Kids Care About Climate: Let’s Teach it!
School systems around the world have not integrated environmental education into curriculum. What can educators do to connect students to issues like climate change?
Speak Sustainable: Reframing Our Words for Climate Justice
With the COVID-19 pandemic, our world has shifted dramatically — for some more than others. Despite all of the distractions and problems we are all facing right now, climate change has not been put on pause. Climate change continues to harm us all — but especially marginalized communities all over the world, alongside our planet.
Paging Earth Weekly: Cate’s Picks
Paging Earth is a climate communications blog dedicated to demystifying, depolarizing and educating the public about climate change activism and climate science. Each week, one of our GCP team members shares the content currently making their world go ‘round. This week, our Climate Media & Communications Design Coordinator Cate Southwell shares their top picks…
Paging Earth Weekly: Kat’s Picks
Paging Earth is a climate communications blog dedicated to demystifying, depolarizing and educating the public about climate change activism and climate science. Each week, one of our GCP team members shares the content currently making their world go ‘round. This week, our Media & Communications Manager Kat Shok shares their top picks of the week:…
Opponents on the Playing Field: Turf versus Natural Fields
Fields are an important part of everyday life. They are where people gather to watch recreational sports, exercise, and even to just sit and relax. Especially during the pandemic, fields have allowed people to safely meet outside and get fresh air. But have you ever considered what impact these fields may have on the environment?…
Fan Engagement: Chants, Cheers, and Climate Change
Sports have undoubtedly become one of the most commonly shared activities in human history. Played across the globe on expansive fields, an aspect that is not typically covered within environmentalism is the environmental impact sports have. We think so highly of our beloved teams and could not see them doing any wrong. However, sports have…
How Sustainable are the Olympics?
With the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics rescheduled for July of this year, we can expect the most sustainable Olympics yet. While sustainability is a relatively new aspect of the Olympic legacy, it has become a strong factor in the host cities’ bidding process. Here is a walk through the history of the Olympics going green.…
Mitigating climate change with words: The role of the media in creating climate understanding
Only an environmental culture shift — on both sides of the political aisle and around the globe — can help environmentalism transcend polarization through education.
Five Black Environmentalists Who Changed the Course of History
Through their tireless activism, these five Black environmentalists deconstructed the harmful narrative that climate action is exclusive to white folks. Their work spans across generations, great distances, and various environmental issues, but ultimately shares a fundamental commonality: shifting the trajectory of the environmental movement toward emphasizing inclusion, accountability, and justice. Read about Colonel Charles Young,…
