15:10:06 From Eric Tans : Here's a link to the related mindfulness webinar: https://goo.gl/forms/1qr5oiSeTvYheFOf2 15:15:27 From Dani Scott : Hi all, I'm hearing someone else speaking over Madeleine 15:22:59 From fstoss : Lise Van Sustern (Washingtpn, DC based) is a forensic psychiatrist who was aong the original Al Gore-trained 50 "Climate Messengers" and medical advisor to Mr. Gore since 2006. For the Feb 26, 2017, Climate & Health Meeting (resurrected from Trump's dropping a larger symposium): https://www.climaterealityproject.org/health 15:24:24 From Beth : this type of breathing is really good for so many things! thanks 15:24:46 From Dani Scott : I was feeling activated from some of the slides, but deep breathing helped so much. I can feel my feet again. 15:25:11 From Eric Tans : Based on the content, I'm feeling stressed for the future for my kids 15:25:11 From Jeanne L Pfander : I feel my chest tighten when reading / hearing the long list of disasters current and future. :-{ The breathing helps to bring some calmness. 15:25:12 From abrahdresdale : It’s so important to look at the whole systems perspective to climate change adaptation—grateful for this work and how early articulated it is. And what is the call for climate mitigation in a whole systems approach? 15:26:33 From abrahdresdale : Do folks have “Carbon Farming Solution” by Eric Toensmeier in their libraries? Powerful research and data for different forms of farming for climate change reversal/sequestration! 15:26:49 From Beth : Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing 15:33:36 From fstoss : Al Gore's 40th Inernational Training Workshop is coming up March 16-18 in Atlanta, Georgia. While I intended to serve as a Mentor for this workshop, my wife's recent shoulder-replacement surgery requires my presence to "be her left arm" during the first 2+ months of her rehabilitation and will be staying at home in Rochester. There has been an optomistic rumor that a location for a future traing workshop LATE in 2019 or in 2020 will be Boston Stay tuned! I think there are now several SustainRT Members that are trained with Mr. Gore. 15:34:10 From Steve Hardin : Finding good partners essential. 15:34:32 From Steve Hardin : I'm working with our university's Office of Sustainability. The library is part of a larger whole. 15:34:34 From Jeanne L Pfander : Connect with student organizations/clubs and offer to work on presentations/programs together 15:34:39 From Margaret Woodruff : I would love to find some guidelines for small libraries to start conversations and to implement some climate mitigation/managing in our communities. 15:34:42 From Nadine : We are working on practical actions people can take 15:35:33 From jenny rockywell : We are having "Planet People Project" series with guest speakers on things like beef as regenerative agriculture and then curated lists of readings, documentaries, websites to talk about at discussion circles 15:36:00 From Margaret Woodruff : We've done a very popular climate change conversation series here but we're not sure how to take the next steps. 15:36:34 From Madeleine Charney : The Massachusetts Climate Prep Week webinar is Tues 5/14 2-3pm 15:36:46 From Margaret Woodruff : That's a great idea. We have a good network here in town but I think we're all feeling a little overwhelmed and ineffectual. 15:36:58 From Amy Brunvand : This online report identified effective individual action from "Drawdown: " Climate Change Needs Behavior Change: Making the Cast for Behavioral Solutions to Reduce Global Warming. Center for Behavior & the Environment (2018) https://www.rare.org/sites/default/files/2018%20CCNBC%20Report.pdf 15:39:13 From Margaret Woodruff : Can you name the books again please? 15:39:47 From Beth : cool idea - design thinking application! 15:40:02 From Margaret Woodruff : I'd be interested in learning if anyone has done anything with Drawdown? We will be doing a book discussion here with this. 15:41:21 From abrahdresdale : www.regeneratechange.com is the Regenerate Change platform. The books I mentioned on social design are: Regenerative Design for Change Makers—A Social Permaculture Guidebook (www.regeneratechange.com/guidebook) and Change Here Now—Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation by Adam Brock 15:41:23 From Amy Brunvand : https://www.rare.org/ is an organization that addresses climate change through behavioral change. 15:41:35 From Margaret Woodruff : Yes, I'd love to learn more about design thinking! 15:42:31 From Amy Brunvand : Jenny, that's exactly why the report I suggested is helpful. It identifies individual action from Drawdown. 15:42:40 From CG : You can not consume animal products! 15:43:02 From fstoss : Madeleine, somewhere around 2010 the Genesee Chapter of the Rochester, NY Sierra Club tried to do this very community outreach in The City of Rochester. I was the individual that served as the coordinator of the North East Quadrant of Rochester. A total of five (5) people showed up for a meeting that was prepared to host several hundred. The Southeast quadrant fared a bit better with about 12 individuals attending, and the two western Qaudrants had no one coming. Now that was a long time ago, but my question is what are you planning to do with the urban population (I live in Rochester's 19th Ward). I don't know what the success of Rochester's chapter of Mothers Out Front for Climate Change, and the Rochester People's Climate Coalition have with urban residents. CCL is predominantly a suburban volunteer work force, and the Rochester Pachamama Alliance held about a dozen Drawdown 5-week workshops (my wife and I attended) and there were very few City residents attending. 