Climate Justice

Energy Sovereignty

Energy Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy in Carbondale, Illinois

Energy Sovereignty is an approach to energy resources that prioritizes public ownership/decision-making to foster local self-sufficiency, improved capacity, resource conservation, community wealth-building, political autonomy, and lasting economic prosperity.

On Tuesday, May 23, the City Council of Carbondale, Illinois heard a promising presentation about “Energy Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy” at a regular City Council meeting at the Carbondale Civic Center.

The full title of the presentation was “Community GHG [Greenhouse Gas] Inventory Baseline 2019 and Energy Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy.”

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Preorder All The Climate Feels

Preorder All The Climate Feels Today!

Preorder All The Climate Feels

My new climate poetry collection, All The Climate Feels, is now available for preorder!

All The Climate Feels is a poetic exploration of the climate crisis, climate justice, and how it feels to be alive in times of profound change. This climate poetry collection includes twenty-eight poems written over the course of ten years of climate communication and climate justice advocacy.

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Oceans Are Rising And So Are We

The New Climate Report is a Call for Climate Justice

Oceans Are Rising And So Are We
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On Monday, August 9, 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major new climate report titled AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.

This report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

What does this report say? And what does it mean for the movement for climate justice?

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