Solar panels plus farming? Agrivoltaics explained. Could combining solar panels plus farming be a viable solution to the growing demand for food production and energy demand? Let’s take a closer look at electrifying our crops (not literally electrifying crops) … well, adding solar to our farm land as well as some of the side benefits... Continue Reading →
According to William Isaacs, professor, author, and co-founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT alongside Peter Senge, dialogue is a vehicle for creative problem identification and solving. However, it is different than what is normally conceived as problem solving. The usual modality to tackle problems is discussion. We are used to exposing our... Continue Reading →
Repost: The art of thinking together
In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Antonia Juhasz’s The Tyranny of Oil offers a chilling exposé of the modern American oil industry and its dire abuse of power. A leading international trade and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz presents eye-opening truths about a potentially... Continue Reading →
The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry–and What We Must Do to Stop It (REPOST)
Three gifts children have – and how they can save the planet (Repost)
Official Title: Three gifts children have - and how they can save the planet | Eleni Andreadis | TEDxAthens It’s not technology we’re lacking in tackling the environmental crisis, argues environmentalist and children’s author, Eleni Andreadis, but the will to make a sustainable future our reality. How can we find the collective will we need?... Continue Reading →
The world is not reducing emissions fast enough to mitigate the most deadly effects of climate change, so it’s time to study temporary methods to cool the Earth by blocking some of the sun’s rays, according to an internationally recognized group of scientists. Every four years, scientists backed by the United Nations put out a... Continue Reading →
One simple graph shows why we need to study ways of reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth
“Experienced Americans” are the fastest-growing part of the population: 10,000 people a day pass the 60-year mark. That means that there’s no way to make the changes that must be made to protect our planet and society unless we bring our power into play. We’re used to thinking that humans grow more conservative as they... Continue Reading →
What is TH!RD ACT!
Connecting Earth's climate patterns via global information superhighway By Breanna Zavadoff AND Marybeth Arcodia Published December 22, 2022 Comments: 6 This is a guest post by Breanna Zavadoff and Marybeth Arcodia. Dr. Zavadoff is an Assistant Scientist at the University of Miami Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies. Her current research focuses on U.S.... Continue Reading →
What are teleconnections?
“Climate Solutions is shining a light on a better way forward: a clean energy future with broadly-shared prosperity, free from the ravages of fossil fuel dependence. And the brighter they shine that light, the closer it gets.” Van Jones, Co-Founder, Rebuild the Dream Our climate solution is simple: believe in what’s possible stop what doesn’t work... Continue Reading →
Climate Solutions (website)
In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses. Climate-related disasters are on the rise, and carbon emissions are soaring. Parents today face the unprecedented challenge of raising children somehow prepared for a planetary emergency that may last their lifetimes. Few guidebooks are on the shelves... Continue Reading →
How to Raise Climate-Resilient Kids (repost)
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote... Continue Reading →
FREE DOWNLOAD: The Essential Principles of Climate Literacy
Global warming has increased the number of extreme weather events around the world by 400% since the 1980s. Countries know how to stop the damage from worsening: stop burning fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy, electrify transportation and industry, and reduce the carbon intensity of agriculture. But none of this is happening fast enough... Continue Reading →