Climate, Mind and Behavior Garrison Institute
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The Garrison Institute’s Climate, Mind and Behavior (CMB) signature program explores the human dimensions of climate change with the intention of developing and enhancing activities that reduce green house gas emissions while promoting individual and community resilience. CMB seeks to develop human resilience to the negative impacts of climate change, especially for those living in the most climate vulnerable communities. These communities often have the least resources to prepare for, manage, or recover from a climate crisis.
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Ep 13: Youth Voices on Climate Change with KidSpirit Members
Hear from young people around the world—India, China, New Zealand, and the United States—on how they’re feeling about climate change, and what they think we can do to better care for each other and our fragile planet.
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Ep 12: Falling in Love with the Earth with Mark Coleman
A student of mindfulness and Buddhist practices for three decades, Mark Coleman, M.A., is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, California. He has always been keen to share the fruits of meditation to wider audiences and founded The Mindfulness Institute, where he brings mindfulness trainings to Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Coleman also…
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Ep 11: A Frozen Garden of Eden with Dr. Cary Fowler
Welcome to episode eleven of the Climate, Mind and Behavior Podcast. Each episode, we’ll explore groundbreaking intersections between climate change, resilience, contemplative practice and human behavior. Deep inside an arctic mountain on a remote island off Norway is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Known by many as a frozen “Garden of Eden” and “Noah’s Ark” of plant life, it’s a bunker filled…
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Ep 10: Transformational Resilience and Climate Change with Bob Doppelt
Welcome to episode ten of the Climate, Mind and Behavior Podcast. Each episode, we’ll explore groundbreaking intersections between climate change, resilience, contemplative practice, and human behavior. Bob Doppelt is Executive Director of The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), a non-partisan social science-based sustainability and global climate change organization. In addition, Doppelt is a professor at the University of Oregon where he…
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Ep 9: A Buddhist Response to Climate Change with Kristin Barker
Welcome to episode nine of the Climate, Mind and Behavior Podcast. Each episode, we’ll explore groundbreaking intersections between climate change, resilience, contemplative practice, and human behavior. Kristin Barker is the director and co-founder of One Earth Sangha. The group’s mission is to bring the essential wisdom and practices from the Buddhist tradition to collective engagement on critical ecological crises. A native…
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Ep 8: The Water Protectors at Standing Rock with Pauly Denetclaw
Welcome to episode eight of the Climate, Mind and Behavior Podcast. Each episode, we’ll explore groundbreaking intersections between climate change, resilience, contemplative practice and human behavior. Pauly Denetclaw is a Native American journalist born and raised in Manuelito, New Mexico. Interested in writing from a young age, she began her first book at eight years old. Today she is studying mass…