This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like: It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming.” That August 28 Politico article by Slate weatherman Eric Holthaus was one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You may describe your giving bucket under the banner of human rights, education, women’s health, animal rights, conservation, clean water, food waste, or resilient cities. Only a handful of us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now reported this week that immigrants in the path of Hurricane Harvey were afraid to evacuate to shelters or approach authorities to seek help due to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s 2050. In New York, the old working-class Long Island beach town of Mastic Beach no longer exists–and neither does the beach; the sand is underwater. What’s left of it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As it turns out, there is something any one of us can do and it involves no marches on Washington or angry letters to elected officials. All we have to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One controversial option for decreasing the rate of greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere is the carbon offset. Rather than reducing the amount of carbon they emit, companies compensate for this…
Corals in the Pacific Ocean have been dying at an alarming rate, particularly from bleaching brought on by increased water temperatures. But it’s not too late to act, says TED…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s foundations spend many millions of dollars every year on investment advice. What do they get in return? You read that right: Money that could be spent on charitable programs — to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After Trump announced his intent to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, Conservation International–like other nonprofits–saw a surge in interest from people wanting to know how they could act while…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the Clean Air Act was originally passed in 1970 only one member of Congress voted against it. Today, the very idea of a bi-partisan environmental regulation legislation effort is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you live in Texas or Louisiana, your community will be harder hit by climate change than cities in New Hampshire or Oregon. By the end of the century, if…