By Nick Ehli | Kaiser Health News
Their lawsuit asserts that Montana — by fostering fossil fuel as its primary energy resource — is contributing to a deteriorating climate and violating the children’s right to a clean and healthful environment guaranteed in the state’s constitution. By doing so, the lawsuit alleges, Montana is interfering with the children’s health, safety, and happiness.
Read MoreWhen we are isolated and alone with our thoughts and fears (and doom scrolling) we are like a lonely rain droplet on the window, but joining together in public spaces in conversation and collective action, we have the potential to become a wave. Isolation and despair are the tools and messages of oppression, we reject them when we reach out and connect.
Read MoreBlack resilience, joy, and resistance are powerful, inspiring, and worthy of celebration. And, this celebration needs to be accompanied by real, sustainable, systemic change.
Read MoreWhen we recognize the nature within, and embrace it in our interactions with the world, nature becomes intimate. It changes from being a far-off abstraction to being an essential component of each of our personal stories.
Share your story by submitting to The Changing Times in our second annual art issue! Submissions due July 4. We are so excited to see nature through - and within - your eyes!
Read MoreThoughts and prayers are never enough when terror or disaster strikes, we need actual plans that steer us toward long term security. And when considering the work to keep our climate in the safe zone, how can we think about security without sustainability?
Read MoreAt a recent event hosted by Families for a Livable Climate, Beyond Plastics Speakers Bureau member, Youpa Stein, discussed the connection between plastic pollution and climate change. Her talk, “Plastic Life Cycle Pollution and Its Contribution to Climate Disruption: Why is it a problem, and what can we do about it?” addresses how the overproduction of single-use plastic is threatening human health, the climate, and the ecosystems that sustain life, as well as what we can do to be a part of the solution.
Watch the recording here.
Read MoreOn Thursday, May 19, we stood proudly with the many other member organizations at Common Good Missoula’s founding event at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The weather conspired toward cold and windy, but nearly 420 people showed up anyway. It was a phenomenal event realizing years of work to bring together a broad base of community organizations to work for the common good.
Read MoreRelying primarily on facts, data, and scientific analysis has unfortunately not brought about the transformation needed to keep us below 1.5ºC warming.
Perhaps it is time for a strategy shift – one that takes advantage of millennia of human practice and leverages the storyteller innate within all of us. This is what drove us, Families for a Livable Climate and Stories for Action, (with support from Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate, Mountain Mamas, and Montana Environmental Information Center) to launch our Montana Climate Stories project.
Read MoreThese resources from Our Kids’ Climate help teachers, parents, and caregivers meaningfully and effectively communicate with young people about climate change. They provide top tips for helping children and young people deal with emotions and questions related to the climate crisis.
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