ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network

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...

Eleven of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the Held v. Montana case pose for a photo after Day 5 of the trial on Friday, June 16, 2023. Top row (left to right): Lander Busse, Badge Busse, Grace, Rikki Held, Olivia. Bottom row (left to right): Kian, Mica, Claire, Eva, Taleah, Sariel. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan) By Blair Miller, Daily Montanan, August 14, 2023 The State of Montana’s failure to consider greenhouse gas emissions from energy and mining projects violates the state...

By Vivek Shandas, Illustration: from article, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 3, 2023 I will never forget late June 2021 in Portland—not because it was filled with family time, trips to the Pacific coast or even because of the pandemic—but because of the extreme heat beating down on the region. A “ heat dome ” trapped hot air over my home state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, killing almost 1,000 people as temperatures soared to a whopping 120° F. Scientists have found that this...

Global map of GISTEMP June surface temperature anomaly relative to the 1951-1980 June baseline. Most of the world is “red” due to warm anomalies, with the highest anomalies around Antarctica and Canada. Credit: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies By NASA Global Climate Change, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, July 13, 2023 June 2023 was the hottest June on record according to NASA’s global temperature analysis . GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, is drawn from...

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Earth Photograph:( AFP ) To read more of the Seoul, South Korea's article, please click here. A new study has left scientists surprised and concerned after it was found that humans have pumped out so much groundwater in the past two decades that it has shifted the tilt of the Earth’s axis. According to the findings of the research published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal by the American Geophysical Union, the Earth has tilted as much as 80 centimetres (31.5 inches) between 1993...

Devon Parfait PHOTO BY BRENDON BOURG To read more of Zoe Dutton's article, please click here. Devon Parfait’s earliest memories are of the Louisiana bayou. He spent countless hours on his grandfather Pierre’s shrimping boat, hauling up freshly baited traps and hearing old family stories. His family, part of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, had lived off the water for generations. Now 25, Parfait is helping his community navigate a future made uncertain by climate change. Last year he...

PACEs Connection is excited to roll out our summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum dates. Members who complete the CRC will qualify for a fall 2023 fellowship program.