The case for rewilding your backyard (and front yard too)
In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.
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Confronting climate failure: How we dig ourselves out of the climate-catastrophe hole – Part 2
Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.
Confronting climate failure in a summer of steaming oceans and devastated villages – Part 1
Humanity is faced with the greatest failure in its long existence. What can we do about it?
‘I had a crazy dream’: The couple sailing around the world to help coastal communities adapt to climate change
Nigel and Veronica traded conventional careers for a years-long voyage from the UK to New Zealand, using their journey to connect with coastal communities facing increasingly severe climate risks.
Why community matters when preparing for the Great Unraveling
If we want to fail more beautifully, to make our predicament less ugly, we need to learn what it means to face it together.
Climatological limits to livestock: A plea for plant-based diets
Moving toward plant-based diets will not, by itself, solve the climate problem, but it is necessary for solving it.
‘Smoky Skies and Freight Trains’: Sign of the times of extinction
For years, as a classic climate activist, I didn’t think to consider how logging might be contributing to inland fires. I saw only carbon.
‘A garden paradise in the clouds’: A story of climate adaptation in Eswatini
In Eswatini, Warren, a gardener and conservationist, is nurturing an indigenous garden that shows how local knowledge and care can help communities adapt to a changing climate.
Climate communication is irrationally hopeful. We need to tell the truth about the Great Unraveling
Where’s the urgency in climate discussions? Scholars Theresa Leisgang and Gerriet Schwen examined why climate warnings fail to spur change and how they might better motivate us to act in the face of collapse.
Trump’s AI obsession will add immeasurably to extreme heat
Whatever else AI may do, its data centers will consume vast amounts of energy and keep driving fossil-fuel emissions for years to come, lending us humans a distinct helping hand in overheating this planet
Indigenous women already have the climate solutions
Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people.
Interview with filmmaker Josh Fox: Meeting mass migration with ‘Welcome Tables’ (not walls)
For the 100th episode of The Response Podcast, host Tom Llewellyn interviewed Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox about the climate crisis, human migration, and welcoming people with compassion.
