environment
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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
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We’re Doing Conservation Wrong
We can do so much better, and we have to. When you think of conservation, what comes to mind? National parks? Wildlife? Charismatic endangered species? Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, John Muir? David Attenborough? (Notably, all white people…I wonder why?) It’s… Continue reading
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Tips for Reducing Plastic Exposure
Lies fed to us, & how we can protect ourselves Plastic lies we’ve been told It’s becoming an age-old story: manipulation of the public by industry, motivated by profits. We’ve seen this same playbook by the tobacco industry, the fossil fuel industry,… Continue reading
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Plastics are a Women’s Health Crisis
Pissed about plastic The global plastics treaty that isn’t The sixth round of negotiations on a UN global plastics treaty just wrapped on August 14, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Work on the treaty began in 2022 and… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LA Fires: How did we get here, & what can we do about it?
This apocalyptic moment we’re watching play out in LA is a microcosm for the climate crisis and the intersecting challenges we face. This ongoing catastrophic event is not an act of God out of humanity’s control – it emerged as… Continue reading
Clarity in Catastrophe 