Jenny Lefcourt, a natural wine importer based in New York, has been witnessing firsthand for two decades exactly how global warming is impacting soil, grape growers, and the environment.
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My Climate Job: Jenny Lefcourt, Natural Wine Importer
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The best way to reduce climate despair is to take action. Here are 6 ways to get your kids involved in the fight for a healthier planet.
What Do We Know About Environment, Climate, And Menopause? Not Enough
Extreme weather, air pollution, and a host of chemicals found in the environment and our homes can have negative impacts on pregnancy and early childhood. We know this. But what about menopause?
Moms Call Congress: Protect Progress on Reducing Climate Pollution
Moms are making calls to Congress today because we must stand up against efforts to erode the last four years of progress on clean energy, clean transportation, and clean air protections.
Ask Mom Detective: How Do I Compost?
Food waste is responsible for a huge percentage of methane emissions from landfills. This is no good! Mom Detective shares tips for composting your food waste to keep it out of the trash.
Moms’ Dominique Browning in Time: Climate Action in a Second Trump Term
When the election results poured in on November 5, Dominique Browning, Moms’ Co-Founder and Director, felt despair and grief—as a mother, grandmother, and climate activist. She wrote about it in an essay on continued climate action in a Trump second term in Time.
Turning Election Despair Into Action
Congress returns to Washington, DC, for a post-election work session next week. Let your lawmakers know our families are depending on them to oppose any attempts to weaken historic progress on clean energy, clean transportation, and clean air protections.
Salud mental y cambio climático: ¿Quiénes elegiremos ser en estos tiempos?
Las últimas semanas y meses han sido un ejercicio agonizante de incertidumbre colectiva. Y para muchos de nosotros, esa incertidumbre ha sido reemplazada por lo que Rebecca Solnit llama la “certeza de la desesperación”. Es una desesperación profundamente válida y razonable: sabemos qué esperar de una presidencia de Trump.
Mental Health & Climate Change: Who Will We Choose to Be in These Times?
The last few weeks and months have been an agonizing exercise in collective uncertainty. And for many of us, that uncertainty has now been replaced by what Rebecca Solnit calls the “certainty of despair.” It is deeply valid, reasonable despair: we know what to expect from a Trump presidency.
A Staggering and Dangerous Defeat
Mothers know how to go into Warrior Mode, and that is exactly where you will find members Moms Clean Air Force in the years ahead. This election has delivered the worst possible outcomes for our fight to cut fossil fuel pollution. It is a staggering—and dangerous—defeat.
Mental Health & Climate Change: How Moms Cope With Election Anxiety
Feeling anxious about politics? You’re not alone. For many of us, politics can be a source of chronic stress—stress that’s significantly amplified during highly charged election years like this one. This is how Moms are coping with election anxiety.
Dear Colleges, Be Like UCSD—Require Climate Education
UC San Diego now requires current students to complete a course on climate change to graduate. Brava, UCSD, for this bold, sensible, and totally no-brainer academic policy. Read how this mom wishes her daughter’s college had this too.