Student Leadership for Divestment: Q&A with Michelle Bates

Student Sustainability Leadership Award Winner   GPSEN:  We are proud to recognize you with GPSEN’s Student Sustainability Leadership Award this year. This honor highlights your work, as a student at Portland State University, in calling for divestment from fossil fuels by Portland area...

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Student Leadership for Divestment: Q&A with Billy Fish

Student Sustainability Leadership Award Winner GPSEN:  We are proud to recognize you with GPSEN’s Sustainability Leadership Student Award this year. This honor highlights your work, as a student at Reed College, in calling for divestment from fossil fuels by Portland area educational...

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The Power of Grassroots: Q&A with Jose Mikalauskas

Community Member Sustainability Leadership Award Winner   GPSEN:  As recipient of GPSEN’s Community Member Sustainability Leadership Award this year, you’ve worked on the front lines organizing for social justice & sustainability. From climate justice to expanding public...

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The Oregon Community Solar Program

The Oregon Community Solar Program is an exciting inclusive statewide opportunity to support access to solar. It overcomes many of the barriers usually associated with solar, such as: You don’t need to own your home You don’t need a roof suitable for solar You can take your subscription with...

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COVID-19 does not mean climate action is on hold

If the world has seen a scary future with the emergence of COVID-19, the future of our planet in a 3-4° C scenario takes us to an entirely different level of uncertainty, including in terms of health. Fundamental to a transformational and green recovery will be early action on a longer-term agenda...

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The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings

THE Impact Rankings 2020: results announced THE Releases 2020 University Impact Rankings The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings assess universities against the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. The 2020 ranking includes 766 universities from 85 nations/regions.  Universities in...

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Why Investing in Women Helps Save the Planet

Education, female empowerment, and climate-smart solutions can stop climate change. Why Global Citizens Should Care The fight to end climate change must not leave anyone behind. Climate change disproportionately impacts women and must be included in plans to protect the planet. You can join us and...

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Solving the dual crises of COVID-19 and climate change

We need a Green New Deal now more than ever to address the short and long term crises our country is facing together. As a climate activist, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about a global crisis that would upend the world. I pictured a planet ravaged by floods, superstorms, and catastrophic...

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