One morning at the end of January, we received an email from a new contact – Anna Tsantir, owner of Two Bettys Green Cleaning Co. She wrote, “In light of recent political insanity, I have decided to dedicate my company’s mission toward action and the environment,” and requested a meeting to discuss our shared priorities. […]
Two years and some months ago, Climate Generation staff and 10 Education Ambassadors were in Paris, holding their breath and alive with anticipation for the imminent release of the first international accord to unite the global community around climate action. When 194 countries unanimously voted to make the Paris Agreement a reality, the world appeared […]
There is a lot that’s great about Minnesota winters. The frosted, snowy tips of trees. The swoosh of skis across a quiet, muted landscape. The play of light across icy surfaces, and across the sky on cold, crisp days. The plethora of snow and ice related activities. The slower pace and bundled-up, coziness of the […]
Worldwide, 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed per day. Over 25 million people depend on coffee farms for their economic livelihood, and it’s estimated that 500 million people have some economic connection to coffee. That’s 1 in 12 people. So when we hear that climate change is projected to cut the global area suitable […]
In the summer of 2015, as drought swept across the northwestern U.S. – where the vast majority of American hop production is centered – the question of climate change impacts on craft brewing hit home for many brewers and beer drinkers. As early as 2011, the sustainability director of New Belgium Brewery proclaimed that, “if […]
There are days where it is hard to wake up in this imperfect world we live in. The hard realities of fear, intolerance, degradation and prejudice are closer to the surface. Today is one of those days. The spectrum of emotions, from disbelief to deep sadness, is real and powerful, and it has left many […]
As teachers gathered for the Lowell School Climate Change Education Summit on Friday, November, 4, they faced a timeline spanning from 300 BC to 2100. The teachers represented all disciplines of the middle school at Lowell, a small independent school in Washington, D.C. We all met in the home of 7th and 8th grade Humanities […]
Today, September 21, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a special event – the “High-Level Event on Entry into Force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change” – to speed the ratification of the historic international climate agreement finalized at COP21 last December. The Paris Agreement enters into force once at least 55 countries, representing […]
From August 3-7, Communications Coordinator Katie Siegner participated in Climate Ride’s Climate Hike through Glacier National Park, hiking 43 miles through the park’s iconic – and threatened – environment. This reflection is based on her journal. On the 17-hour drive home from Glacier, Megan and I listened to a podcast interviewing the Brazilian novelist Paulo […]
I was not expecting to see the hashtag “#ActúaPorElClima” (ActOnClimate) on my trip to the Galapagos. Travelling with my sister to Darwin’s Enchanted Isles for her research project on local food production, I was struck by how many people named climate change as an issue of concern for these islands, and how well-informed people seemed […]