Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants and animals will die as heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and other natural disasters worsen. But to date, science has vastly underestimated the true toll climate change and habitat destruction will have on biodiversity. That’s because it has largely neglected to... Continue Reading →
Enshrining the curriculum in law insulates the subject from budget cuts and culture wars related to the climate crisis Starting next July, Connecticut will become one of the first states in America to mandate climate change studies across its public schools as part of its science curriculum. The new law passed earlier this year comes... Continue Reading →
‘Face it head on’: Connecticut makes climate change studies compulsory
The Guardian and dozens of international media titles publish a joint editorial calling for radical thinking on how to fund climate action in poorer countries Dozens of media organisations from around the world have published a joint editorial article calling for a windfall tax on the biggest fossil fuel companies. The funds raised should be... Continue Reading →
Impose climate tax on fossil fuel giants, media groups urge
It’s time to ditch the generations-long argument between those who blame overpopulation and those who worry about consumption John Vidal is a former Guardian environment editor By a remarkable coincidence, just as governments, campaigners and business owners are meeting in Egypt to address climate breakdown today, the world is officially crashing past the symbolic 8... Continue Reading →
It should not be controversial to say a population of 8 billion will have a grave impact on the climate
The Scientist’s Warning (Film)
The Scientist's Warning is a film about the journey one scientist takes after one of his research papers sparks a global movement to address the challenges facing our planet. Both scientists and citizens can get involved and help by going to http://scientistswarningfilm.org . You can read the climate emergency 2022 report by Ripple and others... Continue Reading →
This news list is long and know that it is hand-picked as the most crucial and/or climate solutions based news articles of the last four to few weeks (going back to early November). Climate News now is very worrisome, disappointing, and now serves as a call to Climate Action. Includes video and article links, ...which... Continue Reading →
Climate News Articles to Read… Part #2 of 2
A Brief But Spectacular take on working together for climate action
Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and founder of Third Act, an organization that encourages people over 60 to take action on climate change. He also helped to found 350.org, which was the first global grassroots climate campaign, organizing protests on every continent including Antarctica. McKibben shares his Brief But Spectacular take on working together for... Continue Reading →
Received this email from Bill McKibben to all ThirdAct members mailing list I suppose, in any event I would like to share it with you. As 2022 draws to a close, so does year one of Third Act. It’s been a momentous one—thanks to your good work, we’ve managed to accomplish big things. Just a... Continue Reading →
Subject: A Note before the New Year… (From Th!rd Act/Bill McKibben)
HSBC Bank—Europe’s biggest by total assets—announced today they would no longer provide financing for new oil and gas fields. HSBC is not a particularly virtuous enterprise—it began in Hong Kong in 1865 with an early specialty in the opium trade; earlier this year it was censured for lying about its climate change efforts in its... Continue Reading →
A Big Bank Actually Does Something Good
March 21st will be a Tuesday, it will be the best palindromic day ever…And it will be the biggest day yet in the fight to shut off the flow of cash from Big Banking to Big Oil, a fight that is may be the most important front left in the effort to keep the planet... Continue Reading →
Bill McKibben: 32123! || Big Banks are Driving the Climate Crisis, so We’re Pushing Back
Now, scientists say, life on Earth could be in trouble again, with some even saying we could be entering a sixth mass extinction. No credible scientist disputes that we are in a crisis regarding the speed at which nature is being destroyed. But could we really be on track to lose most life on Earth?... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 