The Emergency Climate Movement
We are living in a state of planetary emergency.
climate change
A One Way Street to Climate Hell
[I]t is virtually certain that our children will live in a 4° World before the century ends, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced soon.
How Low-Tech Farming Innovations Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient
Farmers are observing changes in rainfall, temperature and other patterns in weather that have spurred them into shifting their farming methods.
Paul Hawken from “Changing of the Gods: Planetary and Human Revolution”
We are faced with a crisis caused by our separate minds — we believe we are distinct from other individuals and other forms of life.
The Divestment Movement Has Unexpectedly Exploded into the Trillions of Dollars and Here’s Why
So what’s behind the global momentum for divestment?
Love Letter to a Dying Friend: Joshua Tree Country
The effects of Climate Change as witnessed by a writer researching the ecosystem, history and plants of the Mojave Desert.
Why Negotiations and the IPCC are Unlikely to Make Sure We’ll Be Safe
Why has this international approach been unsuccessful in sufficiently addressing climate change so far?
The State of the Climate Movement
Movements provide visible demonstrations of people living out the new norms that they espouse.
Our Family, Our Future: My Global Migration Pledge
As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from places like Syria, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.
Will the Paris Climate Talks Be Too Little and Too Late?
At the upcoming U.N. climate conference, most of the world’s major nations will pledge to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But serious doubts remain as to whether these promised cuts will be nearly enough to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.
Four degrees of devastation
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world.
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
Canadian activists and artists call for action.
