So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called Climate Resilience, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant. The course offers [...]read more6 Ways to Turn Climate Change Anxiety Into Action
But just what is “climate literacy”? What are the ABCs, the grammar and vocabulary, of climate change? The U.N. and other leading global organizations have identified education at all levels and across disciplines as a key strategy for fighting the climate crisis. The world is going through a historically rapid transition to clean energy and [...]read moreHow Climate Education Based on Action Can Help Youth Be Part of the Progress
By Reuters Published September 30, 2024 Unilever has agreed sustainability deals with its top 10 retail customers, including Walmart, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and minimising waste in its supply chain, the consumer giant’s CEO said on Monday. Unilever, which makes Dove soap, Knorr stock cubes and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was in [...]read moreUnilever strikes climate deals with Walmart, others to meet sustainability goals
London Fashion Week is looming and to mark that fact, charity Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ) has released new research claiming British Fashion isn’t acting on the climate crisis. Photo: Pexels The charity “dedicated to a total ethics fashion system that protects people, animals, and the planet” said that “less than 4% of British Fashion Council [...]read moreResearch calls out British fashion as “failing to act on climate crisis”
This conversation is part of a larger lesson about developing technologies that reduce planet-heating pollution. The lesson was created by Kravitz, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Indiana University; his colleague Paul Goddard; and Kirstin Milks, DeWayne Murphy’s science teacher at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Ind. With heat waves and [...]read moreIn the Face of Climate Change, Science Class Can Help Students Dream Up a Better Future
To be fair, this really is just the beginning. Throughout the first year, there will be 20,000 total American Climate Corps positions, ranging from summer jobs to one-year slots, Shaheen-McConnell said; 200,000 are planned within five years. Some of these will be created through three newly announced “corps” partnerships with AmeriCorps and other federal agencies [...]read moreBiden Wants To Save the Climate by Deploying Young People. He’s Not There Yet
The fourth-generation Hyundai Tucson was launched last November, bringing a line-up of three variants – the 2.0 Lite, 1.6T Plus and the 1.6T Max; it is the 1.6T Max for which we can bring a live image gallery. Priced at RM195,888 on-the-road without insurance, the Tucson 1.6T Max, like the other two variants, are based [...]read more2024 Hyundai Tucson 1.6T Max in Malaysia – ADAS, dual-zone climate control, digital instruments; RM196k
Climate tech startups raised $8.1 billion in the first quarter, near record amounts of money that suggest 2023’s quiet close might have been more of a blip than the sign of a protracted downturn. The figure, contained in a new report from PitchBook, shows that climate tech hasn’t succumbed to the same slowdown that has [...]read moreClimate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024
Jonathan Strimling faced a dilemma. His company had spent nine years working on chemical processes that could turn old cardboard boxes into high-quality building insulation. The good news was the team had finally cracked it: CleanFiber’s technology pumped out insulation — really good insulation. It had fewer contaminants and produced less dust than other cellulose [...]read moreThe ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up
But a report I co-authored with Sara Poirer in 2022 for This Is Planet Ed, an initiative at the Aspen Institute (where I’m an adviser), found that children’s media is still largely silent on climate. Zero of the most popular family movies of 2021 referred to climate change or related topics, and even when reviewing [...]read moreKids Don’t Know Enough About Climate Solutions. Children’s Media Could Help.