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- How the World’s Largest Consumer Brands Are 'Accelerating Culture Change' | Brands for Good
- Interview with Dr Renee Lertzman on climate, environmental melancholia and activism | Climate Emergency Manchester
- Thought Leader Series: Renée Lertzman and the psychology of climate action | The Optimist Daily
- The Difficulty of Imagining Climate Change Isn’t Just in Your Head | The Cut
- Beyond Aspiration: Authentic Engagement for Meeting Humanity’s Greatest Challenges | Sustainable Brands
- Have a Climate Denier Over for Coffee? | NRDC
- Disarming Defenses to Save our World | Sierra Magazine
- How to get a skeptic to believe in climate change? | E&E News
- Dat verlammende gevoel waardoor je niks voor het klimaat doet, wordt hierdoor veroorzaakt | Vance (In Dutch)
- A Talking Cure for Climate-based Depression? It Worked for Renee Lertzman | Grist
- Understanding Emotions about Climate Change | Citizen's Climate Lobby
- Why the Climate Movement Needs an Attitude Adjustment | Future500
- How climate change affects your mental health | READ MORE
- Why Emotionally intelligent climate work matters. Priorities for Climate folks for 2021 | READ THE ARTICLE IN GEN DREAD
- The Year That Was and the One Ahead/ Covering Climate Now | READ THE ARTICLE IN LOVELAND MAGAZINE
- What Lockdown Loneliness Taught Me About Climate Change | READ THE BBC ARTICLE
- Enduring the Climate and Coronavirus Crises: What Will It Take to Get Through Both? | DESMOG
- Children of the Crisis | ROLLING STONE
- Dr. Renée Lertzman on Climate Grief, Anxiety, and Compassion | HOT TAKE
- Panicked About The End Of The World? You Might Have “Eco-Anxiety" | In Style
- Three Changemakers speak about connectedness: finding our way back to wholeness | Earth Fire Institute Magazine (Pages 4-5)
- How To Protect Your Mental Health While Taking Climate Action, Experts Explain | MBG Planet
- A New Therapy for an Age of ‘Climate Grief | READ THE ARTICLE
- Caring About Climate Can Help You Get Laid | READ THE ARTICLE
- Facing Your Emotions Around Climate Change | READ THE ARTICLE
- Why does environmentalism have a dark side? | THE GRIST
- Young Minnesotans with 'climate grief' are feeling anxiety – and taking action | THE STAR TRIBUNE
- The Other Kind of Climate Denialism | THE NEW YORKER
- Is it okay to enjoy warm weather caused by climate change? | QUARTZ
- Change Your Mind. The Climate Will Follow | The Trouble
- The World Is on Fire. Are You Depressed? | The Stranger
- The Best Medicine for My Climate Grief | Yes!
- Experts are starting to tackle dealing with climate change anxiety | ThinkProgress
- Why is it So Hard for Canada to Have a Real Conversation about Pipelines? | DESMOGCANADA
- How To Hack Our Psychology To Take More Eco-Friendly Actions | MBG
- How to hold your own climate talks | New York Times
- Climate change: you can’t ignore it | The Guardian
- The Climate Change Problem No One Talks About: Anxiety and Depression | TIME
- The Battle Over Climate Change Is All in Your Head | TIME
- How Anxiety Around Climate Change Blocks Us From Taking Action | HUFFPOST
- We are Terrified | The Yale Daily News
- What Voldemort and Climate Change Have in Common | Pacific Standard
- Climate depression is for real. Just ask a scientist | Grist.org
- Want to get conservatives to save energy? Stop the environmentalist preaching | Washington Post
- Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change? | DESMOGCANADA
- Four Lessons Psychology Teaches Us About Inspiring Climate Action | The Climate Reality Project
- How To Hack Our Psychology To Take More Eco-Friendly Actions | MindBodyGreen Planet
- Why Some People Take Action On Climate Change — And Others Don’t | The Huffington Post
- Why Psychology Should Be A Part Of The Fight Against Climate Change | Huffpost
- Why Trump’s Drought Denial Is in Sync With His ‘Make America Great’ Message | The Hollywood Reporter
- How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames | DESMOGCANADA
- Here’s everything we know about how to talk about climate change | Grist
- Does National Unity Have to be a Casualty of Canada’s Energy Debate? | DESMOGCANADA
- 5 truths about our relationship with energy | Huffington Post (Originally published in greenbiz)
- What Voldemort and Climate Change Have in Common | Pacific Standard
- We are Terrified | Yale University
- Coping with Climate Change | Chico News & Review
- Google Nest and Getting Energy Consumers to Behave | Clean Edge
- Why the Climate Movement Needs an Attitude Adjustment | Future500
- Making Friends with Fatalism | Sightline
- The Psychology Of Climate Change — And How To Engage With It | wbur
- The psychology of climate actions | FOOTPRINT
- How climate change affects your mental health | RNZ
- You Aren’t Alone In Grieving The Climate Crisis | NPR’s Science Friday
- Why frightening facts don't always move people to action on Climate change | Yale Climate Connections
- We are talking climate anxiety, trauma, and validating our feelings with Dr. Renée Lertzman, a renowned psychologist, author and sustainability strategist who uses psychological insights to change our approach to the environmental crisis. | LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
- 2020 Trauma Action | Climate Seasons
- Our Relationship to Nature in the Midst of Ecological Disruption | Endlings
- The 2020 Election: Anxiety And Incrementalism | Climate one
- What the 2030 Climate Deadline Really Means | Climate One
- InsideOut: The Grief, Trauma and Anxiety of Climate Change (and what you can do) with Dr. Renee Lertzman | America Adapts
- Shaping The Future - From Pandemic to Climate Change - Climate Psychologist Dr. Renée Lertzman - Principals for attuned thinking in a time of crisis | Cambridge Climate Lecture Series
- Life On The Edge Of Climate Change (Ep. 1) | KALW local public radio interview
- Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Call with Speaker Renée Lertzman | Citizens' Climate Lobby
- All the Climate Feels | No Place Like Home
- Guilt | Podship: Earth
- The Psychology of Learning to Change, a Conversation with Renee Lertzman | MIT Climate
- We need to create space to share our stories | Klimat Podden
- Why Environmental Approaches Need Reboot | Earthgauge
- Selling the Science of Climate Change | Climate One
- Environmental Melancholia: Keynote, Ecopsychology Conference ,2015 | California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
- Handling Your Feelings About Climate Change | Climate One
- Climate Anxiety in the Trump Era | Warm Regards
- Handling Your Feelings About Climate Change | Climate One, Commonwealth Club
- Vatenfall Report On The Conversation On Climate Change And Its Impact On Human Behaviour | READ THE REPORT
- "A Mosquito in the Baltic Sea”: From Overwhelm to A New Kind of Leadership - The Conversation on Climate Change. Download PDF
- A Review of Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement Download PDF
- Researching Psychic Dimensions of Ecological Degradation: Notes from the Field DOWNLOAD PDF
- Ecopsychological Theory and Critical Intervention: Review Essay Download PDF
- Outside the Box: Interview with Paul Hawken | The Sun Magazine See Attached PDF
- Thinking Outside of the Box: Interview with Ira Glass | The Sun Magazine See Attached PDF
- Profile of Majora Carter See Attached PDF
- Common Interests: Interview with Karl Linn | Visionary and ecopsychologist See Attached PDF
- Living in Denial: Conversation between Renee Lertzman and Kari Norgaard See Attached PDF
- On Loss and Mourning | Interview with Darian Leader See Attached PDF
- An Icon for Our Time: Interview with Stewart Brand, founder of Whole Earth Catalog | The Sun Magazine
- Experiencing Deep Time: Interview with Brian Swimme | The Sun Magazine See Attached PDF
- What We’re Really Hungry For: Interview with Geneen Roth | The Sun Magazine
- In a Broken World: Interview with Scott Russell Sanders | The Sun Magazine
- Climate Change and the Coronavirus Promoting Emerging Leaders Through Crucial Conversations | AGU
- Applying psychology for a sustainable world | Cimpatico tv
- All the light we cannot see | Canada Citizens’ Climate Lobby
- Are games the next frontier in wildlife storytelling? | Jackson Wild 2020 Virtual Summit
- Transforming Climate Trauma into Climate Resilience | Enspire Summit 2020
- Citizens' Climate Lobby workshop | Tuning In: Lessons from psychology for climate action
- From Anxiety to Action: How to stay sane while fighting climate change | PsychAlive webinar recording
- 2040 Film | Interview in feature-length documentary
- Citizens' Climate Lobby Monthly Call with Speaker Renée Lertzman | Citizens’ Climate Lobby
- Climate Emergency Manchester | climate, environmental melancholia and activism
- The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News | Thought Leader Series: Renée Lertzman and the psychology of climate action
- Citizens' Climate Lobby | July 2020 Dr. Renee Lertzman
- Living in the Future's Past | Interview in Feature length Documentary Watch Video Trailer
- Antonia Juhasz delivering the Poynter Lecture at Yale: "Covering Catastrophe: Environmental Destruction and Resistance in the Age of Trump." Watch Video on YouTube
- The 10th and final episode of Sustainability Pioneers follows how one of the world’s most sustainable buildings, the Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh, rises from the ashes, and how the City of Pittsburgh takes a different road after president Trump reneges on the Paris climate treaty. Watch Video on Vimeo
- Global Weirding, Katharine Heyhoe’s excellent PBS series, episode on hope versus fear. Watch Video on YouTube
- Does messaging with fear really work? | PBS Digital Studios