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12 books to read about climate action ahead of the election - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Oct 12, 2024) |
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For this October, the month before the presidential election, Yale Climate Connections has identified enough timely titles to fill two bookshelves: one on climate action, the other on electoral politics.
This bookshelf presents the titles on climate action – or perhaps we should say inaction.
Read: 12 books to help you understand the 2024 election – and its aftermath
Scientists and concerned citizens have been crying out for action on climate change for so long – for decades, in fact – that several histories of American inaction have now ... Read more ...
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Five things we hope this 'Love is Blind’ contestant says about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Sep 27, 2024) |
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A clean energy policy consultant is joining the cast of the hit Netflix reality show “Love is Blind.” Season 7 cast member Taylor Krause, a manager at the clean energy think tank RMI, could bring the subject of climate change into her dates - and to the forefront for the show’s huge and devoted audience
“Love is Blind” is a reality dating show where contestants spend 10 days chatting with potential romantic partners from small, soundproof rooms complete with plush rugs and West Elm pillows. Once they’ve decided on their pick, they only see the object ... Read more ...
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Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Sep 19, 2024) |
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In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencers’ “#sheinhaul” videos advertised the company’s trendy styles on social media, garnering billions of views.
At every step, data was created, collected, and analyzed. To manage all this information, the fast fashion industry has begun embracing emerging AI technologies. Shein uses proprietary machine-learning ... Read more ...
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Photos show how climate change is shaping the Louisiana coast - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Sep 17, 2024) |
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After a big hurricane hits the Louisiana coast, photos of the devastation make front-page news – houses with roofs torn off, people wading through flooded streets, broken furniture piled on lawns.
Hanusik: “There’s almost like a stock imagery that we use to describe climate change.”
But photographer Virginia Hanusik tells the story of the region in a different way.
Her images capture how the distinctive landscape of the Louisiana coast has been shaped by nature and by human hands. A home on stilts overlooks a grassy bayou. Ripples of water ... Read more ...
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12 climate books for teachers and educators - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Sep 12, 2024) |
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Having lived through the hottest summer on record, students and teachers are back in school for the start of the new academic year. And there, increasingly, the changing climate is a factor in course curricula, classroom pedagogy, and campus operations.
Yale Climate Connections has featured books and reports for educators several times in the past. (See these bookshelves from 2023, 2022, and 2019.) This month’s bookshelf updates those efforts and highlights, in particular, how climate change is reshaping the arts and humanities.
The list starts ... Read more ...
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Virtual reality offers a glimpse of future climate impacts - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Aug 29, 2024) |
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Putting on a virtual reality headset can transport you to faraway lands. But it can also offer a glimpse at how your own community could change as the climate warms.
Calil: “There’s that punch in the gut, kind of, that you get when you see things in that immersive environment that you can’t replicate with other technologies.”
Juliano Calil is the founder of Virtual Planet Technologies. The company partners with cities and nonprofits to develop interactive VR films depicting sea level rise and other climate impacts.
In Santa Cruz, ... Read more ...
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'Twisters’: Hollywood’s weird spin on tornadoes and climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Aug 26, 2024) |
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Editor’s note: Spoilers follow.
Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung spent the formative years of his childhood in Arkansas. Living a figurative block or two away from the famous “Tornado Alley,” Chung has a personal history with the swirling storms. He knows how they shape the psyche of anyone who grows up in that part of the Midwest, and he brought that experience and knowledge to his direction of “Twisters.”
As a result, moviegoers were entertained and thrilled by the storm chases he staged against sweeping vistas of the American prairie. And they were ... Read more ...
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Fantasy role-playing games help young people engage with climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Aug 22, 2024) |
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Pretending to be a wizard or warrior can be a fun way to escape reality. But fantasy role-playing games are also being used to engage young people with real-world problems like climate change.
Brown: “Gaming creates a really cool space for people to actually talk about issues in a way that is less intimidating.”
Marcy Brown coordinates the Gaming for Justice initiative with Mycelium Youth Network, a climate education nonprofit based in Oakland, California.
The group leads online and in-person role-playing adventures with storylines related ... Read more ...
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These books delve into summer’s climate-charged dark side - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Aug 14, 2024) |
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Summer now has a darker side – or rather a too-brightly burning and dangerously hot side. And that side is making summer the most dangerous season of the year.
This month’s bookshelf focuses on two summer dangers: heat waves and wildfires.
According to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the fourth week of July saw the “four hottest days ever observed,” and levels of carbon dioxide, the main driver of the global average temperature, keep rising.
The consequence, in specific regions and locales, is sustained summer heat waves that ... Read more ...
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Art meets science in sweeping U.S. climate report - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Aug 12, 2024) |
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Every few years, the U.S. government releases the National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report on the effects of climate change in the U.S. The most recent report includes something unexpected – an online art gallery.
Lustig: “Art has the ability to engage people emotionally in a way that perhaps a 2,000-page scientific document does not.”
Allyza Lustig is a senior staff manager with the U.S. Global Change Research Program and a landscape painter. She helped curate the gallery’s 92 works of art.
They include paintings, drawings, ... Read more ...
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Climate change hits India’s artisans with a double whammy: Extreme heat makes pollution even more dangerous - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jul 30, 2024) |
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Hariram Bopa has no choice but to breathe in wood smoke.
In his one-room house in Jaisalmer city in Rajasthan, India, he earns his living making ravanhattas, traditional wooden bowed string instruments considered the forerunner of the violin. He uses the fire to heat iron rods for drilling holes in the wood, and the smoke evokes a bittersweet memory of his father, Ugmaram, also a renowned ravanhatta maker.
“Someday,” his father used to say, “this smoke will kill all of us.”
