“Eradicate the optimist who takes the easy view that human values will persist no matter what we do. Annihilate the pessimist whose ineffectual cry is that the goal's already missed however hard we try.” — Piet Hein Among some climate activists, a mood of despair has set in. It has become increasingly common for young... Continue Reading →
Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, “How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change.” Now I am pleased to report... Continue Reading →
Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis
Three Ways to Prioritise Self Care in a Climate Emergency
By Jo Musker-Sherwood One of the most common challenges for climate activists is how to balance self-care and planet care. Over and over again, we wrestle with questions like, ‘how do I know I’ve done enough when nothing will ever be enough?’ And ‘is it ok to enjoy myself when the planet is burning?’. Since... Continue Reading →
An industrial park in Skive is trying to solve two of Western societies' most urgent problems: climate change and the effect of urbanization on rural areas. A pilot project is showing circular economy at its best. On the outskirts of Skive — a small Danish town of 20,000 inhabitants — the GreenLab industrial park is... Continue Reading →
Danish town embraces circular economy in bid to go green
Climate Expert On Extreme Heat: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Able To Find Solutions’
Climate scientist Dr. Sweta Chakraborty, writer-at-large at The Bulwark Tim Miller, NBC News Correspondent Emilie Ikeda and NBC Foreign Correspondent Meagan Fitzgerald join Chris Jansing to discuss the climate change-induced, record-breaking heatwave engulfing Europe. “We need to mitigate against worst case warming scenarios because at some point we're not going to be able to find... Continue Reading →
Temperature Records SHATTERED As Heat Wave Scorches Europe
Temperatures across the globe are spiking as we begin to feel the increasingly bad effects of climate change. In the UK in particular, high-temperature records have been shattered and Britons are forced to get creative to cool off as many homes and buildings do not have air conditioning. Cenk Uygur and Francesca Fiorentini discuss on... Continue Reading →
The idea of storing heat in sand to warm homes through winter may, on the face of it, seem too simple to work. Key points: The world's first commercial "sand battery" stores heat at 500 degrees Celsius for months at a time It can be used to heat homes and offices and provide high-temperature heat... Continue Reading →
World’s first ‘sand battery’ can store heat at 500C for months at a time. Could it work in Australia?
Last week, two influential environmental groups warned the Greens not to stymie progress on Australia’s climate policy. In an unusual intervention, Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation urged the Greens to “play a constructive role” with Labor or risk being blamed for holding climate policy back. The groups want the Greens to back Labor’s policy... Continue Reading →
3 lessons from Australia’s ‘climate wars’ and how we can finally achieve better climate policy
What Will the Planet Look Like in 2050 if We Don’t Stop Climate Change?
If there's a silver lining to the climate crisis, it's visible in the skies above China. The dramatic slowdown in manufacturing and driving has caused a reduction in carbon emissions and an improvement in China's air quality. Someone who has dedicated her life to climate change policy is Christiana Figueres, architect of the 2015 Paris... Continue Reading →
Joe should declare one now; Hillary would have in 2017 Jeff Stein of the Washington Post had a genuine scoop yesterday—President Biden, stung by Joe Manchin’s brushoff of climate legislation, was weighing whether to declare a “climate emergency.” He should, of course—it’s hard to think of what else to call it when the UK, with... Continue Reading →
The Curious Backstory of the ‘Climate Emergency’ | Bill McKibben
(Re-post) As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men overwhelmingly dominate the airwaves on climate coverage. We speak with co-editors of the new book “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays by 60 women at the forefront of the climate justice movement. “We are simply not... Continue Reading →
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