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Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees

Creative Greenius

Here is why I spend all of my time working on climate change issues and why we are gathering on the beach here in Southern California on October 24 in Manhattan Beach for 350.org org International Day of Climate Action to demonstrate what sea level rise will do to us here on the West Coast. We also know there will be no escape for us.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Confronting climate change and cybersecurity threats The other four winning comics cover artificial intelligence, climate change, and cybersecurity. I also think it’s fun and exciting,” she adds.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. Climate change is a great example. What's more, we are changing.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

Creative Greenius

It’s rare for the average person to ever get a good up close and personal look at panels, especially so close to the ground. Unlike their parents and their grandparents, these kids aren’t in denial or trying to fool anyone about what’s coming with climate change. It’s yours.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

And then there is the issue of climate justice which motivates me more than any amount of money ever could. Because my father’s mother was a Romanian Jew, an illegal immigrant, who fled to America to escape World War II, all Jews and all refugees on the run are my family. “What’s in it for me?”

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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

The energy and enthusiasm of Martin’s volunteer army gave me renewed energy and enthusiasm – not to mention a better feeling about the younger generations we’re leaving our spoiled climate to. But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. .