As we ready to welcome the New Year and say goodbye to 2024, many of us will celebrate and be in community with friends and loved ones. Some of us will, by choice or circumstance, bring in the new year
Yes, the “world is a mess” politics, climate change, inequity, hunger, homelessness and more. But, in fact the world-our natural world-is amazing, awe inspiring and sacred. Our human manipulation of the planet is what has made OUR world a mess,
As we shared in January of this year, our posts in 2024 will include reposts that are as relevant today as the day they were written. Over the years and now decades that ClimateMama has been around, we know we
In mid-March I had the honor and the pleasure of interviewing director, writer, filmmaker, and climate mama extraordinaire Rachel Lears. I was introduced to Rachel by New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) which joined forces with the National
Greetings Climate Mamas and Papas, Were you tuned in to the United Nations Glasgow Climate meeting? I am sure many of you were staying on top of COP26 which came to a close on November 13th, 2021, and that others
I have been working in the parent climate space for more than a decade. It has been rewarding, powerful and frustrating. I have often wondered: Are we truly being heard, are our actions being noticed, are we reaching far and
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!… We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons
To all our Climate Mamas and Papas, Happy Earth Day! We know that each of you celebrate, protect and hold dear, #ourothermother, planet Earth, each and every day. Today we are thrilled to share with you a special video collage, put
One of the most wonderful things that ClimateMama has brought to me, is the connections, new and old, that I have made across the country and around the world. Meeting Climate Mamas and Papas who understand the climate emergency –
What a year it has been, one with far too many lows, but incredibly, one with some highlights and silver linings too. This post shares some of our newly found and treasured climate and environmental books from the past year.
As I explained 5 years ago: The final Paris agreement was carefully worded and crafted, it laid out hopes for what we should do, it apologizes for what we haven’t done, but what it didn’t do, was lay out a
for me, it’s my kids… I had the opportunity to share my story on PBS American Portraits recently…just a clip, a short story, based on a prompt..“What Gets You out of Bed Every Morning?” My short answer: “My kids…” I
Traditionally, the United Nations General Assembly begins the third Tuesday in September. Having worked for years at the United Nations, I remember the excitement, the anticipation and the hope. This year, with a global health pandemic pulsating throughout the world,
Finance Ministers from the G20 (the 20 countries with the largest economies) meet on 18th and 19th July 2020; they meet several times a year to help set the agenda for the annual meeting of the G20 heads of state
As part of our Climate Mama journey, we have been privileged and honored to meet so many amazing and inspiring Climate Mamas and Papas from all around the world. These parents are working to raise attention to the climate emergency,
Earth Hour has been raising attention to the unfolding climate crisis since 2007, helping millions on their journey to understand the reality and urgency of the climate crisis we face. Now more than ever as we collectively unite to fight
T’is that time of year again! With Thanksgiving falling later in the month this year then it often does, it seems that Christmas and Hannukah are already almost here! I don’t know about you, but I actually feel really excited
ClimateMama is honored and proud to join 228 parent climate groups from 28 countries around the world in a plea to delegates attending the COP25 in Madrid. DO SOMETHING NOW. As a former representative of the International Monetary Fund, who
“On September 20, 2019, three days before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the world, including the United States, to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis.
Inspired by this Christmas Eve 1968 photograph of our home taken from the Apollo 8 space mission, we celebrated the first Earth Day, two years later in 1970. Almost 50 years later, our planet is healthier in some respects than
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