Tag: <span>activism</span>

Misguided Misanthropy: Why the “Humans are the Virus” Mindset is Damaging to the Environmental Movement

We’ve all seen the tweets lately: “Humans are the real virus!” “The earth is healing in our absence” and so on. Their message is clear: humans are a plague on the earth and the current COVID-19 pandemic is a form of reckoning. Not only are some of these tweets just plain wrong, …

Remembering Climate Change in the Age of COVID-19

    As we’ve shifted our attention to the global COVID-19 pandemic, is it impractical or insensitive to hope that climate change issues don’t get buried in the deluge of this more visible and frightening reality? For those of us focusing our careers on environmental stewardship, it’s our mission to …

The Art of Service: Learning the Language and Actions for Change

On MLK Day Weekend, the teens and staff of J-Teen Leadership traveled to St. Louis for a weekend of service. A few themes developed throughout the course of this service trip. Economic inequality. Racial segregation. Resilience. Activism. Inclusion. On theme that stood out to me in particular was language: the …

How to Have an Effective State EPA Without Federal Support–by James Richmond

Do you find that your state’s EPA isn’t getting the kind of support it once did from the federal government? And maybe even that recent gains it’s made in environmental regulation and protection are being rolled back? Let’s take a look at 5 ways California is able to have an …

Dial in and Dialog: Become a Part of The Power Dialog!

Become a part of the formal launch of the Power Dialog! Dial-in at noon eastern Wednesday 10/7: 845-746-2287 (No conference code needed). Dallas Burtraw, Senior Researcher at Resources of the Future, and Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard MBA in Sustainability and CEP programs, will be hosting a phone conversation …

One in Seven: An Essay

by C2C Fellow Shayna Koczur I am one in seven billion order essay, and on a geological timescale, I will be here for a second. If I am so small in the grand scheme of our planet, if I am only a tick of a clock, then the idea of  …