climate

  • Takeaways from the Latest Climate Film, The Lost Bus

    The story of the 2018 Camp Fire has come to Hollywood. The Lost Bus has been described as a thriller, a real-life survival drama, and a disaster movie. It’s a zoomed-in story of the deadliest wildfire in California history to… Continue reading

    Takeaways from the Latest Climate Film, The Lost Bus
  • How to Join the Native Plant Revolution

    Even if you don’t have a yard A few weeks ago, I shared my brother’s story of turning our parents’ yard into a native prairie oasis. Native plants give us a sense of place, strengthen our food system, fortify ecosystem… Continue reading

    How to Join the Native Plant Revolution
  • Building a Thriving Ecosystem at Home

    A native yard success story Someone recently asked me what I miss about living in Missouri. My answer kind of surprised me: bugs. As a San Francisco resident now, I miss the humid environment I grew up in, not because… Continue reading

    Building a Thriving Ecosystem at Home
  • The Climate + Palestine Connection

    The face of the climate activism movement, Greta Thunberg, has lost the media’s fervor since her fame hit fever pitch back in 2019.  But over the past few weeks, Thunberg briefly returned to the media limelight. The world turned to… Continue reading

    The Climate + Palestine Connection
  • Guide to More Ethical Travel

    Today is June 5, 2025. For many, that means summer break is quickly approaching. Work loads starting to lighten, schools closing for the season, temperatures rising, the days lengthening. Prime time for travel. Family vacations, trips with friends, solo excursions… Continue reading

    Guide to More Ethical Travel
  • New Ways to Tell the Story of Climate

    Solutions to Climate’s Communication Crisis The climate crisis is the defining story of our time. And yet, it only seems to be treated as such in ‘climate spaces’ – explicitly climate events, work environments, activist groups. It seems as though the… Continue reading

    New Ways to Tell the Story of Climate
  • The Plague of Climate Hopelessness

    When you think about the changing climate, do you feel the joy of potential societal transformation, or do you feel despair and hopelessness?  Chances are it’s the latter, especially if you’re Gen Z.  Climate hopelessness is an epidemic. Pessimism is… Continue reading

    The Plague of Climate Hopelessness
  • How Much Progress Are We Actually Making on Climate?

    It’s Climate Week in San Francisco, and I’m reflecting on what I find the hardest thing to explain to ‘non-climate people’ (aka, people who don’t frequently think about their work and life through the lens of climate). How bad is it really… Continue reading

    How Much Progress Are We Actually Making on Climate?
  • What Are The Alternatives?

    Part 4 of how to resist the threats of democratic destruction The way things are is not necessarily the most natural or right way. A few years ago, I asked my geographically-inclined brother to gift me a world map for… Continue reading

    What Are The Alternatives?
  • Climate, as a Racial Justice Solution

    An opportunity to entrench or redress racial harms This Black History Month, Black American adults are 30% more likely to have asthma than White Americans, three times as likely to die from exposure to pollution once age 65, 75% more likely to live in… Continue reading

    Climate, as a Racial Justice Solution