Water and Soil Conservation in Agriculture With Dr. Mallika Nocco
This seminar presents new approaches for soil and water conservation in different crops across California and the Midwest US.
ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network
In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change [insideclimatenews.org]
By Victoria St. Martin, Photo: Robert Nickelsburg/Getty Images, Inside Climate News, June 16, 2022 For years, research journals devoted to the earth sciences have warned of the dire consequences that could result from global warming and pollution going unchecked. Now, one of the nation’s oldest medical journals has committed itself to increasing the public’s knowledge about the health effects of the planet’s changing climate. Beginning with the issue published Thursday, The New England...
How do we empower youth in face of the climate crisis?
Whether you are a parent or a guardian, a teacher or a school administrator, if you have children in your life, you might hear them talking about climate change. Whether it’s wildfires or floods or tsunamis and tornados, these events are happening with increasing frequency all around us. Climate change may once have been an abstract concept or foreign idea, but it is now our reality. Young people are more aware than ever of the threats to the planet’s future and are getting involved...
How “Generation Dread” Can Emerge From Chronic Eco-Distress With Resilience with Dr. Britt Wray
Through memoir, reportage and narrative non-fiction, Generation Dread examines wide raging mental health impacts of the ecological crisis, creative coping strategies for living more comfortably amidst profound eco-distress, what can be done to exercise flexible thinking about the future, and why we ought to be aware of psychological defences that prevent action.
Developing an Ethic of Citizenship for Navigating the Climate Crisis with Dr. Kate Knuth
We need a strengthened ability to govern together, across divides, in order to forge our path toward a more just, sustainable future.
What’s Mine to Do? Vision, Action, and Mourning in the Face of Collapse with Miki Kashtan
When we know what is ours to do and what is not, we can discern our next steps with care for all the needs, impacts, and resources we know of, including the limits of our capacity.
Introduction to Resonance for Climate Anxiety with Sarah Peyton
In order to remain engaged, responsive and loving, we need support, otherwise, our inner resources become depleted.
‘Defending life:’ Indigenous way of life imperative to solving climate crisis (globalvoices.org)
Earth Day on April 22 spurred debates about how to tackle our global ecological crisis. Global Voices spoke with Miryam Vargas, a Nahuatl journalist from Choluteca, Mexico, to help us understand what we can learn from Indigenous communities. Vargas reports on environmental issues and has worked alongside her native community for more than a decade. She believes the key to climate and environmental emergency is found in Indigenous and rural communities, not in Western, urban, or “green...
The Contribution of Large Animals to Help Fight Climate Change with Dr. Fabio Berzaghi
Dr. Fabio Berzaghi will present on the contribution of large (and small) animals that help fight climate change and keep ecosystems healthy, as well as Rebalance Earth, a non-profit contributing to positive change in the world by protecting nature and helping local communities.
Perspectives and Practices for an Eco-Wise Culture
The very best remedy for climate anxiety is knowing that this a collective experience, not an individual experience. This is a 12-month learning community to build understanding, resiliency and togetherness amidst the ecological crisis we and our planet are facing.
Register now! Join us Friday, April 15: Building the Movement to Prevent and Heal Climate Traumas; Promote Environmental Justice Tomorrow - 1pm-4pm ET
The accelerating global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity emergency will increasingly disrupt every aspect of society. It is a "wicked" problem, meaning it results from numerous factors that interact in new and surprising ways to defy standard solutions. The pervasive distresses and traumas it generates are also "wicked" problems: they result from multiple forces that often interact non-linearly and will, over time, impact everyone and every community on earth. No single profession,...
Invitation to Webinar on Building the Movement to Prevent and Heal Climate Traumas and Promote Environmental Justice
This Series is Sponsored by CTIPP, the NPSC, and PACEs Connections This specific session is c oordinated by Bob Doppelt of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition Building the Movement to Prevent and Heal Climate Traumas and Promote Environmental Justice Friday April 15, 2022 from 1-4 pm ET Sign Up for free at https://www.npscoalition.org/ prevent-trauma-workshop-series The accelerating global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity emergency will increasingly disrupt every aspect of...
Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color [insideclimatenews.org]
By Bob Berwyn, Photo: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Inside Climate News, February 22, 2022 Black, Brown and Indigenous people have been systematically excluded from earth sciences, magnifying their exposure to the most severe impacts of climate change, said Asmeret Asefaw Berhe , lead author of a recent commentary in the journal Nature Geosciences. That adds to the burden of global warming that people of color already bear more heavily than other populations because the world for centuries has been...
Climate change is already making parts of the world unlivable [vox.com]
By Umair Irfan, Photo: Climate change is already testing the limits of what human communities can survive, and if warming isn’t kept in check, some of the most crowded parts of the planet will become practically unlivable. The temperatures are already getting too hot, disasters are becoming too severe, and the costs of staying put are becoming unbearable for millions of people. And the greatest impacts are on those least able to cope. These are some of the stark conclusions in the latest...
Hearing the Language of Trees (yesmagazine.org)
The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world. The intelligence of plants has long been a theme of literature, philosophy, and Indigenous narrative. Scientific research into the chemical interactions between plant species and other living things supports the idea. In The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence , writers and scientists add their personal perspectives in a rich collection of essays and poems,...