This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Saving the planet The National Council of Jewish Women’s Greater Rochester Section will present “Repairing the Planet II: Hope through Action,” on Wednesday, January 23. A follow-up to a 2016 event, the program […]
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Climate report calls for ‘unprecedented’ action
A new, comprehensive report on global warming, prepared by the top climate change agency in the world, doesn’t contain much in the way of good news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bluntly warns that humanity has just over a decade to slash carbon emissions dramatically if it wants to avoid the worst impacts of […]
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Groups hope stories lead to climate action
Climate change is often framed in the context of oblique policies, such as the different regulatory approaches to cutting climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. Missing from that public discourse is the human element. But activists across the country have realized that personal stories may be the key to speeding up action on climate change, and they’re […]
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Preparing for the inevitable: City looks at climate change
[UPDATED AND REVISED 01/26/17] Climate change is such an all-encompassing problem that there’s no escaping it. Sure, people, corporations, and governments across the world should be doing everything they can to attack the fundamental problem: the human-generated carbon emissions that are causing Earth to warm at an accelerated rate. But as a planet, we took […]
