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Survey data has shown that more than half of young adults have felt anxious, angry, powerless or helpless about human-driven climate change. Elissa Epel, Jyoti Mishra, PhD MBA, Philippe Goldin and a group of other colleagues developed a new course, called Climate Resilience, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring including UC Santa Barbara with Dr. Diana Hill. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. The course offers inspiring lectures from scientists and leaders in the climate movement to introduce a counternarrative to the doom and gloom. The techniques and exercises taught in the class are “universal skills” that can help people manage stress from all sorts of situations. If you want to try, here are some strategies adapted from the course. Read or listen to the full article: https://lnkd.in/eNYMEVa7 #StressLess #NPR #climatechange #anxiety #stress #climate

Do you know what the Climate Fresk is? Well, I didn't know either. Created in 2015 by Cédric Ringenbach, former director of The Shift Project, to raise awareness about climate change. 🌍 The workshop lasts three hours and is divided into three distinct phases. The first phase involves discovering and linking cards through cause-and-effect relationships to build the Fresk, as explained in the #IPCC reports. The second phase is creative: participants decorate the Fresk and choose a title. 🎨 The last phase is a debrief, enabling a discussion about players' feelings, positions, questions, and both individual and collective solutions. Today, I had the chance to participate, and I think it's a great educational tool within the European Commission to learn the basics of climate change. I would like to add something that becomes more obvious and necessary as I continue to work in this field: why aren't these types of training mandatory not just for newcomers but also for oldgoers? Wouldn't it be appropriate to stimulate some environmental sensitivity in those who make key decisions for all of us? 🤔 Secondly, with #climatechange skyrocketing in 2024, when will we start having climate education in schools? I mean specifically in SCHOOLS, not universities. Another shoutout to #ClimateFresk and #EMAS, you give me so much hope! 🌟 link: https://lnkd.in/d_jEmbnX.

Calling all business school educators aiming to teach about #climate change: This series is for you!    In the fourth session of the NBS series on teaching climate, we’re exploring one of the highly recommended resources we heard about in our call for presentations, the “Climate Literacy Training for Educators, Communities, Organizations and Students.” (CLT-ECOS)   CLT-ECOS is a widely used training that helps educators understand climate fundamentals, including high impact climate solutions.   In this session, CLT-ECOS leader Dr Petra Molthan-Hill will provide an overview on CLT. She will be joined by multiple educators who will briefly share the diverse ways that they’ve used the CLT to inform their teaching, educate other faculty, or connect with practitioners.   We’ll see how the training is – and can be – repurposed in different geographies and sectors worldwide. The session will also include time for Q&A and breakout discussion.    Join to discuss how to use the Climate Literacy Training – or elements of it – in your own work.    Swipe through the graphic for a sneak peek on the various applications for CLT-ECOS we’ll explore.    Register, and explore past session outputs, here: https://lnkd.in/g7mnTriu More about CLT-ECOS: https://lnkd.in/gP9x_yJs #climateeducation #businesseducation #climateteaching #climateaction

I was going through my feed this morning and saw that yesterday was World Mental Health Day. As I've been seeing news footage of the recent hurricane aftermaths in North America, I've been thinking a lot about mental health particularly in relation to the environment. We are constantly seeing in the media all kinds of extremes and disasters, and/or a series of compounding "small" problems seeming to spread and grow by the second. All of which are indeed extremely important to broadcast, especially to those who choose to turn a blind eye to those tragedies. For those of us who do care, who are concerned, I see climate anxiety as an urgently prevalent issue that many are actively dealing with day-to-day. I too have suffered from feeling helpless about some of the environmental issues that our world, our humanity, is facing- but, I also recognize that fear for me can lead to a feeling of paralysis; of my thoughts, actions, words. I was looking around at some articles on climate anxiety to read up on other peoples' thoughts on the epidemic, and read through the below post- There are some good general tips from this NPR article about how to turn that anxiety into action (and I think "action", outside of this article, absolutely includes basic self and communal care, by the way). To create a healthier and happier world, I think, though my thoughts are not profound or of any great importance, we have to strive for balance, kinship, and cultivating joy to encourage us to continue on in this difficult work. So, to all those struggling with climate anxiety out there, I see you! And many others see you as well. Let's continue to support each other holistically, both within and outside of the proverbial (or literal) office. I've already seen some great things be accomplished through joy, team work, and action, and have faith in the efforts people are pursuing to make human health and the environment a better place. So, I say slightly facetiously, maybe instead of hugging a tree today, hug an individual who is striving towards creating an equitable, healthy, happy world. 🌍💗

