Sage Lenier’s sustainability course at UC Berkeley focuses on solutions. Now she’s launching a nonprofit to equip students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis. By Jessica Kutz The 19th News Sage Lenier attended her first environmental class as a high schooler in Corona, California in 2015. It was an AP course that […]
For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear. We are two astronomers who depend on dark night skies to do our research. For decades, astronomers have been building telescopes […]
As climate advocates, we need to articulate what it is that we are fighting for. What is the world we want to create? Engaging our imagination is essential to stir up the kind of hope and excitement that inspires others to action. By Citizens’ Climate Lobby “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s […]
In 2010, the publication of “Merchants of Doubt” exposed how a small group of industry-backed scientists spread disinformation to undermine climate science. Now, the co-authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway are back with a new book exploring “The Big Myth” of free-market neoliberalism, and why those merchants were able to find the success they did. The key question? “How […]
Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as they’ve been around they’ve ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, we’ve all likely come across them in one form or another. Yet, in a surprise […]
Scientists at the University of Hamburg in Germany argued Wednesday that meeting the 2015 Paris climate agreement’s goal of limiting planetary heating to 1.5°C is “currently not plausible”—but warned that despairing over climate “tipping points” risks taking attention away from “the best hope for shaping a positive climate future… the ability of society to make […]
Yesterday, we laid out the backstory of Oxford’s recent moment in the disinfo spotlight thanks to a conspiracy theory in UK’s Vision News, which resulted in multiple fact checks that did little to stop the stream of abuse directed at local public officials. So how did a plan to let people walk without fear of getting hit by a […]
In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Radio podcast, host Peterson Toscano looks at climate stories that reveal the impacts of climate solutions. This is a harder story to tell because many of the best solutions are still on the table. In fact, CCLers are working hard to get lawmakers and community leaders to take […]
At the beginning of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the green, pot-bellied, feline-faced Grinch is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is “two sizes too small.” In the middle of the story, he plots to steal all the Christmas gifts in Whoville and toss them from a cliff. At the end, having learned […]
There are a lot of great ways to talk about climate change. Framing it as a national security threat and telling Americans that they should take climate action to prevent a flood of climate migrants is not one of them. That’s the very short version of a new brief from Common Defense, one of the […]
Miami’s Little Haiti has been an immigrant community for decades. Its streets are lined with small homes and colorful shops that cater to the neighborhood, a predominantly Afro-Caribbean population with a median household income well below Miami’s. But Little Haiti’s character may be changing. Richard Grant, University of Miami and Han Li, University of Miami […]
feast that symbolized an abiding pact between European colonists and Indigenous people to share the abundance of the land. But the reality of both historical and ongoing colonization, says Nephi Craig, White Mountain Apache, is that if you “want to attack a people and wipe them out—attack their food.” By Valerie Schloredt YES! magazine Consider […]
Most Americans – 81% – think government investments in scientific research are “worthwhile investments for society over time,” according to the Pew Research Center’s latest survey on public perceptions of science. A similar proportion said they have at least “a fair amount” of confidence that scientists act in the public’s best interests: 77% for all […]
When Columbus landed in 1492, the Americas had been settled for tens of thousands of years. He wasn’t the first person to discover the continent. Instead, his discovery was the last of many discoveries. In all, people found the Americas at least seven different times. Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath The Conversation For at […]
In order to successfully act on climate change, we need a sense that we’re all in this together. In that regard, the state of Utah may have what it takes to lead the way. By Bob Ingles EcoRight/RepublicEN On a trip this week to the Beehive State, the first of two this month, the Rotarians in […]