Fuel Your Inspiration - August 2026
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Fuel Your Inspiration
August 2026
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Africa Youth Summit Talks in August
Climate justice requires peace. We don't hear enough about African youth who are some of the busiest, best-organized, and inspirational climate activists on the planet! Register yourself and your peace and climate justice group for upcoming talks, presented by Peace and Climate Justice Africa. Tune in to hear lectures and presentations by African youth who are becoming the next leaders of their communities.
Detroit Abloom Leading by Example
Detroit Abloom, a thriving community garden in Detroit, USA’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, is an inspiration for towns and cities anywhere who wish to revitalize ugly and abandoned, vacant land, known as “urban blight”. Over the years, local volunteers have maintained their vision of “how we are all family” to promote kindness and a healthy, prosperous neighborhood. The green oasis they have created, filled with flowers and vegetables, provides a delightful escape from big city noise, traffic, and rush. The Wellness Garden is a space for health and well-being. Emulate this project in your community!
“Before I flew I was already aware how small and vulnerable our planet is; but only when I saw it from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind’s most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.”
― Sigmund Jähn, German Cosmonaut,
who flew aboard Soyuz 31 in 1978
Trending: Houses on Stilts
Cloudy Climate, a blog of climate musings, offers this report about how traditional and modern designs converge for flood-impacted homeowners who are putting houses upon stilts to escape surging waters. The stronger storms and rising seas of climate change bring more flooding worldwide. Where we have erected dams and levees to tame meandering rivers, drained swamps to advance towns and farmland, destroyed mangrove forests for seashore development, constructed cities filled with concrete, the water has nowhere to go. For example, flood plains are nature’s way of capturing and absorbing overflows. Even when flood plains appear “unused and wasted”, they can provide room for the river and life-saving flood mitigation. And their sometimes-unruly natural appearance hides precious ecosystems that harbor resilient flora and fauna.
