Ecopsychology pursues mental and spiritual connectedness to earth, which is sorely lacking in our hyper digital capitalist world. This is well and good, but seems non-political. How can ecopsychology turn in a radical, political, decolonial direction? Adam Lobel has written and practiced for many years on this topic, and he is our guest this week.

The Statehouse Standout is a continuous protest in which climate activists stand outside the Massachusetts Capitol building during all business hours demanding no new fossil fuel infrastructure. We visit the scene and hear from three organizers, including how they do it and their meeting with the governor's climate chief.

This week our special guest comes all the way from Italy. Daniele Federico quit his corporate communications career to dedicate himself full time to climate awareness. He shares with us some insights into how to talk about climate, Italian politics, and what we might do individually and collectively. We talk about the rivers in Italy running low and what to do about this, his take on civil disobedience for climate, maintaining hope, and how to raise kids in the climate crisis.

In this episode, we look at a wacky plan that the White House is contemplating to inject sulfates into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet. As we're going to explain, nobody knows what side effects that might have or whether it would even work to cool the planet at all. First, we take a look at global leaders failing to agree, yet again, on measures to cut fossil fuels and we put that in context of what has come before. We introduce a new term that describes this situation. Here it is folks: Global Arson.

The Degas 2 are two climate protesters who are facing severe charges and possibly many years in prison for smearing paint on the glass casing around a famous sculpture by Edgar Degas in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. We talk about this protest, the criminal charges, and some of the debates around this sort of activism with Mun Chong, a spokesperson from Extinction Rebellion New York.

Insurance might not seem like a sexy topic, but when you suddenly can't get any insurance because of...you know...global heating, it really gets your attention. We're going to talk about underground climate change. We'll look at the U.S. Senate and what it's doing, and we can barely contain our laughter about it.

Extinction Rebellion Boston is mounting an entire week of climate activism and community-building starting September 20. Even if you're not near Boston, or if you're finding this after the events have taken place, this is a model for ways you might build a community of resistance, across all different levels of intensity, back home.

There is plenty of talk about what to do to help the climate. But some of these measures are going to be more helpful than others. This is the third of an informal three-episode series in which we try to break up the doom and gloom with some discussion of what might help.

This is our second installment on climate crisis solutions. Yeah, we bring you alot of crisis news, so we owe you some talk of solutions. Not that we're solving the climate crisis with these episodes, but we can talk about some steps that are moving in the right direction, or might be moving in the right direction, or that someone says is the right direction and on closer examination it's more complicated. That's what we're getting into again today.

For this first of three episodes, we discuss possible “solutions” that could potentially get us out of our climate crisis.