We are surrounded by stuff. We buy and buy and buy - it’s the foundation of how our economies run, how they grow. . But all this buying, all this economic "growing", is devastating people and our planet. We are in a dangerous spiral of out-of-control resource use. . In the third episode of All... Continue Reading →
WHAT IS ECO-ANXIETY Climate change is a reality and threatens the future of the Earth. This can cause psychological impacts on some people, a phenomenon which is known as eco-anxiety. Below, we review what it is, what causes it, what its symptoms are and what we can do to avoid it while taking care of... Continue Reading →
Eco-anxiety: the psychological aftermath of the climate crisis
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
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)
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
“Realists” argue that climate plans need to accommodate oil and gas, but that only perpetuates the climate crisis Toward the end of 2022, I was a panelist at a session on climate change held by a major scientific society. Near the end of the session, a prominent scientist declared that we needed to be “realistic”:... Continue Reading →
We Can’t Solve Our Climate Problems without Removing Their Main Cause: Fossil-Fuel Emissions
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... 