NOAA Planet Stewards provides formal and informal educators working with elementary through college-aged students access to opportunities and resources enabling them to build scientifically literate individuals and communities who are prepared to respond to environmental challenges monitored by...
This online exhibit is based on the Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice exhibit that will open in the Museum of the Earth in November 2020. The exhibit was made possible by many generous donors and contributors, listed here. Climate affects life, and life affects climate Climate change is...
Introducing “The Great Unraveling?”, a series of interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts on a broad range of environmental and societal challenges, culminating with a powerful discussion on what these converging and accelerating crises mean, and how we can respond. What if we don’t...
Check out this new video game! It’s in first-person format where the player walks to sites around the world and reads about the UN Green Climate Fund projects at each site. Each is marked with a 3D prop of some kind, and when you walk close enough to it, there’s a pop-up that quickly...
A Report from the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund October 2020 Introduction More than 11,000 scientists in late 2019, noting that they and their colleagues “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat,” endorsed a...
The World Resources Institute has released its new climate report: America’s New Climate Economy: A Comprensive Guide to the Economic Benefits of Climate Policy in the United States. Here in Oregon we enjoy the reputation of being environmentally-friendly, which is why this report might...
In time of COVID-19, we must create a more resilient economy – Gov. Brown’s bold climate plan will help us build back better. The twin public health and economic crises wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are unlike anything we have seen in modern history. With new cases rising, they are not going...
On our national Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) call last Saturday, we were joined by Dr. Renee Lertzman, an environmental psychologist who shared her approach to dealing with the emotional trauma of climate change. The first step in working through that anxiety is feeling that we are truly...
This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial economy increases, intensifying extractive activities and the production of waste, the related social and environmental impacts generate...
Announcing the release of The Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action through PDXScholar. This is an activity manual put together by Frank Granshaw, with the help of a number of people for a climate science for nonscientists course taught at Portland State University...
On June 30, 2020, Democratic members of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released “Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient and Just America”. The full report can be accessed...
Join the Post-Carbon Institute for their podcast series of interviews with thought leaders from around the world, hosted by author and activist, Vicki Robin, on “What Could Possibly Go Right?”. Starting with the acknowledgement that there is plenty to despair over, guests answer this...