on Rinse & Repeat Action: Make your own masks at home (TLDR: Two layers of cotton with an inner layer of tight weave polyester—chiffon—or silk. Make sure it fits tight to your face, especially between nose and cheeks. You don’t want to feel air rush out past your eyes when you exhale heavily. You can also… Continue Reading Notes: Week Of 7/06/20
on Methods & Mindfulness Action: Try out mindfulness meditation and find a way (or ways) that work for you to be more aware of yourself and your surroundings. Do some active reflection on your stressors and signs you are feeling stressed, and practice stress management techniques to improve your resiliency in the face of disaster and… Continue Reading Notes: Week Of 6/29/20
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 Mind Games & Motivation Action: Consider becoming a climate communicator by checking out a variety of platforms, including Coursera, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation, and Citizens Climate Lobby. Put in the work and research to shift your own perspective before demanding the same of others. And remember, not everyone has the… Continue Reading Notes: Week of 6/22/20
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 Here we go again… the globe is still warming up, those ice caps are still melting like popsicles in the microwave… you all know the drill by now! Let’s keep this conversation about disasters and emergencies going, folks! This episode, we’re bringing it all together, all the plans and supplies and research, to practice what… Continue Reading Episode 004 – Prepare to… practice!
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 Our globe is still warming up, those ice caps are still melting… You get the idea, we’re still talking about disasters, emergencies, and climate change here, folks! (As soon as they go away, we’ll stop, we promise.) We’re continuing the preparedness series today with an episode all about supplies! This week, we’re going to talk… Continue Reading Episode 003 – Prepare to… get supplied!
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 The globe is warming up, ice caps are still melting, diseases are spreading, pollution is polluting, and the weather is more extreme every year. Jinkies! So what is a simple human to do? How can we prepare and make it through the next disaster? And the one after that? And the one after that? In… Continue Reading Episode 002 – Prepare to… be prepared!