticket for Our 2-Day Festival! Oct 7-8, 2021 — 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET Celebrate our 25th anniversary at this online festival—two days of lively discussions about the solutions and ideas that go into building a more equitable and sustainable world. Inspiring speakers and panelists... Continue Reading →
Yesmagazine’s – A Better World Rising Festival – Register Now for Our 2-Day Festival!
Better World Filmfestival 7.–11. September 2021 The Festival The first Better World Film Festival (BWFF) from September 7–11, 2021, will invite filmmakers from all over the world, who seek solutions in an eroding world. All genres are admitted. There will be no time limit and no limitation of the production year. The selection will be made... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 