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Emissions impossible? Why meat and dairy companies need to be monitored Did you know that the average American eats 3 burgers per week? Our farm animals outnumber humans. The combined total of chickens (19 billion), cows (1.5 billion), sheep (1 billion) and pigs (1 billion) living at any one time is three times higher than…

India Logan-Riley / Aotearoa / New ZealandIndia has been conducting her activism in the climate justice space for years now. India is working to center Indigenous rights in the movement for climate justice by ensuring that Indigenous people gain rights over their land. She’s taken her message to the United Nations in talks that resulted in…

Finland’s Prime Minister, Sanna Marin “The Government is committed to taking action that will create a path towards a carbon neutral Finland by 2035. Climate change is the greatest threat to humankind. Instead, the fight against climate change offers opportunities for Finland to create viability, growth, employment and wellbeing. The transition into a carbon neutral society will be…

In case you missed it… It’s us against greenhouse gases In an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes last night, Bill Gates, who was once a youth activist with a vision to change the world, laid it out there.”Without innovation, we will not solve climate change. We won’t even come close.” He also said, “We have more educated…

American Poet and Activist, Amanda Gorman​ 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman “stole the show” for her dramatic reading of her six-minute “The Hill We Climb” poem on January 20 before a global TV and online inauguration day audience. The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a “perfect union,” but as a country that has the grit…

Greenpeace Executive Director, Jennifer Morgan Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan has said that “multilateralism can make a real difference in finding solutions. And these are valuable lessons as we turn to the bigger crisis upon us, the climate crisis.” In just five years, Morgan has been promoted from head of regulated businesses at SAP to overseeing all of…