For anyone interested in, or grappling with, the reality of climate change and how it intersects with higher education, Joshua Kim at Inside Higher Ed recently compiled an excellent booklist on the subject. Highly recommended: https://lnkd.in/eBdN54N8 #highered #climatechange

I always had sheer interest in Climate change and this is why I chose this theme for my MS thesis. Luckily fast forward a few years later, right now in my professional capacity I am also engaged with climate change relevant fields. In future I have a vision to work with public health and WASH related fields. #climatechange #developmentsector

The new RMetS Climate Change Concept Association Tool provides the opportunity to explore and evaluate the coverage of various aspects of climate change within proposed curricula. It enables curriculum leads and developers to identify gaps, missed links, duplication, or inadequate progression in their approach to teaching climate change across different subjects and levels. Explore the tool for yourself at https://lnkd.in/eGzpTmtM. #education #climate #curriculum

I am blown away by the resources included in Project Drawdown's recent newsletter. If anyone is looking for educational resources, look no further >>> https://lnkd.in/gJZXMpmS Here's some resources that make me hopeful: ✨Climate Solutions 101 is the world’s first major educational effort focused solely on solutions. This is a free, science-based educational resource and I highly recommend it if you need a "where to start" button when it comes to learning about climate >>> https://lnkd.in/gaEHf735 ✨ Solutions Story Tracker® is leading a systems-level change in journalism so that all people have access to news that helps them envision and build a more equitable and sustainable world. A curated database of over 16,000 reported responses to social problems, it's worth checking out >>> https://lnkd.in/ge7M4ChP ✨Boardgames for climate? Daybreak exists! Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet. Put it on the gift-giving list >>> https://lnkd.in/gD6jDnTP #climatesolutions #education #climateeducation #climateresources #projectdrawdown

In 2013, I was asked to produce a 'landscape report' for Skoll Global Threats Fund about the social science research of climate action.The request was for a more conventional literature review. But while diving into the research, I started to notice patterns. Specifically, I saw how certain approaches were dominating our climate work. Such as behavioral sciences, messaging, design thinking, indigenous knowledge, and arts-based practices. And there were very real tensions across them. It seems so many of us were invested and defending our stakes on 'how change happens.' Our Theories of Change (TOC). When these TOCs are not acknowledged, it leads to a "theory of change muddle" -- which is most of what happens at conferences, summits and events. That's when people are talking past each other, really arguing for their deeply held theory of change. Whether it's policy, or education, or better data, or arts, or regulation or incentives or better storytelling, or whatnot -- we all have our TOCs. And we defend them. I believe it's imperative to develop a literacy when it comes to our TOCs. So we are in choice, not just defaulting and being reactive to our assumptions and biases. However, as I remind my clients, TOCs are sensitive territory. You don't go in and start critiquing. These are deeply held to our hearts, often reflecting a lot of time, money and training. They help us cope with an overwhelming, complex and uncertain world. So we want to tread with compassion. We are all figuring it out. So I dug this up while doing some research for a client. And it's pretty good, even if it's dated from 2013. How much has actually changed? This report assembles an overview of the schools of thought informing our current conceptions about engaging people with climate change. In much of the thinking today, people's behavior is often seen as a barrier to overcome, a target for carrots and sticks, or an opportunity to engineer a better result. "Engagement" implies a deeper connection between people and climate change, and so offers a further step toward addressing the risks. It is clear that climate change will not be mitigated effectively unless more people are far more engaged in doing things differently. Enjoy. :) Link in comments. #climate #climateengagement #climatepsych #climatecabal #landscape #theoryofchange #existentialchange #changeleadership

So much of climate change coverage addresses the big things such as rising sea levels and melting ice (which, yes, are important and hugely impactful) but we are seeing more and more the everyday impacts of climate change on our lives like falling test scores and unbearable heat in schools and the resulting early dismissals.