The Best Climate Solutions Start with Listening to Communities
Engaging residents opens the opportunity for them to thrive despite the ever-increasing climate emergency.
Climate Crisis
Suffering the Heat of Climate Change, Cities Seek Retribution
Baltimore is suing major oil and gas companies for spurring the climate crisis and the rising temperatures that have an outsized impact on low-income, urban areas.
Heat: A Comic
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, hot and bothered and insulted by my children.
Why the Shift from “Climate Change” to “Climate Emergency” Matters
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, emergence through emergency.
Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.
In California’s Drier Future, What’s the Best Investment for Securing Water?
Experts agree that cities need diverse water supplies, but desalination plants remain controversial.
Greta Thunberg Talks Science, Self-Care, and What’s Next for Her
She says the pandemic has shown how quickly we can develop a vaccine once we really put our resources behind it; it's time to do the same for climate solutions.
3 Climate Activists Making Change in Their Frontline Communities
BIPOC leaders pursue visionary solutions proportional to the climate emergency we face.
How to Actually Achieve Climate Goals: Policy
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, the myopia of climate metrics.
To Decarbonize the Economy Equitably, Start With Schools
When schools achieve environmental justice, the whole climate benefits.
The Positive Climate Tipping Point We Don’t Talk About
Typically, we read about tipping points with dread. But they’re not all negative.
Life Is Abundant, Even as the Climate Is Changing
Climate change is dangerous and disorienting. But building new relationships with the landscapes around us will allow us to survive—and give the other species we still share this planet with the chance to thrive.
10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How It Works
Here’s what to know about the unexpected effects of discriminatory environmental policies.
How Recycled Glass Could Help Restore Louisiana’s Eroding Coastline
A Louisiana nonprofit is working to turn empty bottles into free sandbags for residents to protect their homes from floods and, eventually, to mitigate coastal erosion.
How a North Carolina Pastor Uses Faith to Mobilize Climate Action
Hardin-Nieri believes scripture can help religious communities better comprehend the unfolding environmental catastrophes happening around them—and do something about it.
Replacing Fossil Fuels with Community-Led Clean Energy
“We must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.”
How Native Communities on the Front Line of Climate Change Are Feeling the Heat
For Indigenous people threatened by climate change, the choice is not an easy one: Move away from a place to which families have been tied for centuries, or stay and remain at risk.
The Wildlife Refuge Helping a Community Fight for Environmental Justice
Can this New Mexico community get green space without the gentrification that usually follows?
Two Climate Migrants Recount Radically Different Experiences Seeking Sanctuary in the US
The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants equally.
The 18-Year-Old Climate Protester Now Advising Biden on Climate Policy
After a year of school striking for Fridays for Future outside the White House, Jerome Foster has been ushered in to help advise the president.
Climate Visualizations That Really Stick
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, I can see clearly now the vague is gone.
Body Cues for Climate Blues
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, am I sad or did I just eat some bad cheese?
Strengthening Communities and Shifting Power in Pursuit of a Just Transition
How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space.
It’s a Sign: How to Keep Climate Communications Compelling
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, on benign visual interventions in physical space.
How Art Can Help Cultivate Climate Resilience
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
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