Eaarth Feels

Every dollar we invest is a vote for the world we want to create. With a bit of research our investment dollars can support and hasten a more just and sustainable economic paradigm.

Simply stated, what’s better for plants and wildlife is better for the climate. Author Paul C. West explains where we need to begin and why.

This story originally appeared in  The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

A quick reminder from Elizabeth Gilbert:  We all have the ability to illuminate our corner of our world.

In a rapidly heating world, we don't have time for etiquette,

In fact, as authors Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt, remind us, it is precisely the noncongeniality of the the youth climate movement that is finally making fossil fuel companies uncomfortable.

This column is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

The not-very-ambitious agreement to come out of COP26 has left many climate-concerned people around the world discouraged and angry. Rose and Christine discuss what happened in Glasgow this month, as well as the recent extreme flooding in British Columbia that has cut off the West Coast of Canada from the rest of the country.

Does hearing about another species going extinct make you feel angry? Author John R Platt thinks that is a good thing.

This story originally appeared in  The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

In a rebroadcast of the five women panel presented at the virtual 2021 Parliament of World's Religions, Pat Fero, Clare Dubois, Shannon Thompson, Linda Bender and Rose Tenaglia Dunn share how their journey of communication with Gaia has led them to step beyond their comfort zone to take action on her behalf.

Good news on the climate front? Thankfully, there are some hopeful signs.

In order to address the climate emergency, the amount we need to consume needs to drop dramatically. Then why are we consuming MORE?

Everything that has ever been created by humanity began as a thought, a dreaming, an imagining. Envisioning the world our hearts know is possible is the beginning. Ms Heglar explains.

This essay originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.