This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The city council of Santa Ana, the predominantly Latino county seat of Orange County, California, approved a cutting-edge resolution this month that not only declares a climate emergency, but simultaneously…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is in full swing. The year’s 18th named storm, Sam, has become a hurricane. Meanwhile, some residents in the parts of Louisiana hit hardest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year may in fact be the most important one yet to seriously consider cutting back on plastic. COVID-19 caused a spike in single-use plastic foodware with increased takeout orders,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Environmental justice is not a single-issue movement – it is impossible for it to be, due to the multiple environmental, social, racial and economic, climate and health issues faced by and in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2016, University of California professors Julie Sze and Lindsey Dillon published a paper in which they put “environmental justice literature in conversation with critiques of anti-Black police violence, as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Given the number and increasing severity of climate-related events, combating climate change is urgent. Under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, members of its Conference of Parties…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Ocean Cleanup is a highly touted nonprofit with the ambitious goal of cleaning up 90 percent of the ocean’s plastic. In reality, the initiative’s impact on the world’s floating debris…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two months from now the annual United Nations climate conference will have begun, this year in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Campaign groups are already limbering up for the talks, COP-26,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sentientism has much in common with humanism. Like humanism, it is pro-human rights and focused on our common global humanity. It is anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-ableist, anti-nationalistic and anti-LGBTQ+phobic. Both…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As two entrepreneurs of color, we are all too familiar with the pattern of underinvestment for communities of color in the venture capital-funded climate technology sector. Against all odds, we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You’ll probably hear the term “net-zero emissions” a lot over the coming weeks as government leaders and CEOs, under pressure, talk about how they’ll reduce their countries’ or businesses’ impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rivers, lakes and wetlands cover just 1% of the Earth’s surface but are home to nearly 10% of all species, including fish, mammals, birds, insects and crustaceans. But these rich,…