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Author Archives: Gayle Kimball, Ph.D.
Interview questions for “Climate Girls Saving Our World”
I’d like to Skype interview you for a book-in-progress about young women climate activists, with follow-up interviews over time. We would both edit the transcript to morph it into a book chapter.
Interviews with other youth activists are on my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGlobalyouth?pbjreload=10
I’m the author of these pertinent books:
Brave: The Global Girls’ Revolution (Equality Press) Vol. 1 Global Issues, Vol. 2 Regional Activism
Your Mindful Guide to Academic Success: Prevent Burnout (Equality Press)
Ageism in Youth Studies: Generation Maligned (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Global Youth Values Transforming Our Future (Equality Press)
Resist: Goals and Tactics for Changemaking (Equality Press)
Answers to Kids’ Deep Questions in Photos (Equality Press)
The Teen Trip: The Complete Resource Guide (Equality Press)
Ed. Everything You Need to Know to Succeed After College (Equality
Press)
How to Survive Your Parents’ Divorce (Equality Press)
My background is I developed/chaired the Women’s Studies Program at California State University Chico. I also do intuitive energy work, dance, garden, travel.
Please let me know when are good times for you to Skype with me. I’m in California.
Sample question:
*Where and when were you born? Birth order?
*3 words to describe you
*how did you learn about the climate change disaster?
*when and why did you decide to take a leadership role? Previous experience?
*how do you cope with backlash, unfair criticism, harassment from deniers?
*what do you personally do to help the environment?
*what does feminism mean to you?
*do reports of increasing teen anxiety and depression apply to your network?
*why do you think most of the recent young climate change leaders are female?
*what tactics do you find most useful in being a changemaker? My book “Resist: Goals and Tactics for Changemakers” found burnout and purity issues are problematic.
*what works in organizing a group to take action and stick to it without splintering on dogma/purity or losing interest?
*what national groups do you work with?
*are you an optimistic or pessimist about stopping global warming, etc.?
*what do you see yourself doing five years from now?
*anything else you’d like to add?
*what other girls should be in the book?
Thank you, Gayle Kimball
role of TikTok in protests and media
“TikTok is to Black Lives Matter what Twitter was to the Arab Spring,” said Kareem Rahma, 34, a TikTok creator with nearly 400,000 followers on the app. Mr. Rahma’s TikToks from the Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis garnered tens of millions of views. “I saw a lot of youth on the ground TikToking the protests as opposed to livestreaming, tweeting or Instagramming,” he said. “The conversations these kids are having with each other are essential.”
In June, teenage TikTok users claimed responsibility for inflating attendance expectations, leading to rows upon rows of empty seats, for Mr. Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., after thousands of them registered for tickets to the event that they had no plans to redeem.
TikTok users have also waged coordinated campaigns to rate Mr. Trump’s businesses poorly on Google, to spam online surveys aimed at Trump supporters with useless information and to damage the Trump campaign’s e-commerce store by collecting in their shopping baskets items they never intend to buy.
Ellie Zeiler, 16, who has 6.3 million followers on TikTok, said that Mr. Trump’s threat to ban the app may even sway more young people to vote against him. “I think that a lot of people didn’t like Trump before, and this has driven people to not like him even more,” she said.
“For many kids, politics feel very distant,” said Eitan Bernath, 18, who has 1.2 million followers on TikTok. “This might be the first time it hits home for a lot of kids.”
On Sunday, nine TikTok creators with a collective 54 million followers, including Brittany Broski, Hope Schwing and Mitchell Crawford, published an open letter addressed to Mr. Trump on Medium.
“TikTok has enabled the kinds of interactions that could never take place on the likes of Facebook and Instagram,” they wrote. “Our generation has grown up on the internet, but our vision of the internet is going to require more than two gatekeepers. Why not use this as an opportunity to level the playing field?” they urged.
Vanessa Pappas, the general manager of TikTok North America, attempted to quell concerns on Saturday. “We’re not planning on going anywhere,” she said in a statement released on the app.
If the app’s potential shutdown or instability around a sudden sale has any silver lining, it’s a flood of new users to smaller platforms. Clash, a new short-form video app founded by Brendon McNerney, a former Vine star, became available on Friday night after the news and shot up the app store rankings on Saturday. Byte and Dubsmash, two other short form video apps, have also begun actively recruiting TikTok stars.