15:43:44 From Beth : here is the link again! https://www.rare.org/sites/default/files/2018%20CCNBC%20Report.pdf 15:44:21 From Beth : or population control 15:44:36 From Nadine : We've done alot of programs around composting etc. and we've found that people are more interested in practical solutions they can take away. 15:44:53 From Nadine : I think that just the fact we 'assume' climate change is happening it supports action to it. 15:44:55 From fstoss : QUETION: What are your plans for getting the message out to Urban populations, and what are your plans for dealing with the urban (and rural) poor who have concerns about housing health, food/nutrition, heating, and living that are so far aboe their concerns about climate change or sustainability??? 15:45:10 From Amy Brunvand : Lots of good food info in the EAT-Lancet Commission report: https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/ 15:45:17 From Nadine : People are less likely to 'deny' it. 15:46:41 From Nadine : It we can show people how they can save money by having zero waste or not using plastics or utilizing geo-thermal, solar or electric cars it is of benefit to all. 15:47:06 From Nadine : I don't believe climate actions need to be more expensive. 15:47:58 From Dani Scott : We had a worm bin at one library I worked at. While it wasn't a program, people asked about it all the time and it started great conversations about why we had the bin, what we "fed" our worms, and how they could create their own. 15:47:59 From Madeleine Charney : Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Change Crisis. This was a 3.5 year experimenta project that invited people to share their emotional landscape around climate change. 15:48:12 From Madeleine Charney : This was at UMass Amherst 15:48:14 From wongc : I think as educators we have no idea how far our reach will go. Hosting educational opportunities at our libraries is planting seeds. I have no idea how far the seeds I’ve planted are going to go and where they are going to grow. 15:48:34 From Madeleine Charney : Yes, CJ Wong! 15:48:41 From Madeleine Charney : Planting seeds. 15:49:10 From Charles S : I am at a public library in southwestern Indiana currently working on a grant to raise awareness about how environmental justice issues impact health of under-resourced communities. We are planning on focusing on the tree canopy (urban tree reforestation) by planting a number of trees to raise awareness about air and water quality, health, and impacts such as climate change, pollution, etc. We are also designing some citizen science activities (air, water, noise). We are targeting youth 16-24 in a high poverty area designated as Evansville Promise Zone as tree stewards. I like the idea of adding resilience. 15:49:12 From Nadine : And planting literal seeds! We have a seed library. And we do alot of gardening programs. 15:49:49 From Margaret Woodruff : Yes, we've just re-started our seed library here in Charlotte! 15:49:53 From fstoss : Contact for me: fstoss@buffalo.edu 15:50:06 From Madeleine Charney : We are starting a seed library at UMass Amherst. 15:50:18 From Madeleine Charney : In the Science library. 15:50:34 From Jeanne L Pfander : We have a Seed Library at the University of Arizona Libraries. 15:50:37 From wongc : I want to start a seed library here, too! 15:50:38 From Nadine : I recently heard about Repair Cafes where people can bring broken items to the library and learn how to repair them. 15:50:47 From Madeleine Charney : The Work That Reconnects is Joanna Macy's work...The Great Turning is where we want to go. 15:50:52 From Tara Lingg : We are in the beginning of a new building project, and I am REALLY pushing for multiple dishwashers in the program rooms and a set of washer/dryers to eliminate the use of single use items...there is information that using the machines are effective in reducing carbon footprint. 15:51:32 From Madeleine Charney : Yes, Abrah, libraries fostering social transformation. 15:51:54 From Dani Scott : Here's an article about repair cafes: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/09/01/libraries-everything-maintenance-repair-cafe/ 15:52:46 From Nadine : I think that having programs that 'assume' climate change is actually happening can be a part of the paradigm shift. The more we all take it for granted the more people will destress around it and take positive action...well hopefully.. 15:54:04 From Beth : good ideas jenny 15:54:08 From Amy Brunvand : UN SDG goal #17 is "Partnerships for the Goals". I think it's important to keep that in mind. 15:54:46 From Nadine : Thank you Madeleine, it does seem overwhelming and it sometimes feels like too much but knowing we're all doing small bits makes me hope our govts will start making large changes. 15:55:24 From Amy Brunvand : Yes, I just mean there might be a community partner that can help develop new library programs. 15:55:29 From Beth : https://librarymap.ifla.org/ 15:56:34 From Margaret Woodruff : I like the idea of the map. It would be so nice to have a clearinghouse of ideas, programs so we can build on each other and help each other out. 15:58:43 From andy : to go back to gardening and tree-planting - the excellent thing about those programs is that they get people outside and into nature -- which as the complexity of things goes -- does 1) allows nature to provide some of the destressing you talked about today, 2) places nature and the world as a higher personal priority - even if only subconsciously.. 15:58:49 From Eric Tans : https://goo.gl/forms/veYUKSrikfwFoF083 16:01:00 From Aaron Troncoso : Thanks so much for having me, everyone! Hope you’ll all consider participating in Climate Preparedness Week— for more details and to get in touch, see www.climatecrew.org/prepweek .