Climate Crisis
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10 Books That Offer Hope (and Solutions) for the Future
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It’s December 2020 and we’re in dire need of positivity and hope. With so many global crises unfolding, investigating solutions to both new and old problems should provide a welcome boost. With their charm, potential for depth, and centuries-old format, books are still the ideal medium for presenting, developing, and discussing solutions – hence this…
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Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
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This is an extract from the book Being the Change by Peter Kalmus, published by New Society Publishers, 2017-08-01, reprinted here with kind permission. Chapter 1: Waking Up “Trees and people used to be the best of friends. I saw that tree and decided to buy the house.” — Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro I…
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Befriending Eco-Anxiety: A Practice of Deep Adaptation
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Walking along stretches of beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a city of five million people, trash is everywhere: plastic bottles, straws and bags, styrofoam, the lone flip flop, take-out food containers, and more. At one spot there is a strong, unpleasant odour, where an open sewage line flows directly into the ocean. The contrast between…
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OMG CLIMATE | A Free Community-Run, Open-Space Event around Tech and Climate Change
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Talk about it! It’s one of the first things you can do about the climate crisis, and one of the main pieces of advice anyone from climate scientists to engineers and teachers would give. But it needs to be constructive talk in conjunction with action. This series of unconferences explores complicated topics (last year it…
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee
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The summer of 2019 has brought a blistering heatwave of record-breaking temperatures to Europe—and we should get used to it. By 2050, it’s been reported, London’s weather could be similar to that of Barcelona. Taking in these increasingly terrifying predictions about the future of the climate can lead to anxiety, or even worse—paralysis. But what…
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Hope In the Anthropocene
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There’s no such thing as the future. Instead, the roads before us stretch in a near-infinity of potential directions. We get to choose the route; in the words of famed cyberethicist Sarah Connor, there’s no fate but what we make. Of course, some of the futures we could choose are better than others. Perhaps we…
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Experts’ Advice: Steps You Can Take to Tackle Climate Breakdown
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After any conversation about the climate crisis, most people ask (or should ask) “What can I do?”. According to climate scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe, if you’ve had a conversation like this, you’ve already done a lot. She thinks that the key to having a real discussion about the climate crisis is to connect over…
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Polly Higgins: Ecocide, The 5th Crime Against Peace – Transcript
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This is a transcript of the talk offered by Polly Higgins (Earth Lawyer) at TEDxExeter in 2012 – shared with kind permission of Ecological Defence Integrity. Seven years ago, I was standing in the Royal Courts of Justice in London — I’m a barrister — and it was the very last day of a long…
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How to Travel Without Flying in Europe (2019)
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This past April, activist Greta Thunberg made headlines as she spoke at environmental events across Europe. But the hubbub wasn’t just because she’s a teenage sensation whose campaigning is inspiring figures from the Pope the Obama – it was because her international journey was done entirely by train. But she’s not the only one opting…
