How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience

Think of it as a silver lining to the gathering dark clouds. We live in an era of extraordinary disruption, from the serial crises of a changing climate to the wrenching shifts of a globalized economy. But in that disruption lies the potential for positive transformation.

PUSH Buffalo is working to transform a 25-block
area of the city into the beginning of a new
community-driven sustainable economy. 

Addressing climate change requires adapting to the impacts that are already here—heat waves, droughts, superstorms and more—while preventing and mitigating future impacts. Taking these challenges seriously calls for radical changes in the way we live. It calls us to zero out our carbon emissions, and to rethink the systems that shape our lives, including the economy, food and power. It calls us to fundamentally transition from a world of domination and extraction to a world of regeneration, resilience, and interdependence.

It’s a tall order, no doubt, but that transition is already underway. In our work with movement builders on the front lines of the transition, we’ve identified two key guideposts—connectedness and equity—that point us toward the world we want.

Read the Yes! Magazine story - “How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience.”

Hansen warns of Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms

James Hansen.

Listen/watch to the former head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, James Hansen,talk about “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms”.

Hansen, an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change.

In recent years, Hansen became a climate activist to mitigate the effects of climate change, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.

One chart illustrates the 'precipitous rise' in carbon pollution

The precipitous rise in carbon pollution is what's driving climate change, leading to rising sea levels, more extreme droughts, superstorms, wildfires, and public health problems across the world.

No nation is immune to these consequences. Humans caused this rise in pollution and temperature, and it will take all of us to actually do something about it.

This week's chart of the week shows exactly why world leaders are working to reach a global agreement to act on climate - “Why We Have to Act on Climate Now -- In One Chart.”