Mass Movement and the “Femininization” of Agriculture
Van Noordwijk is one of the foremost researchers when it comes to investigating the interplay between climate change and human movements, oftentimes through the lens of agroforestry.
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Let’s Talk about Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
Carbon emissions reach record: How can we build solidarity to fight climate change?
The task of addressing climate change is so large that the only way in which it can be addressed with any success is if everyone is involved. As long as so many people are focused every day on just getting what they need to live, such broad involvement will be impossible. Are there ways to build the solidarity and involvement we need to fight climate change?
Radical Realism for Climate Justice. A Civil Society Response to the Challenge of Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.
How Natural Disasters Widen the Wealth Gap Between Minority and White Communities
Wealth inequality dramatically increases between white communities and communities of color in the U.S. following a natural disaster, a new study found.
Crime of the 21st Century: Perpetrators of Apocalypse, or, The Seven Circles of Hell
You and I are witnessing the twenty-first century’s great crime: a global holocaust whose first victims have already perished. Fossil energy economies are doing this. They transform the world into a deathly, suffocating hothouse sabotaging the climate and atmosphere. That’s what they do.
Juliana v US: Getting Ready to Rumble
Three strikes and the Trump administration is now out—or more accurately “in.” Trump and company have now been told by the US Supreme Court in a very brief 5-4 decision that they must stand in open court and defend themselves against the charge they are denying the 21 youthful clients in the court their constitutional right to a habitable environment.
Do the Global Poor Care about Climate Change?
Looking into this has made me even more convinced that tackling global poverty has to be done in tandem with tackling climate change. They are intricately connected. I think it’s important that we remember climate change is a historical injustice: the poorest countries suffer the worst impacts yet have done least to cause it and have the least capacity to address it.
Reclaim Power Kicks Off Around the World this October
Over the course of October, we are planning to carry out the world’s largest ever coordinated actions against dirty energy and for clean community energy.
Beyond Rhetoric – What Does the “Just Transition” Mean for DAPL?
Rather than plummeting these economies into a permanent bust…we need to think about how to plan a transition with these workers at the decision-making table…
The Power of Indigenous Activists at the Summit of the Climate Justice Movement
It was as if people recognized that this was the high point of the Clean Energy Summit.
Thousands March in Philadelphia Kicking off Vocal Week of Protests at DNC
More than 10,000 people calling for a “clean energy revolution” marched in the streets here Sunday demanding that the Democratic Party endorse a ban on fracking and commit to heavy investments in renewables on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.