by Sue Blythe | Mar 1, 2021 | Challenges, Climate Collaboratory, Expressions, Uncategorized
Before she became the first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman inspired the Los Angeles Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training with her poem, Earthrise. Let’s put that into Illuminating the Earth Charter. We’ll call it our Gift for...
by Sue Blythe | Feb 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is an excerpt from an article written by Robert Levine and Sue Blythe for TRENDS in Grassroots Organizing, a publication of We, the World. Illustration from Pacha’s Pajamas: A Tale Told by Nature On the Road to 2030, 2050 and Beyond envisions a sustainable...
by admin | Feb 27, 2021 | Climate Stories
When I first learned about the effect of local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the earth, I felt overwhelmed, sad and anxious and then decided to respond by curtailing my use of plastics as much as I possibly can. As well, in May 2020, I bought the first fully...
by admin | Feb 27, 2021 | Climate Stories
When my husband and I married, we kept going back and forth about whether or not we wanted biological children. Every year, we’d say, “Well, maybe next year,” until we realized that something about having biological children together felt wrong (for...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Challenges
This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a big house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated in...
by Sue Blythe | Feb 26, 2021 | Expressions
This is a photograph taken by Adrian Alvarez, age 12, for a middle school art competition. He called it ¨HOPE.¨ “Many view the world like it is going to die out, but when I look within this global problem, I see hope. Hope that the Earth will not be like before,...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Challenges, Children & Youth, Climate Collaboratory, EarthFlash! Games
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create 5 or more quiz questions and answers on any one of the Sustainable Development Goals (below).Teachers, you or your students can create a quiz on your own Kahoot teacher account and save it to the Kahoot...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Stories
Kern River pumpjacks, California (Photo CC by Sarah Craigh/Faces of Fracking on Flickr) On February 11th, the Kern County (California) Planning Commission held a hearing on a proposed ordinance to allow permitting of more than 67,000 new oil and gas wells over the...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Stories
My grandmother Myma’s last instruction as I was leaving for Roy Stephenson’s tenth birthday party was “Don’t look in the Stephenson’s medicine chest if you have to use the bathroom.” “Okay Grandma, I won’t.” But I did. Lots of rubber stuff I didn’t...
by Sue Blythe | Feb 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Help Pacha plant a billion trees! Find a place that can use some life.Plant what you feel that area needs.Celebrate! Make happy memories. Maybe even do the Connected Dance. (See the Connected Dance Challenge on our blog) Help Pacha plant a billion trees! See...
