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12 new books to honor Earth Day - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Apr 12) |
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Apr 12 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections In the more than 50 years since it was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, Earth Day has become Earth Month, a longer time to take a wider view of our connections with nature. For Earth Month 2024, Yale Climate Connections offers a bookshelf that links climate change with the broader goals of preserving biodiversity and cultivating healthy ecosystems. The first book, “Gaia’s Web,” maps the broader terrain for the more focused books that follow. We need an “environmentalism [that] can combat climate change, restore biodiversity, cultivate empathy, ... Read more ... |
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Book review: 'Saving Ourselves’ author says we can’t wait on global leaders to save the climate - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 29) |
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Mar 29 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Sociologist Dana Fisher used to attend all the big climate negotiations. In 1998, she traveled to Kyoto, Japan, where the first agreement to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions was adopted. At the Hague in 2000, she interviewed protesters building a dike of sandbags around the conference hall to symbolize the need for aggressive action on climate change. And in 2015, she was in Paris when the world’s governments laid out their most ambitious climate goals yet in the Paris climate agreement. But Fisher, the recently appointed director of ... Read more ... |
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A data scientist’s case for 'cautious optimism’ about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Against the regular drumbeat of negative news on climate and the environment, a positive note can be both startling and therapeutic. To keep pressing forward, we need to know that progress has been - and still can be - made. That’s the motivation behind “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet” by Hannah Ritchie, a senior researcher in the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development and deputy editor and lead researcher for the influential website, Our World in Data. In this undertaking, Hannah ... Read more ... |
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An eco-lodge in Baja California Sur teaches guests how to live sustainably. Can it survive rising seas and storms? - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Driving to La Duna Ecology Center, you typically lose cell connection before turning off Mexico’s coastal Highway 1. You’re bound to question some turns and follow one or two wrong forks in the road weaving between towering cardon cactuses that reach for the sky. La Duna’s rustic welcome sign and palm-frond-topped casitas remain invisible until you arrive. Once inside the gate, you’re tucked into a lumpy blanket of shrubs, earthy shelters, and the namesake wall of dunes. These sandy coastal barriers of the Baja California peninsula buffer the wind and ... Read more ... |
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Archaeological sites in North Carolina under threat from sea level rise and storms - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 13) |
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Mar 13 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections In North Carolina, Hammocks Beach State Park includes areas that have been used by humans for more than 2,000 years. Artifacts remain from Indigenous hunting and fishing sites, colonial settlements, and the Civil War. But as seas rise and storms batter the shoreline, some of this history could be washed away. Ropp: “Particularly on Hammocks Beach, we’ve seen erosion. … And a lot of it seems to be a combination of that sea level rise and then wind-driven tides.” Allyson Ropp is a historic preservation archaeological specialist with the ... Read more ... |
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12 books and reports for Women’s History Month - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 12) |
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Mar 12 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections As with Black History Month, the notion that women’s history can be treated as a one-month supplement to history per se has long been challenged. Women make up slightly more than 50% of the U.S. population, and research has found that they make up much larger shares of the people participating in climate marches and protests. As the list below makes clear, on climate change women are making the history they’re writing. The list starts with a report just released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on how climate change ... Read more ... |
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The best climate change movies and TV series of 2023 - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Mar 7) |
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Mar 7 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The lead-up to the Academy Awards program, airing this Sunday night, March 10, is a good time to assess 2023’s movies and TV programs for their attention to climate change - which ought to play a part in any genre set in the near past, present, or foreseeable future. That’s the position taken by Good Energy, a nonprofit consultancy that the New York Times has called “Hollywood’s climate adviser.” The group argues that contemporary movies and TV programs that don’t acknowledge climate change are engaged in fantasy. But when they reviewed 37,453 TV ... Read more ... |
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Climate books for Black History Month - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Feb 23) |
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Feb 23 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections To win allies for climate action, activists must understand how the environment, intersects with concerns for the health and well-being of people and communities. Inequities of the past and the present must be addressed by the policies and programs offered for a sustainable future. Toward that end, this month’s list begins with four reports: Green 2.0’s just-published annual assessment of representation in environmental nongovernmental organizations and foundations, Black climate justice leader Jacqui Patterson’s new review of climate impacts and ... Read more ... |
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Your guide to 2024’s best environmental films - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Feb 21) |
