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The Reality of Activism: Danger, Burnout, and Sacrifice

Jenny Smith did not realize what the how severe the personal consequences of her activism efforts in Costa Rica could be until the tire fell off her car and her…

Your (Virtual) Water Footprint: A Hidden Commodity

Empathy & Equity, Farming For The FutureBy Meher Bhatia

How much water do you really use every day?

Soil Bugs: Nature’s Underground Superheroes

Climate Change, Farming For The Future, Green HeroesBy Valentina Vaney

Author Valentina Vaney

Environmental Action in China

Paging EarthBy Cody Baynori

Author Cody Baynori

Unveiling Urban Agriculture: The Crown Jewel of the New Sustainable City

Farming For The FutureBy Hannah Castelo

Agroecology could be the key to sustainable farming. Find out how.

Carbon Labeling: Marketing and Communication Strategies Applied to Environmentalism

Paging EarthBy Shannon Brierty

Paging Earth is a climate communications blog dedicated to demystifying, depolarizing, and educating the public about climate activism and climate science. Now that we’ve discussed the nuances of the climate…

Agroecology: A Social Movement

Empathy & Equity, Farming For The FutureBy Meher Bhatia

Agroecology is much more than an environmental intervention. It’s a social movement; one that helps to build, defend, and strengthen our complex food and agricultural systems in the process.

Agroecology: An Environmental Intervention

Empathy & Equity, Farming For The FutureBy Meher Bhatia

Agroecology could be the key to sustainable farming. Find out how.

The Power of Education and Empowerment in Achieving Environmental Progress in Costa Rica

Empathy & EquityBy Hadley Willman

Local community members in the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica had always felt apart from the environment, until the Corcovado Foundation gave them the perspective and tools they needed to…

The Real Cost of Fast Fashion

Empathy & EquityBy Tasnima Zaman

Fast fashion is a cute and easy way to spice up our wardrobes. But how does fast fashion really impact our planet and our people?

Potential Oil Project Threatens the Indigenous San of Namibia

Empathy & EquityBy Sydney Tomuro

ReconAfrica’s oil project jeopardizes not only the Indigenous San of Namibia, but also the sacred Okavango Delta and its endangered species. Empathy & Equity outlines historical and modern flaws that…

How Climate Change is Affecting Food Security

Empathy & Equity, Farming For The FutureBy Meher Bhatia

Climate change is actively threatening global food security. Let’s talk about why.

The United Nations & Climate Action

Paging EarthBy Cody Baynori

Author Cody Baynori

The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Environmental Policy

Paging EarthBy Meher Bhatia

The year 2020 was a crazy year for everyone, and that definitely includes the federal government. Many agree that the shift from the Trump administration to the Biden administration was…

The Biden Administration’s Approach to Climate Change

Paging EarthBy Cody Baynori

Author Cody Baynori

Paging Earth Weekly: Madison Kate’s Picks

Paging EarthBy Madison Kate Williams

Paging Earth is a climate communications blog dedicated to demystifying, depolarizing and educating the public about climate change activism and climate science. Each week, one of our GCP team members…

Zip Code Matters: Racial and Economic Disparities in Green Space

Empathy & EquityBy Hollie Albin

Zip code matters when it comes to quality and length of life. Along with factors like pollution and healthcare, this disparity is driven by access to green spaces.

Will Miami’s new Formula 1 track address the world’s largest concerns?

Greening the GameBy Faith Yorba

Formula 1 is perhaps the most globally coveted racing event ever held. Each race garners hundreds of thousands of viewers and fans, all gathered to spectate an unrivaled competition on…

More Hogs Than People: Environmental Injustice in North Carolina

Empathy & EquityBy Madison Kate Williams

Empathy & Equity outlines historical and modern flaws that leave marginalized communities disproportionately vulnerable in the face of climate change. In highlighting healthier solutions, E&E weaves environmental justice into the…

Building Off of the Past: Tokyo 2021 Venue Sustainability

Greening the GameBy Faith Yorba

With each round of the Olympic Games comes new promises of advancements in sustainability. We have the legacy of the 1964 games, held in Tokyo, as a foundation to pursue…

Paging Earth Weekly: Rachel’s Picks

Paging EarthBy Rachel Blummer

Author Rachel Blummer

Climate Change Will Change Your Game Plans Too

Greening the GameBy Faith Yorba

Have you ever had to cancel your trip to a baseball game because smoke made the air quality too unhealthy? Or watched your favorite team play in the pouring rain?…

Food Apartheid: Addressing Injustices from the Ground Up

Empathy & Equity, Farming For The FutureBy Hollie Albin

When it comes to environmental justice, most of us automatically think of very visible problems like toxic waste or pollution. While these undoubtedly qualify, environmental injustices present themselves in various…

The Wedge Approach to Climate Change

Paging EarthBy Hollie Albin

Global solutions, like climate change itself, are multifaceted — one policy does not, and cannot, fit all. Solutions that outline multiple routes toward achieving the same goal are often better…

So You Don’t Believe in Climate Change? That’s Okay.

