People around the world are developing climate solutions at their own scale, to address their unique needs. The Ashden Awards in the UK highlight some of the best from around the world.

Many try to solve multiple problems, like The Welcoming, a garden in Edinborough, that teaches Syrian refuges sustainable skills, grows familiar foods, and builds connections. Here’s who won in 2021.

Ashden Award for Natural Climate Solutions, supported by the UK Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mbou Mon Tour

Ashden Award for Cooling in Informal Settlements, supported by the Clean Cooling Collaborative.

Mahila Housing Trust

Ashden Award for Humanitarian Energy, supported by The Headley Trust, The Linbury Trust, Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Trust.

Solar Freeze

Ashden Award for Energy Access Innovation, supported by the UK Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

New Energy Nexus Uganda

Ashden Award for Regenerative Agriculture, supported by The…

     What steps do you think we can take to make our history more  inclusive of all of our stories?

     I started my own walking singing tour company in the belief that song was a powerful way to help make this happen.  Some of what I learned is in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call (last week was page 39…):

” .. the Jewish community and without. Since breaking off from the reformers at Washington Hebrew Congregation, which should have been called Shaarei Tefilah, or maybe it was Shaarie Tzedek, as one person insists, though no one seems to remember now; but how to approach the Gates of Prayer when the mixed seating and organ music were so distracting? And shouldn’t Hebrew be used, the Sacred Language, for prayers, not English or German? So we remained traditional.

Orthodox some are calling us. Then there was the…

Today the Supreme Court, once a fair and non-partisan branch of our federal government, is hearing a case to decide whether to uphold the recent Mississippi law banning abortions.  The general consensus is that the Court will, either in this case or the next one, do significant damage to Roe v Wade, if not completely overturn the 1973 decision that gave women the right to control their own bodies.

Make no mistake … this is NOT simply about abortion, about the fate of a fetus that might or might not otherwise become a human.  No, people, this is about women’s rights, about where women stand in the grand scheme of this country.  Make no mistake – the United States is still very much a man’s world where men, regardless of how corrupt, how cruel, how ignorant they are, are revered over women, considered somehow ‘superior’ to women by the majority…