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Feb 21 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections In Nevada City, California, an environmental film festival kicked off to good news when the gold country community decisively rejected a proposed new gold mine. Between news that the board of supervisors had just unanimously denied the bid to reopen an old mine and the fact that 100+ inspiring films were set to screen around town this February weekend, the sense that community action can and does pay off was unusually clear at South Yuba River Citizens League’s 22nd Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City and Grass Valley, California. After all, ... Read more ... |
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Company upcycles wind turbine blades into benches and picnic tables - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections All over the world, wind turbines are generating clean, renewable energy. But when they reach the end of their useful life, the giant fiberglass blades often end up as trash. Donahue: “Our goal is to upcycle as much of the blade as possible.” Brian Donahue works for Canvus, a company that repurposes old turbine blades by slicing them apart and using each section to build a bench or picnic table. For some products, they turn a cross-section of the blade on its side and fill it with recycled rubber to create a bench. For others, ... Read more ... |
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Philadelphia mural tells a story of transformation - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Feb 12) |
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Feb 12 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections On the side of a huge old warehouse in Philadelphia, a new mural - longer than a football field - tells the story of the harms people have caused to the Earth and a future rooted in climate action. Jones: “We receive so much discouraging information about the climate, but we actually have a lot of hopeful things going on right in our city right now.” That’s Eurhi Jones, lead artist for the mural. It was a project of the organization Mural Arts Philadelphia and designed in collaboration with environmental justice groups and Indigenous ... Read more ... |
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Should climate change keep you from having kids? - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Feb 2) |
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Feb 2 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections “A particular sort of demographic thing was going on for us both - you know, the finger-wagging around children,” says Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, remembering the period of her life when she met Josephine Ferorelli at a party. It was 2014. Both 30, they bonded quickly over the pain of deciding whether to have children at a time when the climate crisis was bad and getting worse. “People have been dealing with all this horrible stuff privately. It wasn’t being talked about out in the open, but it was being understood and felt on a personal ... Read more ... |
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How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jan 31) |
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Jan 31 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Imagine if you could walk from your house to anywhere you needed to go in less than 15 minutes: the pharmacy, the bakery, the gym, and then back to the bakery. In a certain, conspiracy-addled corner of the internet, this urban planning concept of “15-minute cities” gets a shady, sinister gloss. Conspiracy theorists evoke COVID restrictions and tout efforts to create walkable cities as steps toward “climate lockdowns.” They warn of a plot by the World Economic Forum to restrict people’s movements, trapping and surveilling them in their ... Read more ... |
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Musical trio including Yo-Yo Ma records an anthem of hope - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jan 24) |
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Jan 24 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections [Song clip: “Well, I’m not, I’m not gonna say goodbye. I won’t see you on the other side.”] This past year, world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma partnered with Indigenous singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson and environmentalist drag queen vocalist Pattie Gonia. The three went to Alaska - where Christopherson is from - to film a music video on rocky terrain in front of glaciers that are crumbling. Christopherson: “And when we were there, we were just listening to this glacier calf and watching it, and it’s just falling into the ocean right in ... Read more ... |
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Chicagoans learn how to cut pollution at new Climate Action Museum - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jan 23) |
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Jan 23 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections At the new Climate Action Museum in Chicago, there is no room for doom and gloom. Instead, the exhibits highlight ways to cut carbon pollution and inspiring reasons to do so. Farr: “If you’re a homeowner, we have a list for you. If you own a car, we’ve got suggestions, etc. … So this idea that everyone has agency of some sort and probably may not have thought about it.” Doug Farr is one of the museum’s co-founders and an architect who specializes in sustainable design. Farr: “It’s my day job. It’s my passion. … So ... Read more ... |
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'Won’t give up’ is a new anthem for the climate movement - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jan 22) |
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Jan 22 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Drag queen Pattie Gonia, Alaskan musician Quinn Christopherson, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up in 2023 to write and perform “Won’t Give Up.” Filmed in Alaska against a backdrop of melting glaciers, the music video is an anthem filled with hope and a promise to never give up in the fight to slow climate change and save the glaciers. This interview has been edited and condensed. Yale Climate Connections: Quinn, can you start by telling me what inspired you to get involved in climate activism? Quinn Christopherson: With climate activism, I’m ... Read more ... |
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Cartoons: The psychological polar vortex - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jan 11) |
