“Don’t Look Up” (part 1) – climate movie is kryptonite to the super villains
You know a satirical movie has hit its target when the mainstream reviewers call it “shrill” and “overblown.”
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Texas Border Town Demands Stronger Action to Tackle Cancer-Causing Chemical Pollution
For Edna Ibarra, it was the realization that with every breath her 11-year-old son was breathing in a little more of an industrial carcinogen that drove her to get involved in the fight against air pollution in Laredo, Texas.
Fahrenheit 911: Heat, cities and climate literacy from the ground up
We are finding that in the case of the city I live in Portland, Oregon, that the hottest areas are where people have the least formal education, limited English proficiency, high levels of racial diversity and extreme poverty.
Power, State and Capital: The Axis is Arrogance
We need to build a postmodern world that identifies arrogance as the evil to be overcome and replaces it with an ethic of humility and compassion.
A one-stop shop for greener homes
It is about time the UK government got to grips with retrofitting existing housing to scale up home energy efficiency across the country.
Veterans target US military’s outsized impact on the climate crisis
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional user of fossil fuels in the world and, consequently, the world’s largest institutional producer of greenhouse gas emissions.
Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics
In a recent study, myself and fellow researchers compared tropical deforestation rates and found that less deforestation occurs on Indigenous lands than in non-protected areas across the tropics.
Rebugging the Planet: Excerpt
The truth is that bugs are exquisite in their evolutionary design and they should be able to exists for their own sake, not just for the value in service they give us. But they should be revered for all the vital roles they do play in keeping our only and shared home inhabitable.
A Healthy Nature Handbook: Excerpt
Just like in a hunter-gatherer group, specialization and complementary skills are key to effectiveness — and even survival, in volunteer conservation and stewardship groups.
The Cost of Waiting
In other words, data is no substitute for knowledge or wisdom. And knowledge and wisdom seem to be the scarcest of resources in modern Canada.
The UK’s policing bill will make climate activism almost illegal – just when it’s most needed
The proposed legislation represents a dangerous threat to essential democratic and civil liberties such as the right to protest.
Noam Chomsky says we have no right to gamble with the lives of climate-vulnerable people: Video
Prof. Chomsky has long argued that the roots of the climate emergency, and of our failure to deal with it, reach deep into the capitalist economic system.
