Create & Climate

You would be totally in the majority if you thought the recent IPCC report declared, “Humans are screwed, let’s just give up.” That’s how much of the media reported it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so happy they are reporting on the climate emergency so much more than even...

Independent climate journalist Emily Atkins recently wrote about how the news media is not adequately reporting on the climate emergency. This has been a frustration of mine for so many years! For example, during a recent heatwave in my state of Colorado less than 4%...

It’s vital that organizations and small businesses have crafted diversity, inclusion, and equity policies in recent years to address racism and transgender rights. Yes, these policy statements can end up being empty promises or performative activism, but they can also...

It’s extremely easy to get completely overwhelmed with being a climate activist (and yes, you are one!) because there is so much climate news to follow and so many things to take action on. But that’s actually a grand thing because it means there is so much more...

Let’s banish climate silence. What is climate silence?  People not talking to each other and their elected representatives and companies about the climate crisis. We fear getting our facts wrong, getting into pointless disagreements  with people who don’t...

In The Future We Choose authors Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac create a vision of a thriving future because we successfully averted the climate crisis. It blew my mind. Then I read Eric Holthaus’ The Future Earth where he gives us a model of what the future...

You’re painfully aware of the climate crisis. You do your best to shrink your carbon footprint and make your voice heard by your political representatives. But it feels like so little. And yet, what else can you, one tiny person, do? It can all feel so hopeless and...