Blogs about GTEC's Climate Distress Services and Education

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Thriving People scenario poster featuring painting by D. de Camps

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 ...
image depicting eco-anxiety of a young girl

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 ...
close up of fan that could be used to make an air cleaner

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 ...
/ climate change, community, Covid-19
Our Shared Storm book cover , a book of mini fiction stories based on five climate change scenarios

Climate Change Scenarios

Prepared by Ross Thrasher In Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press, 2022) Andrew Dana Hudson has written an intriguing quintet of stories based on ...
Image of the BC Climate Vulnerability Map developed by MHCCA

To What Extent Is My Community Susceptible to the Impacts of Climate Change?

Developed by the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance, the BC Climate Vulnerability Map enables the user to assess the susceptibility or vulnerability of their BC community to the impacts ...
Community Climate Response Dialogue with Arden Henley

Community Climate Response Dialogue

With GTEC Executive Director Arden Henley March 12, 12 – 2:30 pm Appreciation The Green Technology Education Centre (GTEC) would like to extend its appreciation for the work that the ...

Solastalgia Story Circle

Art in Climate Stories Solastalgia recently hosted a successful poetry-writing event in January to explore feelings and experiences with the climate crisis. Their next series of events is Solastalgia Story ...

Solastalgia Poetry Workshop

Moving Beyond Despair about the Climate Crisis: Engaging Emotions Through Poetry Solastalgia is a Vancouver youth-led community initiative that focuses on eco-anxiety and climate justice through arts-based events. Their next ...

COP 28: Crossing the Threshold

It was tenuous, unclear until the last moment, but at COP 28 in Dubai the world crossed a critical threshold. Delegates at this conference, some 90,000 in all, agreed that ...