Like Kintsugi, the Japanese pottery tradition that mends broken shards with golden lacquer, movements toward repair of these various ruptures can create stronger ‘containers’ for the pain of individuals and communities and help us move toward essential action.
The ITRC will launch a "Community of Practice" (CoP) this October to educate, connect, and empower people throughout industrialized nations to organize and operate community-based culturally accountable initiatives that use a public health approach to enhance the entire population's capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for the climate crisis. You can learn about the CoP by attending a free webinar on July 28. Why Prioritize Forming Community-Based Population-Level...
This seminar presents new approaches for soil and water conservation in different crops across California and the Midwest US.
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...
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...
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.
We need a strengthened ability to govern together, across divides, in order to forge our path toward a more just, sustainable future.
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.
In order to remain engaged, responsive and loving, we need support, otherwise, our inner resources become depleted.
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...
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.
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.
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,...
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...
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...