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Todos nosotros tenemos el poder de escoger opciones más sostenibles y reducir nuestra cantidad de desechos y consumo de nuevos productos:
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Durante el mes de diciembre, los estadounidenses generan un 23 % más de residuos que en otros meses del año » Yale Climate Connections
Pero, hay muchas maneras en las que podemos disminuir la basura que creamos.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Turn the tables 🔄
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How to talk about climate change at the Thanksgiving table: Ask your loved ones to help YOU figure out how to take more climate action.

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Talk about this on Thanksgiving
How to talk about climate change at the dinner table.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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How to talk about climate change at the Thanksgiving table: Ask your loved ones to help YOU figure out how to take more climate action.

youtube.com/shorts/H98_c...
Talk about this on Thanksgiving
How to talk about climate change at the dinner table.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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When hurricanes knock out power, these solar “beehives” could be the lifeline communities need. 🐝⚡ #ClimateResilience #CleanEnergy
Bees inspired this new disaster relief system » Yale Climate Connections
Groups in North Carolina are building solar-powered ‘hives’ to deliver lifesaving electricity after storms.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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From installing solar panels at home to lobbying their representatives, our readers are working to protect the climate in all 50 states. And with your support, we can spread the word about climate solutions with even more people, always for free.

Will you chip in?
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Only 28% of Americans regularly hear about climate change in the media, but 77% want to hear those stories.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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By eating *all* the leftover stuffing. It's a sacrifice I'm prepared to make.
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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How are you planning to reduce your food waste this Thanksgiving?
The U.S. could throw away 320 million pounds of food this Thanksgiving » Yale Climate Connections
But you can reduce waste by following these steps.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thank you @climateconnections.bsky.social for bringing this important paper by @ccallahan45.bsky.social & @jsmankin.bsky.social to my attention. Three cheers for their research and for the powerful lede to their abstract:

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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Heating and cooling in one simple unit. New cold-climate window heat pumps could help apartments ditch gas and oil for good. 🌞⚡
New window-mounted heat pumps make ditching fossil fuels easier » Yale Climate Connections
They plug into a standard outlet, hang on the sill, and slash climate-warming pollution.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#COP30 que se celebró en Brasil este año, se incorporó la educación en su programa oficial:
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La COP30 resalta el rol estratégico de la educación frente al cambio climático » Yale Climate Connections
“La educación es el factor que mejor predice la concienciación sobre el cambio climático”
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November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I put the recording of my interview with Couples Therapy psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik on our @climateconnections.bsky.social YouTube channel if you prefer watching conversations!

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Couples Therapy's Orna Guralnik thinks climate change is affecting your relationship
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November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It's hardly the worst thing about him, but newly released emails show that Jeffrey Epstein was a doubter of mainstream climate science: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/jeff...
Jeffrey Epstein, climate change doubter » Yale Climate Connections
Newly released emails show Epstein peddling climate denial myths to scientist Lawrence Krauss while Trump’s first term was getting underway.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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These teens want beans!

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Forget burgers and pizza. These teens want beans. » Yale Climate Connections
A youth-led campaign is urging school cafeterias to serve fiber-rich, plant-powered meals every day.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The climate crisis sadly has been the major contributing factor in breaking up my relationships with most of the people I once had in my life.
climateconnections.bsky.social Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 8d
"Really, we need to be thinking about communities rather than about smaller units, and less about bowing down to this kind of extreme form of capitalism, and more about sustainability, shared resources, kind of an anti-capitalist idea of the family."

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Couples therapist Orna Guralnik thinks climate change is affecting your relationship » Yale Climate Connections
An interview with the psychoanalyst at the center of the hit Showtime docuseries ‘Couples Therapy.’
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November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social 🤑
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We searched the Epstein emails for climate misinformation so you don't have to:
Jeffrey Epstein, climate change doubter » Yale Climate Connections
Newly released emails show Epstein peddling climate denial myths to scientist Lawrence Krauss while Trump’s first term was getting underway.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"Really, we need to be thinking about communities rather than about smaller units, and less about bowing down to this kind of extreme form of capitalism, and more about sustainability, shared resources, kind of an anti-capitalist idea of the family."

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/coup...
Couples therapist Orna Guralnik thinks climate change is affecting your relationship » Yale Climate Connections
An interview with the psychoanalyst at the center of the hit Showtime docuseries ‘Couples Therapy.’
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November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Has climate change come up in your romantic relationships?

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Couples therapist Orna Guralnik thinks climate change is affecting your relationship » Yale Climate Connections
An interview with the psychoanalyst at the center of the hit Showtime docuseries ‘Couples Therapy.’
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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We need reliable, bold climate coverage now more than ever. Our weather is getting more extreme and dangerous, and climate solutions are cheaper and more accessible than ever. Will you support our end-of-year fundraising campaign?
Why donate to Yale Climate Connections? » Yale Climate Connections
Only 28% of Americans regularly hear about climate change in the media, but 77% want to hear those stories.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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another slightly unhinged photoshop collage by yours truly
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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With new tools based on satellite and aircraft data, you can find the major sources of climate-warming methane pollution in your community:
How satellites can help us find and clean up methane super-polluters  » Yale Climate Connections
Doing so would make a big difference to the climate. 
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November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"Their journey is both a protest and a demand: an end to fossil fuel extraction, respect for uncontacted peoples, direct financing for community-led projects, and a commitment to climate solutions centered around ancestral knowledge." - Natalia Arcos Cano
Indigenous flotilla sails to COP30 to demand respect and climate solutions » Yale Climate Connections
Representatives from more than 60 Indigenous organizations traveled the Amazon from the Andes in Ecuador to Belém, Brazil.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Yes. It's actually fairly unpleasant to walk in the United States. Cars are everywhere, forget that picturesque walk with a toddler to the neighborhood school, the air is choked with cars. There's literally nowhere besides a hiking trail or a golf course. And golf courses have gatekeepers.
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“The biggest reason there aren't more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they've basically been banned … People feel they need a car, and then we mistake that as people wanting a car, when really they just didn't have an alternative.” – Ryan Johnson, Culdesac founder
This car-free neighborhood was designed to revolutionize American cities » Yale Climate Connections
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable places.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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“The biggest reason there aren't more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they've basically been banned … People feel they need a car, and then we mistake that as people wanting a car, when really they just didn't have an alternative.” – Ryan Johnson, Culdesac founder
This car-free neighborhood was designed to revolutionize American cities » Yale Climate Connections
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable places.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM