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Fuel Your Inspiration

  • 23 hours ago
  • 3 min read

May 2026

THINK ACT CHANGE


Two children on their bicycles pause at a street curb and look toward the camera. They wear bicycle helmets. In the background are cars parked in the distance.


Kids reject unacceptable behavior


Hey, grownups! Wake. Up. You call this progress?

A FFF Newsletter reader found this short film and shared it with us–it’s self-explanatory. These kids seem to understand the ‘good old days’ of analog and handmade existence. Hopefully, they will be the messengers of these values into the future.


The illustration shows the logo for the group, North Arizona Climate Change Alliance. The words, ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOW appear under the name of the group. A picture of the Earth rests in a puddle on a parched and cracked surface of dirt.

Satiate Your Unquenchable Thirst for Knowledge


Carve out some time to sit back with your notepad and let someone else do the talking. No matter what your walk of life, listen to international experts talk about the science of climate and their sustainability work. The Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance (NAZCCA), one of the busiest grassroots climate action groups in the US, offers free Climate Talks for Everyone in easy-to-understand language. Tune in whenever you want. The NAZCCA’s online archive is a treasure trove of free talks —topics include climate migration, disarmament as climate justice, urban cycling, green burial, turning individual action into group action, and many more. They also have a great Tool Lending Library that you can emulate in your own neighborhood.

The illustration shows six black cooking utensils lined up left to right, such as spoons and spatulas. The color black represents black plastic. Superimposed over the utensils is a red triangle with a red exclamation point in the center. The triangle sends the message that these utensils are laden with toxins and should not be used in food preparation.

Meals Without Plastic


We can’t be reminded enough: whenever possible, avoid plastic. Never microwave food in plastic; acidic foods release toxins from plastic containers. All efforts to shut out single-use plastics are valuable. As the world still awaits a strong global plastics treaty, take a look at these timeless articles to keep you on course to phase plastics out of your life—the Environmental Working Group lays out plastic facts here, and Beyond Plastics, here. Help your local restaurants kick the to-go-plastic habit with Beyond Plastic’s campaign guides. The plucky Zero Waste Chef shows how to get off the stuff at home here, here, and here. Read how Coca-Cola is following a European law on bottle caps!

The illustration depicts the logo for the Arts & Climate Collective at the University of California, Los Angeles. The typestyle is a geometric, extra bold black lettering reminiscent of typestyles from the 1970s.

EcoMedia Shorts to Fuel Your Inspiration


The Arts & Climate Collective at the University of California, Los Angeles, recently held its 5th annual EcoMedia Festival. Click on the link for a plethora of short films, panels, and artwork. The films are available to watch for free.

ALT: The illustration in all black on white depicts the Earth, bordered by flames around the top of the globe, and black oil drops dripping along the bottom. The western hemisphere of the Earth is facing us.

“…We're simply running out of time.


And what I mean by that is that we're approaching points where we exceed the limits of adaptation, the planet drifting away in a direction that would undermine even further the ability of the global economy to support future generations. It's a scientific alarm bell combined with all the evidence that, with the right policies, with the right economic measures, we can actually turn this around and start moving decisively in the right direction. We are following a pathway of failure. But failure is not inevitable. It is actually a choice, and the choice should be at the center in a place like Davos.”


– Johan Rockström, internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability and Earth resilience; Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam, appealing to changemakers, leaders, and innovators to act collectively on the state of the planet, speaking in an interview at the Frontier Science House in Davos, Switzerland, in December 2025.


In the color photograph, we see an iceberg floating in the ocean. The sky is gray, overcast. The iceberg is tipped over onto one side, with the snow-topped land ice section on the right. The normally white snow has a tea-colored cast to it. The underside of the iceberg is visible on the left–it is an eerie and unusual, extremely dark green-teal color. It is unusual because we normally do not witness the bottom of an iceberg.
A flipped iceberg floats in the Weddell Sea, a block of green sea ice now showing above the water, joined to the whiter land ice. The Weddell Sea is situated at the northernmost point of mainland Antarctica. Photo credit: David Menzel / Climate Visuals

A Meditation for Climate Healing


The photo shows a bird resting upon the pebbles of concentric circles raked into a Zen garden. The meditation reads: Find a place where you can be silent. Be in a place. Be silent. Be inside. Be outside. Be in time. Be alive.

 
 
 
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