We need to build in the resilience of, let's collect water when it's absolutely bucketing. It has not actually rained for quite a long time. Our ponde that usually is full all winter and empty in the summer, it hasn't filled up yet. And again, as a vedge grower, you notice that startiare much more in tune with the land and what's going on. With nature. That can only benefit your overall interaction with the world and your understanding of water scarcity. i think that another the big thing i think the education system is is how alive to information our children are even at a young age. You should not underestimate how much they can absorb
How can we be the best possible stewards of the future for our children? How can we meet their eco-anxiety and teach them resilience, adaptation and give them the skills of systemic thinking that will help them navigate the uncertainties to come?
Eva Bishop is mother of two young children, as well as being a long-term a climate activist and current communications director for the Beaver Trust. She is dedicated to finding ways that we can all create emotional and practical resilience in the face of the climate emergency - but in particular, how parents and care-givers can help young people develop the skills they will need to navigate a world that is undergoing total transformation - while at the same time, helping to be part of the change we need to see.
In this broad-ranging, deep, challenging conversation, we explore the ways we can all be part of the solution, touching on: emotional resilience strategies; growing food and exploring the whole food system; education: what it is for, how it functions, and what it needs to become. Eva shares her 'Collective Human' strategies and 'MyActionMatters'. If anyone feels moved to help with these, there is room for a team, to bring funding together to expand them.
We are all part of the solution. We just need to find what we're best at. Go for it.
Links
Episode 88 - Eva talking about the work of the Beaver Trust
The Beaver Trust
Jo McAndrews You Tube: Eco-Anxiety: A Call to Action
Restoring Shropshire Verges Project: https://middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/guest-blogs/restoring-shropshires-verges-project-rsvp/
Guardian article on city allotments