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Nothing Measured, Nothing Managed
Banks and financial institutions are promising to step up their game when it comes to the climate. But right now, there’s no way to tell if they’re responding to the crisis they helped create, despite the growing popularity of different a practice often called "Environmental, Social, and Governance" (ESG) criteria. Ivan Frishberg, Director of Impact Policy for Amalgamated Bank, and Marilyn Waite, who leads the climate finance work at the Hewlett Foundation explain why the industry needs to measure its portfolio emissions and create a reliable, transparent, standardized way of doing it. After financing so many fossil fuel projects, it MUST take responsibility. #YEARSproject
How To Keep Tropical Forests Standing
Around the world, big agribusiness corporations are destroying rainforests to make way for monoculture cash crops. These ecosystems are critical in our fight against the climate crisis, and we can’t afford to lose them. Here’s how empowering Indigenous communities can help.
Honor the Earth, Honor the Treaties: Stop Line 3
In Northern Minnesota, a massive tar sands pipeline is set to cross hundreds of bodies of water. It's threatening everything Honor The Earth founder Winona LaDuke and the Anishinaabe people hold sacred.
A Bright Future: How Green Jobs Are Saving Lives in Illinois
Jobs in the solar industry can lift people out of poverty, but Black and Brown communities are often overlooked. Jobs Partnership is changing that by training people and connecting them to clean energy careers in Illinois.
A Bright Future: Solar Jobs For All
Rachi Robertson had few career options until a job training program introduced her to her true passion: solar. Do you want to help bring green job opportunities, equity and justice to more people like Rachi? Go to IllinoisPeoplesAction.org and get involved!
Fossil Fuels Caused This Heat Wave
What does your money have to do with this unprecedented heat wave? Your bank. This crisis won’t go away unless fossil fuels do. Fight the heat and switch your bank today.
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Going Blue, Feeling Green: Blue Zones and their Interconnectedness to the Environment
As environmentalists, we often strive to be as green as possible. But what if we went blue? The five original Blue Zones are in Italy, Costa Rica, Greece, Japan, and California...
Fighting for the Sacred Place Where Life Began
In a humble village nestled into the eastern tip of Alaska, filled with pristine coniferous forests, vast arctic tundras, and untouched barren grounds, lives an independent seven-thousand-membered tribe whose fundamental spirit and life honor Mother Earth...
Careers at The YEARS Project
The YEARS Project is a 501c(3) nonprofit, Emmy award-winning television and digital media company focused on educating and engaging audiences to drive action on climate change...
HUNGRY TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE? EAT MORE OFFAL
It’s no secret that meat production, specifically the cattle industry, contributes to climate change...
ECO-FACISM: THE HIDDEN PREDATOR IN A SEA OF CLIMATE MISINFORMATION
In an increasingly digital age, it’s easier than ever to have all the information you could possibly need in the palm of your hand...
MISSING THE MARK ON CLIMATE EDUCATION
In an increasingly digital age, it’s easier than ever to have all the information you could possibly need in the palm of your hand...
PENNSYLVANIA'S BUG BATTLE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US
The first time I encountered a spotted lanternfly was at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, PA, in 2018...
A STORM OF DISCRIMINATION
The response to Hurricane Katrina was a complete and utter failure on part of local and federal government...
NATIONAL PARKS: BUILT ON ILLUSION?
Widely known as “America’s best idea,” national parks offer a chance to experience the pristine American continent as it was before European contact, an uninhabited natural landscape “unspoiled” by human activity...
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Why environmentalists must make more space for BIPOC, and how we should do it
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist...
Right here, right now: How climate change impacts us today
Climate change is no longer a distant threat. We are living with the reality of it, right here and right now...
Can the climate strikes work?
We seem to be living in a time of constant protest. The Women’s March, the fight for political freedom in Hong Kong and climate protests all dominate the headlines, social channels and airwaves...
Climate refugees
On YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, we’re dedicated to telling the stories of the millions of people who may be displaced by the environmental disasters brought on by climate change...
Play climate action bingo
We can all individually help fight climate change by implementing small adjustments to our lifestyle...
The climate crisis in Bangladesh
Many countries are at risk to the catastrophic effects of climate change, but Bangladesh has been facing the worst effects for years...
How climate change is hitting India
India’s energy future could tip the scales of global climate change, but the extreme weather is already here...
Are crystals sustainable?
Before their healing value gained mainstream popularity and celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow preached their unique ability to ‘remove negative energy’ from a space, crystals were used in indigenous practices...
Climate change is hitting central america hard. Here's why it matters.
Poverty isn’t the only factor driving migration from Latin-American countries...
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