“Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” Edited by Paul Hawken “Drawdown” gathers a broad coalition of thought leaders in research, science, policy and business to present 100 solutions to a warming world. The beauty of this is these aren’t far-flung ideas for expensive and experimental technologies, but ways for which […]
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Scenes from the Youth Climate Strike
Students walked out of school, urging leaders to take more action to slow global warming
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Letters to the Future
Scientists, authors, and activists predict the outcome of the upcoming UN Climate Talks in Paris
Illustrations by Don Button, www.DesignButton.com World leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming … or […]
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Too Little, Too Late, and Probably Not At All
With little hope for stopping global warming, the question becomes how to adapt and survive
The good news is they didn’t go up,” says Angus Duncan, speaking about greenhouse gas emissions. He adds, “The bad news is they don’t go down.” For the past 40 years, Duncan has been working with local and national agencies to modify energy policy, and for the past eight years has chaired the Oregon Global […]
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It’s Not the End of the World
Why planning and resilience trump panic and retreat
As climate change becomes a more pressing reality than looming threat, those still sitting pretty are starting to take note of the devastating impacts of changes in weather patterns across the globe. As close to home as Alaska, the first domestic so-called “climate refugees” are grappling with the fact that the land they’ve called home […]
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What in the World
Remember how we were totally relieved yesterday that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudancese woman once sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, was released from prison? Well, turns out she was re-arrested while she and her U.S. citizen husband and two children were trying to leave for the United States. While we can all be […]