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Linda Mary Wagner’s new memoir, "Rear-View Reflections on Radical Change," offers a distinctive perspective on 50 years of social movements that have shaped our world. This collection of essays, nonfiction stories, and poems written between 1972 and 2022 calls for unity around the goal of climate action for the sake of all the world’s children today and tomorrow.
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On the heels of the Met Gala, one of the fashion industry’s biggest nights, advocates in New York are pushing the legislature to consider the Fashion Act — which aims to limit the environmental impact of fashion waste.
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Discussion of the climate crisis is always suffered from a problem of extraction, data points, and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. Many politicians cloistered by status and focused always on their next election do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don’t take any action at all. Jonathan Vigliotti's book explores this, “Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Frontlines of Climate Change and Small-Town America.”
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The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources held virtual meetings this week to launch the state's Resilience Implementation Strategy and receive input on how Vermonters define climate resiliency.
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In twenty-six essays, one for each letter of the alphabet, Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future in her new book, "H Is for Hope." Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Sixth Extinction." Elizabeth Kolbert will be in conversation with Bill McKibben at Northshire Bookstore tomorrow night at 6 p.m.
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Climate change is impacting the maple industry and producers are trying to adapt to the changes.
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(Airs 02/15/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) about the environment, voting rights, how New York is failing when it comes to cancer, and much more.
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A new report from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University finds cities in the area continue to have their warmest years on record.
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(Airs 12/15/23 @ 3 p.m. & 12/17/23 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association. Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and Adjunct Professor at the University, and former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy Barbara, and Mike talk about whether a meteorologist is a journalist responsible for reporting on climate change, a U.S. Senator threatens public broadcasting, Tucker Carlson’s new network, and much more.
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Aaron Mair says while he’s disappointed with COP28's final agreement, the conference was an intense experience.