Climate Prep Week

In sharing our conversation with Gardner, Ella and I hope to dispel some of the anxiety you might be feeling about... well... climate anxiety. But also, anxiety about scheduling something around Climate Preparedness Week, which runs annually from Sept. 24th to 30th. Gardner is a tireless advocate for this issue, and she discusses resources, programming ideas, and how climate change is, for some, still discussed as an abstract concept. With her students at Dartmouth Middle School, Gardner uses the curriculum to move past concepts into action and service. Initiatives discussed: CREW and Climate Prep Week, https://www.climatecrew.org/climate_prep_week_2021 Climate Reality, https://www.climaterealitysouthcoast.com/ 10 Questions for Young Changemakers, the Democratic Knowledge Project, https://yppactionframe.fas.harvard.edu/home Climate Cafes, https://climatecafes.org/ Break Free from Plastic, https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/ Sunrise Movement, https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ Cli-Fi, https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/cli-fi/ “State AG settles with New Bedford bus company over allegations of excessive idling at schools” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-ag-settles-with-new-bedford-bus-company-over-allegations-of-excessive-idling-at-schools/ar-AAOg7t2 Books discussed: How to Change Everything: A Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other, Naomi Klein Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series), Loree Griffin Burns The Wisdom of Tress, Lita Judge One Small Hop, Madelyn Rosenberg Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Ashfall, Mike Mullin Good Neighbors, Sarah Langan Lights out in Lincoln Woods, Geoff Rodkey The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin Octavia Butler