Last Wednesday, Triller, an app that functions similarly to TikTok, announced it had hired the 18-year-old TikTok star Josh Richards as the platform’s chief strategy officer, and successfully wooed Mr. Richards along with two other large TikTok stars, Griffin Johnson, 21, and Noah Beck, 19, to join the platform as investors.
Instagram is also offering TikTok creators deals of hundreds of thousands of dollars to create content on Reels, its new product with similarities, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Perez Hilton, a longtime celebrity news chronicler who has amassed 850,000 followers on TikTok, said he hoped that just the threat of a ban would serve as a note of caution for the young talent on the app. “These influencers on TikTok can’t have all their eggs in one basket,” he said. “You have to be everywhere,” he said, if you want to stay famous.
“You need to hustle,” he said. “A lot of the TikTokers that are just pretty, those are the ones that are really going to struggle. Pretty doesn’t age well and it doesn’t translate. The ones that are willing to work on and off TikTok and other platforms, they’re the ones that will be able to continue to thrive.”
Instagram is also offering TikTok creators deals of hundreds of thousands of dollars to create content on Reels, its new product with similarities, according to The Wall Street Journal.
college during the pandemic
protest tactics like umbrellas and leaf blowers spread like memes
Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes
When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable.
Video
The New York Times, Sergio Olmos for The New York TimesCredit
July 31, 2020
By Tracy Ma
With Natalie Shutler
Written by Jonah Engel Bromwich
A video frame captured in Hong Kong in August 2019 shows a group of pro-democracy protesters, smoke pluming toward them, racing to place an orange traffic cone over a tear-gas canister. A video taken nine months later and 7,000 miles away, at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis, shows another small group using the same maneuver. Two moments, two continents, two cone placers, their postures nearly identical.
Images of protest spread on social media reveal many other matching moments from opposite sides of the world, and they often feature everyday objects wielded ingeniously.
Leaf blowers are used to diffuse clouds of tear gas; hockey sticks and tennis rackets are brandished to bat canisters back toward authorities; high-power laser pointers are used to thwart surveillance cameras; and plywood, boogie boards, umbrellas and more have served as shields to protect protesters from projectiles and create barricades.
non-violent solutions for gang violence
may be long-term effects of Covid-19 on young people
Kushner accused of no national pandemic plan to hurt blue states
Black US Teens Get Less Mental Health Treatment
Climate Change Solutions: Please add
Climate Change Solutions Draft for
“Climate Girls Change Our Future,” for your additions and critique
Individual Actions
Calculate your household’s energy and food consumption impacts.[1]
See Rob Hopkin’s From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019.
Food
Reduce consumption of beef (cows release more methane than countries like Brazil and Germany[2] and forests are cut down to create pasture for livestock.) University of Chicago researchers estimate that each meat-eating American produces 1.5 tons more greenhouse gases through their food choice than do their vegetarian peers. End the billions of dollars of US government subsidies of the beef and dairy industries and develop climate-smart agriculture.[3] Project Drawdown reports this is the most important contribution an individual can make.
A study of Blue Zone areas with the most long-lived people found the majority of their food is plants—including legumes (as well as social connection and physical activity).[4]
Buy Rainforest Alliance Certified products such as coffee, tea, chocolate, and bananas.
Grow vegetables, perhaps in pots on rooftops or window ledges.
Fridays for Future Europe proposed 10 measures to change the Common Agricultural Policy to capture carbon in the soil; reduce meat consumption; reduce pollution from farming chemicals, antibiotics and GMOs–in alignment with the Biodiversity Strategy and Farm to Fork Strategy.
Compost food scraps (this can include egg shells, tea bags, paper, wool rags, yard clippings, leaves, etc.). About 40% of US food ends up in landfills and release gases. Worldwide, food waste cause around 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. Love Food Hate Waste
South Korean banned dumping food in landfill and requires food waste is recycled in biodegradable bags or in home composting, leading to 95% recycling of food waste.
Buy food in bulk to reduce packaging.
Avoid palm oil, grown in deforested areas.[5]
Shop at farmers’ markets, buy local. See Eric Holt-Gimenez’ A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism
Change Consumption
Consume less: Read The Story of Stuff The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—And How We Can Make it Better by Annie Leonard.
Avoid products with tiny plastic pellets call nurdles.
