Youth2Power

Yes to Earth Now is a DIY art & comedy campaign - it is meant to be done by everyone, joining together in what artist Joseph Beuys called a "social sculpture." You can learn more from this profile about Tobey from UC Irvine's Humanities blog.

Read her short one pager about funding Green Stewardship written to World Bank President Ajay Banga (available as PDF above).

A 73% reduction in wildlife populations worldwide from 1970 to 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/climate/wildlife-survey-population-declines-wwf.html 

Researchers have been overestimating wild fishstocks around the world

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/climate/fish-stocks-overcounting.html 

How climate change and biodiversity losses go hand in hand and can be solved together as well

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/climate/solar-power-pollinators-wildlife.html

Earth may have crossed seven of nine critical thresholds for planetary health 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/23/earth-breach-planetary-boundaries-health-check-oceans

Societal collapse may be imminent according to study

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-31/societal-collapse-collapseology-climate-change

The Value of Nature’s Services to Modern Economies

https://inomics.com/blog/the-value-of-natures-services-to-modern-economies-1523430 

How Bison sequester Carbon equal to 40K cars

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/bison-carbon-capture-rewilding 

African elephants capture more carbon

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2020/09/how-african-elephants-fight-climate-change-ralph-chami

Whale populations sequester huge amounts of carbon

https://www.imf.org/Publications/fandd/issues/2019/12/natures-solution-to-climate-change-chami 

Sea otters stabilize salt marsh banks

https://news.ucsb.edu/2024/021341/sea-otters-stabilize-salt-marsh-banks-they-recolonize-californian-estuary

The restorative powers of beavers in urban settings

https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/urban-beaver-new-york-city.html

Beavers in London

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/beavers-are-back-in-london-and-theyre-thriving/

Beavers making Britain Better

https://www.positive.news/environment/how-the-return-of-the-beaver-is-changing-britain-for-the-better/

What is Natural Capital?

https://www.conservation.org/blog/what-on-earth-is-natural-capital

The Bridgetown Initiative:

https://www.newamerica.org/the-thread/bridgetown-initiative-climate-finance/

Debt for Nature Swaps

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/debt-nature-swaps-right-kind-climate-finance-or-not

Debt for Nature and/or Nature Pledges

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/12/14/swapping-debt-for-climate-or-nature-pledges-can-help-fund-resilience  

How the salt marshes of NYC can save the city millions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/nyregion/jamaica-bay-marsh-new-york-city.html

What is a Green Bank?

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/what-is-a-green-bank

https://www.vox.com/2021/6/1/22454779/green-banks-biden-american-jobs-plan 

Rights of Nature reframes property rights

https://bioneers.org/rights-of-nature-is-the-logical-extension-of-the-american-legal-system-zmbz2303 

Wall Street Finds Climate Change confusing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/business/economy/financial-industry-climate.html

Ecological rehabilitation is our best hope

https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2021/02/podcast-is-the-growing-ecosystem-restoration-movement-our-last-hope-for-a-sustainable-future/

African nations face considerable problems, despite a wealth of green stewardship opportunities

https://theconversation.com/easing-africas-debt-burdens-a-fresh-approach-based-on-an-old-idea-239427

In Brazil, a new way to finance investment in climate: profits

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/brazil-climate-fund-trees.html

Indigenous Youth Defending the Amazon

https://atmos.earth/meet-the-indigenous-youth-defending-the-amazon-rainforest/

Youth activists in Juliana vs US are arguing before the Supreme Court

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/climate/juliana-lawsuit-supreme-court.html

Kids in Baltimore shut down an incinerator

https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2016/upstanders-the-kids-who-killed-an-incinerator/

American Climate Corps begins recruitment

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27042024/biden-american-climate-corps-jobs/

Bloomberg funds youth-led climate action in 100 cities worldwide

https://grist.org/cities/bloomberg-funds-youth-led-climate-action-in-100-cities-worldwide/

In Burkina Faso

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/desert-ancient-farming-009493

Arturo Vittori's Warka Towers pull water from Ethiopian air

https://www.wired.com/2014/03/warka-water-africa/

Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/social-sculpture

Agnes Denes plants wheat as art in Montana

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/arts/design/agnes-denes-tinworks-art-bozeman-wheatfield.html

In Ghana Ibrahim Mahama uses scrap to make large installations

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/ibrahim-mahama-artist-ghana-white-cube.html

Exploring the heritage of the indigo plant in the Carolinas

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/indigo-artists-south-carolina-low-country.html