A new generation of climate activists are using increasingly controversial methods to alert people to climate catastrophe. But why does the truth need such high optics? Just Stop Oil (JSO), established in April 2022, is a well-organized, high-optic, youth-led activist group that utilizes civil resistance as a form of protest. They are a step away,... Continue Reading →
Repost: Eating Our Way to Extinction | Official Documentary
Narrated by Kate Winslet, ‘Eating Our Way to Extinction,’ a Cinematic Feature Documentary addresses the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about... Will we be the next species on the path toward extinction? Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/SubscribeEatingOurWayT... Eating Our Way to Extinction is a cinematic feature documentary, taking audiences on a journey... Continue Reading →
Repost: The Climate Dots Need to Be Connected
The cloak of manipulation must be removed. Ecological tipping points are being breached all around us and yet the rhetoric from those who have the power to steer us in a safer direction remains essentially the same. They continue to tell us that we need more and faster Green Growth to solve this challenge DESPITE... Continue Reading →
Thoughts, Prayers, Rage, Resistance
A night to remember just how grim the oil industry really is I’m writing this late at night on the West Coast. I’ve spent the evening at a rally in Sacramento, listening to residents from around the area tell about the effects of oil drilling on their lives: the asthma, the cancers, the spills. And... Continue Reading →
2022 Arctic Report Card features Indigenous observations and knowledge A typhoon, smoke from wildfires and increasing rain are not what most imagine when thinking of the Arctic. Yet these are some of the climate-driven events included in NOAA’s 2022 Arctic Report Card, which provides a detailed picture of how warming is reshaping the once reliably... Continue Reading →
Human-caused climate change fuels warmer, wetter, stormier Arctic
A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic time: our own. The official timeline of Earth’s history — from the oldest rocks to the dinosaurs to the rise of primates, from the Paleozoic to the Jurassic and all points before... Continue Reading →
For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age
Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table. For years, meat producers have worked furiously behind the scenes to keep meat reduction out of discussions on climate policy. The first draft of the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on... Continue Reading →
How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy
Must Read or Watch Report in our opinion.. We speak with Guyanese environmental lawyer Melinda Janki about how she’s taking on the oil giant ExxonMobil to stop the company from developing an offshore oil field that would turn Guyana into a “carbon bomb.” Guyana is currently a carbon sink, but Exxon plans to produce more... Continue Reading →
“The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb”: Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil
Organizing and Equity Principles We are in a climate emergency. Stop the Money Pipeline coalition accelerates the movement to end Wall Street’s complicity in destroying our planet and harming our communities by demanding that banks, asset managers, institutional investors and insurance companies stop financing, investing in, and insuring climate destruction. We seek to end the... Continue Reading →
Stop The Money Pipeline – (as shared by Bill McKibben)
Some big wins, and some big campaigns launching! The next phase of the climate fight is going to center on the big banks that fund the fossil fuel industry. It’s going to be big, loud, and important—and there are signs this week that it’s already starting to be effective. Climate activists have been taking on... Continue Reading →
Bill McKibben | Strap in! The fight against dirty banks heats up
Stories to Watch 2023 At this pivotal moment, WRI President & CEO Ani Dasgupta will share insights into our predictions for the big stories coming up in 2023, including what actions governments, businesses, institutions and people must take to get the world on the right path. The 20th annual Stories to Watch centers on one... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 