PostedMay 31, 2024 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, Education, opinion, sustainability, Youth
GTEC Communications and Media Team Member, Bill Stovin interviews New York Climate Museum, Senior Curatorial Associate, Anais Reyes Whatever their size or scope, museums serve an indispensable role in the exploration of our culture and natural world. With the serious...
PostedMay 24, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, opinion, sustainability, Youth
Clinical Notes from the Desk of Arden Henley May, 2024 This article addresses the increasing levels of solastalgia or climate distress, especially among young people in the developed nations. It identifies family and community as sources of sanity and resilience. Many...
PostedMay 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion, sustainability, technology
Brief Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher As an antidote to the doomscrolling about climate change that permeates the media these days, here is a sampling of four brand-new 2024 nonfiction titles that offer a more hopeful perspective. H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to...
PostedApr 3, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, community, Covid-19, opinion
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. Foolproof, by Sander Van Der Linden. Norton, 2023. The Deadly Rise of...
PostedMar 2, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability, Youth
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...
PostedFeb 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion
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 the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of 2021. Using a futurist technique called...
