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Here are five inspiring stories we found around the world this week. Living classroom program inspires “capital of abundance” in Colombia More than 7,000 students from all over Colombia have taken classes at La Cosmopolitana Foundation, where the aula viva (living classroom) method teaches cooperative and abundant-minded ways of thinking and applying it to agriculture….
This week, the mayors of London and Montréal – Sadiq Khan and Valérie Plante – met in London to discuss city collaboration on climate, launching a report on urban rewilding that shares best practices from urban nature initiatives from around the world. Case studies include pocket forests in São Paulo, vertical gardens in Lagos, biodiversity…
In need of a little more inspiration this week? Check out these stories of resilience and restoration! A Miami program prepares women of color for climate resilience leadership A six-month course run by the CLEO Institute – a Miami-based, women-led organization dedicated to climate education and advocacy – empowers women of color to prepare for…
What collaborative opportunities exist to help communities cope with extreme heat? Intense, record-breaking heat waves have enveloped large parts of Asia in the last week, bringing questions of state preparedness to the forefront. In a story about heat-related fatalities in India over the weekend, The New York Times states: “Extreme heat can be deceptively dangerous,…
The independent energy think-tank Ember published its 4th annual report on global energy today and that’s the big take-away from their findings. The UK organization, founded in 2008, is widely respected for its quantitative analysis. The new report got write-ups in Carbonbrief, Reuters, Euronews, CNN, and more. Key take-aways: Here’s a key chart. What’s your…
Inspiring and innovative projects are getting us through the week! Amidst a very serious climate crisis, there are incredibly compelling stories of solutions and resilience from around the world, and we want to share with you some of the highlights that have us really energized. This week features several stories about the successful blend of…
How is solutions journalism impacting efforts to address climate change? It’s hard to effect change if a large chunk of people worldwide are tuned out, largely due to emotional burn-out from problem-centric reporting. But a growing shift into what some are calling a “solutions era” of journalism is making its own headlines. Today’s Editor’s Pick…
What can we learn from and help with in the debate over opening the deep sea to mining? What produces half the oxygen we breathe and absorbs one-quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions along with more than 93% of excess heat caused by global warming? It’s the ocean! And among the clear risks to ocean…
Question: Is shareholder pressure a meaningful lever for change? How can there be more of it? Or are other strategies smarter? NPR reported this morning that corporate shareholders are putting increasing pressure on boards to deal with climate change. Across the United States, shareholders have “filed around 540 proposals as of mid-February asking companies to…
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