I’ve been desperately wanting to include climate and ecological grief in this show for such a long time and I’m thrilled to begin it with today’s guest, Ashlee Cunsolo. Ashlee is the Founding Dean, School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at Labrador Institute of Memorial University. She is a Researcher, Educator, and Environmental Advocate

Ashlee offers so much wisdom today born of her lifelong personal passion for the environment and because of the deep and extensive qualitative and quantitative research she has been doing in Northern Labrador in Canada with indigenous Inuit people. She shares the wisdom she has learned from Elders, explores the deep grief scientists are facing as the the populations they love, and study are disappearing before their eyes, and helps us connect to the need for a kind of gritty hope necessary to stay active in saving this ecosystem that we are a part of, that we are in relationship with. She invites us to see more fully that we are part of a collective that is a much bigger WE than we often imagine.

You can learn more about Ashlee Cunsolo and her research by visiting www.ashleecunsolo.ca

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JUMP STRAIGHT INTO:

(04:10) - Ashlee Cunsolo, a health Geographer. What is her first grief memory

(15:26) - Understanding ecological and climate grief

(27:53) - How is intergenerational storytelling around ecological grief being expressed in this current era

(33:39) - How to handle ecological grief from the scientific perspective

(44:41) - How has the relationship between emotional intelligence and science progressed in the academic field?

(52:43) - Monuments, memorials and other manifestations for people to honor their ecological grief

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