Climate Change

Strong winds and waves batter Florida during Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene and the Need for Climate Emergency Preparedness

As extreme weather events grow more frequent and severe—even in areas that were once considered safe—grasping their link to climate change is more vital than ever. The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in September serves as a stark reminder of this reality, with its impacts likely to be felt for a long time to come.

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The Lens of Upfront Carbon

In this excerpt, Alter outlines the two sides of the carbon-emission reduction battleground – the supply side and the demand side – and why one might be the more important one to pay attention to in order to mitigate climate change.

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What Will Happen to the Ocean During Climate Collapse?

Understanding the core revenue streams of your farm is vital for strategic planning and sustainability. It enables informed decision-making on resource allocation, investment, and diversification. By identifying profitable avenues, farmers can optimize operations, mitigate risks, and adapt to market fluctuations, ensuring long-term profitability and resilience in the agricultural sector.

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Why Does My Garden Not Look Like The Garden Writers?

Have you ever wondered why no matter how hard you try, your garden looks nothing like the gardens in the gardening columns? You aren’t alone! In The Intelligent Gardener, Steve Solomon explains why it can be hard – if not impossible – to achieve the same results as those in the gardening columns.

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Happy Earth Day 2024

While we spend lots of time thinking about climate change and positive solutions for troubled times at New Society Publishers, we’re also always keen to celebrate and collectively consider how we might create a more just, equitable, and cleaner future for all.

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Essential Items for Your Emergency Kit

As we work to process the realities of climate change, learning to manage our emotions around this crisis is crucial. But as climate disruption continues and increases, preparing for scenarios such as utility disruptions, local disasters involving floods or fires, or unseasonal freezing or heating can also help us move from panic mode into action mode.

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How Do I Cope with Climate Anxiety?

Climate anxiety and eco-anxiety are very real for many of us. How can we process this grief and fear about the climate? Can we transform these into powerful tools for acting on behalf of the climate? Margaret Klein Salamon says we absolutely can. It’s not quick or easy, but doing this work may well be the most important step on the road to addressing the climate emergency.

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Reducing Your Electricity Generation and Heating

We have relatively little control over how our electricity is generated, except to lobby governments and power companies. But some of us have the option of taking things into our own hands by generating our own electricity. The conditions for that have never been better, and they will continue to improve.

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Climate Grief

As author Andrew Boyd demonstrates, we must go through a grieving process in order to move forward on climate issues. But how do we do that? And are we even sure what, exactly, we’re grieving? In this excerpt from I Want a Better Catastrophe, Boyd begins to unpack this tangled-up topic.

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How to make introductions more inclusive

Have you ever considered that trying to be more inclusive can cause harm? Today, we share an excerpt from The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization where Crystal Byrd Farmer explains how adding seemingly harmless practices to actions like introductions may cause problems within your organization.

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A person is holding a sign with the message "Eco not Ego" accompanied by a hand-drawn globe design. They sit on the floor, encircled by additional protest signs including one that declares "There is no Planet B," stressing the critical nature of Climate Change. Beside them lies a jean jacket. This scene seems to reflect sentiments similar to those discussed in the Social_Excerpt_What-does-climate-hypocrite-mean post.

What Does ‘Climate Hypocrite’ Even Mean?

Often we hear that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, but what happens when the choices we make are so often governed by the systems in which we live? Self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover says we should do what we can in our own lives, but then we need to target those actions to create systemic change. Today, we share an excerpt from We’re All Climate Hypocrites Now: How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement on what he means when he uses the term hypocrite.

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A person stands with arms outstretched under a night sky illuminated by the Northern Lights, featuring shades of green and blue against a backdrop of stars and clouds. The individual appears to be wearing a dark coat and is facing the sky, evoking a sense of awe and wonder suitable for the scene described in Social_Excerpt_Introduction-to-Power.

Introduction to Power by Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg’s latest title, Power is an exploration of humanity’s power over nature and the power of some people over others. Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources — most significantly, fossil fuels. Today, we take an excerpt from Power that explains how Richard started on the journey of writing this book.

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