Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Asher Miller This event was an introduction to our new Resilience+ Deep Dives, a series of events and curated materials that can help anyone better understand important aspects of the climate crisis.
Additional Resources Related to Tim Lenton Tim Lenton’s bio Global Tipping Points Report “The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios: Limitations and assumptions of commonly used climate-change scenarios in financial services” Related to Isabel Cavelier Adarve Isabel Cavelier’s bio Isabel’s organization, Mundo Común (Common World) Get this Resilience+ Deep Dive to see more With a Resilience+ account … Read more
Journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald (Planet: Critical) interviews Dr. Omnia El Omrani, a medical doctor and Climate and Health Policy Fellow at Imperial College London. Omnia shares reflections on Connecting Climate Minds—a landmark project looking at climate and mental health across the globe, with a specific focus on the lived experiences of youth, Indigenous communities, small farmers and fisher people.
There may be no way to explain how you feel because nobody can inhabit your body with you, and for all the skills of a poet, the mirrored and empty wastelands of fear are a terribly lonely place. We are invisible there, and not being able to find the words makes us feel invisible here.
Additional Resources Related to Kim Nicholas Professor Kimberly Nicholas’s bio Kim’s book, Under The Sky We Make: How To Be Human In A Warming World Kim’s We Can Fix It Newsletter The “Choose Your Own Adventure” climate action guide Kim’s slides on Climate Superpowers Kim’s post on depolarizing climate conversations, drawing on the work of … Read more
Individual psychological resilience is valuable for its own sake. But it may also be essential to the bigger and more important project of creating a human world that’s actually sane—i.e., one that serves the long-term survival of our species within a healthy ecosphere.
On May 14, 2024 Resilience hosted “Welcome to the Great Unraveling,” an hour-long online discussion featuring Dr. Lyla June Johnston and Kumi Naidoo, and facilitated by Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller. This event was an introduction to our new Resilience+ Deep Dives, a series of events and curated materials that can help anyone better understand important aspects of the climate crisis.
The need to address mental health in response to the climate crisis (and related calamities) is not new. In his 2007 book Peak Everything, Richard Heinberg described important research findings on how people respond in the aftermath of disasters, such as drought, famine, and societal collapse. The research he presented is all the more relevant today, given how industrial societies have failed to reverse overshoot.
This list of resources is meant to give Resilience+ members a collection of ideas, tools, and organizational contacts that can help build emotional resilience. Thanks to Leslie Davenport, climate psychologist and advisor to Post Carbon Institute, for helping to prepare this list. Resilience+ members are encouraged to seek the support they need to navigate stressful situations and maintain the emotional stamina required to engage in transformational change.
Lise van Susteren, psychiatrist and author of Emotional Inflammation, and Dekila Chungyalpa, innovator of faith-led environmental partnerships and director of the Loka Initiative, headline this 75-minute webinar to discuss positive ways to find equilibrium while experiencing the ongoing effects of the polycrisis.
LaUra Schmidt of the Good Grief Network will lead an interactive session featuring grounding exercises, reflections on the webinar with Lise van Susteren and Dekila Chungyalpa, chances to share your experiences with eco-anxiety, and deep listening among colleagues.
From the top of a skyscraper in Dubai, Jason, Rob, and Asher chug margaritas made from the purest Greenland glacier ice as they cover the “merits” of globalism. International trade brings so many things, like murder hornets and deadly supply chain disruptions. The opposite of globalism is localism — learn how to build a secure local economy that can keep Asher alive, hopefully at least through the end of the season.
