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Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and long-time television journalist. His films include The Take and This Changes Everything. He is one of the co-authors of the Leap Manifesto and is the Strategic Director and Co-Founder of The Leap.

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Youth in Ottawa take part in the Friday Climate Strike on May 3, 2019.

Time to Follow the Green New Leaders

Young people are rapidly changing the political calculus on climate in this country — even though many of the leaders are too young to vote

Julie Weder ·

These real crises stand in stark contrast to the invented ones. They are actually happening, transforming our physical world, costing lives and treasure. Whereas the crises that capture headlines day after day — looking at you, oil price differential! — turn out to be wildly exaggerated for cynical political ends. (Photo: Pexels.com)

The November Crisis

We are living in a state of planetary emergency

Avi Lewis ·

This is the most hopeful note: more and more people are coming to the conclusion that this escalating crisis, ever-harder to deny, can galvanize change on the scale that is really needed.(Photo: The Leap)

Time to Use Our Fear as Fuel: Three Takeaways from the IPCC's New Report

More and more people are coming to the conclusion that this escalating crisis, ever-harder to deny, can galvanize change on the scale that is really needed. Nothing less will do.

Avi Lewis ·

Trudeau Is Less Liberal Than You Think

Many environmentalists rejoiced when Stephen Harper’s government was thrown out of office in Canada. But Justin Trudeau is no savior.

Naomi Klein ·

'Be Joyful, Though You Have Considered the Facts'

Ahead of nationwide release of new documentary film, some thoughts on climate, capitalism, and the need for stories that regenerate to battle those that destroy

Avi Lewis ·

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