Salmon’s Arctic Expansion Has Communities Worried

By Dustin Patar, Hakai Magazine

Inuvialuit fishers are adapting to rising numbers of Pacific salmon in the western Canadian Arctic, but fears remain about impacts on native species.

The Cost of Living

By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul

The true ‘cost of living’ takes on new meaning when what is needed may or may not be available to buy at any cost.

For better or worse, we adapt

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

We must adapt to climate changes in future, and we are adapting already. But if the adaptations are merely ad hoc and not thoughtfully considered, they are more likely to be maladaptations than great adaptations.

Why avoiding climate change ‘maladaptation’ is vital

By Lisa Schipper, Morgan Scoville-Simonds, Katharine Vincent, Siri Eriksen, Carbon Brief

In our new study – published in the journal World Development – we come to the unsettling conclusion that many adaptation projects can make people more, rather than less, vulnerable to climate change. This is known as “maladaptation”.

Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation

By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US

Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.

The risks of failing on climate adaptation: The UK case study

By Antonio Salituro, Resilience.org

Being one of the most advanced countries on the planet, the challenges faced by the UK along its race for resilience serve as a warning for the entire world.

Farming as the Climate Changes: Molino de la Isla, East Pecos, New Mexico

By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust

Water is everything – the only reason we survive here is because of water, the only reason anything survives here is because of water. We’re not talking about it, we’re not thinking about it; we’re just using it and polluting it, not thinking about what it’s being used for and how it could be used better.

Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation & Suffering

By Tim DeChristopher, Suren Moodliar, ZCommunications

We were pretty daunted by that conversation, but one of the things that also came out of it was that a lot of these efforts that it would take to sustain a strike were things like a local food system, things like alternative currency systems, whether that’s a literal currency or whether that’s something like a time bank or a sharing economy, things that make our communities more resilient anyway, things that we know we have to do in order to replace the capitalist system, things that we know we have to do in order to respond to the climate crisis and make our communities less vulnerable.

How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis

By Raj Patel, Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, YES! magazine

Changing the food system is the most important thing humans can do to fix our broken carbon cycles. Meanwhile, food security is all about adaptation when you’re dealing with crazy weather and shifting growing zones. How can a world of 7 billion—and growing—feed itself? Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system. 

Helping Forests Migrate

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

And without forests, innumerable other species would perish as well. The only way to save the forests now is to intervene, despite all the myriad risks that human intervention entails.

Aim for Two, Plan for Four

By Matt McRae, Natural Hazards Center

I began working on climate change eight years ago. As my understanding of the issue deepens and I watch national and international efforts come up short year after year, I have to wonder if our climate adaptation sights are aimed at the wrong target.

As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?

By Robert Jensen, YES! magazine

The documentary Weather Gone Wild reports on inventive ways officials and ordinary people are adapting to the predictable unpredictability of the more extreme weather we are experiencing—and will continue to experience, more intensely—due to climate change.