Ugmaram Bopa died 15 years ago of chronic asthma. Now Hariram, 42, ... Read more ...
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Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jul 24, 2024) |
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On a sweltering June day in 1988, during the great drought and heat wave of the summer of 1988 - a catastrophe that caused over 5,000 direct and indirect deaths, with damages of $54 billion (2024 USD) in the U.S. - climate scientist Dr. James Hansen testified before Congress that human-caused global warming had arrived (see video below).
Since the summer of 1988, there have been many extreme weather and climate events – each consistent with human-caused warming – ... Read more ...
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Books for adapting cities to climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jul 19, 2024) |
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When the world finally faces up to the challenge of climate change, cities will be important players
According to the World Bank, 56% of the planet’s human population already resides in urban areas, by 2050 “nearly seven out of 10 people will live in cities.”
It was in 2016 that Yale Climate Connections first focused on the roles cities have played and can play in causing and solving the climate crisis, highlighting 18 recently published books and reports in two paired bookshelves. (See here and here.) Many, many books and reports have been ... Read more ...
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Cartoons: “Now I’m listening” - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jul 12, 2024) |
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Related: What’s the deal with terms like “greenhouse effect,” “global warming,” “climate change,” and “the climate emergency”?
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Florida art museum helps visitors connect with the reality of climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jun 25, 2024) |
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami sits alongside Florida’s Biscayne Bay, where sea levels are rising fast.
Sirmans: “Our whole location is defined by its relationship to the water.”
So museum director Franklin Sirmans says the museum can help get people thinking about the changing climate.
On the building’s facade, a neon sculpture spells out, “Climate change is real.”
And this summer, the museum is hosting an exhibit with dozens of artworks that celebrate the beauty of the Earth and mourn how it’s changed.
One painting shows a mother ... Read more ...
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12 climate books to bring with you on summer vacation - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jun 12, 2024) |
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While it can provide time to complete a short course of study (see Yale Climate Connections’ bookshelf for May), summer reading is usually defined by vacations. These are the sorts of books one reads on the way to a holiday destination or on a beach, pool deck, or balcony after one arrives. Summer books read quickly; they engross and entertain even when they have important lessons to impart about climate change.
Leading off our list of summer 2024 titles are two brisk reads by CNN’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir and climate activist and ... Read more ...
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Miami Beach will soon have an underwater sculpture park - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Jun 03, 2024) |
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Soon snorkelers and divers off the coast of Miami Beach might find a sculpture that looks like a traffic jam underwater.
Caminos: “It’s a traffic jam of 22 cars - kind of like a cataclysmic image of what … carbon is doing to our planet.”
Ximena Caminos is the founder of The ReefLine, a seven-mile-long underwater sculpture park and artificial reef.
The project is a joint effort of scientists and artists with installation starting this summer.
Other sculptures in the underwater park will include a replica of a blue whale heart and a ... Read more ...
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Art therapy can ease climate-related anxiety - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 28, 2024) |
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Drawing, dancing, making music: These forms of expression are not just for people who identify as artists.
Sarah Newman of the Climate Mental Health Network says they can help people explore their feelings about climate change.
Newman: “This is not asking people to show up and become Pablo Picasso. This is about using different modalities to process your emotions.”
For many people, thinking about climate change can provoke anxiety, anger, or fear. So Newman’s group provides resources - primarily for parents and teachers - to help young ... Read more ...
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The enduring influence of “The Day After Tomorrow,” 20 years later - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 24, 2024) |
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It has been 20 years since we first saw the paleo-climatologist Jack Hall, played by Dennis Quaid, standing at a railing overlooking a command center at NOAA and asking his colleagues the question that baffled them: “What about the North Atlantic Current?”
The ocean current is failing, he explained, relaying news he had just received from an observatory in the UK; the extreme storms they’re seeing “will not just continue but get worse. … I think we’re on the verge of a major climate shift.”
When it opened on Memorial Day weekend in May 2004, “The ... Read more ...
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Behind the ‘Bechdel test for climate change’ in movies - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 23, 2024) |
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Good Energy, a climate and storytelling consultancy, wants film and TV writers to include climate change in more of their stories and in a greater variety of ways. To measure progress toward that goal, they needed to establish a baseline. How often and in what ways have storytellers included climate change in the works they’ve produced since the changing climate became a matter of widespread public concern?
In the new report “Climate Reality On-Screen,” Good Energy answers that question with the results from a two-part test that was applied to 250 ... Read more ...
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Storms, rising seas are growing threats to Portsmouth Village in North Carolina - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 16, 2024) |
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For centuries, ships have sailed past North Carolina’s picturesque Cape Lookout Lighthouse. And in colonial times, they often stopped in Portsmouth Village.
Today, the lighthouse and village are part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. Many of the buildings have been preserved. But increasingly, extreme weather puts them at risk.
In 2019, Hurricane Dorian damaged dozens of historical buildings.
And while tourists can still visit the old Portsmouth Village, rising seas are creeping in.
Seekamp: “There can be standing water in the ... Read more ...
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Create your own climate change summer reading program - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (May 15, 2024) |
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By May, spring semesters are coming to an end, and teachers and students are looking forward to summer. For many that means an escape from classes; for others, it’s a chance to catch up, to look ahead, or to explore something new.
In the first four bookshelves of 2024, Yale Climate Connections took deep dives into topics related to climate change: American politics, Black history and climate justice, women’s history and gender politics, and environmental studies. With this month’s bookshelf, we return to the main subject: climate change itself. We ... Read more ...
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12 new books to honor Earth Day - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Apr 12, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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 07, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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 02, 2024) |
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“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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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[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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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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, 2024) |
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Nine climate book stocking stuffers - Yale Climate Connections - Arts (Dec 13, 2023) |
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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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