Sinopsis
Has the endlessly gloomy climate news got you hiding under your covers with a case of overwhelm? Join Christine and Rose for soul-based conversations about climate change that explore the idea that climate change is happening for us as much as it is happening to us. If you are ready to shift your focus and secure the future for our kids and grandkids this is the podcast for you.
Episodios
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Episode 56. BEST in CLIMATE: 2020 - When the Great Disruption Began by Paul Gilding
20/04/2020 Duración: 09minIn this Best in Climate episode, Christine reads a recent post from PaulGilding.com. He makes the case that it was always going to come to this - the crash of our current unsustainable global economy was unavoidable. "Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over water or countless other possible triggers, this moment has long been inevitable."
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Episode 55. What Are We Learning About The Fragility of Our Food Supply?
17/04/2020 Duración: 28minRose and Christine discuss the current disruption Covid-19 is having on food growth and distribution from field workers to small farmers, from restaurants to grocery stores, and the spotlight the current situation is shining on cracks in our current food system. The conversation touches on the benefits of home and community gardening. As usual, there is good news and an action tip shared.
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Episode 54.BEST IN CLIMATE: Laura Lentz
13/04/2020 Duración: 10minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads the April 3 Facebook post of Laura Lentz, where the author remembers her long forgotten childhood days with nature, acknowledges their deep roots and asks herself how she can maintain those essential connections once the COVID-19 pandemic has passed. With permission of author Laura Lentz
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Episode 50. BEST IN CLIMATE: The Great Slowing Down - Hearing and Responding to the Callings of Our Times
13/04/2020 Duración: 08minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads from The Center for Transformational Presence's blog: The Great Slowing Down - Hearing and Responding to the Callings of Our Times , where we are reminded "our job is to listen, sense, and intuit the messages, guidance, and potential that is hidden in plain sight all around us and within us." With permission of author Alan Seale
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Episode 53. Will the Coronavirus Lead to a Global Change of Heart?
11/04/2020 Duración: 31minThe continuing Covid-19 pandemic is the focus of today's podcast. What could be its effects on individuals and the global collective? Rose & Christine's far-ranging conversation explores the recent Tablet interview with Pope Francis, entitled "Pope Francis says pandemic can be a 'place of conversion', as well as David Suzuki's seminal talk "Force of Nature - From Monsters to Economy and Money",where he questions the current social paradigm with its emphasis on profits over people.
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Episode 52. BEST IN CLIMATE: MARY OLIVER For CORONA TIMES
06/04/2020 Duración: 05minChristine reads MARY OLIVER for CORONA TIMES (Thoughts After The Poem "Wild Geese"), an updated variation on a favourite Mary Oliver poem shared on Facebook by Adrie Suzanne Kusserow. Professor Kusserow is a Vermont poet and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Saint Michael's College in Colchester.
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Episode 51. Has The Coronavirus Infected The Oil Industry?
03/04/2020 Duración: 27minThis episode focuses on the effects on the oil and gas industry of a slowing global economy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include decline in oil price per barrel as a result of price war between Saudis and Russia, the possibility that now is the time to best time to implement a carbon tax and the idea that the future is still ours to make. Can we envision a world that our hearts know is possible?
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Episode 49. What Is Our New Normal?
27/03/2020 Duración: 30minRose and Christine have a heart-felt discussion regarding the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, how we are all being affected, Christine's family on front line, and that we don't know the toll it will take on us individually and collectively. Is it possible to re-frame all the uncertainty?
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Episode 48. BEST IN CLIMATE: What if the Virus is the Medicine?
23/03/2020 Duración: 13minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads from the Heartward Sanctuary's blog: What if the the Virus is the medicine? which asks the question what if COVID-19 is happening for us and not just to us? With permission of authors Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell
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Episode 47. What If The World Responded To Climate Change The Way It's Responding to the Coronavirus?
