The Path to a Livable Future
By Stan Cox, Noam Chomsky, Tom Dispatch
The possibility for a just and sustainable future exists, and there’s plenty that we can do to get there before it’s too late.
Tag: young people
Tribes Get Creative in Teaching Tradition and Community
By Stephanie Woodard, YES! magazine
Today, Native nations are creating vibrant children’s programs, using the most up-to-date and culturally appropriate means to keep their youngsters involved in tradition and community—while still ensuring their safety in these dangerous pandemic times.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 52 Douglas Rushkoff
By Vicki Robin, Douglas Rushkoff, Resilience.org
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 51 Dany Sigwalt
By Vicki Robin, Dany Sigwalt, Resilience.org
Dany Sigwalt, Executive Director at Power Shift Network, has spent much of her career moving between movement building and youth leadership development, working to marry the two into one cohesive strategic reality. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
One Blue Earth – Shining a Spotlight on Climate Change Solutions
By Elena Bouldin, MAHB
One Blue Earth seeks to raise public awareness about the consequences of global warming and to educate our communities about current scientific and grass-roots efforts to develop workable solutions to mitigate and reverse climate change.
Food, Land, Agriculture: A movement for equality
By Landworkers' Alliance Staff, Landworkers Alliance
FLAME is made up of young people who believe that the way we produce food and eat it can be a solution to creating a better world.
Q&A: A young environmental justice leader on the value of getting youth of color into nature
By Ambika Chawla, Environmental Health News
"Before decisions are made we need to practice what we preach when we say that we stand for justice and equity. In any decision-making process, youth need to be involved from the get-go."
Education in a Time of Collapse
By Ahmed Afzaal, Resilience.org
The assumption that the future is going to be just like the past is untenable. If we keep educating our students on the basis of this assumption, then that means we’re not preparing them for the world.
My Calling
By Damaris Zehner, Integrity of Life
We have to undo our whole way of thinking about education. The process may be unsettling, but the results will be worth it. Join me for the next few weeks as I pick apart the things many people take for granted in our schools.
The One Sure Way to Convince a Climate Denier
By Zoe Saylor, Grist
It’s a power that has come into play a lot lately: Pushed by dire circumstances to explore tactics beyond the eye roll, middle and high school students are leading the charge on just about everything, from climate justice, to gun control, to criminal justice reform.
Community-Led Solutions in Housing Crisis
By Katharine Peinhardt, Project for Public Spaces
Eugene is charting a new path for community outreach, using its downtown areas as places to address housing challenges, head-on.
Young People and Climate Change: Why it’s our Time to Take the Reins
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
In this post, I’m going to run through some of the key things that make this moment in history so unique when it comes to young people and climate change.