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Jan 11 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Related: Everything to buy if a hurricane is forecast for your area Related: What on Earth is a polar vortex? And what’s global warming got to do with it? Related: Extreme heat makes pregnancy more dangerous Related: Wildfire smoke getting into your home? Build a DIY Corsi-Rosenthal air filter. Related: How to save on home heating costs for winter 2021-2022 more like this An initiative of ACCESSIBILITY AT YALE Read more ... |
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Nine climate book stocking stuffers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Dec 13) |
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Dec 13 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Books can be expensive, especially for young people on limited budgets. Young people may, nevertheless, want to change the minds or habits of their elders. For these people, or anyone seeking an affordable gift for a sustainable future, Yale Climate Connections has put together this list of nine climate-themed paperbacks - all recent releases, eight priced at under $20. Three come with a positive YCC review, interview, or book club discussion: “Advocating for the Environment” (review), “Climate Resilience” (interview), and “Not Too Late” (book club ... Read more ... |
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12 climate change books to give friends and family over the holidays - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Dec 12) |
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Dec 12 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections For this year’s holiday book list, a tradition that began in 2016, we reviewed the bookshelves, interviews, and reviews Yale Climate Connections published in 2023 while keeping a watchful eye on new releases. The result? A mix of brand new and recent titles, five of which have now appeared on “best books of 2023” lists put out by magazines, newspapers, and radio and TV networks. This year’s holiday list begins with two overviews of Earth’s 4-billion-year climatic history: Michael Mann’s “Our Fragile Moment” and Stephen Porder’s “Elemental.” ... Read more ... |
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12 recently released reports that track the world’s progress on climate - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Nov 12) |
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Nov 12 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Just in time for this year’s international climate meeting - the COP28 UN climate meeting in Dubai - many agencies and organizations have published major reports about global efforts to address climate change. The United Nations Environment Program leads the way in this effort, publishing three different “gap” reports that track international progress (or regress) in curbing fossil fuel production, reducing emissions, and funding global efforts to adapt to climate change, especially in developing countries. More optimistically, this year’s World ... Read more ... |
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Hollywood: Bring back Captain Planet - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Nov 10) |
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Nov 10 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections It happens every time a superhero goes into hiding: In their absence, a world falls apart. What is Gotham without its Batman? Crime is rampant, the sky is ominous, and disaster looms. Likewise, what is Earth without Captain Planet? With the writer’s strike behind us and creative projects picking back up, I hope Hollywood feels the urgency to revive what Captain Planet brought to millennials. Though many TV shows from my childhood didn’t age well, “Captain Planet” was well ahead of its time. The animated series and its sequel, which ... Read more ... |
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Meet the author of “Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change” - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Oct 25, 2023) |
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Oct 25, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Native rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth organizers, Latinx wilderness experts, and other climate leaders fill the pages of a personal and rousing new book: “Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back against Climate Change.” Author Kylie Flanagan wanted to uplift what she felt were underrepresented voices in the climate conversation. So her book, which Kirkus Reviews called an “essential, inspired chorus of voices,” comprises short essays edited from interviews with 39 women, nonbinary, ... Read more ... |
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Renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann on what 'doomers’ get wrong - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Sep 26, 2023) |
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Sep 26, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Michael E. Mann has served on the front lines of climate science and, as a consequence, the wars over climate policy, for more than a decade. Probably still best known as one of the creators of the hockey stick graph, which shows an abrupt rise in the planet’s average temperature since the 1900s, he is also a dedicated science communicator who has previously published five books aimed at the general public, including a book for children. Now a presidential distinguished professor and the director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the ... Read more ... |
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How should we memorialize communities lost to floods? - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Sep 18, 2023) |
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Sep 18, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections In 1996, after suffering multiple floods, residents of the small community of Wakenda, Missouri, packed up and moved away. Their homes were purchased and demolished as part of a government buy-out program. Today, a granite monument topped with the bell from Wakenda’s Baptist church memorializes the community that was lost and honors the lives of those who left and started over elsewhere. “The commemoration to them means that their stories are not forgotten,” says Elyse Zavar, an associate professor of emergency management and disaster ... Read more ... |
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12 new climate change books for professors and teachers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Sep 12, 2023) |
