Eaarth Feels

Is the Climate Crisis affecting our mental health?  After completing a 7 day virtual training with Climate Reality , Rose weighs in.

Did you realize oil wells continue to  pollute even after the drilling and pumping stop? Journalist Ray Levy-Uyeda illuminates the problematic scope of abandoned wells in Montana and one man's remarkable solution.

After a summer hiatus, Christine and Rose return for a deep and far ranging conversation amidst a world of raging Covid-19, wildfires, tropical storms, a looming US presidential election and continuing climate emergency.  As we head into the chaos, is there room for compassion?

"...Because when the end of the world is your day job, you better figure out how to chill the hell out on summer vacation."

Erika Spanger-Siegfried, a senior analyst in the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), shares some tongue-firmly-in-cheek vacation tips for her fellow end-of-days day-job people. In a time of climate emergency, many of these tips could also help anybody who looks unblinkingly at the reality of climate change.

With less than 90 days to the November 3 U.S. Presidential election, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party contender has announced his running mate to be California Senator, Kamala Harris. With a hopeful heart, Rose reads their environmental vision for the future of the United States.

On August 4, 2020 The Guardian published this open letter from more than one hundred leading economists detailing a three step carbon less program to move our world toward a sustainable future.

The effects of climate change can be seen in our daily lives. Sociologist Kate Olson documents living climate change through the eyes of fishers, farmers and foresters from Freeport, Maine.

Kate Olson is a PhD Candidate at Boston College and lives with her family in Maine. Learn more about her multimedia project documenting lived experiences of climate change in Maine at www.livingchange.blog and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @livingchangeme.

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"The racism, misogyny, and inequality that are being called out are an inextricable part of the current western cultural paradigm, or way of viewing the world, that dominates the globe right now. This same paradigm is founded on disregard and disconnection from the earth that sustains life, as evidenced by the current climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction to which we seem unable to muster an adequate response."

Podcast host and energy healer Christine Penner Polle responds to the culture-shaking events of 2020.

“We live in one way, and we think in another. We learn to think in parallel. It’s a skill, an art of living.”

Dr Kari Marie Norgaard drills down into why people with knowledge about the devastating effects of climate change often fail to act on that knowledge. This article, published on The MIT Press Reader, is excerpted from Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. Dr Norgaard teaches sociology at the University of Oregon.

Happy 85th Birthday to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, whose  dedication towards the environment has not dimmed in seven decades!

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