by Deborah Phelan | Aug 26, 2023 | Climate Activism, Climate Change
Norweigan researchers recently conducted a study that revealed that anger was the most important catalyst for climate activism. The study predicted anger is seven times more likely than hope to promote active engagement. “The problem isn’t that people feel too scared...
by Deborah Phelan | Sep 8, 2022 | 2050, Climate Change, Real Life Story
I used to write a lot about climate change. Until I didn’t anymore. And that happened when I began to experience intense grief and fear over what our future looks like. I think that happened in conjunction with the 2015 Paris Agreement, which, while lauded now by...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 13, 2015 | Climate Change
In an unprecedented papal encyclical, Pope Francis is calling for a economic and ethical revolution to wage battle against climate change. The letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will be released in five languages on Thursday, June 18 and will expound...
by Deborah Phelan | Jan 30, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, Our Blog
The United Nations launch of The World We Want calls on citizens everywhere to sign up and share their priorities to build “a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015,...