Action Resources

Feb 26, 2025            Get the PBS App to watch Weathered: Earth’s Extremes for free: https://to.pbs.org/PBSAppWeathered

If you're outside of the US and want to watch the show, you can check it out on PBS.org: https://to.pbs.org/WeatheredINTL      This episode of Weathered: Earth’s Extremes was originally released on Oct, 2nd, 2024.      The AMOC is one of Earth’s most vital systems and it may be collapsing. Ocean scientist, Lisa Beal, has discovered that the Gulf Stream is slowing down, indicating a potential tipping point for the AMOC. In hopes to prevent an AMOC collapse, Maiya May heads to Georgia to meet Stacey Abrahms and learn how an ambitious non-profit hopes to electrify everything. She then travels to take her first flight lesson in an all electric plane. And finally she returns to Florida to learn about the final piece of the puzzle in reaching net-zero carbon emissions: nature.   Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.

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1-22-2025 Full Al Gore speech on climate change at Davos outlines economic & health impacts of global warming

Jul 2, 2024        Rebel with a Cause: Actress and activist Jane Fonda is mad as hell — and she’s unleashing her trademark ferocity to address climate change — one of the most pressing issues of our lifetimes. Now 86, she recently said, “This is the moment I have to completely show up with everything I have. I want to be part of the generation that does something about it … because this is it.” 

On Wednesday, June 26th she joined journalist Katie Couric to explain what she’s doing to save the planet.      Now in its 20th year, the Aspen Ideas Festival is the Aspen Institute’s signature summer public event. From June 23-June 29, 2024 more than 300 leaders and innovators gather in the Rocky Mountains to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the issues that shape our lives and challenge our times, spanning politics, business, science, the arts, education, and more

4-22-24  Over forty years ago, the publication of ‘The End of Nature’ popularized a topic that was then largely unfamiliar to the general public.        The book’s author, Bill McKibben, brought the subject of global warming to light and has advocated for climate solutions ever since. In this #EarthDay special on environmental protection, he talks about the oil industry's PR campaign, how renewable energies can not only help the planet but also curb power abuse, and why global warming is an urgent matter that can only be solved if all generations work together.  

To take action today, go to ThirdAct.org             Take action today: Write a Letter to the Editor about why we need clean elections and clean energy: https://thirdact.org/act/puc-letter-t...         Write to Congress to pass the Fossil-Free Finance Act: https://thirdact.org/act/support-foss...        Power Up Communities and get state Public Utility Commissions to accelerate the clean energy transition: https://thirdact.org/our-work/power-u...  

Senior citizens are helping high school seniors to get registered to vote and host student-led voter registration drives at their schools: https://thirdact.org/act/senior-to-se... 

Dec 10, 2023

The International Energy Agency just released a new paper analysing how oil and gas will dwindle in the next three decades to a small fraction of their current size, basically making non-combustible products. But that means many fossil fuel producers will fall by the wayside. If they do, will they take us down with them?

5-7-23 An important episode of "Just Have a Think" 

Arctic temperatures are rising as much as four times faster than the global average, and we've all heard about the reduction in the surface area of sea ice. Now a new study has identified an abrupt decrease in the thickness of ice too. But what are the consequences and why should we care?

3-20-2023  Scientists warned that human-induced climate change is warming the planet to the point where it is causing irreversible damage in some parts of the world. The report was released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe of The Nature Conservancy joined Amna Nawaz to look at what can be done to change the direction the planet is headed. 

3-7-2023  ecoAmerica’s Let’s Talk Climate webcast, Faith Can Transform the Climate Movement, features a conversation Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President + Founder of Hip Hop Caucus.

All injustice is interconnected. We cannot have climate justice without racial justice. Join us as Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus encourages and challenges us with his climate justice work and stories, and reminds us that faith can transform the climate movement. 

1/5/2023  ecoAmerica’s Let’s Talk Climate webcast, The Transformative Power of Film on Climate Action, featuring a conversation with Raj Patel, co-director, The Ants & The Grasshopper.    Communities in the global south have been impacted by climate change for many years. The film, The Ants & The Grasshopper, follows Malawian farmer Anita Chitaya as she navigates race, gender, and faith to travel to the U.S. to convince Americans that climate change is a real and urgent threat. Join us as we talk to award-winning author, academic, and film-maker Raj Patel to discuss how his new documentary shows the transformative power of faith and community in the face of the climate crisis.     Blessed Tomorrow partners, The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Green Chalice Ministries, and the Environmental Justice Ministries of the United Church of Christ are hosting a free screening of the film on March 7th with follow-up sermons and bible studies. Learn more and register here:  https://bit.ly/ClimateMovieScreening 

A useful source of data from researchers: In this webinar, Jonathan Donges reports on recent research on individual tipping elements such as the Antarctic Ice Sheet, reinforcing (positive) feedbacks on anthropogenic global warming mediated by cryospheric tipping elements, interactions between climate tipping elements and the risk for resulting tipping cascades. Finally, he will present work on the potentials for positive social tipping dynamics that could help to achieve the rapid decarbonization of the world’s social-economic systems needed to stabilize the Earth’s climate in line with the Paris climate agreement. 

Extracts of an interview with Steven C. Rockefeller, Earth Charter Commissioner and Chair of the Earth Charter Drafting Committee.