St Louis – Climate & Class
Leo Dee – May 2018 was the hottest May on record for St Louis – 2 degrees hotter than ever before. Meanwhile, April 2018 was the driest April on record too. In the less affluent neighborhood of East St Louis, residents have been campaigning against air pollution by large corporations.
Kentucky Fries
Leo Dee – Kentucky has recently be experiencing extreme weather patterns. Lexington received almost 72 inches of rain in 2018, the most for almost 150 years. Whilst Louisville hit 92 degrees in May 2019, higher than the previous 1962 record for May.
Denver & the Ticking Time Bomb
Leo Dee – In March 2019, Colorado experienced it’s worst ever cyclone with wind speeds of over 96 mph! This is called a “bomb cyclone” and occurred when hot Colorado air collided with icy Arctic air.
Atlanta – In the Eye of the Storm
Leo Dee – May 2019 was the hottest May on record in Atlanta, Georgia. And in 2017, Hurricaine Irma caused 1.5 million businesses in Georgia and Florida to lose power.
Washington Wash-Out and the Way Ahead
Leo Dee – Washington DC just experienced its wettest year EVER with 71 inches of rain in 2018!
Tennessee blues and hope on the horizon
Leo Dee – Tennessee is getting hotter each decade. The proportion of record hot days to record cold nights has switched from the 1960’s where 90% of the record measures were cold nights, to the current decade where 80% of the record temperatures are hot days.
Caring for Creation in the Church of Sweden: An Interview
The Archbishop of Uppsala of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelén, is an inspirational religious and environmental leader – one who preaches in favor of the planet. Long before becoming the first female archbishop, she held strong ethical stances. She long believed and declared that the destruction of the world’s environment is not just, stating that “we must, can and should care for Creation and about Creation.”
Grieving for Our Planet
Amy Lou Martin – Whatever our religious beliefs and practices, we are all united in that one day each of us will face death; and so too will those we love. The grief of those left behind can be equally beautiful and devastating.
Enabling Children to Experience Nature
Rabbi Yonatan Neril – I visited The Essex County Environmental Center in New Jersey, which educates tens of thousands of kids every year on environmental sustainability. They take kids on a Native American trail, and they teach them about local plants and animals and about growing their own food.