Category: Global

COP26 showed me our climate crisis is a social crisis

COP26 showed me our climate crisis is a social crisis By Jelena Collins Attending COP26 — the UN’s 26th convention on climate change — in Glasgow, Scotland last fall was one of the best experiences of my life. I had never been in an environment where everyone was equally if not more passionate than I…
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McDonald’s climate pledges: More show than substance

Are McDonald’s climate pledges for real? I’ll be watching! By Robin Weller I stopped creating resolutions for each new year more than 25 years ago because I never seemed to follow through. In this new year of 2022, I am not making a resolution; I am making a declaration: I will follow up on McDonald’s…
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Going to Glasgow with Rachel Rosner

Lifting up youth voices on a global stage, such as COP26, is essential for fighting the climate crisis.

Let’s all take climate action now!

Learn how to use the Climate Action Now app and start action to combat our climate crisis today.

The good, the bad & tipping points

The good, the bad & tipping points By Jane Goldenberg Holy Moly, he’s now talking about climate tipping points! While I wasn’t a complete climate newbie when I went to The Climate Reality Project’s training in Minneapolis in August 2019, former Vice President Al Gore’s nearly three and a half hour slide show about the…
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Demanding climate action as a basic human right

Demanding climate action as a basic human right By Jean-Stéphane Naas When I was in elementary school, I spent weekends with my father picking up plastic bags from the street. We would then use them to dispose of our week’s trash. In other scavenging, we searched alleys looking for furniture that had been left behind.…
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“Planet of the Humans” Is a Big FLICC’er

“Planet of the Humans” Is a Big FLICC’er By Julie Sacco FLICC.  That stands for:  Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry-picking, Conspiracy theories.  The chief strategies used by science deniers are all abundant in the movie “Planet of the Humans.” The mystique of Michael Moore The executive producer of this film, Moore is widely…
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