climate emergency Tag Archive
Climate Ride for Climate Justice
Ever wondered what it’s like to go on a Climate Ride? Join us as Ash, ACE’s Director of Distributed Organizing takes you along for the ride and shares the impact of a Climate Ride.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Nithya Mooli on Combating Climate Misinformation
Nithya Mooli is a 16-years-old climate advocate based in Pennsylvania. She is currently in her third year at Great Valley High School where she is a member of both the Girl Up organization and ACE. Mooli describes Girl Up as “an amazing feminist activist club” at Great Valley High school and ACE as “the climate justice organization that we all love.” She is particularly interested in combating climate misinformation within the larger climate action movement. This is her story.
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Mental Health and Climate Change 101
The climate emergency is taking a toll on everyone, especially young people, marginalized communities, and our mental health. We are experiencing increased anxiety and trauma as we grapple with an uncertain future. It’s important to understand that no one is alone in this situation and that activism is a draining passion. Read this latest blog post to learn more about how climate change affects our mental health and learn some strategies to help ease eco-anxiety.
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ACE Campaign Alert: Let’s Talk About It: What’s Your Climate Truth
With the climate emergency threatening mental health along with the health of the planet, ACE is setting out to normalize conversations about climate anxiety and create a community of support for struggling young people. #Let’sTalkAboutIt and speak #OurClimateTruth together.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Bobby Zimmerman on Addressing Community Needs through Community Action
Bobby Zimmerman is a 16-year-old student activist located in Malvern, Pennsylvania (Southeastern PA). He works with his schools’ Environmental Enthusiasts club to clean up sites in their community which are heavily affected by pollution, fundraise for local organizations, like The Philadelphia Environmental Justice Initiative and national initiatives like Tree-Plenish, and educate his peers on pressing environmental issues. He is passionate about the power of local community action and the ways in which, together through collective action, we can all create profound change, starting at the grassroots level and growing to the national and international stage.
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Where It All Started: An Our Climate Our Future Live Assembly Reflection
ACE unlocks the power of young people and gives them autonomy to take their futures into their hands. It inspired me to become an activist long before I knew the term. About 10 years later, ACE and I would reunite on several occasions to continue amplifying the voices of young people in the climate movement.
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Women’s Health and Climate Change 101
Climate change is a worldwide issue that affects everyone. However, a growing list of studies and reports are showing that climate change is widening the gender gap with women facing more climate consequences than men.
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Representation Matters: Women Creators to Follow
Representation matters. There is something so insatiably empowering in seeing people who have faced the same kinds of adversity that you have faced in life overcome their hardship and achieve success nevertheless. It is inspiring, comforting, and necessary to see and know these people because it gives us reassurance in times of doubt that we too can achieve success despite the adversities that we each face. Moreover, representation builds community and nothing is more powerful than what we can do when we join forces.
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Environmental Racism and Climate Change 101
Climate change is a worldwide issue that affects every community. However, due to systemic racism, climate change consequences disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and other POC communities first and worst. Environmental racism is another intersection of the climate crisis that can no longer be ignored. Minority and low-income communities are burdened with poor living conditions, contaminated natural resources, and the price of the ongoing climate crisis.
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ACE INTERVIEW: Charlotte Stuart-Tilley on Climate Change and Consumption
Charlotte Stuart-Tilley (they/them and she/her) is a GenCLEO strategist with the CLEO Institute, working with fellow youth to make change in their communities. They are in their junior year of high school and hope to major in geology or environmental sciences when they reach college. Charlotte is currently based on Mvskoke-Creek land, in Tallahassee, Florida. Stuart-Tilley is particularly interested in focusing their work within the broader climate movement on the ways in which consumption culture contributes to the climate emergency.
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