VIDEO: Book Discussion with Katharine Hayhoe
This virtual discussion cohosted by Families for a Livable Climate, Climate Smart Missoula, Mountain Mamas, Moms Clean Air Force Montana, and Park County Environmental Council features renowned climate scientist, author, and expert climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe. The conversation centers around Dr. Hayhoe's book, "Saving Us: A climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world," which shows readers how to navigate challenging climate conversations across political, social, and cultural differences by finding and leveraging shared values.
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Building Connection and Empowering Our Inner Climate Protector
We held our annual Climate Protector Ride last Saturday (9/17), and are feeling emboldened, empowered, and refreshed in our work to build a livable future for all.
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Parent Profiles
Climate change is a BIG issue; each of us have a role to play in the transition to a livable future. Montanans are rising to the challenge and implementing climate solutions in their workplaces, homes, schools, and communities. From installing school gardens to working on international supply chains, here we highlight inspirational stories from parents and caregivers in the climate space.
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Kids Want to Put Montana on Trial for Unhealthy Climate Policies
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.
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Let us be like water
When 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.
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Juneteenth
Black resilience, joy, and resistance are powerful, inspiring, and worthy of celebration. And, this celebration needs to be accompanied by real, sustainable, systemic change.
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Embracing the nature within
When 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!
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Solutions to complex challenges are within reach
Thoughts 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?
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VIDEO: Plastic & Climate Change
At 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.
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