Hope or Doom is a False Choice
Emotionally, I sometimes feel like a pinball being bounced around from hope to doom to rage to love for this beautiful world and its many peoples, and then to whatever comes next.
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Global Climate Strike and Beyond
Being in the streets of New York City with a quarter million people for the Global Climate Strike was an inspiring experience for me. Despite the seriousness of the crisis faced by humanity, there was joy in taking action together.
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Into the Streets! – Friday, September 20th
If you do not already have plans to participate in the Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20th, please read all the way to end of this post and consider changing your plans. If you think that kind of activity is for other people and not for you, please read this whole post with an open mind.
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Where Will the Money Come From?
Can we afford a full and prompt transition to a sustainable economy – including generating electricity, heating and cooling our buildings, and providing transportation without using fossil fuels? – Why I conclude “yes”. Where the money is now.
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Talking and Listening Are Key Climate Action Strategies: 4 Ways to Start
I sometimes find myself wondering if anything I do to try to help stop climate change makes a difference. So it got my attention when the Yale Program on Climate Communications reported recently that having more frequent conversations with friends, neighbors, and relatives about climate change really does make a difference. These conversations shift people’s perceptions to greater …
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Eating As If Climate Change Is Real
Years ago when I was teaching first and second grade, we had a charming little book in our classroom library that featured photographs of families from different cultures around the world, eating their traditional foods. I loved this book because it showed cultural differences appreciatively, while highlighting a key commonality of people around the world – we all need and eat food.
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Can One Person Make a Difference?
A friend recently asked me, “How important is it that I reduce my carbon footprint? Will it really make any difference?”
This is a good question. I’ve been puzzling over this for years. My answer is…
One Reason I Don’t Despair
I recently tried to start a conversation about climate change with a small group of acquaintances. I asked, “What do you think of the situation with the climate? I’m curious how each of you sees it.”
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Can We Stay Within Our Carbon Budget?
Even though I grew up in a poor family, I started getting a very small allowance when I was about 10 years old. I think it started at 20 cents per week. It wasn’t much, but it was mine. Soon I started saving ….
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Why a “Green New Deal”?
3 key features of the Green New Deal proposal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions, millions of high-wage jobs and promote justice and equity
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Women and Girls and Climate Change
How the rights of women and girls are connected with climate change. Specific steps to empower women and girls will help stop climate change.
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Is It Too Late?
The situation is already worse than we realize, yet we are living in the window of time when we still have an opportunity to prevent the worst level of disaster.
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