How Climate Change and Failed Agricultural Policies have Contributed to Conflict in Syria
The conflict in Syria and the rise of Isis have displaced half a nation of people and generated the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today.
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Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the Climate Movement: Excerpt
Emergency mode is the mode of human psychological functioning that occurs when individuals or groups respond optimally to existential or moral emergencies.
Climate Democracy for Rural Communities
There is a common misconception that you can’t talk about climate change in rural communities because the issue is considered too polarizing.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.
The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning
The movement to stop fossil fuel development just keeps winning.
The Panic Of ’32?
When the realities of rapid climate change become undeniable to the general populous will the elites have any legitimacy left to be able to make the hard and painful choices necessary?
World Tree to Reverse Climate Change through Earth-Repair
Atmospheric carbon could be used to replenish our soil, and in the process, according to Jordan Fink, we could pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to bring CO2 levels back to what they were in the 1800’s.
Water-Related Risks Strand $Billions in Energy, Mining, Power Projects
More than a decade later economists and financial analysts are again identifying powerful signals of economic distress, this time in the energy, mining, power-producing, and farm industries.
We Are Mother Earth’s Red Line: Frontline Communities Lead The Climate Justice Fight Beyond The Paris Agreement
The Paris Climate Agreement of December 2015 is a dangerous distraction that threatens all of us.
City Centre Milking Parlour Provokes Discussion
Finding innovative ways to provoke discussion and engage people with where their food comes from and how we value it as a society is an interesting challenge. This is exactly what Nessie Reid’s Milking Parlour exhibition in Bristol city centre set out to do.
Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn
Turning the Tide is helping public housing residents prepare for the next storm—while also making climate disaster less likely.
Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does it Mean for Climate Change?
This session seeks to bring together fossil fuel experts and climate experts for a daring exploration of the new landscape created by fracking and other unconventional methods of fossil fuel recovery.