Recycle clothes (the average American throws away about 81 pounds of clothes a year.) Follow “slow fashion” and make old clothes into new ones, called upcycling and repurposing. Make a mask from an old T-shirt. Shop in thrift stores.
Recycle toys in a toy library (usatla.org)
Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose
Ride a bike, walk, use public transportation rather than personal vehicles, ride-share.
Reuse glass or metal water bottles, bring your own straws, bamboo utensils, and take-out food containers.
Recycle cut hair to make into boons to absorb oil spills (greencirclesalons.com) or for wigs.
Recyclable menstrual products, such as those made out of banana leaves.
Recycle paper, buy used wood furniture, or wood certified sustainably harvested. Avoid palm oil grown where rainforest were cut down.
Plant
Plant trees in your community (aborday.org) like Shahzad Qureshi started Urban Forest to plant native trees in Pakistani cities such as in Karachi.
Plant flowers for bees and other pollinators (pollinator-pathway.org).[6]
Reduce Energy and Fuel Use
Turn off lights and unplug appliances when not in use since “idle load” uses energy even when not charging—or plug them into power strips. Americans spend more on electricity to power devices when they’re off than when on.
Buy Energy Star label appliances and products, which have kept tons of carbon dioxide out of the air since 1987. Use electric rather than gas stoves. Use WaterSense label fixtures and appliances to sav water and electricity. LED lightbulbs use less energy than incandescent bulbs and save money. Get an energy audit to see how your home can become more energy efficient.
The Drawdown campaign reduced the use of chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners, much more warming than CO2.
Shower for 5 minutes or less to save water.
Ride a bike or walk.
Wash clothes on cold and dry them on racks outdoor when sunny or indoor when not.
Don’t Pollute
Use organic cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or buy products labeled Safer choice, Green Seal Certified, Ecologo or Cradle to Cradle.
Educate
Inform your network and government officials (Environmental Voter.org).
Educate others: the David Suzuki Foundation offers a chatbot to teach how to talk about the climate.
Vote for politicians with climate plans. As Barack Obama says, “Don’t boo—vote.” For example, the Sunrise Movement pressured candidate Joe Biden to commit to a $2 trillion climate plan, including creating green jobs, renewable energy by 2035, weatherizing and upgrading homes and buildings, and “climate smart” agriculture. The Frontlines Climate Justice Executive Action Platform also outlined climate policies.[7]
City
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy includes about 170 cities in the US, such as Minneapolis. They agreed to transition to renewable energy and develop an action plan. The global Green Economy index of greenest cities.[8] See the report on green cities around the world. Mayors announced their support of the Global Green New Deal in 2019, along with youth climate activists, labor unions, etc.[9]
Michael Bloomberg Philanthropies is giving technical assistance funding to 25 cities with plans for innovative green building and transportation systems.[10]
Charged Up assists Canadian cities to develop renewable energy.[11]
The greenest cities are Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Madrid, and Sao Paulo.[12]
Vancouver, Canada was one of the first North American cities to develop the Clouds of Change climate crisis report in 1990 and in 2011 committed to the Greenest City Action Plan including green jobs, green buildings, additional bike lanes, recycling cigarette bins, tree planting, ban on Styrofoam containers, increase the amount of locally grown food, and 100% renewable energy by 2050. (See my photographs.) it has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per person of any major North American city.
Minneapolis is developing clusters of solar panels to reduce nearby energy bills and has electric vehicles.
Boston is first in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s ranking of cities.
People United for Sustainable Housing Buffalo turned abandoned school buildings into apartments for low-income seniors, created green spaces, etc.
New York City banned and plastic on city property.
State
California’s 2017 program requires the Air Resources Board to focus its clean-air efforts on communities with the most air pollution and consult environmental justice groups. (See the Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition). In 2018, it committed $35 million to creating high quality new clean-energy jobs.
New York, 2019: the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050. More than one-third of the program focuses on disadvantaged communities as by reducing pollution and developing jobs. The state also developed offshore wind projects.
Washington’s 2019 legislation committed the state to be carbon free by 2045, including incentives for businesses.
Colorado’s 2019 bills created an Office of Just Transition, such as to assist former miners and compensate cities for tax revenues lost to coal plant closures.
Virginia Clean Economy Act of 2020 mandated shutting down most coal plants by 2030 and fossil fuel electric and gas plants by 2045.
