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Signs of a Climate Emergency
The Great Highway, one of San Francisco's iconic roads that runs along the city's Pacific coastline, has been closed intermittently for the last several months due to sand intrusion and flooding from...
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Shifting culture towards nourishing a just and sustainable society, or The...
Sometimes it’s truly uncanny how synergistic human consciousness can be. I’ve always thought that the world as it exists is the result of what we collectively dream into being, and if a lot of people...
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Turn the orange blues into action: California about to pass important climate...
It’s so easy these days to get either distracted or depressed by the daily barrage of orange madness raining down on us, ranging in significance from hopelessly vapid to humanly atrocious. Coupled with...
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The Planet or The Humans: Michael Moore’s false choice a lesson in how not to...
I meant to write about the Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans right after watching it last weekend. But over the course of the week all of the wild distortions and...
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Feels like we’ve been in the wrong movie. Let’s make a better one together!
What the hell was that? I don’t know about you, but the last five and a half years have felt like I’ve been in the wrong movie, a German idiom (“Ich glaub ich bin im falschen Film”) to describe the...
View ArticleYes, the IPCC report is dire. But it's not too late if we turn despair into...
The IPCC report released today concludes: “Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond...
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ClimateBrief: Now that Germans are at risk of drowning, we are all balancing...
With historic floods hitting one of the last bastions of perceived immunity against the effects of climate change, people in financially wealthy countries are finally forced to reckon with the global...
View ArticleObservations from an immigrant on the American gun apocalypse
Each culture has its blind spots as it is part of our humanness to get used to ways of being within a lot of unspoken social norms and constructs. Just as sometimes it can be helpful to get feedback...
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I ❤️ DK Guild: A German Gingerbread Heart in Solidarity With the Workers of...
Help DKG Solidarity Group celebrate Valentine's Day! This story is part of a series of “I ❤️ DK Guild” posts written by Community members to show their support for the writing, activism, and site...
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#GlobalClimateStrike: A March for a Livable Planet is a March for Justice
As I was assembling the posters I had printed from the 350.org Arts Kit to make signs for tomorrow’s Global Climate Strike, I was reflecting back on a week in which the themes of justice so powerfully...
View ArticleThe Song They Won't be Playing at Trump Rallies
2024 is about as consequential an election year as they come, not that anyone on this site needs to be reminded of that. I don’t need to list all the reasons why every American who cares about freedom...
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The real Earth Day this year might be Election Day
Though I’ve personally always been more inclined to go with the “Every Day is Earth Day” modus operandi, I think it’s still worth celebrating and uplifting the “official” Earth Day. Especially in these...
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