Tag Archives: Climate Change
Against climate change tribalism
There can be no progress on climate change until we rebuild our civic capacity to discuss, debate, and disagree in ways that do not turn every aspect of climate politics into an identity-driven tribal war between good and evil.
Climate philanthropy and the four billion (dollars, that is)
As left-leaning philanthropists move to the center of decisions on climate policy, who will scrutinize their decisions, evaluating their successes and mistakes?
The Ecomodernists: A new way of thinking about climate change and human progress
Making progress on climate change and energy in an age of extremes.
Strategic philanthropy in the post cap-and-trade years: Summary of new paper on U.S. foundation funding
In a paper published this week, I review the history of U.S. philanthropic strategy relative to climate change, before assessing the important 5-year period following the defeat of the 2010 cap and trade bill and leading up to the 2016 elections. I analyze $557 million distributed across 2,502 grants by 19 major foundations, detailing the financial Continue Reading »
The Ecomodernists: Journalists reimagining a sustainable future
Sept. 3, 2017 — In The Planet Remade (2015), journalist Oliver Morton imagined a future scenario where the Earth’s climate has been changed by geoengineering. A collective of countries with little power in world affairs secretly agrees to a low-cost plan to cool the planet. With funding from a billionaire, the collective flies several planes Continue Reading »
Preface to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
July 19, 2017 — Because of the complexity and urgency of climate change, efforts to understand the problem’s social, cultural, and political dimensions must stretch beyond the environmental sciences and economics to be truly multi-disciplinary. To this end, over the past two decades, a growing community of scholars have focused on the factors that influence public Continue Reading »