Climate Anxiety
Hope
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
—Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Quick hits of hope
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Reasons to be CheerfulNewsletter and website founded by artist and musician David Byrne, with a focus on solutions.
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The Climate OptimistMonthly newsletter from the Harvard School of Public Health with good news about climate change.
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Good NewsFrom The Daily Climate
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50 States, 50 FixesNew York Times project highlighting climate solutions in all 50 states.
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Schoolchildren Give Sweet Pep Talks on New Hotline You Can Call Now: 'Pure Joy'The PepToc hotline offers recorded words of encouragement from kindergarteners to callers.
Voices of hope
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The Climate Optimist Course"In five sessions, we’ll cover how to overcome mental barriers to change, build emotional resilience in the face of the climate crisis, create and nurture (radical) optimism, and turn climate change distress on its head."
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Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis
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Call Number: Library print and ebookPublication Date: 2020Timely, evidence-based, and persuasive, Hope Matters is an argument for the place of hope in our lives and a celebration of the turn toward solutions in the face of the environmental crisis. -
Saving Us : a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world
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Call Number: Library print and ebookPublication Date: 2022Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change. -
Humanity's Moment : a climate scientist's case for hope
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Publication Date: 2023This book is a climate scientist's personal guide to rekindling hope, and a call to action to restore our relationship with ourselves, each other and our planet. -
Hope for Cynics: the surprising science of human goodness
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Publication Date: 2024Through science and storytelling, Jamil Zaki imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful skepticism.
Solar Punk - visions of a more hopeful future
An aerial view of a futuristic, sustainable Berlin—with lots of solar power, trees and greenery, airships, walkable streets, and clean water. Source: Aerroscape & Lino Zeddies, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
According to A Solarpunk Manifesto by Ian Dennis Miller, solarpunk is "a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?” The aesthetics of solarpunk merge the practical with the beautiful, the well-designed with the green and lush, the bright and colorful with the earthy and solid... Solarpunk is at once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, a way of living and a set of achievable proposals to get there."
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Solarpunk 101: An IntroductionVideo playlist from the Evergreen Center for Climate and Sustainability
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Solarpunk Is the Future We Should Strive ForFrom Earth.org
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A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary into RealityAcademic article by William Joseph Gillam that "deconstructs solarpunk media to describe three guiding principles of solarpunk: anarchism, ecology, and justice."