Victoria Chang writes in her New York Times Notable Book of 2020, Obit, “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.” After the deaths of her parents, she refused to write elegies; instead, Chang wrote poetic obituaries of the beautiful, […]
Michael Pollan has been educating us with illuminating prose on “the botany of desire” for a very long time. He will discuss his latest book This Is Your Mind On Plants and his landmark bestseller How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Pollan’s call for […]
Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis, a Mexican poet who started Grupo de Cien to save the monarch butterflies in the forests of Michoacán; and Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai of […]
Few have covered the climate crisis as deeply and as thoughtfully as Elizabeth Kolbert. Her work includes Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2007),the Pulitzer-prize winning The Sixth Extinction (2016), and her latest Under The White Sky (2021), “a book about people trying to solve problems caused by people trying to solve problems.” She discusses what […]
Join us to learn about what we're working on and learn more about climate change. Meet up this Thursday, November 18th on Zoom! First time using Zoom? Download these helpful Zoom instructions for participants. Experiencing technical difficulties during the meeting? Troubleshoot your issues at Zoom's support page.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change is the crisis that […]
Tea Master Brian Kirbis, who will open each of our sessions with a tea pouring to set a tone of well-being and attention, will take us through a formal tea ceremony. As a global community online, we will be able to sit and sip in collective silence to contemplate all we have heard and taken […]
For the last several years, Upstream has shared single-use foodware reduction policy models that also include bans on toxic PFAS in food packaging. But, with over 12,000 chemicals in food packaging and other food contact materials, PFAS bans alone won't ensure the safety of food packaging. Upstream has teamed up with the Safer States network […]
January 6 was a violent and deadly attack against all Americans – against our country, our democracy, and our freedom as voters to choose the leaders that represent us so that we have a government of, by, and for the people. One year later, the same faction that attacked our country on January 6th is […]
We are planning to hold the annual Napa Climate NOW! retreat on Saturday, January 8, from 9am-12noon via zoom. It will be followed by the Celebration of the 2021 Climate Champions at noon (also via zoom). We hope you will be able to attend and serve as leaders in our breakout rooms. To register go to: […]