20/03/2020 Duración: 35minThe coronavirus threat has created a sense of urgency and the virus has quickly mobilize the global community into implementing drastic public health measures, with huge impacts on the economy. Why, in contrast, does the very real threat of climate change, and the climate emergency that scientists are warning about, continue to be treated with relative nonchalance and no sense of urgency by both governments and the general population?
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Episode 46.BEST IN CLIMATE. Beyond Sustainability? We are Living in the Century of Regeneration.
16/03/2020 Duración: 13minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads Daniel Christian Wahl's treatise Beyond Sustainability? We are Living in the Century of Regeneration, originally published on Medium in April 2018. https://medium.com/@designforsustainability/beyond-sustainability-we-are-living-in-the-century-of-regeneration-4f2b116a65d1 Daniel Christian Wahl advises on regenerative bioregional strategy and is the author of Designing Regenerative Cultureswhere Daniel makes the clear cut case that now is the time for us to move from sustainable to regenerative
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Episode 45: How do We Stay in Hope in a Time of Great Fear?
14/03/2020 Duración: 35minChristine and Rose address the fear that exists everywhere right now. From climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting plunge in the stockmarket and panicked stockpiling of toilet paper, the amount of fear we encounter moment to moment can be overwhelming for many of us. And yet hope is a necessary component in order to live our best lives. How do we move from negative to positive? Rose and Christine share what works for them, and wrap up with a session of EFT Tapping focused on decreasing fear to make room for hope.
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Episode 44. BEST IN CLIMATE. House Resolution 109 aka The Green New Deal
09/03/2020 Duración: 19minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Rose reads House Resolution 109 (H.R.109 1H) aka The Green New Deal, introduced in the House on February 7, 2019, by Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, [D-NY-14]
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Episode 43: What Effect is Coronavirus having on Climate? Bonus Interview: Dispelling Climate Grief
06/03/2020 Duración: 29minRose and Christine discuss the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and the impact China's shutdown, supply chain slowdown, and lessening transportation are having to emissions and ultimately climate. Cited are recent studies from NASA including satellite images. Bonus: Christine chats about the upcoming free online 5-day Dispelling Climate Anxiety challenge with energy healer Sandra Boatman. 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
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Episode 42. BEST IN CLIMATE. Coronavirus Response Shows the World May Not Be Ready for Climate-Induced Pandemics
03/03/2020 Duración: 09minIn 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. She has been active in youth and climate policy advocacy, attending the 2018 and 2019 Youth 20 Summits as a teenage delegate, and is currently an active member of the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth.
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Episode 41. Are There Cracks in the Fossil Fuel System?
28/02/2020 Duración: 26minIt'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
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Episode 40: BEST IN CLIMATE. Teck Resources Withdraws Application for Huge Alberta Oil Sands Mine
24/02/2020 Duración: 10minIn this BEST IN CLIMATE episode, Christine reads the bombshell letter sent by Don Lindsay, CEO and President of Teck Resources Limited, to the Canadian federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The letter outlines the reasons Teck has withdrawn the Frontier Project, a 113 square mile 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 government on whether or not the mine could go ahead.
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Episode 39. What Can The Indigenous Relationship To The Land Teach Us In A Climate Emergency?
21/02/2020 Duración: 30minChristine 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. 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
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Episode 38: BEST IN CLIMATE: The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer. By Kate Gunn & Bruce McIvor of First Peoples Law Corporation
18/02/2020 Duración: 15minIn 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. This post was first published on firstpeopleslaw.com. Kate Gunn is a lawyer at First Peoples Law Corporation. Kate completed her Master's of Law at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent academic essay, "Agreeing to Share: Treaty 3, History & the Courts," was published in the UBC Law Review. Bruce McIvor, lawyer and historian, is principal of First Peoples Law Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law where he teaches the constitutional law of Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Bruce is a proud Métis from the Red River in Manitoba. He holds a Ph.D. in Aboriginal and environmental history and is a Fulbright Scholar. A member of the bar in British Columbia and Ontario, Bruce is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading practitioner of Aboriginal law in Canada.
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Episode 37. How Is Climate Change Asking Us To Change?
14/02/2020 Duración: 31minRose 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