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. Brown’s scheduled appearance at the National Press
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 thing or a bad thing?” asks filmmaker Oscar Boyson. “If
“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 institutions, cause harm to other people and the
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 could cause 250,000 additional deaths annually. 75% of the world
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 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 169 targets
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 ten biochar-producing Climate Rescue Can
One day before the huge November 29 Climate March in Paris, Place To B throws open its doors to create a new way of looking at the world through “green glasses.” There is still space for you to be one of the 600 participants in this one-of-a-kind scramble of journalists,
London. July 13, 2015.(College of the Atlantic) Representatives of climate-impacted communities and social movements in the global South are collaborating with international faith, labour, development, and environment NGOs to issue a clear “litmus test” of success for this year’s UN climate summit. While simply delivering any agreement in Paris may