Tools to Guide Congregations and Communities Through the Energy Transition Tuesday, October 15, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT Register for the Webinar Many organizations want to take action to steward their community’s transition to low carbon energy choices, starting with their own buildings, but often don’t know …
Bloomberg Climate Changed
One author of a new United Nations climate report warns of “an existential crisis” and “permanent” changes to human civilization as seas rise, get warmer and more acidic at a faster pace than previously predicted. The damage, he says, has already been done. —Josh Petri“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty …
Transforming Finance Group’s Call Recognizes Finance as a Global Commons
“This decade-old TRANSFORMING FINANCE Statement, signed in 2010 after the 2009 financial meltdown, by some one-hundred influential investors, asset managers, and progressive leaders, is the first we know of which states that global finance is a part of the global commons. The Statement points out that global finance rests on …
An amazing week for climate action.
Juliana v. United States plaintiff Kelsey Juliana speaks at a press conference, featuring fellow plaintiffs and supportive members of Congress, on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on September 18 in Washington, D.C. We’ve been busy. Last week was the beginning of a new era in the climate movement. …
“STEERING SOCIETIES FROM GDP’s 7 DEADLY SINS TO SDGS AND THE GOLDEN RULE”
September 23, 2019 by Hazel Henderson©, author of “Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age: From Economism to Earth Systems Science (2014) As so many of us watch our representatives meeting at the United Nations (UN) this week, many of us, particularly in the USA, yearn to restore …
Tell World Leaders: When We Empower Girls and Women We Can Grow Economies and Improve the World.
TAKE ACTION Stand Up for Gender Equality There is not a single country in the world where women have equal opportunities to men. Around the world, women and girls lack access to modern contraceptives, miss out on education opportunities, and do not get the same investment in them as boys …
Democracy’s enemy within
The Economist this week Highlights from the latest issue This week we have two connected covers. In Britain, where Boris Johnson has announced that he will suspend Parliament for five weeks from mid-September, we ask who can now stop a no-deal Brexit. The sense of inevitability about no-deal, cultivated by …
Make history with the Juliana plaintiffs
With Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Carolinas and the Bahamas in ruins, it is more important than ever that we stand in solidarity with those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Join us in the streets later this month to demand that governments take bold and immediate action …
CELEBRATE The International Day of Peace 21 September 2019 – Plant a Peace Pole!
CELEBRATE The International Day of Peace 21 September 2019 2019 Theme: CLIMATE ACTION FOR PEACE Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both …
Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on the climate crisis
Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis. Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural …