People: Wildcards in the Climate System
Earth Day 2018 marked the 20 year anniversary of climatologist Michael Mann's "hockey stick" chart, which detailed the pattern of unprecedented warming in the later part of the 20th century and attributed it to the impact of fossil-fuel-driven development on earth's...
Climate Change and Suicide
A well known gay rights attorney and environmental activist burned himself to death last week to call attention to the assault of fossil fuels on the viability of sustainable life on Planet Earth. “Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil,...
Brown’s Last Chance!
Groups with the Brown’s Last Chance campaign rallied outside the National Press Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to demand that Gov. Jerry Brown freeze new fossil fuel extraction in California and devise a plan to phase it out entirely. The rally preceded Gov....
Mobilizing Against 1.5°C
The Paris text was a political fix in which grand words masked inadequate deeds. The voluntary national emission reduction commitments since Paris now put the world on a path of 3.4°C of warming by 2100, and more than 5°C if high-end risks including carbon-cycle...
Imaging 2050: Youth Mapping the Future
https://youtu.be/b0O-kC1HsyE Young people from across the world are utilizing the mobile application of Voices of Youth Maps to publicize local issues and promote positive change in their communities. In the lead up to COP21, 800 young reporters from communities in...
The Shape of Water
You live in a coastal region where impacts from sea level rise are already evident. Your life or the life of someone you know has already been disrupted due to serious water stressors — either flood, fires, or droughts. Your access to clean drinking water is...
Poverty in Prosperity
Oxfam released its annual 'shock and awe' global economic disparity report at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, with revelations that "82% of new wealth last year went to the richest 1% - while the poorest half got nothing." During the four days of last...
Imagining 2050
But as you look around, your gaze falls on a newspaper on the coffee table. The headline reads “Worldwide crop failures in 2049: How will we eat?” You hear the radio announcer talking about eco-terrorists, the hijacking of supermarket trucks, extreme weather and poor...
Urban Forests: The Cities of 2050
By 2050, projections suggest that 2/3 of the world’s population will be residing in cities, a statistic that affirms the need to convert urban landscapes to sustainable, healthy, and environmentally prosperous environments. “Is future urbanization going to be a good...
Yoga and Climate Chaos
"The Dharma informs us, however, that craving, aversion, and delusion within the human mind are the root causes of vast human suffering ... Climate change is perhaps humanity’s greatest teacher yet about how these mental forces, when unchecked in ourselves and our...