By Abrahm Lustgarten | Photographs by Meridith Kohut Millions will be displaced. Where will they go? August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely...
Over the past 20 years, disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage, and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters have affected people living in developing countries and, in particular, the most vulnerable communities within these countries. Particularly in the context...
The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) is excited to announce the funding of 42 local nonprofit organizations to help build their capacity to engage in upcoming grant opportunities addressing climate change and social equity. The PCEF Application Support Grant program is...
Forests are among the largest stores of living carbon on the planet, and it turns out that the forests of western Oregon have a higher carbon density than almost any other forest type in the world. Unfortunately, the destruction and mismanagement of these forests over the past century has...
The University of Queensland (UQ) has become the first major university in the world to offset all of its electricity use with clean, renewable energy, following the launch of the university’s 200,000 panelled solar farm this month. The solar farm, situated close to the state’s southeastern town...
July 22-24th, 2020 Our team is coming to your screens this summer! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and for the safety of our communities, we are holding the Summer Institute, originally planned to take place at Hamline University, as a virtual conference! Not only that, but we are teaming up with...
Join the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) for our national call on July 11 with environmental psychologist Dr. Renee Lertzman. In these stressful times, Dr. Lertzman suggests we can acknowledge the feelings of anxiety that can immobilize us and create conditions that allow us to show up as our...
Hours after Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Chloe Eudaly revoked their support from the Interstate 5 Rose Quarter project, a controversial freeway widening project, the council voted to adopt a climate emergency declaration. Globally, thousands of jurisdictions have declared climate...
The nation’s attention is focused on the COVID-19 emergency, but the other crisis that is disrupting our lives — climate change — is not going away. Though we can’t come together in Washington this year, CCL is holding a virtual conference starting Saturday, June 13, and registration is now open....
Please be invited to join the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) on Thursday, May 28 for our upcoming webinar, “Structuring an Economy for People and Planet in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19”. During this dynamic dialogue women and feminists from different...
OUR RESEARCH IN THE TIME OF COVID We’re hosting a series of virtual panel discussions highlighting researchers at PSU and the relevance of their work in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the first two conversations here. COVID AND CLIMATE This week, we’ll be joined by climate...
The Worry & Hope study at the University of Hawaii revealed a pervasive emotional climate of fear, anger, sadness, shame and hope about climate change. College faculty already knew this, and are, themselves, feeling anxiety, grief, and additional stress that accompanies a sense of urgency and...