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Dear Earth
A thoughtful poem about accepting who we are and the changes to our lives as climate active-ists. Shared with permission from Dear Earth and Satya Robyn. By Satya Robyn Dear Earth, I am jealous of my brother. He is in...
Protect the Night
People light up the night almost without thinking, as we have for millennia. At the minimal level, we do this instinctively for our survival and protection. But the practice has grown to destructive extremes in modern...
Throw a vegan-ingredient tasting party!
So what’s perhaps the biggest barrier to eating vegan food especially? Probably a lack of familiarity. Many people may see vegan ingredients or dishes in the …
The 10th anniversary of my beautiful green roof! Booyah!
It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years already for the green roof on my house, as of this past weekend. (I was on a train and couldn't write this all out then.) You can get a peek of the greenery from the...
Approaching Industry’s Sustainability Managers
The top 25 multinational companies reported a combined revenue of 3.18 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020, approximately 10% of the total revenue from the world’s largest companies. Their total self-reported greenhouse gas (GHG)...
A Quick Update on The3Engineers, Who Figured Things Out with a Book
I want to congratulate Nick, Matt, and Jon, three submarine engineers who I wrote about in a three-part series as examples of people who have decided to change their lives to support the environment. Their first children's...
How Do You Show Your Love for the World?Let these 5 climate actions be your love letter to the Earth
Dr. Krista Kurth has given us permission to repost her blog about our largest love - Earth. Her great writing very much matches our goals here at Climate Steps - as it combines a nice style with scientific facts and...
A Fascination on Ice
I’m a neophyte iceologist, just a few years in to studying one of the beauties I love most, keenly aware of its fragility, the rarity of clear ice …
A Greenish Curriculum: Desperate Need vs a Stacked Deck
Photo by Hans Hamann on Unsplash The facts are in. The global temperature is rising and so are the oceans, accompanied by increasingly frequent and intense fires, droughts and floods, out-of-season melting of polar...
Now is the Moment to Pressure Global Leaders to Step Up Their Climate Game
By Dr. Krista Kurth, 10/11/2021 Dr. Krista Kurth has given us permission to repost her very timely and action-focused blog:...
Free Public Transportation, the Time is Now!
….free transportation, …. [results in] money saved in hospital admittance due to asthma, in ambulance and police services, in paving and repaving, …..
The 6th IPCC Report – Share it. Here’s How.
Today, I woke up at 8:00 am to read about the 2021 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report being released: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/;...
Waste Basket
Reflection, in Honor of Plastic-Free July. This is a waste basket, the kind made out of waste. The broken base of it came from the free box of a garage sale last Saturday. The plastic ribbons are single-use plastic...
Tiny Houses Fight Global Warming
Tiny houses have been around for as long as humans have sought shelter, but lately they are becoming a more popular choice in housing internationally, offering alternatives for people who want their own house but, for a variety of reasons, don’t want a traditional, single-family home.
Three Practical, Social Climate Steps with Ripple Effects
“….The roadmap to improving perceptions of conservation starts with reminding individuals that their neighbors care about it.”
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