LINKS

 * TH!RD ACT            

Th!rd Act is Bill McKibben’s latest project for “experienced” humans with two missions: Keep Earth Livable & Preserve Democracy. As a generation we have unprecedented skills & resources that we can bring to bear. Washington & Wall Street have to listen when we speak, because we vote & because we have a large—maybe an overlarge—share of the country’s assets. And many of us have kids and grandkids and great grandkids: we have, in other words, very real reasons to worry and to work.
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 * Katherine Hayhoe, Atmospheric Scientist   In 2019 she was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), recognized for her environmental leadership. She is a Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair at Texas Tech University, as well as Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy. Check her out!

 http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/?page_id=138, and   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-  BvcToPZCLI

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* Virginia Palacios (TX), founder, Commission Shift                                          

Contrary to what its name implies, the Railroad Commission (RRC) of Texas has NO authority over railroads. Instead, the agency oversees oil and gas develop-ment, coal and uranium mining and gas utility service in Texas, among other functions. Commission Shift is reforming oil & gas oversight by building  public support to hold the RRC accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape. Ms. Palacios & her team are attempting to “keep ’em honest” !

https://commissionshift.org/ 

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* Nkosi Johnson,  4 Feb 1989 – 1 Jun 2001

Nkosi was an African child with HIV and AIDS who greatly influenced public perceptions of the pandemic and its effect before his death at age 12. At that time, he was the longest-surviving child born HIV-positive in South Africa. He is an inspiration and a true model for his word “Do what you can, with what you have, in the time you’ve got, in the place you are.” 
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* 50 Ways to Make Everyday Earthday is a terrific graphic from the South Carolina State Library.
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BOOKS

The women I wrote about in Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice (2023, Broadleaf Books) each have something to teach us, not just about caretaking but also about how to lead in a crisis—especially one that most affects poor and marginalized communities, with a disproportionate impact on women. “The climate crisis is not gender-neutral,” wrote Katharine Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, coeditors of the anthology All We Can Save. Indeed, 80 percent of those displaced globally by climate change are women and girls.

 

You Matter More Than You Think introduces a radically different way of thinking about climate change and social change. Inspired by ideas from quantum physics and quantum social science, quantum social change describes a conscious, nonlinear, and non-local approach to the transformations needed right now to address multiple global crises. It is grounded in our inherent oneness, recognizing that we are entangled through language, meaning, and shared contexts. This perspective on “mattering” shows us that our deepest values and intentions are powerful sources of individual change, collective change, and systems change and can generate a future where all life can thrive. 

Heart to Heart… A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet. With a galvanizing message about the future of our planet with text by His Holiness the Dali Lama, accompanied by McDonnell’s masterful illustrations, Heart to Heart calls for a Compassionate Revolution, reminding us that “we are indeed all members of a single family, sharing one little house.” Told with whimsy, wisdom, and warmth, this beautiful book is deceptively simple in its approach and all the more powerful for it, as it elegantly and decisively conveys a message of joy, hope and change. A powerful and timely gem of a book on how to heal our relationship with the planet and each other. 

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday, and one is called Tomorrow.”

Katherine May explores what it takes to shed the cloak of meaninglessness and recover the sparkle of vitality in Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age  — a shimmering chronicle of her own quest for “a better way to walk through this life…a way that grants us “the ability to sense magic in the everyday, to channel it through our minds and bodies, to be sustained by it.”


With humor, candor, and warmth, she shares stories of her own struggles with work, family, and the aftereffects of pandemic, particularly feelings of overwhelm as the world rushes to reopen. 

 
 

All We Can Save is a mosaic that honors the complexity of the climate crisis like few, if any, books on the topic have done yet … a feast of ideas and perspectives, setting a big table for the climate movement, declaring all are welcome.