Killer hurricanes, devastating wildfires, melting glaciers, and sunny-day flooding in more and more coastal areas around the world have birthed a fatalistic view cleverly dubbed by Mary Annaïse Heglar of the Natural Resources Defense Council as “de-nihilism“. One manifestation: An […]

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Sometimes, in our struggle to address climate change, we need to see ourselves as facing not an incredibly complex (or “wicked”) problem (and one to which most of us contribute) but a clear-cut adversary. The world’s biggest fossil fuel companies […]

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Two years ago, only three private buildings in suburban Schaumburg, Illinois, had solar panels. But now the village has issued permits for more than 100 homes and five commercial sites. “It’s over a 3,000% increase,” says Martha Dooley, Schaumburg’s landscape […]

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Grecia Elenes grew up in Fresno, California. She says some parts of the city have been neglected for decades. When she moved back after college she realized nothing has changed. “You see the same vacant lots. You see the same […]

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The city of San Francisco in 2008 proposed adding a rapid bus lane to its streets. It took nearly a decade for the project to pass environmental review – because it would slow down cars. “It was a very backward […]

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The town of Blacksburg, Virginia, is working to cut 80% of its carbon pollution by 2050. And it’s making progress by promoting residential solar and transitioning to cleaner buses and government vehicles. But staying on track can be tough. Like […]

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During hurricanes and floods, people often rely on emergency responders for help. So it’s critical that the electricity stay on at the buildings where ambulances and EMTs are stationed. “Being able to power their entire building is very important, so […]

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In many small, rural settlements in South Africa, residents live in metal shacks with no connections to the regional electricity grid. But now in one of these settlements, lights are shining. “Each shack operates on a solar panel and a […]

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Australia’s “worst fire season ever recorded.” That’s how the Australian Broadcasting Company, among many others, aptly described as “an apocalypse,” “the gates of Hell,” or the “nightmare” bushfires that have enveloped much of the southeastern coast of the “land down […]

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Australia’s frightening bushfires, which kicked off an early fire season in September 2019, have already had cataclysmic effects, and the continent is still just in the early months of the southern hemisphere’s summer. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service […]

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