• Climate Change

Hero of the Week: Italy’s Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti

• climate change
• education
• Italy

This week Italy got an A+ — thanks to its education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti, who announced that starting next year all schools and students in all grades in Italy will be required to spend 33 hours per year, almost one hour per school week, teaching students about climate change issues.  It will also be woven […]

• People

Hero of the Week: Nick Venner

• catholic church
• Colorado
• Juliana v. United States
• Pope Francis

Nick Venner, an 18-year-old Colorado native, not only loves nature but finds it his moral imperative to protect the trails and forests he cherishes from the ravages of climate change. As a devout catholic, Venner was inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical to fight for the planet, and as a sufferer of asthma, he knows full […]

• People

Hero of the Week: Rep. Elijah Cummings 1951-2019

• Baltimore
• Congress
• Elijah Cummings
• Maryland

Yesterday, the U.S. Congress, as well as the City of Baltimore, lost one of its most beloved colleagues and public servants, Rep. Elijah Cummings. Cummings, the 20+ year representative of Maryland’s 7th District as well as the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was admired and respected by his own party […]

• Sustainability

Hero of the Week: Lilly Satidtanasarn

• Ocean Plastic
• plastic pollution
• Thailand

Called “Thailand’s Greta Thunberg” 12-year-old Lilly Satidtanasarn has been fighting to stop the use of single-use plastics in her home country–which is one of the leading contributors to ocean plastic pollution. As the Jakarta Post reported, “In June, Lilly won her first victory: she persuaded Central, a major supermarket in Bangkok, to stop giving out […]

• Forests

Hero of the Week: The Stagg Tree

• conservation
• Forests
• giants sequoias
• redwoods

We know, usually, our Heroes of the Week are humans but hear us out: trees are serious climate heroes.

Our hero this week is the Stagg Tree which is a giant sequoia tree located in California’s 530-acre Alder Creek forest–and it needs your help! Last month Save the Redwoods League announced an opportunity to purchase Alder Creek, the largest remaining privately owned giant sequoia property in the world.

• Politics

Heroes of the Week: WECAN Indigenous Women Working to Save the Tongass Forest

• Alaska
• Tlingit
• Tongass National Forest

Greta Thunberg has nothing on these ladies!  Last March, they traveled 3000 miles from their home in Alaska to lobby Congress to continue to conserve the Tongass National Forest, one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet.  The Trump Administration is considering lifting current protections on the area.  These Tlingit women were part of […]