Tag: climate change

Katharine Wilkinson shows in her forthcoming book, Climate Wayfinding, that rather than treating climate change as an abstract problem, to view it as a communal practice complete with reading group guides and creative exercises designed to help people identify their own roles in a collective response. The May 4 book launch held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum will include film, poetry, music, and interactive experiences.

Boundary Layers, a new exhibition curated by Atlanta-based artist Heather Bird Harris, brings together 15 artists to explore how life survives, adapts, and transforms itself under rapid, intense change. As an educator attuned to history and justice, an artist whose work confronts climate change, and a mother grappling with the existential weight of shepherding new life through a warming world, Harris says she often looks to the living world for guidance. Boundary Layers asks painters, sculptors, weavers, ceramicists, and more to do the same.

When I think of Atlanta as a climate haven, I am telling myself a story. But if boosting our climate resiliency makes us more welcoming to neighbors, businesses, and visitors, then maybe it’s more than a story.

Despite another year of extreme heat, storms, floods, and wildfires, the climate crisis is still a neglected topic in electoral politics. But state leaders, from the governor on down, should be taking action.

In the U.S., the burger is symbolic above all. Its fate stands in for bigger concerns about climate change adaptation: Will things change cosmetically—an electric truck that’s as powerful as one with a combustion engine, a burger that bleeds like the real thing—or more fundamentally?

Extreme heat is the deadliest consequence of climate change. In Atlanta, scholars, students, and citizen scientists are seeking to understand how bad it could get—and who will be most affected.

MODA's "2020: The Year of Climate & Change" is unprecedented for the Midtown institution: Showing how design can mitigate and, in some cases, reverse climate change will consume the museum, including kids’ summer camps and adult workshops, for an entire year.

The 44th President spoke about sustainability at the Greenbuild Expo in Atlanta on Wednesday morning.

Sapelo Island—its residents and wildlife—could be in danger as ocean waters continue to rise. The University of Georgia's Small Satellite Research Lab will launch a satellite roughly 250 miles above Earth that will paint a clear picture of the coming threat.

Dr. Jane Goodall hosted a “fireside chat” fundraiser in Atlanta on Friday to raise money for the Jane Goodall Institute. She discussed the environment and how today's youth can help in action-oriented ways.