Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Yixian Sun, University of Bath
The relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, and it has been unstable and sometimes under extreme stress in recent years.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Imagine a world where extreme heatwaves scorch cities, wildfires consume forests, and hurricanes wreak havoc on coastlines.
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- Written by: Calvert Jones and Celia Paris
Humans are storytelling creatures: the stories we tell have profound implications for how we see our role in the world, and dystopian fiction keeps growing in popularity.
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- Written by: Joost de Moor, et al
Can your individual behaviour make a real difference to the environment? And should you be expected to voluntarily change your life in the face of our worsening environmental crises?
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- Written by: Helen Norton
When regular people lie, sometimes their lies are detected, sometimes they’re not. Legally speaking, sometimes they’re protected by the First Amendment – and sometimes not, like when they commit fraud or perjury.
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- Written by: Ellen Boucher
As a researcher on the history of childhood, I’ve been disturbed to see Thunberg described and depicted as a prophet. To me, it risks distorting her message.
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- Written by: Jennifer Lynes and Dan Murray
The Auditor General of Ontario’s recent report found the province’s current climate change plan is not based on “sound evidence” and will fall well short of Ontario’s 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets.
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- Written by: Marc Hudson
The UK will go to the polls on December 12 for the third time in four years. Climate change didn’t make waves in previous elections, but this one may be different.
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- Written by: Amy Erica Smith
When the Brazilian city of São Paulo abruptly went dark at midday on Aug. 19, there was talk of the Apocalypse – not all of it in jest.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett
"These Twitter ads aren't just any political issue ads—they epitomize the art," according to a Harvard researcher who studies the oil giant.
A New Generation Of Leaders Understands That Individual Actions Won’t Fix Our Environmental Problems
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- Written by: David Soll
By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay the need for mass action to catalyze structural change.
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- Written by: Svenja Blanke
The character of Greta Thunberg is part of a polarised global confrontation regarding climate change. Despite what her critics may say, her speeches have contributed to social mobilisation and awareness of the climate crisis and the future of the planet.
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- Written by: Mark Winfield
The recent appearance in the province of Ontario of Premier Doug Ford’s anti-carbon pricing gas pump stickers reinforced the central role environmental issues may play in this federal election campaign.
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- Written by: Sarah Myhre, Ph.D.
Women’s leadership won’t be a panacea for the overwhelming whiteness of climate leadership, but it’s a starting place.
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- Written by: Teresa Kramarz
She sits small on the large stage, her face contorted trying to contain emotion as she labours to push her words out; on the brink of crying. She tells those listening:
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- Written by: Bobby Duffy
We humans have a natural tendency to focus on negative stories. We tend to assume things are worse than they really are, and going downhill fast.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Included here is the complete coverage and some highlights of the Climate Forum 2020 as presented by MSNBC.
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- Written by: Bill McKibben
“It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.” Business as usual is what’s doing us in.
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- Written by: Kelly Sims Gallagher and Fang Zhang
As the effects of climate change become more widespread and alarming, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has called on nations to step up their plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson
"There's a tremendous amount of power that drives through those streets and parks next to those sidewalks and walks into those buildings. We want them to think about what they're doing with that power."
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- Written by: Steve Fletcher
I have travelled from Plymouth to the UN headquarters in New York many times, often to discuss how to protect the oceans from climate change.
