Blogs about GTEC's Climate Distress Services and Education

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Earth Day Cleanup

by Bill Stovin Volunteers with Surfrider Foundation are sometimes surprised by the kind of debris they find on beaches and shoreline of British Columbia. “Just last month we had a ...

Code Red: Scenario Planning for Adaptive Solutions

Thriving People & Flourishing Planet = Leadership in Action! This is a one-day preconference course taking place before the Canadian Conference of Physician Leaders in Montreal on May 23, 2024 ...

Help Develop Climate Change Communication Tools with MHCCA

Help the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance (MHCCA) develop tools that help people like you talk about climate change in a trauma-informed, mental health aware way. MHCCA is now ...
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Anti-Science: Enemies of Knowledge

Review Article by Ross Thrasher The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning, by Peter J. Hotez. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. On Disinformation, by Lee McIntyre. MIT Press, 2023 ...

Critical Dialogues for Action

GTEC is happy to share the next event in the Critical Dialogues for Action Series (CDFA) entitled Planetary Health: The World is on Fire, what can we do in Healthcare ...
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Preparing your Organization for the 2024 Fire Season

As of March 2024 wildfires are already a hot topic in British Columbia. Persistent drought conditions, low snowpack levels and above normal temperatures are warning signs of an early fire ...
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Thriving People & Flourishing Planet

Thriving People & Flourishing Planet: Leadership in Action! CCPL Pre-conference Course 2024 May 23, 2024 8:30-4:30 Facilitators: Meschino D, Henley A, Green S Planning Team: Meschino D, Henley A, Green ...

Shifting the Paradigm: 2024 Conference of Physician Leadership

Shifting the Paradigm: 2024 Conference on Physician Leadership On May 23 in the form of a pre-conference workshop, GTEC executive director Dr. Arden Henley; psychiatrist, education scholar, artist, and associate ...
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Eco-Anxiety

REPORTING ON CLIMATE ANXIETY Prepared by Ross Thrasher A recent issue of the e-newsletter Bloomberg Greener Living looks at how climate change is impacting mental health, and how to cope ...
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DIY Air Cleaner

We now live in a time where wildfires are a normal and lasting occurrence. In some areas in BC, there are days, weeks, and months in which we do not ...
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