Posted by Arden Henley | Mar 15, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, sustainability
Thriving People & Flourishing Planet: Leadership in Action! CCPL Pre-conference Course 2024 May 23, 2024 8:30-4:30 Facilitators: Meschino D, Henley A, Green S Planning Team: Meschino D, Henley A, Green S, Sergeant M, Chan MK, LeBlanc C Abstract: Responding to the...
Posted by Arden Henley | Mar 5, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, news, sustainability
Shifting the Paradigm: 2024 Conference on Physician Leadership On May 23 in the form of a pre-conference workshop, GTEC executive director Dr. Arden Henley; psychiatrist, education scholar, artist, and associate professor at the University of Toronto, Dr. Diane...
Posted by Arden Henley | Mar 2, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability, Youth
REPORTING ON CLIMATE ANXIETY Prepared by Ross Thrasher A recent issue of the e-newsletter Bloomberg Greener Living looks at how climate change is impacting mental health, and how to cope with eco-anxiety. Reporters Olivia Rudgard and Jack Wittels heard from hundreds...
Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 28, 2024 | climate change, community, Covid-19
We now live in a time where wildfires are a normal and lasting occurrence. In some areas in BC, there are days, weeks, and months in which we do not see blue skies. Additionally, climate change is linked to the increase in pathogen reproduction and transmission of...
Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion
Prepared by Ross Thrasher In Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press, 2022) Andrew Dana Hudson has written an intriguing quintet of stories based on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of 2021. Using a futurist technique called...
Posted by Arden Henley | Feb 16, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, sustainability
Developed by the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance, the BC Climate Vulnerability Map enables the user to assess the susceptibility or vulnerability of their BC community to the impacts of climate change. Access the BC Climate Vulnerability Map here. Climate...