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01/26/2022

Time for a GREENER WORLDLE!

Piggy-backing on the popular once-a-day word game, each guess must be a valid 5-letter word, and the GREENER WORLDLE will be a word that is related to climate change.

GREENER WORDLE was created by the International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), which works with partners to build a fairer, more sustainable world.

Just like Wordle, but with all answers related to climate change and the environment. You want the tiles to turn green, just like the planet...

12/30/2021

For the eve of New Year's Eve. Bring your curiosity. Bring your heart.

Quartz Studio ha il piacere di presentare The Great Silence, un progetto speciale degli artisti, di base a Porto Rico, Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974)…

12/17/2021

Such an honor to be recognized with a 2021 Dr. George B. Rabb Force of Nature Award from Chicago Wilderness for creating Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate. The award celebrates those whose novel approaches, big ideas, extraordinary collaborations, and bold leadership set an inspiring example for others. Humbling. See the many partners and supporters who were critical to making it happen at www.ThirdCoastDisrupted.org. See all the awardees at https://www.chicagowilderness.org/page/GBRForceOfNature.

10/29/2021

The IEC, Natural Land Institute and ALL the folks who signed petitions, wrote letters, and showed up spurred an important reprieve for a rare prairie remnant. A win-win-solution is possible!

10/29/2021

Collective action works!

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Chicago Rockford International Airport announced Thursday it would capitulate to the demands of environmentalists and pause construction of a planned expansion, an…

10/29/2021

Chicago's (formerly) own meteorologist Ginger Zee will be heading up ABC's new climate change division. Great to see this kind of commitment to a woefully underreported topic. An important start!

The network will report from all seven continents in November and create a new climate-focused production unit in news expansion.

10/22/2021

Like other rich nations, the UK is more talk than action on the climate crisis. Something needs to change in Glasgow, says climate activist Greta Thunberg

10/22/2021

"Of course, individual actions alone won’t curb climate change without broader shifts at the governmental and societal levels as well. But ... 'we found that people doing something, even if it’s a small thing, felt much more empowered to talk about it.' That, in turn, can lead to scaled impacts.

This month’s Climate Curious explores the topic of youth empowerment — and explains why seemingly small individual actions can lead to systemic change.

10/22/2021

Glad to see this egregious environmental injustice in getting more national attention.

The facility relocated from Chicago’s affluent North Side to its working-class South Side, igniting a controversy over race, class and politics. Federal intervention and a hunger strike followed.

10/21/2021

From whiskey to fuel.

A Scottish biotech company has found a way of turning on its head the adage that drinking and driving should never mix – by developing a fuel for cars that u...

10/13/2021

Massive congratulations to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Commissioner Debra Shore on her appointment by President Biden as Midwest regional administrator of the EPA!

President Joe Biden named Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Commissioner Debra Shore as head of the midwest region for the federal Environmental Protection Agency.