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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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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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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 9) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 5) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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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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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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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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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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Comedy can help you talk about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 23, 2023) |
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Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared on this site April 1, 2019.
Dear Sara,
I feel an urge to talk about climate change bubbling up within me at social gatherings if people talk about trivial things like food or sports for too long. But it is always such a downer and I know people need a certain amount of time to feel safe and ordinary and relaxed.
Any advice on how to handle this and break through the “tyranny of politeness” that makes talking about climate – and many other serious issues – so awkward?
– Matt ... Read more ...
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Museum tries to keep history above water in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 22, 2023) |
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At Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, visitors explore a 19th-century sea captain’s home, a Victorian mansion, a World War II-era grocery store, and other buildings that have stood for generations.
“Our root mission is historic preservation and teaching the evolution of this historic neighborhood,” says Rodney Rowland, the museum’s director of facilities and environmental sustainability.
But he says that as the climate warms, some of this history is at risk.
More extreme storms cause surface flooding on the low-lying ... Read more ...
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Strange, unpredictable, and energizing: Dark comedy as climate solution - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 22, 2023) |
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What does gallows humor have to do with climate activism? In a new book, Aaron Sachs, a professor at Cornell University and author of several highly regarded books on environmental history, argues that environmentalists could accomplish more by embracing dark comedy - and learning to laugh at themselves.
Sarah Wesseler spoke with Sachs about “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change.” The interview has been edited and condensed.
Sarah Wesseler: In “Stay Cool,” you write that gallows humor has helped people in ... Read more ...
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Welcome to Humor Week at Yale Climate Connections - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 22, 2023) |
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Dear readers,
This week, Yale Climate Connections is exploring the humorous side of the climate story. The cartoons and features we’re publishing today through Friday will examine the bizarre, unexpected, and delightfully weird side of climate change through the eyes of stand-up comedians, moviemakers, podcasters, writers, and cartoonists.
Why Humor Week? We all know that climate change is a grim topic. But as with every social problem, people are responding to the crisis with a wide spectrum of emotions, including anger, grief, determination, ... Read more ...
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Powerful yet vulnerable: Racehorses may need more protection from heat illness in a warming climate - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 19, 2023) |
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Every year, millions of people watch the Triple Crown races, awed by the speed and agility of thoroughbred horses on the track.
These animals are powerful. But they can also be vulnerable, especially when it’s hot.
“Exertional heat illness essentially refers to when horses become too hot while they’re exercising, and their internal temperature gets too high, and then they become ill,” says Leah Trigg of the University of Bristol Veterinary School in the UK.
She reviewed hundreds of cases of heat illness in horses to identify the main risk ... Read more ...
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18 times comedians joked about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 18, 2023) |
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How many comedians does it take to make climate change funny? OK, yes, that’s a trick question - climate change is basically the opposite of funny. But like divorce, war, and other not-funny things, there are actually lots of ways to joke about it. And that could be a very good thing.
Comedy has a long history of helping people cope with hard things. As George Washington said, “It is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro’ the rough journey of life.”
Psychology backs up his opinion. Humor can relieve stress, spark courage, help you cope ... Read more ...
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'Highwater,’ the new video game that immerses players in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 09, 2023) |
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A new video game called “Highwater” immerses players in a dystopian world ravaged by climate change-induced floods, war, and chaos.
In the game, players help a teenager named Nikos sneak onto a rocket ship the rich have built to flee to Mars.
“Since wars are raging, people are dying of dysentery, et cetera, he wants to move to a better life,” says Igor Simic, CEO and creative director of Demagog Studios, which created Highwater.
To get there, Nikos must navigate the landscape by boat, collect his friends, and fight adversaries.
Along ... Read more ...
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A grove of tree books for Arbor Day - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Apr 28, 2023) |
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Americans first celebrated Arbor Day in 1872. Secretary of the Nebraska Territory J. Sterling Morton persuaded his fellow settlers, many of whom had migrated from thickly forested eastern states, to plant trees for windbreaks, building materials, and comfort. On that first Arbor Day, Nebraskans are reputed to have planted over a million trees.
It’s an impressive number, but only a fraction of the number of trees in the forests razed for farmland during the colonial era, actions that further displaced Indigenous people and severed their relationships ... Read more ...
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12 books and a report show that empowering women is climate action - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Mar 12, 2023) |
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With Women’s History Month in mind, this bookshelf offers 13 titles by or about women and climate action.
The fifth goal of the United Nations’ effort to promote sustainable development focuses on gender equality. More specifically, it calls on all nations to recognize women’s rights - to education, to equal treatment under the law, and to control over their bodies - and to include women at all levels of decision-making. The research behind the Sustainable Development Goals also recognizes ... Read more ...
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10 of the best climate change documentaries to see in 2023 - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Mar 10, 2023) |
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What happens when you watch 20 or so documentaries that grapple with climate change and its many impacts - all in a row? I set out to find out at the 21st annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival, held in February in Nevada County, California.
I braced myself for a heavy affair. After all, the climate crisis is exactly that: a crisis. Doom and gloom can be hard to avoid. But as a fest vet, I also knew I could count on the morale boost that comes with seeing great people, doing great things, everywhere, every day.
This year was especially galvanizing ... Read more ...
