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Communicating ways to cope with climate breakdown
Kunda Dixit In democracies, communication is essential in prompting action to redress environmental damage. The public and policymakers in government need to know what the problems are, and which interventions have worked, before they can start addressing them. In some authoritarian countries, a top-down approach...
BBQ at Bridge Community
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Bridge Community Church in Langley, B.C., is reaching out to their neighborhood through biweekly Friday barbecues.
What is said, what is not said, and the danger in between
Pie Mabanta-Fenomeno Amid the lush and vibrant landscape of the Philippines, where natural resources abound and the scenery become a perfect background for heartfelt narratives, one story is often overlooked: the story of its marginalized and indigenous peoples in the face of climate change. At...
Digital media literacy: Important lessons from a climate change classroom
Dina Gilio-Whitaker There is an old adage that the best way to really learn about a subject is to teach it. I would agree but with a caveat: one must begin with at least a baseline understanding of the topic at hand. Such was the...
UN Summit of the Future: Why the climate-gender-conflict nexus would be a game changer
Paula Kowal World leaders and international civil society gathered in New York on 22-23 September 2024 for the UN Summit of the Future. The following article takes issue with how the climate-gender-conflict nexus was not discussed in the lead-up to the Summit. Reviewing the summit...
COP29 Declaration on Green Digital Action
The Green Digital Action (GDA) initiative aims to harness the transformative power of digital technologies in a collective fight against climate change and calls on the technology industry to take responsibility for its environmental impact. The GDA initiative was launched by ITU and over 40...
Artificial Intelligence: Setting boundaries, striking balances
Jim McDonnell A year is a long time in the world of AI. Back in the halcyon days of the Bletchley Park Summit on Internet Safety in 2003, the great and the good of the AI world convened to discuss and debate the future regulation...
Haarlem Declaration 2024
Championing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for advancing inclusive, safe, and reliable digital media spaces! As a global community of digital media makers – including independent media organizations, journalists, digital content creators and civil society groups using digital media for social impact – we recognize that AI...
Carnegie Classification Recognizes Calvin
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Calvin University has officially received the designation of Research College and University (RCU).