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5 Podcasts to Inspire You on Climate

5 Podcasts to Inspire You on Climate

Most days, the news on climate can be tough. Carbon dioxide levels reaching new heights. Glaciers melting even faster than we thought. White House officials celebrating the prospect of an ice-free Arctic. Not a whole lot of good ways to spin these. But here’s the good news. There are a lot of smart and committed […]

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    Take Climate Action By Transforming Your Lawn With Edible Landscaping

    Take Climate Action By Transforming Your Lawn With Edible Landscaping

    What have you done for me lately? The one-and-only Janet Jackson once asked that question of a bad boyfriend. But lately, we’ve been wondering the very same thing about a far less obvious offender—our front lawn. We water it and then water it some more. We give it a trim to keep it looking super […]

    6 Must-See Movies About Climate Change

    6 Must-See Movies About Climate Change

    Truly great films about the climate crisis are tough to come by. Allusions to environmental destruction are very familiar in the futuristic dystopias Hollywood churns out like clockwork, but they rarely get the science right—or they abandon it entirely in favor of skipping straight to some post-apocalyptic CGI extravaganza. Those of us with a little […]

    Three American Cities That Could Be The Next Cape Town

    Three American Cities That Could Be The Next Cape Town

    The world is watching as Cape Town residents count the days (and drops) to Day Zero—when the city’s tap run dry. The South African city is in the midst of its worst drought in history, and unless a substantial amount of rain falls in the coming months, it could become the first major city to […]

    Germany Is a Clean Energy Superpower—And Here’s the Proof

    Germany Is a Clean Energy Superpower—And Here’s the Proof

    Most people know Germany for things like its popular car manufactures Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, its annual Oktoberfest—fun fact: Germany has 1,300 breweries and 5,000 different brew brands—and all those brilliant composers (Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, anyone?). But did you know the country is also a clean-energy superpower? Indeed, Germany was one of the first […]

    Countdown: The Top Five Climate Videos of 2017

    Countdown: The Top Five Climate Videos of 2017

    Did you know that more than 500 million people watch videos on Facebook every day? That’s over half a billion people—a lot of eyes on a lot of important content. We took a trip down Facebook memory lane to check out the videos Climate Reality supporters watched most. They’re an incredible reminder of how far […]

    6 Reasons for Hope: The Benefits Are Clear

    6 Reasons for Hope: The Benefits Are Clear

    Even as the reality of the climate crisis becomes more apparent and urgent by the day, we choose hope. We know we can solve this crisis and we’re optimistic about the future. And you should be too. Below, check out the second in our four-blog “Reasons for Hope” series. (If you missed the first, you […]

    Why 24 Hours of Reality Matters

    Why 24 Hours of Reality Matters

    Twenty-four hours of seriously thought-provoking conversations on climate with world leaders, business icons, and celebrities from Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to California Gov. Jerry Brown to Mustafa Ali to Ellie Goulding to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and more in a list so long it could wrap around the New York studio. Twenty-four hours of presentations from former […]