Sailors and Solomon Islanders: Working together to take on Climate Change
By Britt Basel, Cornellsailing.com
After two weeks of workshops and meetings, this group had come up with their Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the village.
Tag: climate change adaptation
Ancient Landscapes Point to Dramatic Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Scientists believe Chinese civilisation could have been founded by climate refugees after the collapse of an Inner Mongolian culture over 4,000 years ago.
Becoming Indigenous: Settling a Population Adrift in an Unstable World
By Robert M. Christie, The Hopeful Realist
Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group ‘emplaced’ for many generations in a particular location and fully integrated into the ecology of that place?
An Insurance Policy for Climate Change? How Seed Banks Are Protecting the Future of Food
By Richard Schiffman, YES! magazine
More than 75 percent of the fruit and vegetable varieties that humans once consumed have already gone the way of the wooly mammoth...
Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, the subject of last week’s post here, have another dimension that bears close watching.
The End of Sustainability
By Melinda Harm Benson, Robin K. Craig, Ensia
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine — and ultimately move past — the concept of sustainability.
Stormy Science, Rocky Investments
By Greg Dalton, Climate One
Climate change is risky business – but how risky is it for business?
Making the most of it in dry times
By Brie Mazurek, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
As California endures what may be its driest and hottest year on record, farmers and farmworkers have been among those most heavily hit by the drought.
IPCC Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability – headlines
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come •Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces ‘Breakdown Of Food Systems’ And More Violent Conflict •Big impacts: The main messages from today’s big UN climate report
Reflections on Resilience
By Mike Jones, Sustainable Food Trust
Building resilience into our food systems is fundamental, if society is to adapt to the consequences of climate change.
New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions
By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
Batten down the hatches; fill the grain stores; raise the flood defenses. We cannot know exactly what is coming, but it will probably be nasty...
“Blow wind and crack your cheeks”: introducing a month on living with climate change
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
This month our theme is "living with climate change". We'll be exploring that from a variety of angles...