Climate is emerging as a major issue in Brazil’s presidential contest, with both leading candidates promising to protect the Amazon rainforest By Sebastian Rodriguez The climate crisis and rainforest conservation are emerging as major issues in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election. Yet both leading candidates are pushing for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Former leftist president, Luiz... Continue Reading →
The best way to save the planet isn’t necessarily recycling – it’s stepping into a voting booth. That’s according to celebrity science educator Bill Nye, television’s “The Science Guy,” who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, last week. “To be sure, recycling the bottles, don’t throw the plastic away [and] compost your... Continue Reading →
Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling—it’s voting
Next week’s primary election in Georgia has made national news as a potential bellwether of how voters view former President Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election in the state, which he lost, was stolen. Far from the national news, lower down the ballot, that same election on May 24 will... Continue Reading →
The Small, Local Election With Potentially Major Climate Change Significance
By Cody Uhing Opinion Editor Despite being possibly one of our greatest civic duties, voting is the least exercised. The American public as a whole, especially the younger generation, does not seem to see the importance in going to the polls on Election Day. It is our chance as a society to show the government... Continue Reading →
Voting is important, ignored civic responsibility
Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're rereading this piece about what Indigenous people can teach us about fighting climate change. ICYMI, President Biden will travel to Colorado this week to designate his first national monument. Maxine broke the news of the expected designation last month. But first:... Continue Reading →
Half of voters say climate change is important in midterms, poll finds
This article was written in 2015 yet really emphasis the importance of voting. With the political climate as it is we cannot afford not to vote. Please take a read starting with this excerpt: It is not limited to just presidential races. Ballots include initiatives, amendments and smaller statewide political races. All of these affect... Continue Reading →
affect our lives on a daily basis…
dinosaurs pale into insignificance…
"It might be said that the human race is incapable of withstanding the drastic changes that are taking place in today's world. For those changes have been so terrible, so far-reaching and, above all, so swift that they make those that caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs pale into insignificance. Man has not had time... Continue Reading →
Question: what do the following statistics have in common? The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. A leading driver of the widening gap between rich and poor... Continue Reading →
(Repost) 12 best ways to get cars out of cities – ranked by new research
This morning, you opened your phone and started scrolling. Your screen presented you with the usual updates: the nth wave of plague, the growing supply chain crisis, and two nuclear powers exchanging confrontational threats. You yawned and went to start your day. Collapse gets old fast. Chances are the threat of imminent destruction didn’t stop... Continue Reading →
(Repost) Collapse Won’t Reset Society
The latest assessment offers both a harsh reality check and a path forward. Experts William Braham, Peter Psarras, and Michael Mann offer their thoughts. When William Braham of Penn’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design started delving into the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he felt a mix of optimism and... Continue Reading →
(Repost) Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC
(Repost) Climate change lawsuits: Taking fossil fuel firms to court
With the expense of mitigating the effects of climate change becoming more onerous, more than two dozen cities, counties and states are suing more than 40 fossil fuel companies, accusing them of making false and misleading claims about climate change. The lawsuits are modeled after those brought against tobacco companies in the 1990s. Correspondent Ben... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 