Climate change Great Lakes Now

Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows | Great Lakes Now

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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows

By Jessica Eise, Indiana University

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Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered as a scientific or political issue. However, social scientists like me have found that feelings and values are what drive people toward broad, collective change – not charts, graphs or images.

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Climate change Great Lakes Now

A New Paradigm: How climate change is shaping mental landscapes in the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now

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A New Paradigm: How climate change is shaping mental landscapes in the Great Lakes

In a weekly Good Grief Network session held on July 25, time and space were created for participants to reflect on their feelings of uncertainty in an unstable environment over Zoom. Trained facilitators kept time for each participant to speak while the other participants bore witness as listeners. The overarching rule was no cross-talk, which means not directly responding or referring to what a person shared.

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Climate change Cottage Life

Actively maintaining your woodlot—no matter its size—can fight climate change and even help your bank account

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One year, with the kind of gusto for tidying up that’s endemic across cottage country in early July, my husband, Steve, and I set out to clean up an abandoned … Continued

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