climate crisis

Investing In Farmers Transitioning To Organic, Regenerative Agriculture

May 17, 2025 Cristen Hemingway-Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! climate crisis, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Organic Farming, Regenerative Farming

As more people are starting to realize — and as Indigenous Peoples have understood for millennia — how we treat the land affects everything from food and water security to carbon sequestration and climate change. Many farms in the United States are multigenerational family operations, and, as they are passed down, some members of the next generation are exploring the transition to agricultural practices that are better for the planet and healthier for our food system. Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT is an investment company that focuses on helping farmers transition to organic, regenerative agriculture.

Build Inspiring Alternatives To Counter Authoritarianism

May 16, 2025 Barbara Peterson, Waging Nonviolence. Create! climate crisis, Communities, Education, Energy, Food Security, Health Care, Housing, Science and technology

We are heading down a perilous road. Vulnerable communities face growing threats. The climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions. Authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility — it is rising, with democracy backsliding across the globe. With Trump’s return, public services like education, labor protections, humane immigration policies, health care and diversity programs are being dismantled. Meanwhile, trust in democracy is eroding — especially among young people. As political scientist Steven Levitsky points out, part of the problem is motivational: The political right is fighting for a clear, albeit dangerous, vision. The left, by contrast, is often fighting against that vision, with fewer compelling alternatives on offer.

Extinction Rebellion Sink Lamborghini At Fossil Fuel/Insurance Love-In

May 16, 2025 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Insurance Companies, United Kingdoms

On Wednesday 14 May, environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion met delegates at Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference in Manchester Central with a colourful and dramatic protest. They were there to demand the industry stops backing fossil fuel projects. And what better way to call out flush fossil fuel financiers than to put a sinking Lamborghini at the event’s front door? A new report by Boycott Bloody Insurance shows that there are 33 British insurance companies active in large fossil fuel projects. Just five companies had invested $6.5bn. In April, campaigners in Manchester celebrated the decision by Chubb to rule out backing the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

May 15, 2025 Kahlil Shahyd, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Democracy, Environmental Movement, Participatory Democracy

The community of Boxtown in southwestern Memphis, Tennessee, has long been accustomed to fighting for its rights. Founded in 1863 shortly after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, this neighborhood of 3,000 people has a long history of battles against the unjust siting of polluting industries, which have increased residents’ health risks and lowered life expectancy. And today, the community is at the center of a growing fight between the future of our freedoms and technocrats. In June of 2024, Boxtown residents discovered that xAI, an artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, intended to locate the “world’s largest” supercomputer in their community—without environmental reviews or community outreach.

It’s Possible To End Global Poverty Without Compromising Climate Goals

May 14, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! climate crisis, Energy, Global South, Poverty

As the world works to stop global heating by ending the use of fossil fuels in accordance with climate objectives, ensuring that everyone on Earth has a decent standard of living is possible if the world quickly and decisively implements emissions reductions, new research has found. The study, led by research scholar Jarmo Kikstra with the Energy, Climate and Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), looked at energy scenarios that line up with both the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “With climate change intensifying and billions of people still lacking basic necessities, addressing both challenges simultaneously is not only possible but essential,” a press release from IIASA said.

Retrofit For The Future Campaign Takes Demands To The Heart Of Government

May 12, 2025 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Organize! climate crisis, Energy, Retrofit For The Future, United Kingdom (UK)

In March, a coalition of groups launched the vital new ‘Retrofit For the Future’ campaign – and already, it’s making waves. Notably, the coalition has secured a meeting with a key minister inside the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to demand the government put renters’ and workers’ rights at the heart of a green and just transition in the housing sector. Fuel Poverty Action, ACORN, Greener Jobs Alliance, Medact, and the Peace & Justice Project, among others, set the ball rolling on a retrofit revolution that calls for housing fit for the future. In particular, the campaign demands that the government direct its attention to retrofit-upgrading and improving existing homes. It argues that doing so is a key to tackling both the climate emergency and the housing crisis.

Imagine You Are A Poor Nation, Trapped By Debt And Strangled By Climate Change

May 9, 2025 John Feffer, Resilience. Strategize! Climate Adaptation, climate crisis, Debt, Global South

Imagine you are a low-income country. You suffer from a heavy debt burden. You’ve been trying to catch up to the more affluent countries for decades, but you’ve been unsuccessful, mainly because of that debt hanging around your neck like a giant millstone. And you are spending more and more of your precious resources dealing with the effects of climate change, from rising waters to superstorms, a crisis that you played only a small part in creating in the first place. You face a terrestrial version of the three-body problem. These three “bodies”—debt, development, and climate change—impact your country in difficult-to-predict ways.

