The Environment Team selected the book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth for our April 2025 discussion by a landslide vote. Does this interest in economics express a deeper yearning in resonance with the zeitgeist, a desire to understand underlying issues to explain...
If you’ve read the newspaper lately, it might not seem like Spain has a water scarcity problem. Last November, for instance, the province of Valencia received more rain in a single day than typically falls there in an entire year. But that’s not good news. The rain resulted in flash flooding which claimed 235...
The first thing most people who come to Florence want to buy is a new leather handbag, preferably a designer bag or one from a luxury fashion brand, a pair of beautiful shoes or a pair of soft leather gloves. There is a reason for this. Florence is home to the most talented leather artisans in...
As I am writing this article, Los Angeles is on fire. More than 35,000 acres have burned, leaving thousands of people homeless. Dangerous conditions, brought on by climate change, came together to make these some of the worst fires on record. In an interview on PBS, Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA Goddard...
Because in a small but sure way, FAWCO was able to increase the representation of historically underrepresented voices within the UN climate negotiations, known as the Conference of the Parties (COP). Data have shown that there is an...
I made it to the first official ceremony at COP29 early, in time to witness the slow, steady stream of activity preceding the actual curtain call. The Climate Action Network International (CAN) team begins setting up sound equipment and depending on the negotiated terms of “how to conduct an Action” (COP-speak for a protest...
