Author: Susan Phillips, Executive Director

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We will not cease working toward the just transition Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Hello friends, how are you? How are we? Last week a student in the class I am teaching at Hamlin...
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Shaping Climate Grief into Climate Action Susan Phillips, Executive Director
My general mood these days swings from anger to deep grief, no matter how many times I stop to noti...
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Life After Plastic Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Is it possible to imagine life without plastic? It’s everywhere — our packaging, our furniture, our...
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The Great Turning and the Great Learning Susan Phillips, Executive Director
I love a good podcast. I can listen while in the garden or the kitchen, the two spaces of my summer...
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Disinformation serves us not Susan Phillips, Executive Director
It’s been a few crazy weeks my friends. Searing heat waves in the East. Fires in the Southwest. His...
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Education is the Climate Solution Susan Phillips, Executive Director
It’s an all hands on deck month here at Climate Generation as the team prepares to host the Summer ...
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Cultivating A Healthy Habitat Susan Phillips, Executive Director
I am writing from home today, a little week-long staycation I take each spring to spend planting an...
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Earth Month Reflections Susan Phillips, Executive Director
It’s Earth Month, good people. A designated time to pause, reflect and take action to save our only...
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Springing Into Hope Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Is it spring? It feels like it. Normally, here in Minnesota we’d still be slogging through the ...
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Where You Bank Matters Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Current events have me thinking back to my time as an undergraduate student and being a part of the...
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Wars are in the way of Climate Justice Susan Phillips, Executive Director
There is a song playing in my head as I write this – Edwin Star’s 1970 release ‘War’. The Chorus is...
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People Before Profits NOW Susan Phillips, Executive Director
My heart is heavy my friends. As I write this on Wednesday December 13, COP28 is wrapping up withou...
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Holding the Both/And of Goodbyes Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Friends, it is with great sadness that I share that Kristen Poppleton, our Senior Director of Progr...
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Good news in a hurting world Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Well my friends, it is a hard time to sit down and write something – anything really. I have to adm...
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Food, Agriculture & the Climate Crisis Susan Phillips, Executive Director
I spent last week bicycling across Wisconsin and through the Driftless Region (a special geological...
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Community Is The Answer Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Greetings friends. I write today from under another air quality alert related to air pollution. The...
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Apocalypse, fractals and the just transition Susan Phillips, Executive Director
It has been another month of reckoning with the climate crisis as we witness record heat and extrem...
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Our Healer, Mother Earth Susan Phillips, Executive Director
This month, the world feels like a giant dumpster fire. There is so much hurt everywhere. Our team ...
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Drawing Inspiration from Youth Leaders ✊ Susan Phillips, Executive Director
On March 30, I stood in the basement of the Good Neighborhood Center, surrounded by some 125 young ...
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It’s time to phase-out fossil fuels Susan Phillips, Executive Director
On Monday, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the final analysis re...
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Equinox reflections: spring into action ? Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Hey good people, it’s March.   This month’s name comes from the Roman God of War, Mars...
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It’s all interconnected Susan Phillips, Executive Director
It is Black History Month and I am so grateful for all of the newsletters and social media posts up...
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“Hope is a discipline” Susan Phillips, Executive Director
My daughter lives, works, and plays in Los Angeles, California. I have grown accustomed to being an...
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A sacred season of pause Susan Phillips, Executive Director
The Winter Solstice is upon us — the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. The dark...
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COP27: Cognitive Dissonance Susan Phillips, Executive Director
I sit here at my laptop with so many observations and experiences running through my head.  ...
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Whose voice matters? Susan Phillips, Executive Director
COP27 has been, well, something. So many things actually. There has been a question in my mind from...
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A just and abundant world beyond climate crisis Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Greetings Climate Generation family and friends, As you read this, I am currently in Sharm El-Sh...
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Embracing Complexity for Change Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Our seasons here are changing. Last weekend the fall colors were glorious; today we woke up to our ...
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Tomato blossoms, fermenting pickles, and empty water barrels: an evolving climate story Susan Phillips, Executive Director
“And she came into the kitchen, her smile reaching from pigtail to pigtail, with a handful of littl...
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Welcoming our Newest Board Members Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Climate Generation is thrilled to welcome two new members to our Board of Directors this month: Dr....
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Crafting New Realities, Together Susan Phillips, Executive Director
Greetings, I am so excited to join the Climate Generation team and community as Executive Direct...
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