ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network

My second Psychology Today article--"Climate Anxiety in Make Believe and Real Time"--was published today. It describes how society's sad response to the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity catastrophe mirrors that story told in the movie "Don't Look Up." It then describes how one result of our failure to act is that both youth and adults, including my wife and I, suffer from "climate anxiety." The article goes on to discuss how we can overcome climate anxiety by establishing the social...

ITRC Coordinator Bob Doppelt will not be writing a regular monthly column for Psychology Today . They will focus on different aspects involved with using a public health approach in communities to prevent and heal the mental health and psychosocial problems generated by accelerating climate related toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters. His first article can be found here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202401/communities-are-medicine

Personal experience, common sense, and science confirm that temperatures are rising globally. Heat waves are occurring with greater frequency and lasting longer than ever before. According to the World Meteorological Organization , 2023 is believed to have been the hottest year on record. Humans have successfully adapted to a wide range of climates, but there are limits to our tolerance and climatic conditions beyond which our bodies cannot cool themselves sufficiently. While the dangers of...

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If you want to learn about the most effective way to prevent and heal the pervasive mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the global climate emergency, listen to Don McCauley's interview with me for The Authors Show about my new book Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Routledge Publishing). The interview will run for the next 3 days on the Authors Show website and can found by scrolling down and hitting the link...

Applications are not open to participate in the 2024 ITRC Community of Practice (CoP) on organizing and facilitating “Resilience Coordinating Networks” in communities that build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis. This will be the fourth year we have offered a CoP. If it is like the previous three, people from throughout the US, Canada, the EU and UK are likely to participate. The 10 week CoP begins on Feb. 13 and is free to approved participants. CE Credits are...

This webinar will describe the urgent need, methods, and many benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate emergency. To Register for the Webinar Go To: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZNlBUkzMVKD8nbwZYVUyCTpxeE8DItzJvMcpifv1G1… Rising global temperatures are increasingly stressing everyone due to cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs,...

Back to School with PACEs Connection: Creating Positive Childhood Environmental Experiences in the Classroom Every aspect of someone’s environment will impact how they live, learn, play, and grow. Those under the age of 18 in traditional learning models will spend the majority of their time in a school setting, where the environment itself lays the foundation for their development. Creating positive childhood experiences in schools and the classroom has a profound impact on students'...

Fallen tree trunks and branches cover a road during the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, Calif., on July 23, 2022. David McNew/AFP via Getty Images To read more of Chloe Veltman's article, please click here. The Oak Fire, which burned roughly 20,000 acres west of Yosemite National Park last summer, was devastating to the area's Indigenous tribes — including the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation . The tribe is headquartered in Mariposa, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada...

It’s time to take action and make our voices heard to build healthy, resilient communities! The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is organizing trauma-informed advocates, activists, and stakeholders to urge their U.S. Senators and Representatives to support two bipartisan, bicameral bills that would significantly help prevent, address, and mitigate the negative impacts of trauma through community-based/led initiatives.

Over 1,300 people have registered for Thursday's briefing! They include federal, state, and local elected officials and staff, as well as people from the civic, non-profit, and private sectors from numerous fields from almost every state in the US. Please register for the Zoom meeting here .

Thousands of activists, indigenous groups, students and others take to the streets of New York for the March to End Fossil Fuels protest on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023 in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images To read more of Rachel Waldholz' article, please click here. This time, protesters are marching with a specific message for President Biden: it's time for the U.S. to move away from oil and gas. "[This] march is piercingly clear about what needs to be done to actually solve climate," said...