Why Oxford Dictionary’s ‘Word of the Year’ Matters This Time
Brian Kahn, Gizmodo, Nov. 21, 2019.
Climate change is rapidly bending everything, including our language.
The new words we’re relying on are driven by humanity’s growing understanding we are in a bad, bad place. That shift was underscored by …
Climate change: Did we just witness the beginning of the end of Big Oil?
By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC Evolve. Sep 22, 2019.
- The energy sector is notorious for booms and busts, but oil and gas stocks’ weighting in the S&P 500 has not been this low since as far back as 1979.
Republican Mike Braun looks to bring GOP ‘in the game’ with bipartisan climate caucus
The Senate will soon be getting its own bipartisan caucus focused on addressing climate change.
A bipartisan duo of Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Chris Coons of Delaware are organizing the
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, September 17, 2019.
What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?
I’m skilled at eluding the fetal crouch of despair—because I’ve been working on climate change for thirty years, I’ve …
State Impact PA Ups Its Climate Crisis Focus
September 16, 2019. Scott Blanchard, State Impact PA.
Pennsylvania has a key role in talk of a carbon-neutral economy. We’ll take a closer look at the stakes.
We know that most people come to StateImpact Pennsylvania’s website through a …
The Right to a Future — With Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg
The Intercept invites you to watch a special event in New York City hosted by Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein, author of the forthcoming book “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal,” and headlined by trailblazing climate …
Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
“It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
Business as usual is what’s doing us in.
We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in …
Weakening the Endangered Species Act could harm humans, too
By , The Verge.
The new measures could pose challenges to air quality, climate action, and Native American traditions.
On August 12th, the Trump Administration issued crucial changes to the Endangered Species Act, which …
Protesting Immigration Policy, and Why I Decided to Get Arrested
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“For me, immigration, in particular, has become a larger and more pressing issue over the years. That’s because I mostly work on the question of climate change, and it’s become …
The most important thing you can do right now to fight climate change, according to science
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress, Jul 11, 2019.
Americans rarely talk about climate change with family and friends.
Tragically, research shows that this climate silence reinforces the dangerously wrong belief that climate change isn’t an existential threat requiring urgent action.
But a …