Drawing a Path to Action
Finding your place in the fight against the climate crisis doesn鈥檛 have to be rocket science.
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Why Every Job Is a Climate Job
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, how to be a climate ally where you are.
Individuals Are Not to Blame for the Climate Crisis
The fossil fuel industry uses greenwashing and woke-washing to shirk their own responsibility.
The Race to Zero Emissions
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we get ready for a climate marathon.
Environmental Education Is Falling Short. Activism Can Help
鈥淲e can鈥檛 afford to let our education systems get in sustainability鈥檚 way.鈥�
What They Knew: The U.S. Government and the Climate Crisis
In a new book, Gus Speth charts 50 years of the U.S. government鈥檚 role in causing global warming.
2022鈥檚 Imperative: Letting Go of Our Past to Birth Our Future
Building an ecological civilization is the only way forward to saving both the planet and humanity. And time is running out.
Why Children鈥檚 Stories Are a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Stories are the most diverse, innovative, and dynamic technology for social transformation.
17 Months Later, Dixie Fire Survivors Are Experiencing a New Kind of Disaster
Getting the mail used to take 5 minutes. Now it's a 50-mile round trip that can take up to 4 hours due to the constant removal of hazardous trees.
Climate Justice Through Divestment
鈥淲e are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.鈥�
Can a Major City Go Car-Free? Berlin Might Know Soon Enough
A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan.
The Rights of Rivers
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States鈥� arid Southwest?
A Guide to Climate Reparations
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions鈥攂ut what do they mean in practice?
Does the Climate Crisis Inspire Anger?
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we contemplate anger, heart, and action.
Queering Climate Activism
鈥淎t the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?鈥�
Indigenous Leadership for Transformative Climate Action
Native Hawaiian organizer Kaniela Ing on the moral path forward.
Justice at the Heart of Climate Activism
The modern environmental justice movement understands the health of the planet and well-being of people are connected.
100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis
In case you needed help getting started.
At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as 鈥渘et zero鈥� emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas鈥攁nd a seat at the table.
We Need a Global Treaty for Climate
To urgently drive down carbon emissions, we need a worldwide, and equitable, fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty.
Noam Chomsky Talks Climate and Racial Justice
A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity鈥檚 prospects for emerging into a livable future.
3 Indigenous Women Talk COP26 and What Real Climate Solutions Look Like
鈥淚t鈥檚 not just swapping out oil and gas. It鈥檚 about changing the system so that it鈥檚 sustainable for everybody.鈥�
Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in 鈥淩equired Reading鈥�
The authors, who are taking part in COP26 this week, discuss ways to support Indigenous communities and their allies in healing the planet and moving forward to a post-oil future.
10 Reasons to be Optimistic (Without Being Naive) About Climate Change
These are dark times, but hope is not lost nor foolish, and change has already begun.
Immigrants Like Me Experience Two Ends of the Climate Crisis
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
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