Climate change. The time is now.
We agree with the scientists, and many others around the world, that our most important collective concern is to address the climate crisis. NOW.
Please make use of these resources. Read. Share. Join. Act. Do what you can, in your home and in your community.
What you can do in your daily life
Every little bit counts. We can make choices at every moment throughout our day that can contribute to curtail the ongoing damage, from reducing our consumption of meat and dairy products, to purchasing fewer items, to using more eco-friendly products, appliances, electronics and cars.
101 Ways to Fight Climate Change. Presented as a site whose goal is to provide practical, implementable advice on an individual level, as well as to illustrate the power of collective commitments.
Visit Climate Change Resources. It is the best and most up to date website we have found on climate change.
Useful articles
How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change, by Emma Marris
The Biggest Climate Stories You Might Have Missed–But Still Have Time to Read
Movements
350.org
An international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. They are trying to stop all oil, coal and gas projects from being built through local resolutions and community resistance and are leading a world-wide campaign that aims to cut off financing by getting institutions, organizations and other investors to divest from fossil fuel companies.
Extinction Rebellion
A socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
Fridays For Future (also) School Strike for Climate
Begun in Sweden by Greta Thunberg, an international movement of school students who take time off from class to participate in demonstrations to demand action to prevent further global warming and climate change.
Global Catholic Climate Movement
Resources for Catholics and all people of good will who are building a vibrant movement to care for our common home, Earth, and to protect the poor and future generations by taking urgent action against the injustice of climate change.
Sunrise Movement/Green New Deal
A movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process…building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
International Youth Climate Movement
A growing movement of international youth who are building education, creating awareness, and taking action on climate change.
The Climate Mobilization
An innovation lab that develops and launches policy frameworks, messaging, and organizing approaches to accelerate the global transition into “Emergency Mode” to address the climate emergency.
Groups
Climate Mobilization
A grassroots environmental advocacy group working toward large-scale political action against global warming, with the belief that the crisis of climate change requires a national economic effort on the scale of the American mobilization of the home front during World War II.
Deep Adaptation
A movement of scientists and activists who hold that we have evolved a defective ‘operating system’ that insists on infinite, accelerating economic growth despite the ecological costs – namely the destruction of Nature… [with] a clear understanding of what is wrong and how we must head to avoid the worst of ecological destabilization that we have inflicted on Mother Earth.
Indivisible
A mission to cultivate a grassroots movement of literally thousands of local Indivisible groups to elect progressive leaders, realize bold progressive policies, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
#ChildrenVsClimateCrisis
Sixteen children from across the world are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction on the climate crisis.
Organizations
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
A non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. Their consistently respectful, nonpartisan approach to climate education is designed to create a broad, sustainable foundation for climate action across all geographic regions and political inclinations.
Creation Justice Ministries educates, equips and mobilizes Christian communions/denominations, congregations and individuals to protect, restore, and rightly share God’s Creation. Based on the priorities of its members, with a particular concern for the vulnerable and marginalized, Creation Justice Ministries provides collaborative opportunities to build ecumenical community, guides people of faith and faith communities towards eco-justice transformations.
Environmental Integrity Project
A nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that advocates for effective enforcement of environmental laws…to illustrate through objective facts and figures how the failure to enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and harms public health; to hold federal and state agencies, as well as individual corporations, accountable for failing to enforce or comply with environmental laws; and to help local communities obtain the protections of environmental laws.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
A lobbying organization in the public interest, founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends…works for social and economic justice, peace, stewardship of the environment, and good government in the United States.
Grassroots International
Connects people in the US with global movements solving the root causes of inequality and climate change, advancing human rights to land, water, food and climate justice through global grant-making and advocacy to grassroots movements.
Greenfaith
An interfaith coalition for the environment that works with houses of worship, religious schools, and people of all faiths to help them become better environmental stewards…committed to being a one-stop shop for the resources and tools religious institutions need to engage environmental issues and become religious-environmental leaders.
Greenpeace
A global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Jewish Climate Action Network
Mobilizing communities to take leadership in bold climate campaigns…working through education, activism, and organizing to add an urgent and visionary Jewish voice to the climate crisis.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends… combines the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 600 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.
National Wildlife Federation
Welcomes “hunters, anglers, hikers, birders, wildlife watchers, boaters, climbers, campers, cyclists, gardeners, farmers, forest stewards, and other outdoor enthusiasts, this conservation ethic represents a sacred duty and obligation to protect and build upon our conservation heritage for the sake of wildlife, ourselves, our neighbors, and—most of all—for future generations.
Sierra Club – Beyond Coal Campaign
Working to replace dirty coal with clean energy by mobilizing grassroots activists in local communities to advocate for the retirement of old and outdated coal plants and to prevent new coal plants from being built.
UUA Create Climate Justice
Created to give UU climate and environmental justice activists and coalition partners a valuable tool for education, collaboration, and organizing.
World Resources Institute
Has a goal of bringing objective analysis and policy engagement to the pressing global challenges linking economic development, natural resources and the environment…based on rigorous analysis and deep long-term engagement with governments, corporations, city leaders and communities.
Individuals
By now you’ve all heard of Greta Thunberg. But there are many other individuals, of all ages, who are advocating for the rights of our planet. Below are some we have found and learned from. You can follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletters, or read their research.
Articles & Reports
IPCC Special Report. A report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
World Economic Forum Global Risks Report. The report is published against a backdrop of worrying geopolitical and geo-economic tensions. If unresolved, these tensions will hinder the world’s ability to deal with a growing range of collective challenges, from the mounting evidence of environmental degradation to the increasing disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
85 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump. President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses. This is what is happening right now.
Five Buddhist Practices to Help Tackle Climate Change. Climate change can feel so immense that it hurts just to think about. The article offers five meditations to help bring the truth of climate change into your awareness and lay the ground for a skillful response.
Books
Climate Justice Now Manual (available for free)
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells
The Novacene, James Lovelock
This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, Mark Lynas
The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate Gamble: Is Anti-Nuclear Activism Endangering Our Future?, Rauli Partanen, Janne M. Korhonen.
Thomas Berry, Selected Writings on the Earth Community, Selected with an Introduction By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Earth-honoring Faith, Religious Ethics In a New Key, Larry Rasmussen
The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology, Thich Nhat Hanh
Films
Watch, discuss and share our latest films on climate change: The Wisdom to Survive, Dancing With the Cannibal Giant, and Rollbacks.
Other Films to Watch & Discuss
A Sea Change. The first documentary about ocean acidification, directed by Barbara Ettinger and co-produced by Sven Huseby. Chock full of scientific information, the film is also a paen to the ocean world and an intimate story of a Norwegian-American family whose heritage is bound up with the sea.
Chasing Coral. That coral reefs are existentially threatened by the climate crisis is a truth near-universally acknowledged. Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski infuses his film with empathy and ardor for our world’s oceans and their vibrant ecosystems.
An Inconvenient Truth. After seeing former US Vice President Al Gore’s film, people worldwide finally understood the reality of the climate crisis devastating our planet. For many, it was the moment they knew they personally had to do something about it.
