Overcoming Climate Anxiety Through Collaboration With Laird Christensen

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As the climate crisis continues to worsen, it seems our personal efforts to mitigate its adverse effects are all for naught. This causes everyone to feel climate anxiety, with so many pushed to not even care at all. Laird Christensen, PhD is here to emphasize the utmost need for collective action to create massive waves of change at a national and global scale. He explains how to focus more on collaborative work among local communities and environmental activists and less on antagonistic conversations that only sow anger and dissent. Laird also stresses the importance of patience and the genuine desire to listen when it comes to amplifying personal impact dedicated to sustainability and regeneration.
About Guest:
Laird Christensen is a visionary leader dedicated to addressing the global climate crisis through local sustainability efforts and intentional community building, driven by a profound commitment to ecological citizenship. As the founding Director of online Graduate Programs in Environmental Studies (2006) and Resilient and Sustainable Communities (2015), he revolutionized distance education by emphasizing practical application within students' communities.
Laird’s expertise spans public speaking, facilitating groups, hosting impactful online events, and many forms of writing, from creative nonfiction to scholarly works and poetry. His interdisciplinary background spotlights humanity's relationship with the environment, emphasizing narratives' role in shaping resilient and just communities. Laird Christensen's diverse skill set and commitment to sustainability mark him as an inspirational figure driving change in education and advocacy.
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Show Notes: - Raw Audio
Non-Fiction Works And Poetry - 04:54
Before we really kick off into that, I wanted to first get a view of how you bring your creativity into your nonfiction works and even poetry, what you write about when you're not speaking or working in this kind of more academic field.
Oregon And Bridging The Gaps - 13:43
We have this vision, especially those people who live outside of the Pacific Northwest, that Oregon is a very progressive, very liberal space.
Climate Crisis And Corporate Interests - 27:33
your example begins to suggest something about the nature of confronting the climate crisis, and that is we don't find ourselves with easy choices of this solution is going to take care of things.
Personal And systems changes - 33:19
Let's talk about that for a minute because I've covered this on a prior episode.
Teaching Students - 52:04
I wonder what your perspective is as somebody who's sitting in this professorial capacity, teaching students largely online and hopefully educating them about what it takes to network with one another.
Empowering Communities - 01:02:11
Just to kind of land this conversation with a bit of inspiration. I was hoping that you could share just a couple of closing thoughts.
Episode Wrap-up - 01:07:37
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