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Aesthetics, climate displacement, and mental health What is aesthetics, beauty, the built environment, and community resilience? Beauty and aesthetics in the built environment can help make spaces feel like home, boosting individual and community wellbeing and resilience, especially in the…
Air pollution and climate mental health What is air pollution? When a substance is released into the air that doesn’t belong there naturally, or doesn’t belong there at that concentration, the air is being polluted. Dirty air has become a…
Climate anxiety What is climate anxiety? If you find yourself asking, “What should I do in relation to the climate crisis?”, then you have already entered the domain of climate anxiety. In stronger forms, climate anxiety can manifest as various…
behaviour change What is large-scale behaviour change? Climate change is a global crisis that requires international collaboration. As an individual you might feel small, thinking, “What can I do to help fight climate change?”. Your actions matter, but different types…
climate activists and psychological distress What’s a climate activist? A climate activist is: People come to climate activism with varying degrees of experience and a wide range of commitment levels. Someone who just began volunteering two years ago may well…
Climate denial What is climate denial? Climate denial is when people contradict, minimize, or find other ways to avoid the overwhelming evidence from climate science that global warming is real, human-caused, and largely the result of burning fossil fuels. To…
Climate disasters and mental health What are climate disasters? Climate disaster is a general term commonly used to describe catastrophic consequences of human-caused climate change. While climate disasters include the impacts from slower moving chronic conditions, such as sea level…
Climate education (k-12) Why do we need climate change K-12 education? Climate change education is necessary to address climate change, and is overwhelmingly supported across the world. While climate education is important across all levels of education, offering curricula during…
Climate Guilt What is climate guilt? Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and most of us want to do something about it. Yet oftentimes our lifestyles are far from good for the environment –…
Climate justice and reparations What is climate justice? Climate justice refers to the need to redress the gross and continuing global injustices that: This situation of unequal impacts of global warming, along with the many ongoing debates on how to…