Where Climate Change Community Is Headed Next Over the coming months, our network is shifting its center of gravity. Most of our day-to-day writing, learning and conversation will move to two community platforms we’ve been building for some time: Climate Tribe Social (climatetribe.social) and SDL5 (SDL5.com or SDL5.org — same site). Climate Change Community remains … Read more
Climate Tribe Social: A Different Way Forward I want to share an out-of-the-box idea for how we might work together to confront five interconnected emergencies: Climate, Ecological, Democracy, Humanity, and Displacement. (Displacement is what I previously called the Climate Refugee Emergency.) This is an invitation to help build something grounded in kindness, empathy, and compassion, … Read more
Personal health, climate-aware choices, and resilience belong in the same conversation. We have spent years talking about climate change as an environmental emergency. It is that. It is also a health emergency, a food-system emergency, and a slow, grinding test of whether ordinary families and communities can keep functioning while the conditions around them change. … Read more
The Climate Emergency Control Center: Why It Exists, What the Response Hub Is, and How to Take Part A worldwide home for learning, preparedness, and organized climate response — now open inside Climate Tribe Social Three Minutes in Atlantic Beach On the evening of Thursday, August 20, 2026, a waterspout crossed the mouth of the … Read more
The Kind of Community I Intend to Run A statement of community culture for ClimateChangeCommunity.com, Climate Tribe Social, SDL5, and the current and future projects of Climate Change Community LLC. This Is Not a Terms of Service Page This is something more personal than a Terms of Service page. Formal Terms of Service, privacy policies, … Read more
A Kinder Way Forward Change for the better begins with how we treat each other. A Gentle Introduction: Why This Matters So Deeply There is a quiet moment many of us know too well — when you close a window on your phone or computer after reading something cruel, something dehumanizing, something that leaves you … Read more
Why we renamed a Space, rebuilt the Basic Plan, and why we are not building any of this on somebody else’s platform. What I Am Announcing, and What I Am Not For some time now, people who follow my work have heard me talk about Adaptive Resiliency. Some of you have been waiting — patiently, … Read more
Adaptive Resiliency, Self- and Collective-Self Preservation, and Why We Are Building What We Are Building In December 2024, in Windhoek, Namibia, representatives of 147 governments approved a scientific report that said in careful institutional language what we have been saying in plainer words for years. The IPBES Nexus Assessment did something the world’s major scientific … Read more
Climate Tribe Social is opening its doors — but we are doing it carefully. Rather than bringing everyone in at once, we are using a temporary wait-list during our opening period. This gives us a little room to make sure that the experience we have spent so much time building works just as well for … Read more