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 with eco-anxiety. Reporters Olivia Rudgard and Jack Wittels heard from hundreds...
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 Circle: Art in Climate Stories, starting Sunday February 4 at...
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 event, Moving Beyond Despair about the...
This Op-Ed by Linda Thyer and Arden Henley, was originally published in the Vancouver Sun, August 29, 2023. Opinion: The smoke in the air that impairs our health and compromises our capacity to breathe is a form of subsidizing the fossil fuel industry Here we are on...
Ingrid Kastens, Board Chair of Dogwood, recently wrote an interesting article called “What is Eco-Anxiety? 10 Simple Ideas to Manage Climate Change & Your Stress” for 365give. What is the climate crisis? What is eco-anxiety? Why does it matter? What...
Compiled by Ross Thrasher The recent publications sampled below are well worth reading in full. Most of them are available at your local public library. John Gray, “The dangerous conceits of the green revolution”, The New Statesman (18-24 November 2022), pp. 28-31. A...
