In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Christine reads the post "Coronavirus Response Shows the World May Not Be Ready For Climate-Induced Pandemics", by Jennifer Zhang. This article was published on https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/02/24/coronavirus-climate-induced-pandemics/.

Background: Jennifer Zhang is a student in Columbia College, studying political science. She is a briefings editor for Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development.

It's a whole episode of Good News! Rose and Christine discuss positive shifts in the rapidly changing landscape of climate change and the economy: divestments, corporate giants pulling out of fossil fuel projects, and "Doomsday" bank JP Morgan Chase feeling the Stop the Money Pipeline pressure.

Recurring segments include:

Good news stories

One action tip to for you to create change

A weekly sanity tip to keep you calm(er) in the face of climate overwhelm

Christine reads the bombshell letter sent by Don Lindsay, CEO & President of Teck Resources Limited, to the Canadian Minister of Environment & Climate Change outlining the reasons Teck has withdrawn the proposed Frontier Project, a huge oil sands mine in northern Alberta, from the regulatory review process. After a lengthy 9 year application process, Teck Resources made this decision just days before an announcement was expected from the Trudeau government on the mine's final approval (or not).

Christine has a conversation with Kaaren Dannenmann, an indigenous trapper, educator, and activist who lives in Treaty 3 territory in Northern Ontario. Their wide ranging conversation touches on the indigenous connection to the land and the animals and plants that we share the earth with, on seven generations thinking, the Medicine Wheel and Ceremony, the importance of the language we use, and reasons for hope in the midst of a planetary climate emergency.

In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Christine reads the post "The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer" by Kate Gunn & Bruce McIvor, first published on firstpeopleslaw.com.

Bruce McIvor is principal of First Peoples Law Corporation & Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law.

Kate Gunn is a lawyer at First Peoples Law Corporation & author of "Agreeing to Share: Treaty 3, History & the Courts", published in the UBC Law Review.

Rose and Christine delve deeper into the idea that climate change is happening FOR humans as much as it is happening TO us. How is climate change asking us to change, even while we acknowledge that change is hard on both an individual and collective level?

Recurring segments include:

- Good news stories

- One action tip to for you to create change

- A weekly sanity tip to keep you calm(er) in the face of climate overwhelm

In this episode, Christine reads the post 'Something Big Is Shifting': As Georgetown Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment, Students Across US Demand Their Schools Follow Suit by Julia Conley, staff writer at CommonDreams.org.

The mission of Common Dreams is to inform, to inspire, and to ignite change for the common good. The original post is located here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/08/something-big-shifting-georgetown-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-students-across

In this episode of Eaarth Feels, Rose and Christine discuss the top renewal energy sources, based on the book "DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming", edited by Paul Hawken. Topics include the different types of solar and wind energy options in the top drawdown solutions.

Recurring segments include:

- Good News Stories

- Action Tip to for you to create change

- Climate Sanity Tip to help keep calm in the face of climate overwhelm

In this BEST IN CLIMATE episode of Eaarth Feels Rose shares the Climate chapter from Charles Eisenstein's book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, in which he reminds us the sometimes forgotten truth that we are all connected, from the smallest insect to the giant sequoia. And that the actions we take, both positive and negative, reverberate throughout our world.

Christine and Rose discuss the importance of envisioning the world we want to bring into existence, even while we acknowledge the reality of climate change and the Climate Emergency we are in the midst of.