National
The five greenest economics are in the Nordic counties and Switzerland. [13]
21 youth sued the government in Juliana vs. United States in 2015, represented by Our Children’s Trust. Youth in Quebec filed a class action lawsuit led by ENvironnement Jeunesse.
Petition your government to reduce carbon pollution and a just recovery after the pandemic, such as in Canada’s #BuildBackBetter petition to Ottawa.[14] Green New Deal for Canada was proposed by MP in December 2019.[15] Lobby for an effective climate plan.[16]
Carbon pricing is practiced by over 43 countries, which results in lower emissions.[17] Ban fracking.
15 youth sued 5 countries (Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey) through UNESCO in 2019.
Green New Deal is proposed in Europe, the US (the bill was introduced in February 2019 by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey) and Canada.
School walkouts, strikes demanding declaration of the climate emergency.
Demonstrations like Jane Fonda’s Fire Drill Fridays in multiple cities later led by Greenpeace.[18]
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns reduced carbon emissions globally, including about 25% in China.[19]
End subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies. Alternatives include ethanol derived from camps and hydrogen derived from water, but they take energy to produce.
Carbon regulations require polluters to pay for their emissions.
International
The Global Green New Deal launched in 2020 (@GlobalGNDeal, globalgnd.org). Naomi Klein explained it grew out their critique of Green New Deals in the UK and US and of the capitalist system. Arundhati Roy said, “If people think coronavirus is a problem, it’s a stuffed toy compared to the climate crisis that’s coming. The main thing is to change our imagination. Once you understand that you just can’t extract everything, that things are fine,” to shape a new, more just vision.
The European Green Deal commits to zero emissions by 2050. Greta Thunberg said the target should be 2030, otherwise it gives up on the Paris Agreement to limit emissions.
UN Paris Accord 2015 agreed on pledges to reduce emissions; they need to be cut almost in half.
COP UN climate meetings, with the 26th scheduled in Scotland in 2020. Finland’s goal is to make the country carbon-neutral by 2035.
Make ecocide an international crime at the International Criminal Court.
Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy includes over 9,000 cities in 138 countries.[20]
Build on the Covid-19 pandemic to not return to “normal” and create a “just recovery,” and #BuildBackBetter. Global emissions dropped by 17% in April, 2020, due to pandemic shutdowns, with an average peak of 26% reduction.[21] Over 150 international groups called for a new and improved normal in summer of 2020 in “Open Letter on Covid-19 and Humanitarian Disarmament,” including international humanitarian cooperation.[22]
Infrastructure with green jobs providing employment
Project Drawdown lists the major sources of heat-trapping greenhouse gases:
25%: electricity production
24%: food, agriculture, and land use
21%: industry
14%: transportation
6%: buildings
10%: other
Over half of the emissions stay in the atmosphere, 24% are absorbed by plants, and 17% by the oceans.[23]
Buildings worldwide contribute around one third of all greenhouse gas emissions (43% in the U.S., compared to 32% industry, and 28% transportation), even though using better insulation and other temperature-regulating steps can save money. Buildings (see my photos of the building in Seattle) use alternates to concrete such as strawbale and adobe. Bacteria and other “engineered living materials” can grow building bricks instead of burning limestone to make cement for concrete.[24] The goal is Zero Energy Building.
Villages within a city are created in “communitarian” buildings with shared spaces including a rooftop farm and big kitchen and meeting space. In a Seattle five-story building, the families in nine units cook for each other every other day. Hundreds of cohousing communities around the world are listed by the Foundation for Intentional Community.[25]
About half of home energy use comes from heating and cooling buildings, so weatherize: insulate and seal drafts. The US government gives tax credits for energy-efficient home improvements.[26] Cement is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions as it requires heating limestone and other ingredients to 1,450 degrees Celsius (2,642 degrees Fahrenheit). Mining copper and other elements needed for electrical wiring and transmission also cause globe-warming pollution. District heating is used in Europe and some US colleges with a central plant that burns natural gas to heat water, circulated to nearby buildings. An ambient temperature loop efficiently heats and cools the buildings, as in Whistler Olympic Village in British Columbia.[27] A pump circulates water through pipes buried below the frost line.
Use a heat pump rather than a furnace; it extracts heat from one area and moves it to another. Use a programmable thermostat. Keep heaters and boilers clean in order to be more efficient.
Use composting toilets.
Green public housing and public gardens, including urban rooftop gardens in urban areas.
