Yes, once again it's a giant roundup of climate action opportunities
Because there's just so many damn ways to make the world better.
Hey. You need to slow down.
I can’t. I don’t know how.
I have been brought up to favour short-term gratification and band-aid solutions, anything just to keep going for now.
We buy a cheap shirt now and promise to look into ethical fashion later - no time now. You’ve got two jobs to get by and don’t even get a full night’s sleep. Fuel yourself with caffeine, share an Insta post about self-care, and get through the day.
One more meme about not getting paid enough, one more day fuelling ourselves on energy sources that don’t last. I’ll slow down - tomorrow. We’ll go net zero - in 2050. It’ll get better - someday.
I work too much. I am not cool. I am not collected. I dream of email inboxes and cities sinking into the ocean. Every day I am buying into the same capitalist mentality that got us into this mess. The mindset that I must exhaust energy, time and myself in the pursuit of production and profit.
We have been taught that we do not have time to do the work. I mean the work of learning about the world around us, deeply restructuring the way that decisions are made and the way we pass our time. We have been taught that transition fuels, far-away climate pledges and carbon offsets are the best we can do.
We have been taught that your anxiety about climate disasters is for you to fix with another mindfulness app, rather than by stopping the world being razed to the ground.
This system of overconsumption told me that I must address climate action the same way. With reckless overproduction and disregard for health. But that’s not true.
A regenerative, just world gives us time to sleep. It does not chain us to our laptops, does not see humans as profit-generating machines. Capitalism is a pandemic. Like a disease, I have to - we have to - expel these internalised false solutions and begin the work for a regenerative and just world within ourselves.
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What’s Going On?
Fossil fuels companies have earned $2.8bn a day for 50 years and used it to fund corporate lobbying and drive the climate crisis.
Related: How fossil fuel companies have funded climate denial for decades.India approves climate plan to reach net zero by 2070 and 45% emissions reduction by 2030.
Useful: How well is India doing in climate action already?The UN recognises the human rights to a safe, healthy and sustainable environment.
Useful: How does the climate crisis impact human health?High Court rules that UK’s net-zero plan is too vague and must be strengthened.
Related: How the climate crisis entered the courtrooms.Instagram is fuelling a thrifting boom in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Related: How sustainable are secondhand fashion marketplaces?
What’s On in Climate Action this month?
LEARN MORE
Learn about the role of soil fungi in forest restoration in this webinar. 10 August.
Find out what goes on behind the scenes of extractivism in this online discussion on the 11 August.
Learn how to create change for sustainability through your work even if it’s not in the job description. 15 August.
Join this online event on the role of sustainable finance in a low carbon transition. 18 August.
Apply to join the upcoming Artistic Activism Learning Lab online by the 26th August.
Take this free online course by UNESCO on reducing plastic waste in tourism and hospitality sectors.
TRY SOMETHING NEW
Activists and journalists focused on Eastern Europe can apply for a 3 month residency at the Prague Civil Society Centre. Deadline 12 August.
Apply to be part of the Global Landscape Forum’s Restoration Steward Program! Deadline 14 August.
Young leaders from across Asia and the Pacific can apply for this 6-month fellowship on youth climate action until the 15 August.
Tell the EU what the bioeconomy looks like in your life through art. Open until 15 August.
Young climate activists (16-35) can apply to join the YOUNGO online climate finance academy until 15 August.
Under 24? Applications to become a Tunza Eco-generation Regional Ambassador are open until 15th August.
Take part in showing the EU #TheEuropeIWant on social media to win an Interrail pass. Entries close 15th August.
Circular fashion projects can apply to join the Small But Perfect network from the 18th August.
Apply for the COP27 journalism fellowship with Climate Tracker until the 19th August.
European youth can apply to give a Youth Talk for the EU Level Up event in Brussels this autumn. Deadline 28 August.
Young adults in Europe and Africa can apply to join the Chatham House Common Futures Conversations on improving government, until 30 August.
Youth & Environment Europe are recruiting! Apply to become a Regional Contact Person for the North (1 Sept), Finance Coordinator (asap) or Treasurer (10 Sept).
Apply to join the Racial Justice Task Force of the Federation of Young European Greens, by 4 September.
New call for youth-run projects worth 1 million euros coming out in September: EUTeens4Green.
The International Polar Foundation in Brussels is looking for an intern to help organise the annual Arctic Futures Symposium. Email comms@polarfoundation.org for information.
[US] Queer and hoping to work in the outdoors? Join the Queer Outdoors job board!
CHANGE THE SYSTEM
Support the #StopJackdaw week of action to protest a new UK fossil project from the 20th - 27th August (and tweet the UK Business Secretary while you’re at it).
Save the date! The next Global Climate Strike is the 23rd September.
Sign to prevent the development of new oil projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Tell Lloyd’s to stop supporting a new devastating oil pipeline.
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