Paging EarthBy Madison Kate Williams

Whether or not you believe in climate change, environmental degradation is uncomfortable, distressing, or downright depressing to think about.

Kids Care About Climate: Let’s Teach it!

Paging EarthBy Hannah Siebert

School systems around the world have not integrated environmental education into curriculum. What can educators do to connect students to issues like climate change?

Speak Sustainable: Reframing Our Words for Climate Justice

Paging EarthBy Cate Southwell

With the COVID-19 pandemic, our world has shifted dramatically — for some more than others. Despite all of the distractions and problems we are all facing right now, climate change…

Fields are an important part of everyday life. They are where people gather to watch recreational sports, exercise, and even to just sit and relax. Especially during the pandemic, fields…

Fan Engagement: Chants, Cheers, and Climate Change

Greening the GameBy Faith Yorba

Sports have undoubtedly become one of the most commonly shared activities in human history. Played across the globe on expansive fields, an aspect that is not typically covered within environmentalism…

How Sustainable are the Olympics?

Greening the GameBy Faith Yorba

With the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics rescheduled for July of this year, we can expect the most sustainable Olympics yet. While sustainability is a relatively new aspect of the Olympic…

Mitigating climate change with words: The role of the media in creating climate understanding

Paging EarthBy Katherine Shok

Only an environmental culture shift — on both sides of the political aisle and around the globe — can help environmentalism transcend polarization through education.

Five Black Environmentalists Who Changed the Course of History

FeaturedBy Hollie Albin

Through their tireless activism, these five Black environmentalists deconstructed the harmful narrative that climate action is exclusive to white folks. Their work spans across generations, great distances, and various environmental…

Introducing: Paging Earth Weekly

Paging EarthBy Hannah Siebert

Cutting Through the Noise: Fake News’ Impact on Climate Communications

Paging EarthBy Hollie Albin

Your alarm sounds. You roll over, reach for your phone, and check social media. Scrolling past a surprising headline, you share it with your friends. And each day, the ritual…

How to Spark Action: Battling Apathy

Paging EarthBy Madison Kate Williams

Through climate media and communications, we have the power to empower, and we have to take this role seriously.

A Roadmap for the Climate Communicator

Paging EarthBy Hannah Siebert

Scientists are bad at translating jargon, and politicians are great at spinning facts. Enter the climate communicator, playing a key role in educating the public on climate change issues.

Cowboy Boots, Biscuits, and Football on Saturdays: How My Southern Roots Taught Me to Respect and Protect Our Lands

Environmental JourneysBy Madison Kate Williams

The South is stereotyped as uneducated and close-minded, but if we approach informing Southerners with this mentality, then they are not going to want to hear what we say about…

From a Kid with a Hobby to an Icon Saving the Seas: Ryan Hickman

Green HeroesBy Hannah Siebert

Ryan Hickman, age eleven, enjoys collecting coins, riding his bike, and playing the violin. But unlike most middle schoolers, he’s also been running a business for eight and a half…

Breaking Out of My Shell, One Dusty Hiking Shoe at a Time

Environmental JourneysBy Hannah Siebert

I was a small, quiet girl — afraid to be heard. But that was not who I wanted to be.

How Ghost Stories Created a Climate Leader in Bangladesh

Green HeroesBy Ali Martin

As it rained heavily outside, eight-year-old Anm Safiqul Alam Shaheen crouched on the floor of his grandfather’s house to hear his daily tales. Shaheen’s heart was beating rapidly as the…

How can we listen when the climate crisis is silent and our lives are so loud?

Environmental JourneysBy Katherine Shok

While I was tearing up during a documentary about the slow but steady loss of our planet’s coral reefs, my peers were on their phones.

From “Disability” to Sustainability: Maria Copete’s Unexpected Journey To Her Passion Project

Green HeroesBy Katherine Shok

As a mother, food engineer, urban farmer, cook, individual with alopecia and the owner and founder of Kynza Food, Maria is an inspiration to those around her and a cultural…

Born Country but Raised an Activist: Catherine Coleman Flowers of the Biden Climate Task Force Uncovers “America’s Dirty Secret” in “Bloody Lowndes,” Alabama

Green HeroesBy Sienna Zuco

“Because I’m country!” Said Catherine Coleman Flowers when asked why she was passionate about working for rural communities as an environmental justice advocate. Growing up in the “Black Belt” region…

Finding Life’s Purpose in the Amazon: Lina Bautista Leaves a Traditional Workspace to Chase an Indigenous Relationship to the Earth

Green HeroesBy Katherine Shok

“At the beginning, everything was so confusing and their words sometimes didn’t make any sense at all, especially from the elders — they speak nature’s language.”

Not Your Grandfather’s Rotary Club: How One Kansas Farm Kid, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist Led the Way to a New Rotary Club Vision

Green HeroesBy Sienna Zuco

This is the unusual journey of Steve Bender, who came from the typical, hard-working Midwest to lead one of the most creative and effective Rotary clubs, the Rotary Club of…

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