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New and recent books about climate and environmental justice - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Feb 20, 2023) |
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In observance of Black History Month, Yale Climate Connections is following up its January bookshelf on climate advocacy with a selection of new titles on climate and environmental justice.
Together, these books make the case that climate action can only win widespread and durable support if it is just. Inequities of the past and the present must be addressed by policies and programs offered for a sustainable future.
This month’s list begins with the nonprofit Green 2.0’s annual report on representation in environmental nongovernmental ... Read more ...
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The power of love in the fight against climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Feb 14, 2023) |
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Years ago, the first time I included a book about climate change in one of my university literature classes, I asked for my students’ emotional reactions to what they had just read. The list was what I expected, a familiar litany of distress - until one older student with several children said “love.” Had I misheard? “Love,” she repeated.
I’ve been mulling that response ever since, and I now think that love should be on the shortlist of emotions we associate with climate change. For if it isn’t literally in the air, love is certainly ... Read more ...
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Want to take action on climate change? These books can help. - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jan 27, 2023) |
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Jan 27, 2023 · Yale Climate Connections
At the beginning of a new year, commentators of all sorts invite us to look back at the year just finished and forward to the year ahead. This year, on the matter of climate change, the annual exercise has special importance.
2022 was filled with the sort of natural disasters we have come to expect but whose severity still surprises us: the devastating floods in Nigeria and Pakistan, vicious tropical cyclones like Hurricane Ian, and scorching heat waves in the United States, Europe, India, and China.
But 2022 was also noteworthy for long-hoped-for successes - like the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, ... Read more ...
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How artists can raise awareness of climate risks and solutions - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jan 12, 2023) |
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Jan 12, 2023 · Yale Climate Connections
As communities work to raise public awareness about climate change risks and solutions, some are asking artists to help.
“How can we bring artists to think through that messaging in a more culturally resonant way?” asks Claudia Zarazua, the arts and cultural planning director for the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
While at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, she helped write a guide called “Cool it with Art” that explains how to work with artists on climate-focused projects.
She says artists can find creative ways to make climate data more meaningful to local residents.
For example, artist Eve Mosher helped communicate ... Read more ...
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'A partner you can rely on’: Falling in love while the climate changes - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jan 04, 2023) |
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Jan 04, 2023 · Yale Climate Connections
He started chanting her name when she walked into the kitchen at a party in the fall of 2021. And then comedian Esteban Gast and producer Misha Euceph actually met.
It was early October in West Los Angeles, and his friend had said he wanted to introduce them, Esteban recalled recently. “Then five seconds later she walked in, and it’s like, 'This is her,’ and I’m like, 'Misha!’ I just started cheering her name: 'Misha!’”
She took the unexpected fanfare in stride. “My first question was, 'Who are you? And why are you cheering my name?’” she says. “I mean I love it - but who are you?”
He was a comedian with a cause: getting more people ... Read more ...
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8 artists who are grappling with climate change and imagining a better world - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jan 02, 2023) |
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Jan 02, 2023 · Yale Climate Connections
What does a pencil have to say about the future? What does a song, a smell, a coyote, or a lush Haitian garden teach us about how to live in a world in flux? Artists are examining these questions as they try to make sense of climate change.
The following eight artists are a few of the many who are making space to imagine different possible futures, allowing people to see the world in new ways, and encouraging them to come together to create climate solutions.
In their work, Chicago-based sculptors Sara Black and Amber Ginsburg tease out the role humans play in our natural ecosystems. Together they “interrogate the idea that something called ... Read more ...
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2022 climate-conscious gift guide - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Dec 20, 2022) |
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Dec 20, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
’Tis the season for conundrums - at least for the climate-conscious who find themselves torn between reducing carbon emissions and holiday gift giving. So take heart: It IS possible to indulge in your generous nature while keeping a lighter carbon footprint.
Read on for three categories of climate-conscious gifts.
Some people on your list may be just as climate-conscious as you. As such they may be happiest with a present that’s climate-conscious and that combats emissions - whether through direct action or educating more people about the problem, and the solutions.
Material-free gifts like tickets to games or shows, babysitting ... Read more ...
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Recent features at a time of climate giving - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Dec 17, 2022) |
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Dec 17, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
This is the time of year many think most intently about giving and about gratitude. Here are some stories to galvanize and guide us in these practices.
One especially inspiring story from 2022 is that of legendary Yvon Chouinard, who this year gave away his equally legendary company, Patagonia, to help fight climate change.
Large-scale climate giving is too large a topic in itself to cover here. These three articles offer an intriguing introduction.
We all know, of course, that giving need not be large-scale to matter. It doesn’t even need to be monetary. As Mackenzie Scott, another inspirational philanthropist, reminds us, “There are ... Read more ...
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12 titles for climate activists and academics on your holiday gift list - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Dec 12, 2022) |
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Dec 12, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
For this year’s holidays, Yale Climate Connections is posting two bookshelves.
The first, for occasional climate readers, consists of new books in popular genres like nature writing, history, current events, advice, and fiction.
The second shelf of titles, presented below, is for the climate activists and academics on your gift list, the sort who can digest books written in more academic prose, published by university presses, and focused on specific aspects of climate change. If you’re shopping for someone who fits this description, then take this further assurance: Most of the titles in this list are so new that there’s little chance ... Read more ...
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