Tag: climate action

When our hearts are in the Earth

Kendall Cook December 3, 2015 0 Comments
By Kendall Cook After traveling thirty hours, from visiting family in Mexico to landing in France, I convene with environmental activists whose homes are dispersed throughout the globe.  Homes that are keeping the remaining parts of their hearts safe for them, as they separate momentarily from the soil that raised them, to protect that same mother that birthed them. Here, I will spend two weeks...

It’s time to leap!

Hana Keegan December 3, 2015 0 Comments
By Hana Keegan Monday, February 29th, 2016 will be a leap day. We have leap days every four years so that our calendars do not gradually fall out of sync with the seasons. Leap days mark a point at which we, members of Western society, must bend the rules that shape how we see the world to reflect the reality of the natural world. On a red-curtained stage of a Parisian assembly hall, Naomi Klein...

Outside In: COP21, Paris

Brynna Golden December 2, 2015 1 Comment
By Brynna Golden A gust of wind jolted the airplane and smushed my sleeping face into the cool oval window to my left. The cold tremor woke me quickly from my short travel nap. I stretched and pressed my groggy cheek back to the glass. In the dim light I could barely make out some massive swaths of white and dark, patch-worked over the earth below me. I couldn’t tell if the divide was...

Working Towards Another Green Revolution…the Ultimate Downfall of 4 per 1000

Jenna Farineau December 2, 2015 1 Comment
By Sara Velander and Jenna Farineau There are a considerable amount of false solutions out in the world currently. You know - the “green solutions” that multinational corporations promote in their annual sustainability reports. Or the resilience projects that governments boast about during high-level conferences hosted by their town, city, or country. The types of solutions that look so...

What happens when the fish disappear?

Hana Keegan December 1, 2015 1 Comment
By Hana Keegan I have always lived by the sea. Each and every morning, the sun rises. It sheds light on the ever-changing blues of the water’s surface. I have spent days swimming in these waters, gazing through my snorkelling mask at glittering fish as they feed on the coral reefs. I have also noticed how more and more of the coral heads are dying because of human activity. Witnessing how...