Climate Currents
Stories of a changing world
This is a series of our recommendations of things to read and watch focussed on climate change. We cover a broader context, beyond buildings and cities. Our goal is to help you understand climate change and its challenges, opportunities, and solutions. We curate these to be a source of information, insights, and inspiration, so you can stay informed and engaged.
The Intersectional Environmentalist
To care about the planet, is to care about all its inhabitants, especially those who are worst affected. This is the point that Leah Thomas tries to make in her book The Intersectional Environmentalist as she says, ‘The future can and will be intersectional’. It is our ‘Climate Currents’ [...]
DW Planet A
The fact that we are destroying our environment, and are doing so at an alarming rate can no longer be considered news. The fact that we can stop, change, adapt, also shouldn’t be news. But it often is. Not because many of don’t want to change things, but [...]
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis begins with a note about Eunice Foote. If you don’t already know Foote, you must learn about her now. In the 1850s, Foote established that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and water vapour trap heat close [...]
Don’t Look Up
‘Science tells the truth, Randall.’ Says Dr Teddy Oglethorpe from Adam McKay's satirical film Don’t Look Up. But are we listening? Don’t Look Up is a film that explores our society's dismissive attitude toward scientific warnings. The film, which dramatizes the discovery of a comet on a collision [...]
