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How A Zero Carbon Grid Enables Everything
We have an incredibly powerful tool to fight climate change. It’s called the zero-carbon grid, and it enables everything using different sources of renewable energy. Hal Harvey, one of the world’s top experts on energy and climate change, explains.
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#WeCanSolveThis: Harnessing The Power of The Earth
Before John Wick was the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project, he was just trying to find a way to get rid of weeds on his ranch when he stumbled upon a powerful climate change solution. Then he learned about an approach to farming helps sequester carbon in the soil, and could be a major solution in the fight against climate change.
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How To Change Your Diet To Fight Climate Change
One of the biggest differences you can make in the fight against climate change is changing your diet. Instead of cutting carbs, would you be willing to cut carbon instead?
Rainforests provide water, food, and livelihoods for billions of people around the world, contain millions of species, and are one of our best solutions to fight the climate crisis. They are also in grave peril. With deforestation continuing to be on the rise, the world needs inspire more voices to battle forces that are destroying nature and the best solution to climate change. Join Dr. Jane Goodall to mobilize a movement built on the values we share across our religions and spiritual traditions to be stewards of the Earth.
Is It Or Isn’t It Recyclable?
Recycling really does lower emissions, but it’s important to do it right. Here at The YEARS Project, our staff has a lot of questions about what can be recycled. Can you recycle pizza boxes, batteries or takeout containers? Keep in mind that recycling rules vary a lot from place to place, so be sure to look up your local guidelines.
The Amazon Rainforest is on fire, plunging Sao Paolo, the largest city in South America, into darkness. But this isn’t a new problem. Fires in the rainforest have increased over 80% in 2019 compared to the prior year. Here’s what you need to know.
William Pendley: The Public Land Official Who Wants To Sell All Of America’s Public Lands
William Perry Pendley is a conservative lawyer and career bureaucrat. President Trump made him head of the Bureau of Land Management. But now that he’s in charge of America’s public lands, Pendley wants to sell them off to the highest bidder.
President Trump Is Gutting The Endangered Species Act
President Donald Trump has announced sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act, changes that will benefit big polluters at the expense of America’s most vulnerable animals.
How A Zero Carbon Grid Enables Everything
We have an incredibly powerful tool to fight climate change. It’s called the zero-carbon grid, and it enables everything using different sources of renewable energy. Hal Harvey, one of the world’s top experts on energy and climate change, explains.
Hurricane Dorian: What’s Fueling A Storm Like No Other?
Hurricane Dorian moved slowly towards the East Coast of the United States after devastating the Bahamas. It’s one of the most powerful storms to have formed in the Atlantic. Find out why Dorian is a storm like no other.
#ClimateFacts: Toxic Chemical Floods
2,500 toxic chemical sites across the U.S. are in imminent danger of spilling.
Elizabeth Warren’s Plan For The Planet
Elizabeth Warren says she “has a plan for that” and fighting the climate crisis is no exception. In this video we take a look at her green manufacturing plan for America that she would enact if she’s elected President of the United States in 2020.
Joe Biden’s Climate Plan
Will Joe Biden make fighting the climate crisis a top priority if he’s elected? Here’s a look at where he stands on the issue.
Have A Climate Debate
The climate crisis poses an existential threat to the survival of the species…and it’s time we talked about it. What do you think?
Jack Black takes a seat for a talk therapy session with psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren. They discuss the psychology of climate change. Can she help him?
David Letterman Goes to the Bank
Renewables are changing lives in rural India, as small businesses replace expensive, dirty, and unreliable diesel generators, with cheap, clean, sustainable solar energy. David Letterman visits one such business.
Climate Wars: Yemen
What happens to a society when people start running out of water? New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman went to Yemen to find out.
Obama’s Big Solution to Climate Change
We revisit our interview with Barack Obama from season 1 of Years of Living Dangerously in light of the environmental rollbacks enacted by the Trump administration. Thomas Friedman sat down with the then-President of the United States to discuss the world’s biggest problem, and the biggest way to solve it.
Environmental Racism is Bad for Your Brain
Jeremy Deaton interviews Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.
The Need for EV Charging Stations
The number of electric vehicles hitting the road in the next ten years is expected to increase dramatically. Where are all those EVs going to charge up?
Climate Change Is Cooking Salmon in the Pacific Northwest
Meet a community that depends on salmon, and learn how their way of life is changing because of warming oceans.
The Nuclear Family
Nuclear plants are closing across New England, so why are these environmentalists rallying to their defense? The Years Project partnered with Exelon to find out.
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but everything you’ve heard about it could be wrong.
Forty years later, The YEARS Project has partnered with Exelon to take a look back.
Rise: From One Island to Another
Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change.
This is an invitation to take a few minutes to watch this film, unplug from your daily distractions, immerse yourself in the beauty of our shared home, and let the poetry heal.
Film made by Dan Lin for 350.org.
The town in Poland’s coal region uniting against coal
What would it take for a town of people outside the Polish coal city of Katowice to turn against the fuel that drove the economy, culture and prosperity of the region? Welcome to Imielin, the town fighting for their homes and livelihoods against coal development on the doorstep of the COP24 climate talks.
Video by Greenpeace International.
