Tag: Climate change
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Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge
This discussion brings to the fore the perspectives of indigenous peoples and other key stakeholders on the ways forward to promoting traditional knowledge and explores pathways to innovations that can support the creation of indigenous led green enterprises and jobs. To learn more about ILO’s work on indigenous and tribal peoples, visit www.ilo.org/indigenous.
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Simple Ways to Go Zero Waste
Erin Rehm takes every opportunity to educate others about reducing waste. At December’s IDEAS For Us Hive, a monthly meeting where community members brainstorm climate change solutions, she spoke to a room of 50-some individuals about the importance of adopting a zero waste philosophy. Our garbage, and, yes, that includes materials rejected from recycling facilities,…
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Fair Trade and Climate Justice
Please take a moment to join the Fairtrade fight against the climate crisis. Add your name to the petition at The Fairtrade Foundation and spread the word to your family, friends and associates. Fairtrade is more than a Mark on a product. It’s a call for change. With the next UN Climate Summit taking place…
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Native Peoples Use Traditional Knowledge to Adapt To Climate Change
Rosalyn Lapier talks about how Native peoples are using traditional knowledge to adapt to climate change: For those who do not spend time outdoors it may be difficult to fully appreciate the change that is occurring. But for those who live off the land, such as farmers, ranchers, and those with subsistence lifestyles, climate change…
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My Two Favorite Eco-Feminists
At the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change. A renowned primatologist, Goodall is best known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and baboons. An environmental leader, feminist and thinker,…
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Native tribes’ traditional knowledge can help US adapt to climate change
New England’s Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change. That’s the conclusion of more than 50 researchers at Dartmouth and elsewhere in a special issue of the journal Climatic Change. It is the…
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Women Uniting to Save the Planet
Jensine Larsen writes about her experience at this year’s International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit. ‘Women everywhere are claiming power and linking networks to restore the Earth and address climate change. They are harnessing digital media and in-person convenings to accelerate the movement, operating as an immune system to boost the Earth’s resilience.’ It was…
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Earth’s “Deep Time” to Predict Future Effects of Climate Change
The Science Codex blog reports on a new study that highlights how information from past episodes of rapid change in the Earth’s history provide a valuable tool in predicting how climate change will affect our ecosystems: “Climate change and other human influences are altering Earth’s living systems in big ways, such as changes in growing seasons…
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Agribusiness advocacy organizations work to block “time-tested” strategies to increase crop yields in drought conditions
The New York Times has a great piece by Gary Paul Nabhan on the threat posed to our food supply by the heat wave now blanketing the Western States: People living outside the region seldom recognize its immense contribution to American agriculture: roughly 40 percent of the net farm income for the country normally comes…
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Earth’s temperature rising at rate of four Hiroshima bombs of heat every second.
India’s Zeenews reports an alarming new statistic: Melbourne: Earth’s temperature has been rising at the rate of four Hiroshima bombs of heat every second, says climate scientists. John Cook, Climate Communication Fellow from the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland , said that humans are emitting more carbon dioxide than ever into…
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