Diversity and inclusion This Diverse Group of Environmentalists Is Making the Outdoors More Inclusive In this edition of NBCLX’s Climate Change Survival Guide, storyteller Chase Cain talks with the three co-founders of The Outdoorist Oath, which encourages outdoorists to make the community more inclusive. Research shows white Americans are three times more likely to live somewhere with easy access to the outdoors than Americans of color. The founders share moments they’ve felt excluded in...
climate change How Making the Outdoors More Inclusive Can Help Fight Climate Change NBCLX's Chase Cain talked with the environmentalists behind The Outdoorist Oath, which strives to make the outdoors more inclusive.
climate change Climate Change Feels Like a Ticking Time Bomb. Gratitude for Nature Can Help Us Fight When we take time to get out in nature, we learn to appreciate the world around us, and that gratitude can be a powerful weapon.
LX To Fight Climate Change, First Remember To Be Grateful for the Earth's Beauty Climate change has already started eroding many of the Earth’s wonders that humans have taken for granted for centuries, from the Amazon rainforest to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares how taking time to enjoy nature and be grateful for our planet can motivate us to take...
climate change survival guide How To Challenge Consumerism and Help the Environment This Holiday Shopping Season Americans are addicted to buying stuff — but consumerism doesn’t make us happy, and it also contributes to climate change, NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains in the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide. So this holiday shopping season, which is already more challenging due to supply chain problems, try out alternative gift ideas, like experiences or second-hand items.
climate change survival guide A Woman Warned Us About Climate Change 165 Years Ago. Naturally, We Ignored Her Eunice Newton Foote's 1856 research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society for decades. The first kind of, sort of, maybe global action on climate change, the Kyoto protocol, didn't come until 140 years later.
climate change survival guide A Brief Timeline of Warnings About Climate Change That We Totally Ignored Researchers have been sounding the alarm on climate change since the 1800s, but time and again, these warnings have been ignored. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain takes a look at the history of climate change and how we got to this point.
climate change survival guide Climate Change Survival Guide: How Did We Get to This Point? In the first part of NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain’s climate change survival guide, he explains the basics of why the planet is warming and what needs to change to protect its future. Scientists agree that the safe limit of warming is only 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and we’ve already hit 2.2 degrees. What’s more, we’re headed toward warming of 5 degrees,...
