by Deborah Phelan | Mar 13, 2017 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Drought, DRR, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule
What can we do about climate change? The Best Climate Practices Observatory has just announced its fifth challenge “Building local resilience to climate disaster risk, in a search for innovative best practices to address the severe danger from extreme weather...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 8, 2017 | Climate Change, Food Security, Gender Equity
It’s International Women’s Day and while many are asserting their inherent value by participating in “A Day Without A Woman’ events, small scale female farmers in the developing world don’t have the luxury of taking a day off from their...
by Deborah Phelan | Feb 16, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Food Security, Global Goals, Hunger
The same region in the Horn of Africa which experienced severe famine back in 2011 is once again devastated by a record breaking drought, which threatens to undermine success gained in helping communities cope with the ravages of extreme weather and climate change....
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 27, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, Disaster Risk Reduction, DRR, Food Security, Global Goals, Global Health, Hunger, UN SDGs
End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. In just 17 steps. Over the course of 15 years. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is 17 aspirational “Global Goals,” which are also referred to as the 17...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 13, 2016 | biochar, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, mitigation, Take Action
2050kids Cookstove Challenge kicks off this month with Boy Scouts signing up to join a select group of cookstove test drivers from around the world. The scouts from Troop 118 in Sacramento, CA picked up their starter kits and instructions August 9 to begin building...
by Deborah Phelan | Jul 27, 2016 | Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Ideas, mitigation, Our Blog, Real Life Story, Take Action, Uncategorized, Youth and Climate Change
The task of climate rescue can feel daunting. Where do you start with the new policy, infrastructure and lifestyles urgently needed to switch humanity from wrecking to restabilizing the climate? This big switch should and could be made quickly but it’s...
