on Methods To Adapt Our Perspectives To Better Address Climate Change And Disaster Stress can sometimes feel a bit like a monster with seventeen arms, tentacles, and razor-sharp teeth – completely overwhelming and beyond our capacity to deal with. When it comes to enormous changes, it is easy to find our stress levels pushing right past… Continue Reading Mindset Shifting Techniques
on WHY ARE WE RE-OPENING ALREADY? We’re re-opening?! Hooray! It’s all over! Wait…Didn’t the experts (and Globally Heated) say we would need to do the stay-at-home thing for months? And limit certain activities for a year or more? And what about cases going up? Is it safe out there or not? Across the country, states and… Continue Reading The Psychology of COVID-19 Denial
on Placing blame is a pretty natural reaction. If something goes wrong, we can’t fix anything or make it better if we don’t know what caused things to go wrong in the first place. But, if we place that blame on the wrong person, the wrong activity, the wrong variable, it ends up being an exercise… Continue Reading Whose Fault Is It Anyway?
on Red lines tend to be rather ominous. Your teacher may have drawn them all over that essay you turned in in second grade, showing you how wrong you were about everything in your tiny human life, scarring you emotionally forever. Those red lines don’t get any less emotionally taxing when they are drawn on a… Continue Reading Red Lines & Red Tomatoes
on We’re Working On It The protests happening across the country have radicalized a lot of people and stirred them to action. We want to help keep that momentum going by using our platform to create visibility and recognition of the reality of racism and violence in our country – but we are not the experts… Continue Reading Being An Ally
on You may have heard the phrase, “disaster is the great equalizer,” at some point before in your life. Don’t let them fool you. Every disaster movie is centered on a group of people from different backgrounds coming together to solve the crisis – but they never show you what the consequences for the disaster are… Continue Reading Income, Preparedness, & What The Heck We Can Do About It
on If a hurricane or tornado or earthquake hit right now, would you know what to do? Odds are, if you live in an area prone to those types of disasters, you might have some sort of idea. Odds are also that if that disaster were a bioterrorism attack, a disease outbreak, or another non-climate disaster,… Continue Reading Do You Feel Prepared?
on Having what you need on hand before a disaster strikes can be easier than you think—but why do so many of us mess it up? (The answer is a level of surprising worthy of a clickbait title…) Bottled water? One of those hand-crank radio-flashlight combinations? Six months’ worth of military surplus MREs? A flamethrower? Picking… Continue Reading The Supplies Surprise
on I walked past the authorities in hazmat suits and masks, only to be motioned to proceed down a short hall to be screened again, this time in a small cubicle. After handing over bags and passport, explaining my entire situation over again—with liberal use of hand gestures and several attempts at finding a phrasing that… Continue Reading Disaster Planning: Escape from Shanghai!
on If there is anything that is permeating the national conversation wholly and completely as of late, it’s a bunch of numbers and percentages tossed like spaghetti at a wall hoping something might stick. And a lot of those same numbers and percentages are freaking a lot of people out. So let’s get into what all… Continue Reading Numbers are hard, yo