Released in September 2020, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis brings together essays and poems by poets, journalists, scientists, and activists working in different fields within the climate movement. What unites these doers and dreamers, apart from their commitment to actionable climate solutions? They all identify as female. According… Continue reading The future of the climate movement is intersectional
Category: Environmental awareness
Climate link roundup: September 2020
Hello from a particularly cool and overcast week in September, as Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe (InsideClimate News, September 19). People and policy The Drawdown is a resource for climate solutions in a range sectors. This JSTOR article sums up the connection between racial disparities in COVID-19… Continue reading Climate link roundup: September 2020
Climate link roundup (featuring climate v. COVID)
I'm a little behind on my intention to keep up with climate news, so quite a few of these links are from my Climate Change coursework this spring. It's worth it to me to do some annotations; I'll need to revisit this information again. People and policy Grist: The curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial… Continue reading Climate link roundup (featuring climate v. COVID)
Let’s check in on how that sustainability resolution is going
At the beginning of the year, I set an intention to adopt more sustainable practices in my home. Early on I asked Twitter for recommendations, which is how I learned that a surprising number of my friends were already using a local compost service to manage food waste. I loved hearing about all of the… Continue reading Let’s check in on how that sustainability resolution is going
Fast-moving Antarctic ice loss redefines ‘glacial pace’
When we think of glacial motion, we probably imagine movement so slow as to seem perfectly still. But glaciers are constantly on the move, flowing like vast frozen rivers under the weight of immense amounts of ice. Glaciers normally move with seasons as well, seeming to advance during wintertime snow accumulation and to retreat when… Continue reading Fast-moving Antarctic ice loss redefines ‘glacial pace’
Environmental interactives and charts
A noncomprehensive list! Just a selection I've come across recently. Weather 2050: a tool developed by Vox.com to predict how your city's temperature and precipitation could change by the year 2050. They are using Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5, which is a climate prediction scenario that assumes we will continue using energy at the same… Continue reading Environmental interactives and charts
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