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 →
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!
If the province’s oil is dug up and burned, it will be calculably harder to limit the damage from climate change. Some weeks ago, the government of Alberta wrote to me—and apparently to a number of other environmentalists and environmental groups. We are all subjects of an “anti-Alberta energy inquiry,” and have the right to... Continue Reading →
We Love You, Alberta—Just Not Your Tar Sands
When we consider how to cut down on waste and lower our personal environmental impact, evaluating our grocery-shopping habits plays an important role. A whopping 30-40% of all food in the United States is wasted each year, a considerable portion of which is connected with grocery retail. According to the EPA, food containers and packaging account for 23% of landfill... Continue Reading →
9 Ways to Be an Eco-Friendlier Grocery Shopper
Sarah Myhre talks climate communication
In this interview, John Cook and Peter Jacobs talk with climate scientist Sarah Myhre. She offers challenging advice on climate scientists being more vulnerable in public, showing how they struggle with their science, how we care about the ways that communities are impacted by climate change. She reflects on whether scientists should engage with the... Continue Reading →
“Record-shattering” extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new study finds. The paper, published in Nature Climate Change, finds that the northern mid-latitudes are particularly vulnerable to record-shattering heat. This is exemplified by the recent heatwave over north-western US and Canada, in which... Continue Reading →
Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes
Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale. "The report that you are going to finalise is going to be very important worldwide," World Meteorological Organization head Petteri Taalas told some 700 delegates by Zoom. The... Continue Reading →
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