I don’t remember if it was the day of, or the day after. We started at an intersection, The one outside of the precinct that was finally burned. That one that loomed there over us my whole life. We started there. Am I blending memories together now because I don’t remember if that was the […]
My climate journey started at the beginning of my senior year in high school. By that time I’d heard of climate change and knew the effects it had on our planet, but I wasn’t formally taught about global warming growing up. Due to the lack of climate education in public schools, it was not something […]
I cannot remember a time when I didn’t know that climate change existed. From the ages of four to 12, I went to a school that was in the middle of the woods in the Northeast of the US and throughout my childhood I traveled between my two countries of citizenship, the US and Scotland. […]
My name is Kampeska Cinkila Win, my English name is Nicole Montclair Donaghy. I’m a Húŋkpapȟa-Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna sovereign being of the Standing Rock Nation, I also honor my descendancy of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people on my father’s side. I come from a place where the root causes […]
This climate story starts before time was told by clocks or watches. This climate story started with the movement of stars through the sky, the sun and moon dancing around the horizon. In many ways, this story fell from the stars, delivered by grandfathers of an ancient past. This story is a love story, one […]
“My son is failing his Spanish course, since he won’t hand in his homework!” “Everytime I ask about her friends, my daughter gets upset and locks herself in her room.” “I’ve been asking my son to help get our equipment together for the upcoming hunt, and he won’t budge from his video games.” This was […]
Growing up, I never really thought about climate change in any real way. It was not discussed in my household, nor do I remember anyone mentioning it in school, growing up or even reading about it in any textbook — which is actually the crux of my climate story. As an African American, I now […]
I didn’t know I would be making jam at 3-o-clock in the morning, but there I was. I was 26 years old. I had just moved out of my family’s home and was living alone for the very first time. I had found a studio apartment in Miami with bright yellow walls that reminded me […]
The U.N. released new findings on the state of our current climate and what is required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change: in short, carbon pollution must end. In its report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), summarizes the facts about human activities warming the planet. New in this report is the […]
We are living in, as many are calling it, a post-election limbo. The outcomes of the presidential election spurred a sense of hope that the next four years, bigger and bolder climate action can continue, with federal support. It’s clear the American people voted for climate change solutions, but the work didn’t end in early […]