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“How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet”
Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray’s book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (2020) is an “existential toolkit” for the climate generation.
“How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet” (November 19, 2020)
“I don’t need to know that my own actions are going to result in a particular intended outcome, I just need to know that I’m not the only one doing it. And that’s where this notion of collectivity becomes super-important for resilience: efficaciousness plus the collective. They have to go together!… When you know that there’s a collective you don’t have to worry so much about how big your impact is, you just know that you’re contributing your part.” – Sarah Jaquette Ray
“The Rise of Anti-Environmentalism In Brazil: From Deregulation to Institutional Dismantling”
After four decades of initiatives aimed at consolidating environmental governance based on the paradigm of ecological modernization, a process that implied alliances between corporations, the State, and hegemonic NGOs, Brazil now faces the rise of openly anti-environmental and anti-indigenous policies.
“The Rise of Anti-Environmentalism In Brazil: From Deregulation to Institutional Dismantling” (October 20, 2020)
“We need to look to alternatives, outside of our Western systems of thinking and of producing… Local and indigenous peoples are addressing these issues [of development] successfully. We must respect their ways of life. We need, really, to consider that there are some spaces in the world that are not for our consumption. We need to declare these territories to be free of mining, free of dams. Some places need to be protected as such.” – Andréa Zhouri
“Tu-Ren (Earth-Humans) & Feng-Shui (Wind-Water): Environmental Justice in China”
What can we learn from the concept and practice of environmental justice in China? Mainstream media in the U.S. often portray twenty-first-century China as the land of polluted air, untamed waters, and rapacious development. This is only half the picture.
“Tu-Ren (Earth-Humans) & Feng-Shui (Wind-Water): Environmental Justice in China” (October 13, 2020)
“My own wager is that industrialism is a contained and containable stage of human development. It will pass. Many cities in China, such as Beijing or Shanghai, just like us [in the United States], have already entered a post-industrial stage. So, surely our environment is contaminated, our air is polluted, but this doesn’t mean that it will have to keep on developing that way… There are many ideas out there that can point to different ethical relationships, to different forms of dwelling and different ways of being in the world… It’s already happening.” – Dorothy Ko
“Feeling & Healing Through the Anthropocene”
Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, Aimee Lewis-Reau, and LaUra Schmidt of Good Grief Network discuss our collective ability to create spaces where people come together, face the difficult realities of these times, and heal in community.
“Feeling & Healing Through the Anthropocene: A Conversation About the Power of Collective Processing With the Good Grief Network” (September 23, 2020)
“When these problems seems so big and so interconnected, it leads many of us who identify as activists right into burnout, or into mental health crises… What we’re trying to do is not be prescriptive in our solutions. We’re trying to open it up and really bring in the beauty that humanity has to offer. What range of diversity of ideas and experiences and passions do you have and how can you contribute to meaningful efforts along the way?” – LaUra Schmidt