Trump DOJ Sues To Block States From Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable For Climate Crisis

May 5, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, DOJ, Donald Trump, Hawaii, Lawsuits, Michigan, New York City (NYC), Oil Companies, Vermont

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Michigan and Hawaii over their planned legal actions against fossil fuel companies for the harm their greenhouse gas emissions caused by contributing to the climate crisis. The lawsuits — which are unprecedented, according to legal experts — claim there is a conflict between the state actions and federal government authority, as well as President Donald Trump’s energy agenda. The justice department is also suing Vermont and New York over their “climate superfund laws.” “These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” said U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a press release from the DOJ.

From Failing To Prepare To Preparing To Fail?

May 5, 2025 Rupert Read and Ed Jarvis, Resilience. Organize! Climate Adaptation, climate crisis, Localism, United Kingdom (UK)

The recent Climate Change Committee report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale. The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown that is now upon us, with far worse to come. From heat exposure to rising flood risk to national infrastructure, homes and harvests, countless lives and livelihoods are at severe risk. Conservative estimates project impact to the UK economy into hundreds of billions, before 2050. Faced with these stark facts, can any of us still believe that the government is primed to simply come and save us? Awareness is dawning among UK communities that it’s down to all of us to respond to the dangerous climate change we’re experiencing here and now.

Herds Of Life-Sized Animal Puppets Set Off On Climate Awareness Journey

April 30, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Resist! Africa, Biodiversity, climate crisis, Creative Action, Puppets

The Herds, a public art initiative of life-sized animal puppets that aims to raise awareness about the climate crisis, has set off on a 12,400-mile journey starting in central Africa and traveling through 20 cities in four months to the Arctic Circle. The mobile art piece of hundreds of intricately crafted puppets began on April 10 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and has since visited Lagos, Nigeria, and Dakar, Senegal, with its next stop in Marrakesh, Morocco. “The idea is to put in front of people that there is an emergency – not with scientific facts, but with emotions,” said Sarah Desbois, producer of The Herds Senegal, as The Guardian reported.

China’s Solar And Wind Capacity Surpasses Mostly Coal-Based Energy

April 26, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! Carbon emissions, China, climate crisis, Renewable Energy

China’s National Energy Administration has announced that the country’s solar and wind energy capacity has exceeded that of thermal energy — which is mostly coal-powered — for the first time. The largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, China has pledged to achieve peak carbon emissions by the end of the decade and become carbon neutral by 2060, reported AFP. “In the first quarter of 2025, China’s newly installed wind and photovoltaic power capacity totalled 74.33 million kilowatts, bringing the cumulative installed capacity to 1.482 billion kilowatts,” the country’s energy body said.

In Uncertain Times, The Port Of Oakland Goes Electric

April 26, 2025 Juan Pablo Perez-Burgos, Next City. Create! climate crisis, Electrification, health, Oakland, pollution, Ports

The Port of Oakland’s surrounding Black communities have fought for decades for their right to cleaner air. Now that dream is within reach. In October 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the port a $322 million grant to transition its cargo handling operations to zero emissions. Matched by the port and local partners, the total investment will be close to half a billion dollars, all flowing into green, sustainable energy. This effort will reduce the more than 69,000 tons of yearly greenhouse gas — the equivalent of burning more than 160 Statues of Liberty’s weight in coal — emitted by drayage trucks, cranes, forklifts, and tractors.

Student Activists Pass Municipal Resolution To Make Polluters Pay

April 25, 2025 Sunrise Smith, Popular Resistance. Create! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Massachusetts, pollution, Student Activism

Northampton, MA. – Sunrise Movement activists at Smith College and local advocates passed a Climate Superfund Resolution in Northampton last Thursday. On Earth Day dozens rally in Amherst, calling on the Amherst Town Council and other municipalities in the Connecticut River Valley to join the call to make polluters pay. Thursday’s resolution in support of H.1014/S.588, “An Act to Establish a Climate Change Superfund”, was the first to pass in Western Massachusetts, following previous resolutions in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Malden. “I’ve watched my generation strike, resist, campaign, lose hope, and get back up again,” said Emma Coopersmith.

Five Insurance Companies Are Propping Up Fossil Fuel Companies

April 23, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Allianz, Aviva, AXA, BP, climate crisis, Fossil Fuel, Insurance Companies, Intact, Oil and Gas Industry, Zurich

A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis. Notably, it has revealed how five major insurance companies – Allianz, AXA, Aviva, Zurich, and Intact – have invested to the tune of $6.5bn in the fossil fuel corporations wrecking the planet. The report was authored by the Boycott Bloody Insurance campaign – which launched last month with a day of action. On Tuesday 25 March, the group targeted insurance offices nationwide. Now, its new publication Ensuring Climate Crisis: The Insurance Industry and Fossil Fuel Giants highlights how these insurance companies, while often presenting a green image, continue to support and profit from the fossil fuel industry.

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