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Generation Dread: Now in Paperback 🧡
Get your copy with a new cover design and fresh foreword by Adam McKay!
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What would it take to farm a more joyful future?
Spencer Scott and Nick Schwanz want you to come to their solarpunk farm and see what a regenerative future could feel like
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What confronting our mortality can teach us about climate activism
Trevor Lehmann considers how having a life-threatening illness at a young age has shaped his resolve to push for a just transition
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Beyond A Headline: Understanding the Climate of Black Intentionality and Presence
A plea for support for a life cut far too short
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When the nonstop urgency of climate work collides with your body begging for rest
European climate activist Cass Hebron shares her experience with intense burnout
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Read an ER doctor’s essay on climate distress that no one else would publish
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A brave new way to teach kids about climate emotions
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A call to action for the grownups of the world
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Please stop saying my generation will save the world
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Bringing young people of colour to the forefront of environmental work
Angelou Ezeilo started a movement to get more BIPOC youth into conservation careers–sometimes despite resistance from higher-ups
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Valentine’s Day bonus: free lecture with Britt on coping with climate anxiety
2024 Duncanson Lecture at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada on February 29
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Did you know self-compassion in the climate crisis benefits your romantic relationships?
Why being kind to yourself is good for you and your partner
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A brave new way to teach kids about climate emotions
A group of US educators wants to better support students’ emotional reaction to learning about climate justice
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What happens when you set up a climate anxiety counseling booth?
Kate Schapira shares a decade of observations from talking to the public about their climate distress
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A call to action for the grownups of the world
Josephine Ferorelli and Meghan Kallman on what adults owe to kids growing up today – regardless of whose kids they are
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“We’ve science-d this problem to death”
Shoshone leader Darren Parry wants Indigenous storytelling and heart-centered learning to drive climate work
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