Making Lemonade from Climate Change: Searching for a Shift in Culture
This blog post is food for thought and resonates strongly with Talking Truth’s mission — let’s talk about it!
This blog post is food for thought and resonates strongly with Talking Truth’s mission — let’s talk about it!
Some of us will be attending this conference in Washington, D.C. in Thursday-Friday, November 3-4, 2016. You can come too! “Building Personal & Psychosocial Resilience for Climate Change” A Unique Skills-Building and Policy Conference on the Urgency, Methods & Benefits… Continue Reading
First, read the article by Jay McDaniel. Then watch the video, The Power of Outrospection
“Better than any film I know, it makes clear that our profit-oriented growth economy has caused the climate catastrophe and cannot itself rescue us from disaster. We need new thinking and a new way of life.” – Tom. F. Driver “The… Continue Reading
Teaching, Learning and Living on our Green Planet: Climate Action and Sustainability at UMass Pool our knowledge and experiences Reflect on challenges and opportunities Take climate action and sustainability to the next level This is an event for visioning and… Continue Reading
Workshop: Passion, Motivation & Action: Telling Your Story Tuesday March 22nd 12:30 – 2:00 26th Floor, Du Bois Library To face the realities of the climate crisis, we must use our hearts and our minds. Telling stories helps us to… Continue Reading
Renewables Are Ready Short Hynes (Click for full presentation!) Du Bois Library, 26th floor With guest speaker, Pat Hynes, Director of the Traprock Center for Peace & Justice. There will also be a brief update on UMass campus solar projects… Continue Reading
Info session about Taking Steps to a Renewable Future, the walk to oppose the proposed Kinder Morgan NED pipeline taking place March 17th – March 20th. Thursday, March 3rd from 7:00 – 8:00pm Goodell Building, 5th Floor Lounge, UMass Amherst*… Continue Reading
Shalini Bahl, a graduate of UMass Amherst, runs Downtown Mindfulness in Amherst. She is offering this 8-week course (introduction on 3/4 and beginning 3/8) http://remindingproject.com/mbsr/ The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the UMass Medical… Continue Reading
Here you can see the outline of George Bennett’s talk he gave at the Skills for Life workshop on Feburary 29, 2016. SKILLS-FOR-LIFE INTRO FEB 29 2016