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“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”
Stephen Hawking
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1842) natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician

Climate-change insights from science, the arts, and policy

Documentaries

A Life on Our Planet

“We must re-wild the planet,” implores Sir David Attenborough.

The world is fortunate for the wise and heartfelt voice of this now 98-year-old naturalist, broadcaster and humanist. He not only clarifies Earth’s climate crisis; he also delineates clear solutions, as in his must-see film, A Life on the Planet.

He calls it his “witness statement," this sobering, necessary, yet hopeful investigation of the actions to which all of us now must commit minds and hearts in full measure.

May the insights and inspirations throughout this town meeting for the planet — presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music — move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into winds of change we so urgently need.
Books

Building the Earth (1965)

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Commencement Speeches

We All Breathe the Same Air

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Books

Vesper Flights (2020)

Helen Macdonald
Photography

Family outing

Articles

1,200 possibilities for Earth's future

Chris Mooney, Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens
Articles

The illusion of a trillion trees

Alexandra Heal, The Financial Times
Photography

Roadside skeptic

Commencement Speeches

A Left-handed Commencement Address

Ursula K LeGuin
Books

The Overstory (2018)

Richard Powers
Books

Horizon (2019)

Barry Lopez
Articles

Each of us

Tony Balis
Commencement Speeches

Becoming Kinder

George Saunders, writer and professor
Books

The World Ending Fire (2019)

Wendell Berry
Commencement Speeches

What We Wish to Become

Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University - and the world of ants...
Talks

Canoeros: Living Memory

The Kawésqar people
Commencement Speeches

The Earth is Hiring

Paul Hawken
Commencement Speeches

Introduction to our commencement archive and top ten speeches.

26 commencement speakers
Commencement Speeches

Be Your Own Story

Toni Morrison
Talks

"Put the water back in the river!"

Bruce Shillingsworth, aboriginal activist
Articles

Human violence dramatically increases carbon

Nina Lakhani, climate justice reporter
Commencement Speeches

Analyzing the problem

Wendell Berry
Quotations

"men argue.."

Books

The Abstract Wild (1996)

Jack Turner
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