Environmental justice projects such as cleaning up toxic waste sites and lead in pipelines.
Renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomass).
Community owned energy companies or Green-e Energy certifies North American utility companies that get at least half their power from wind or solar.[28]
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative joined 12 northeastern states in a cap-and-trade market
Install solar panels in schools.[29]
University model green programs[30]
Transportation:
Burning a gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2, the second leading source of emissions in the US. Check out the smog level in US cities.[31]
Light rail, electric and hybrid vehicles. Check their fuel use.[32] Proper tire inflation and clean air filters save gas, as do good roads.
Public bikes to rent or no charge.
Build bike lanes: Copenhagen is a model with “super cycle highways.”
Hybrid-electric buses and light rail, as in San Francisco.
Reduce airplane travel (about 2.5% of global emissions). Buy carbon offsets if you do fly.[33]
Business
Greta Thunberg aid in July, 2020, “Our current system is not ‘broken’–the system is doing exactly what its designed to be doing. It can no longer be ‘fixed.’ We need a new system.” Models are provided by: Green circular economies,[34] Green Growth Knowledge Platform, Global Green Economy Index (Nordic counties and Switzerland[35]), and UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy.
Invest in green , sustainable, socially responsible businesses and mutual funds.[36] If your pension or university endowment funds invest in fossil fuels, start or join a divestment campaign.[37]
Devest pension, central bank, and university funds from fossil fuel corporations.
Climate Action 100+ includes hundreds of global investors committed to the goals of the 2016 Paris Climate Accord.
UN’s Business and Investor Working Group on Carbon Pricing
Amazon’s sustainability plan includes 100% renewable energy by 2025, 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, net zero carbon by 2040, $2 billion in research to new technologies, $100 million in climate fund such as reforestation, and ecological packaging.[38]
Telecommute, reduce work week. Twitter allowed employees to work from home after the pandemic.
Green Tree Plastics makes plastic lids and caps into benches, picnic tables, and trash bins.[39]
Climate Bonds Initiative-certified bonds issued worldwide, including municipal bonds
Environment
Scientists proposed a “Global Deal for Nature” in April, 2019, a plan to save biodiversity.[40] Carbon sinks include forests, grasslands, peatlands, and mangrove trees; they pull the most carbon from the air so they need to be enlarged. Every year, 33 million acres of forests are cut down.[41] Timber harvesting in the tropics alone contributes 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere, 20% of human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Reforestation—plant trees, and preserve wetlands that remove CO2.
Organic farming keeps carbon in the soil and avoids plowing (the 2018 US Farm Bill includes incentives), grown diverse crops including high-nitrogen legumes. The New Deal of the 1930s paid farmers to adopt conservation policies and set price floors for crops.
Develop local farmers’ markets.
Bioremediation uses microorganisms (microbes, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae) to repair toxic wastes such as oil spills or repair burn areas.
Replace lawns with native (see the National Wildlife Foundation native plant finder and ChooseNatives.org) or water-saving plants, called Xeriscaping, or plants that capture rain. Food Not Lawns by Heather Jo Flores is a free book and organization. [42]
Put “seed bombs” on abandoned properties.
Ban single-use plastics, use plant-derived plastics.
Engineering to reduce carbon, such as inject C02 into cooled volcanic rocks under the ocean to form solid minerals like limestone. Bioengineering ideas include partially deflecting sun rays, sequestering CO2 in the ocean, large scale reforestation,[43] releasing sulfate particles in the air to mimic the cooling effects of a massive volcanic eruption; placing millions of small mirrors or lenses in space to deflect sunlight; covering portions of the planet with reflective films to bounce sunlight back into space; fertilizing the oceans with iron or other nutrients to enable plankton to absorb more carbon; and increasing cloud cover or the reflectivity of clouds that already form. All may have unintended consequences, making the solution worse than the original problem.
Rocks cycle CO2; rock weathering removes CO2 and transforms it into minerals, which can be accelerated by grinding up volcanic silicate rocks, such ad basalt, and adding the dust to the soil.[44] This also increased cereal grain crop yields.
Bio-char from biomass in soil.
Climate Advocacy Groups
350.org
Climate Justice Alliance
Earth Alliance
Extinction Rebellion
Greenpeace
Indigenous Environmental Network
Natural Resources Defense Council
Earth Day
Rainforest Foundation
Greenpeace
Progressive International (includes Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Yanis Varoufakis, etc.)