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Sep 12, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections After a harrowing summer - with stinging wildfire smoke, blistering heat waves, and raging floods - students returned to school. Then another round of heat waves sent students in 10 states back home. Clearly, climate change is already affecting American education. What, then, should schools teach students about it? The 12 books selected for this month’s bookshelf offer guidance for educators at all levels: two- and four-year colleges, and high, middle, and primary schools. All have been published since Yale Climate Connections’ last two-part series on ... Read more ... |
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Art in the aftermath of disasters - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Aug 22, 2023) |
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Aug 22, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The almond-colored walls of the seaside building in the San Juan neighborhood of La Perla are stained with rust and peeling paint. Discarded doorframes and broken boards are strewn about. This is just one of the countless places severely damaged by hurricanes in Puerto Rico. Over the past six years, Puerto Rico has been hit hard by back-to-back natural disasters: the devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, a series of destructive earthquakes in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2022’s Hurricane Fiona. Many residents are still rebuilding their ... Read more ... |
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Books for our new, climate-changed summers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Aug 16, 2023) |
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Aug 16, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Officially, the end of summer is marked by the autumnal equinox on September 23. Unofficially, summer ends some weeks earlier, with the start of classes in the nation’s schools and colleges. This year, however, there is a third way to define “the end of summer;” a growing chorus of voices wonders whether “summer” itself has ended, whether climate change has irrevocably contradicted our traditional, cheery visions of the season. Writing for the New York Times, environmental journalist David Gelles asks “Is It Too Hot for Fun in the Summertime?” In the ... Read more ... |
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Two new nonfiction books confront the wildfires we face and how to deal with them - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Aug 11, 2023) |
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Aug 11, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our newsletters. Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The fires that now rampage each year through wildlands across North America - and often into the settlements that pepper and adjoin them - aren’t just more extensive and destructive than anything seen in modern times. They’re messing with the calendar as heat and drought push into seasons that were once reliably cooler and more tranquil. And they’re invading our psyches, adding new layers of stress to a threat that keeps millions of souls living in fire country on edge. Read more ... |
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The climate canary is dead - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Aug 09, 2023) |
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Aug 09, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections I was on my way to a good friend’s installation to a new ministry when the climate crisis whomped me right upside my head. Maybe it was the heat radiating up from the highway overpass I’d just crossed that ignited my brain. Or it could have been that my faulty 70-year-old short-term memory kicked in. Or maybe my blood sugar spiked in the 102-degree Texas summer. Whatever lit up my “leetle gray cells,” as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot called his brain, I realized three things at once: The thought of such ... Read more ... |
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Yale Climate Connections book club: Centering hope and possibility - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jul 28, 2023) |
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Jul 28, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The second section of the book “Not Too Late” asks readers to go all-in on hope. Throughout the essays, hope is presented as an active state that people choose to participate in. In her piece, “In Praise of Indirect Consequences,” Rebecca Solnit writes: “This story is not finished, and we do not know how it ends. But we can help decide that. Doing the work matters.” Read part one of this series: Essays of hope and action inspire readers Themes of love and working with, rather than against, grief also stand out in this section. In a Q&A about the ... Read more ... |
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For this smoky summer, 12 new books and reports on wildfires - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jul 26, 2023) |
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Jul 26, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections More than once this summer, U.S. cities have been hazed by smoke from wildfires. With orange sunsets and grey, hazy days, the smoke makes climate change visible in the sky. Publishers and nongovernmental organizations seem already to have noticed the uptick in the number, intensity, and duration of wildfires in the past several years. And so in time for this summer’s burn, they have released several new books and reports, five just since the start of the new year. As a counterpoint to the joyous “grove of tree books” Yale Climate Connections put ... Read more ... |
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Yale Climate Connections book club: Essays of hope and action inspire readers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jul 14, 2023) |
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Jul 14, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The first section of “Not Too Late,” edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, examines the state of the climate crisis and the solutions at our disposal. Writers from frontline communities, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and policy experts contributed essays to this section that speak of hope and possibilities for fighting climate change. As Gloria Walton, president and CEO of the Solutions Project, wrote in her essay: “It’s audacious and it requires tenacity to have a vision for a world we cannot materially see. It takes courage to ... Read more ... |
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Universities on Fire is brisk, inspiring and sobering - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jul 05, 2023) |
