When I was a kid in Richfield, I loved to play hockey. Even though I loved it, I decided to trade my hockey skates to a neighbor for a wagon full of National Geographic magazines. They changed my life because they instilled my desire for adventure and exploration. I also remember reading Huck Finn in […]
I am an environmental educator in the 21st century in the United States of America. I am a white woman with more years of formal education than most people in the world. I am a homeowner in a rural connected region of the Rocky Mountains. And, the climate crisis has been the most significant focal […]
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 […]
Greg Dalton is the Founder and host of Climate One podcast and radio show. I’m walking on a sidewalk in Whitefish, Montana on a sunny spring day. It’s about 70 degrees and people are wearing facemasks. I walk past a large pickup truck that is idling in a parking space in front of a row […]
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 […]