by Deborah Phelan | Apr 17, 2018 | Children, Climate Change, Global Health, Take Action, Youth and Climate Change
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....
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 19, 2017 | 2050, Climate Change, Global Goals, Global Health, TIme Capsule, UN SDGs, Youth and Climate Change
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...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 20, 2017 | Climate Change, Drought, Global Health, Water
“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...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 28, 2017 | Children, Global Goals, Global Health, TIme Capsule, UN SDGs, Water, Youth, Youth and Climate Change
By 2050, experts predict the global need for fresh water will increase more than 40%, as 1/4 of the world’s 9.7 billion people reside in regions experiencing “chronic or recurrent” lack of clean water. Malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress...
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...
