Teach Your Kids Climate Education and Hope is a Verb with Elizabeth Bagley
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Elizabeth Bagley: Project Drawdown | Drawdown Learn | LinkedIn | X
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Teach Your Kids Podcast Episode
Books, Articles, Publications, and Videos
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - Paul Hawken
- Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition - Steven Levitt
- Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis - Britt Wray
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Saving the World Could Start at School | Teach For America
- Fifth National Climate Assessment
Courses/Workshops/Webinars
- Sustainability Courses | Elizabeth Bagley, PhD
- Climate Solutions 101 | Project Drawdown
- Drawdown Ignite Webinar Series | Project Drawdown
Environmental Initiative Platforms/Games
Organizations
- EcoChallenge
- ChangeX
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Fridays for Future
- Youth Climate Program - The Wild Center
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Clean Cooking Alliance
- Friends of the Earth
- International Energy Agency
- Rewiring America
- Street Civics
- UNdata
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Related Resources
- Drawdown’s Neighborhood
- Drawdown Roadmap
- Drawdown Solutions Library
- Job Function Action Guides | Project Drawdown
- Ecological Footprint Calculator
- High-Impact Climate Actions for Households
- California Academy of Sciences
- Podcast: Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
- Global Warming's Six Americas - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
- Newsletter: Gen Dread | Brit Wray
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Time Codes
00:00:00 — Manisha introduces the topic and Dr. Elizabeth Bagley, focusing on climate education for homeschooling families
00:02:40 — Highlighting Dr. Bagley's background in creating sustainability courses and educational video games
00:06:32 — Dr. Bagley speaks about the diversity of solutions required to address climate change
00:08:20 — Conversation on effective ways to engage people in climate change discussions and the importance of value alignment
000:10:19 — Focus on engaging people who are alarmed about climate change
00:16:55 — Ideas for community-level involvement in climate action and the role of local governance
00:18:40 — Reflections on personal experiences and connecting local actions to global climate efforts
00:22:10 — Sharing of digital resources and initiatives for climate education and action
00:24:55 — Climate Curricula in K-12 Education: The need for solution-oriented climate curricula in education
00:35:20 — Manisha shares how the book 'Drawdown’ influenced her focus on girls' education
00:37:40 — Talk about local initiatives in sustainability and securing funding for climate projects
00:46:33 — Insights on fostering critical and nuanced thinking in climate education and beyond
00:50:00 — Concluding thoughts on the changing and interconnected nature of environmental challenges and education
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