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Most of us grew up learning to recognize certain dangers on the Internet. Do not open a strange email attachment. Do not give your password to someone who asks for it. Be suspicious of messages announcing that you suddenly won a prize. Do not click links from strangers. But cybersecurity has changed. Today, danger does... Continue Reading →
Air, Water, and Electricity: Inside China's Six-Part Plan to Escape the Oil Age A Climate Change Community breakdown of the Snap Shift video “China's New Energy Breakthrough Is Shocking Everyone” There are moments in the Climate and Ecological Emergency when a single story helps us see the whole board at once. A recent video from... Continue Reading →
Opening: One Clave, Many Hands Before any of the data or the history, let me start where I actually come from. I'm a Boricua rumbero from New York. Put a pair of congas in front of me and something old wakes up in my hands. Here is what a lifetime inside this music has taught... Continue Reading →
A message to every young person about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Imagine waking up to clean air, drinking water you never have to worry about, eating food grown in healthy soil, and looking out at a world full of life — forests, rivers, animals, and people all thriving together. That should not be a... Continue Reading →
When the Helper Becomes the Hole Two Wake-Up Calls About AI Agents — and How We Use Them Anyway A Climate Tribe heads-up on digital resiliency There are weeks when the news lands like a cold splash of water. This was one of them. Two stories crossed my desk back to back, and both of... Continue Reading →
What I learned when I asked an AI the simplest question I could think of — and why the honest answer is more hopeful than the easy one I asked an AI a plain question: What is the best way to share climate solutions worldwide? I expected a tidy answer. A list. Maybe a tech... Continue Reading →
"That time-lapse was what we were most criticized for — we were called alarmists; we were told we were being aggressive. And in many ways, you look back and it was actually pretty moderate, the way we called a lot of it." - From Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) - On the film's... Continue Reading →
Standing When It’s Hard: Moral Courage in an Age of Crisis In 1950, amid a climate of fear and political conformity, Margaret Chase Smith rose in the Senate and delivered her Declaration of Conscience. She knew the risks. She knew the cost of dissent. And still, she chose to speak. “Moral cowardice that keeps us... Continue Reading →
The future will not be decided by power—but by the moral choices we are willing to live by. I. A Choice as Old as Civilization We are living through a moment that feels unprecedented—yet at its core, it is not new. Across the full span of human history, civilizations have risen and fallen on a... Continue Reading →
The Forlorn Good Duck: Sally’s Story and Ours She was born when the air felt like a blessing—cool, crisp, and full of life. The pond she called home shimmered under the sun, its waters so clear that crayfish could be seen darting along the bottom like tiny dancers in a quiet ballet. This was Sally’s... Continue Reading →
"We are sleeping through five alarms because one very loud mosquito convinced us the smoke detector was fake news." - Eva Garcia, AI Assistant The Mosquito in Your Bedroom — and the Five Emergencies We Can No Longer Ignore Now we can see in real-time what that expression "sleeping with a mosquito in your room"... Continue Reading →
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