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Jul 05, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The University of New Brunswick’s Harriet Irving Library is an impressive building with a wonderful collection. But it may have a name problem. In a climate crisis, can the intellectual center of a university be named after the matriarch of an oil and gas family? Looking ahead, it’s not hard to imagine faculty, staff, and students asking this question and a million questions like it on campuses around the world. Should universities ban the combustion engine and turn parking lots into green spaces, vegetable gardens, apple orchards, or even small solar ... Read more ... |
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Books to help you stay inspired to fight climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jun 26, 2023) |
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Jun 26, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections The year 2023 has already proved tumultuous. Partisan politics threatened to undo the most important climate legislation the U.S. Congress ever passed even as climate-charged weather broke records for weirdness around the world. And the hurricane season has only just begun. Who wouldn’t feel weary at this mid-year point? In response, Yale Climate Connections has assembled a bookshelf of titles that offer grit, gumption, and inspiration. The 12 titles have been sorted into six pairs that address this challenging moment at different levels and from ... Read more ... |
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Not just Greta Thunberg: New book celebrates women who are driving climate action - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jun 15, 2023) |
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Jun 15, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections When Mallory McDuff sat down to write about women taking climate action, she did not want to focus only on famous scientists and activists. “It was important to me to have those stories. But I also wanted to have stories of people that are well known in their local communities, but not across the country,” she says. McDuff is a professor of environmental education at Warren Wilson College and the author of “Love Your Mother,” a new book chronicling 50 women climate leaders - one in each of the 50 states. The book profiles some well-known ... Read more ... |
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Vienna museum uses tilted paintings to spark climate conversations - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jun 12, 2023) |
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Jun 12, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Visitors to the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, may be surprised to find that some of the gallery’s paintings are hung at an angle. “You know, you can see that there is something wrong with these paintings,” says Claudia Michl of Climate Change Centre Austria, a climate change research network. “All the paintings are hung a little crooked.” She says these tilted artworks are no accident. They’re part of a project called “A Few Degrees More (will turn the world into an uncomfortable place).” By tipping the paintings by a few degrees, the ... Read more ... |
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Former NHL goalie helps community ice rinks reduce energy use - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jun 08, 2023) |
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Jun 08, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Mike Richter spent more than a decade playing professional hockey with the New York Rangers. Now he’s the president of Brightcore Energy, a company that specializes in clean energy and energy efficiency updates for buildings. He says those two careers are not as different as they sound. “Everything you do as an athlete is based on efficiency and performance,” he says. Now Richter is connecting his two careers even more directly. Brightcore is partnering with the National Hockey League to install energy-efficient LED lighting in ... Read more ... |
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‘His peers thought he was a madman.’ The weird, wonderful history of ice - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (Jun 06, 2023) |
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Jun 06, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections During a broiling heat wave in the summer of 2018, Amy Brady was visiting relatives in Topeka, Kansas, when the overburdened power grid failed. Miserable inside the sweltering house, the family decamped to a nearby filling station, operating on a gas-powered generator, for the cool air and the iced drinks. At the time, Brady was the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review of Books, for which she curated Burning Worlds, a monthly newsletter on fiction and poetry about climate change. One could easily imagine something like her family’s flight to cool ... Read more ... |
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Two climate podcasters walk into a bar - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (May 26, 2023) |
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May 26, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections I listen to a lot of climate podcasts and watch a lot of comedy, placing me solidly in the target audience for “Sustainababble,” which is billed as “a weekly comedy podcast about the environment.” But when the show first popped up in my Apple Podcasts recommendations, I was skeptical. I have very strong opinions about comedy (my mediocre-at-best understanding of the form notwithstanding), and environmental podcasters didn’t seem like the most likely candidates to pull it off. But “Sustainababble” was, in fact, funny. ... Read more ... |
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Eight climate comedies for those (too) warm summer evenings ahead - Yale Climate Connections - Arts  (May 24, 2023) |
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May 24, 2023 · Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections Climate change is no joke. The absurd ways we try to avoid dealing with it, however, are often quite laughable - providing an opening for climate comedy. But few makers of fictional films have chosen to work in that space. Over the last decade, I’ve cataloged nearly 100 films or made-for-TV movies (or special series) that addressed climate change in some way. Of that number, just eight stand out as comedies. In the list below, I’ve sorted them into four different categories: campy eco-horror films, animated children’s movies, romantic comedies, and satire. Read more ... |
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