climate change
The human-caused alteration of our planet has provoked an ecological crisis that is unprecedented and existential. On no issue is strong an effective advocacy more important than the fight for the future and the Democracy Center has been in that fight for more than a decade, across the world.
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growing sustainable communities conference
Watch the keynote speech by Jim Shultz addressing the relationship between the climate crisis, the global refugee crisis and current threats to democracy.
DO WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN ENOUGH TO SAVE THEM?
How do we speak about the climate crisis to people who are not activists? Read More
Interview with Jim Shultz, director of The Democracy Center, based in Bolivia.
TO MY FRIEND THE CLIMATE DEFEATIST: HERE’S WHY I’M STILL IN THE FIGHT
It is good to mourn for what's being lost. But giving up just gives the fossil fuel industry what it wants. Read More
Video and report from Jim Shultz’s address to EMU students on ‘The Climate Crisis and the Urgency of Youth Activism.’
Exploring tactics of adaptation to climate change in rural Bolivia.
As the world discusses the looming threat of climate change, we must listen to the stories and peoples who have experienced it firsthand.
In September 2012 the Democracy Center published a series of seven in-depth profiles on successful and ongoing climate campaigns taking place across the globe.
Sowing resilience to patriarchy and climate change in pre-urban Bolivia.
Project on young people and climate change in Vietnam, Bolivia, and the UK.
Northern Fixes and Southern Realities: three primers to help explain the key climate policy debates and their implications for Bolivia.
The Democracy Center’s report ‘Off the Market’ connects the dots between the global debate over forest protection and the complex realities on the ground.
In this resource from 2012 we look at what climate change means for our relationship to this building block of life.