North-Central Alberta (Westlock, Athabasca, and Beyond)
our Planet's HEALTH & CRISIS
BECOME INFORMED
Below is a list of numbers, links, and books about our planet's health and crisis. It offers information and insight and personal support for climate distress specifically. By no means is it a complete list, but it is a start! It's an important step in the journey toward awareness, repair, sustainability, and hope.
NOTE: For additional information about trauma in general or about addiction, relationships, and other personal struggles, please see my PERSONAL WELLBEING page (next page).
If, by the way, you're aware of additional resources of value, please drop me a line and I'll add them right here.
- **** IMMEDIATE HELP ****
- 911: When there's a life-threatening emergency
- Nearest Hospital Emergency Department: When significant addiction or mental health problems requires immediate attention OR when there's great risk of harming yourself or others
**** INFORMATION ****
1. ABCs
- Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant (book)
- Petroleum Papers, by Geoff Dembicki (book)
2. ACTION
- Climate Justice Edmonton
- Climate Psychology Alliance North America
- Climate Psychology Alliance (UK)
- Good Grief Network
- Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance
- Work That Reconnects, facilitation model byJoanna Macey
- Unthinkable Earth
3. CLIMATE CRISIS
- Canada's National Observer (climate news)
4. ECOLOGY
- Aldo Leopold Foundation
- Every Day Adventure at Phantom River Ranch, by DianaCatherine Keith, PhD (an ongoing journal)
- Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard (book)
- Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries From a Secret World, by Peter Wohlleben (book)
- The Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
5. PERSONAL SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE DISTRESS
- Beyond Ecological Grief, by Canada's National Observer (6-part podcast)
- Climate Mental Health Network
- Climate Psychology Alliance North America and United Kingdom
- Climate Psychology Handbook, by Climate Psychology Alliance-UK (e-book)
- Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician's Guide, by Leslie Davenport, M.D. (book)
- Explorations in Climate Psychology Journal, by Climate Psychology Alliance-UK (e-journal)
- Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, by Sarah Ray (book)
- Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Eco-Anxiety, by Britt Wray (book)
- Good Grief Network
- Guide to Eco-Anxiety: How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health, Watkins Media Limited, UK, by Anouchka Grose (book)
- How to Bring Your Whole Body to the Climate Justice Movement
- Navigating the 5 Climate Emotions: Understanding the Spectrum and Finding Support
- Unthinkable, by Canadian Dr. Britt Wray (climate wellbeing newsletter)
- Unthinkable Resource Hub: Supports for Climate Trauma and Ecological Distress
PHOTO ABOVE
A great spangled fritillary on sunflower
(Phantom River Refuge)
* Photo credit - Len Jorgenson