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  • Climate Leader Query: Geof Rochester
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    Climate Leader Query: Geof Rochester

    The 2017 American Climate Leadership Summit (October 25-26) will feature conversations with prominent climate experts and advocates.  ecoAmerica offered some of our guest speakers an opportunity to answer up to three questions related to climate change and what we can do about it. Geof Rochester is Managing Director of The Nature Conservancy, a leading conservation…

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  • Climate Leader Query: Gerald Durley
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    Climate Leader Query: Gerald Durley

    The 2017 American Climate Leadership Summit (October 25-26) will feature conversations with prominent climate experts and advocates.  ecoAmerica offered some of our guest speakers an opportunity to answer up to three questions related to climate change and what we can do about it. The Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley is Pastor Emeritus of Providence Missionary Baptist…

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  • Climate Leader Query: Sara Hill
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    Climate Leader Query: Sara Hill

    The 2017 American Climate Leadership Summit (October 25-26) will feature conversations with prominent climate experts and advocates.  ecoAmerica offered some of our guest speakers an opportunity to answer up to three questions related to climate change and what we can do about it. Sara Hill is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and was appointed Secretary of…

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  • Seizing the Moment to Lead on Climate

    By Daniel Barry Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” When it comes to planning and action around climate change, though, we need to flip his advice: If we wish to avoid repeating the past, we must learn from the future. Recent extreme weather events underscore…

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  • Climate Leader Query: Katharine Hayhoe
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    Climate Leader Query: Katharine Hayhoe

    The 2017 American Climate Leadership Summit (October 25-26) will feature conversations with prominent climate experts and advocates.  ecoAmerica offered some of our guest speakers an opportunity to answer up to three questions related to climate change and what we can do about it. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and co-director of the Climate Science…

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  • Sustainability City: Climate Week Engages Stakeholders Across Borders

    Sustainability City: Climate Week Engages Stakeholders Across Borders

    The world was watching President Trump on September 19 as he gave his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, reaffirming an “America First” policy. The previous day,  his chief economic advisor confirmed that the US wants to pull out of the Paris climate agreement –after calling a breakfast meeting many…

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  • Communicating Compassion: Supporting Mental Health Before and After a Storm
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    Communicating Compassion: Supporting Mental Health Before and After a Storm

    Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose have reawakened conversations on the connection between climate change and extreme weather.  And it’s relatively easy to find solid explainers on the science of how our warming world intensifies storms (this one and this one, for example).  But climate communication is about more than just sharing facts and potential solutions.…

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  • Lessons from Harvey: The Need to Lead
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    Lessons from Harvey: The Need to Lead

    Hurricane Harvey, which struck Houston late last month, was unprecedented: The category 4 storm left some 50 inches of rain in its wake, killing more than 60 people and displacing well over 50,000 residents to date. And the extent of damage to homes, businesses, and infrastructure is still being calculated. As Hurricane Irma bears down…

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  • Climate Doomsday or a Livable Future? What Motivates Americans

    Climate Doomsday or a Livable Future? What Motivates Americans

      A recent New York magazine article, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” stirred up controversy by synthesizing the worst-case predictions of climate change and its possible impacts.  Rather than dwelling on these scenarios, however, climate communicators can use the attention the article drew to the issue as an opportunity to reframe how we discuss it. As ecoAmerica’s…

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  • American Climate Perspectives: New Insights on the Role of Religion in Climate Attitudes

    American Climate Perspectives: New Insights on the Role of Religion in Climate Attitudes

    Our daily news is flooded with stories on the myriad of ways America is divided, causing us to lose sight of our commonality. Climate change is a topic notoriously rife with polarized political viewpoints. But the gaps in opinion and support are narrowing, and alignment on the issue is on the rise. ecoAmerica decided to explore a key factor thought to…

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  • Let’s Lead on Climate: Higher Education Success Story, Loyola University Chicago
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    Let’s Lead on Climate: Higher Education Success Story, Loyola University Chicago

    Taking Climate Beyond Campus Boundary Lines One of a series of campus events surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’ (photo: Loyola University Chicago)   Loyola University Chicago is a campus committed to addressing climate change and making climate impacts on natural and social systems a key aspect of social justice teaching. In the…

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