Project Drawdown
Rainforest Action Network
Youth-led Climate Advocacy Groups
Fridays for Future International
International Youth Climate Movement
Climate Strike, Canada
Our Time, Canada
Polluters Out
Sunrise Movement, US
Youth Climate Network in various countries
UN’s YOUNGO
Zero Hour, US
[1] https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/footprintcalc
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/business/cow-methane-climate-change.html
[3] https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/what-is-climate-smart-agriculture
Jonathan Safran Foer, “The End of Meat I Here,” New York Times, May 21, 2020.
[4] https://www.bluezones.com/four-best-foods-four-worst-foods-blue-zones-life/
[5] https://www.fix.com/blog/how-palm-oil-affects-the-environment/#:~:text=Palm%20oil%20production%20and%20deforestation,the%20atmosphere%2C%20causing%20global%20warming.
[6] https://thehoneybeeconservancy.org/plant-a-bee-garden/
[7] https://www.demos.org/policy-briefs/frontlines-climate-justice-executive-action-platform#Summary-of-Executive-Actions
[8] https://dualcitizeninc.com/global-green-economy-index/
[9] https://www.c40.org/other/the-global-green-new-deal
[10] https://www.bloomberg.org/program/environment/climatechallenge/#overview
[11] https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/charged-up/
[12] https://www.bestcities.org/news/2020/04/22/the-worlds-greenest-cities/
[13] https://dualcitizeninc.com/global-green-economy-index/
[14] https://davidsuzuki.org/action/green-recovery/
[15] https://canadaelections2019.platform350.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2019/04/M-1-Motion-for-a-Green-New-Deal-4.pdf?_ga=2.83534806.1345965177.1595639216-1632873848.1595639216
[16] https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/ten-strategies-every-climate-plan-needs/
[17] Paul Burke, Frank Jotzo, Rohan Best, “Carbon Pricing Works,” The Conversation, July 13, 2020.
[18] Firedrillfridays.com
[19] Meehan Crist, “What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change,” New York Times, March 27, 2020.
[20] https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/press/cities-at-the-forefront-of-tackling-climate-change/
[21] “After Coronavirus Triggers 17% Emissions Drop,” Common Dreams, May 20, 2020.
[22] https://www.spiritofchange.org/150-civil-society-groups-issue-global-call-for-new-and-improved-normal-for-post-pandemic-world/
[23] “The World’s Leading Resource for Climate Solutions,” Drawdown Framework
[24] Wil Srubar, “Buildings Grown by Bacteria,” The Conversation, March 23, 2020.
[25] https://www.ic.org/directory/intentional-communities-by-country/
[26] https://energytaxincentives.org
[27] Charles Kutscher, “Buildings Consume Lots of Energy—Here’s How to Design Whole Communities that Give Back as Much as they Take,” The Conversation, May 26, 2020.
[28] https://www.green-e.org/certified-resources
[29] https://www.nrdc.org/stories/here-comes-sun
[30] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/environmentally-friendly-college-campuses
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cool-schools-2019/cool-schools-2019-full-ranking
[31] https://www.nrdc.org/stories/here-comes-sun
[32] https://www.fueleconomy.gov
[33] https://www.nrdc.org/stories/should-you-buy-carbon-offsets
https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/carbon-offsets/
https://offset.climateneutralnow.org
[34] https://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/resource/case-water-and-sanitation-south-africas-post-lockdown-economic-recovery-stimulus-package
[35] https://www.circonomist.com/resource-efficiency/global-green-economy-index-2018/
[36] https://www.greenamerica.org/socially-responsible-investing
[37] https://davidsuzuki.org/story/divest-from-damage-and-invest-in-a-healthier-future/
[38] https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com
[39] Greenplastics.com
[40] https://www.globaldealfornature.org/about/#:~:text=In%20April%202019%2C%20many%20of,abundance%20of%20life%20on%20Earth.
[41] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/combating-climate-change-farming-forestry/
[42] https://www.foodnotlawns.com
[43] Nikhil Swaminathan, “If Cutting Carbon Isn’t Enough, Can Climate Intervention Turn Down the Heat,” Scientific American, June 5, 2007.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-to-combat-climate-change/
[44] Benjamin Houlton, “An Effective Climate Change Solution May Lie in Rocks Beneath Our Feet,” The Conversation, July 16, 2020.
