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Session 1
Wednesday, May 20
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Mobilizing Action on Climate during a Global Pandemic: Lessons for Climate Leaders
Harshan Radhakrishnan (attendee):
Climate Ready BC, “What we heard report”
Andrea Reimer (guest speaker):
The book I mentioned in my remarks is A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit. Please consider buying it from an independent book seller. There are several great independent e-book sellers.
Final couple of books I would suggest reading to think about cultural narrative and the human face of the future: The Patch by Chris Turner and The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Another great read (article not a book) at this link. Thanks to Vince Verlaan who passed it along.
Cathy Buckley (attendee):
Also The Future We Choose is amazing.
Julien Thomas (event co-organizer):
Also The Great Derangement by Amitav Gosh
Kamyar Razavi (co-organizer and event speaker):
Solutions journalism series:
First Nations Forward, in the National Observer (note: National Observer is a media sponsor for SFU’s Climate Change Reset event, and FNF lead reporter Emilee Gilpin will be speaking at the June 10 event
Tzeporah Berman (guest speaker):
stand.earth/safe
Mark Vardy, SFU Adaptation to Climate Change team:
Link to library of publications:
Tara Mahoney (co-organizer and event speaker):
Session 2
Wednesday, May 27
9:30AM - 11:30AM
Communicating Urgency: Motivating and Equipping the Public for Climate Action
Shane Gunster (speaker):
Atlantic article on essential workers
Pickett and Wilkinson's book (as linked through the equality trust, a UK think-tank)
The Jim Stanford interview on CBC radio
NYT story on public financing of coronavirus relief
CCPA piece about extractivist populism and fight for a better Canada
Globe story about Nanos poll on pride in Canada
Kamyar Razavi (speaker):
Value-action gap
Barriers to engagement
Fear, efficacy, conflict
Hart & Feldman, Threat without efficacy? (2014)
Kim Witte (1992), Putting the fear back into fear appeals
CCPA report on cynical publics
Tara Mahoney (co-presenter for Session 5 & Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication for the David Suzuki Foundation):
Report on millennial engagement and climate change
Tara Moreau (attendee):
Great book about imagination and ideas to create a future we want by Rob Hopkins https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/from-what-is-to-what-if/
Session 3
Wednesday, June 3
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Activating Compassion and the Creative Spirit at a Time of Crisis
Oliver Lane (moderator):
Olive Dempsey (co-presenter):
bell hooks, All about love
Alice Walker, Living by the word
Jess Housty piece, The Tyee, “Find your pod”
https://workthatreconnects.org/
Kendra Fanconi (co-presenter):
National Arts Centre Digital Conference on Sustainabiltiy
Mike K (attendee):
TDSB Indigenous Education Centre
Session 4
Wednesday, June 10
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Climate Justice and Over-Targeted Communities: Investing in Resilience
***Vancouver Global Shapers Anti-Oppression resources:
How Asians can show up for the Black community
How white people can show up for the Black community
White Women doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture
VanMag’s local Black activists list
Shades of Sustainability article feature
Shades of Sustainability dinner event
Donations:
Donate to the #BlackLivesMatter movement
Donate to the Black in BC Community Support Fund for COVID-19
Hogan’s Alley Society donation
Ethos Lab