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Opinion Individual perspectives and beliefs that shape public discourse around climate change, influencing public awareness, policy debates, and the urgency to take action.
Individual perspectives and beliefs that shape public discourse around climate change, influencing public awareness, policy debates, and the urgency to take action.
The NS wildfires are not ‘natural’ disasters: climate change, forest management, and human folly are all to blame
Four forestry specialists offer their views on how to reduce the wildfire risks. The Wildfire story that no one is talking about. The media is full of stories about the causes and cures for the massive forest fires raging around the world. Those fires have finally hit close to the Bio4Climate home in New England…
In Memoriam: Ronnie Cummins
Dearest Friends, I was surprised and saddened to learn of the passing of Ronnie Cummins on April 26, 2023. As Executive Director of Bio4Climate and as a friend, I wanted to add a few of my experiences with Ronnie. I met Ronnie at our first conference in 2014, where he gave a rousing talk entitled “Climate…
Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild our Communities
Bulu mini-forest in Cameroon after 19 months; Photo: Agborkang Godfred Hannah Lewis, Compendium Editor for Biodiversity for a Liveable Climate and freelance writer The Miyawaki Method The Miyawaki Method is a way to grow natural, mature forests in a couple of decades rather than a couple of centuries. You do this by observing what happens…
Climate Emotions: The Turbulent Turf of 21st Century Feelings
“Climate Anxiety” has become a widespread theme lately. As Bio4Climate began planning an event along those lines, I thought of my own anxieties about biodiversity loss and global warming, and wondered how to transform climate distress into a rich, meaningful and adaptive state of mind. I’m finding that it helps when I embrace rather than…
Imagine Earth Day in Ten Years
How do you experience your connection to the planet? For me, my sense of intimacy with other life comes from my senses – feeling the sun on my skin, smelling the magnolias blooming in the air, watching day by day and week by week as buds sprout, unfurl, and flower to invite bees and ants inside.…
Geo-Engineering – An Idea Whose Time Ought Never Come
Human technology is, along with the population growth made possible by technology, the foundation of the anthropocene era. Technology’s ultimate end is to expand carrying capacity so that we can accommodate a growing population, and bears many unintended consequences of which global warming is one of the most serious. The technologies in question over the…
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