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Climate Activism Coping Strategies: 5 Tips for Mental and Physical Health

Climate activists share their top five coping strategies to deal with the health impacts of climate activism.

10 Tips for how the Climate Movement can Improve Experiences for Activists with Diverse Health Needs

Researchers interviewed climate activists about their physical and mental health experiences. Here are 10 tips based on the activists’ experiences, insights and recommendations.

Climate Justice needs an Intersectional Approach: Toolkit

This Intersectionality Toolkit offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and integrating intersectionality into climate action.

Games for Nature: Environmental Education through the Eyes of Young People

40+ games and activities in this toolkit by Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) to inspire and connect kids and people with nature.

How to Influence a Political “Frenemy”: Lessons from 350 Canada’s Climate Welcome

Lessons learned from 350.org Canada’s “Climate Welcome” protest that pressured Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take bold climate action.

$Book cover - Title reads 'The town that said no to AGL: How Gloucester was saved from coal seam gas'. The title overlays a photo of a person wearing a hat with their arms held up in a cross in front of them.|An older man with a hat sit nexts to a younger woman with a dog. He is holding a sign that reads 'Your grandchildren's future depends on You divesting from fossil fuels'.|A line of signs planted in grass next to safety witches hats. A larger sign reads 'Peaceful Vigil Site and Information. Two signs read 'Lock the Gate' and 'No coal seam gas.'|A group of older ladies posing for photo in a group and smiling. They are dressed mainly in yellow and are holding protest signs. One reads 'Gloucester Knitting nanas agains gas'.|Three protestors posing for photo holding cardboard signs. A man with a hat holding a sign that reads 'Tell em they're dreaming'. A woman wearing sunglasses and a hat holds a sign that reads 'How's the serenity in a gasfield'. There is a lock the gate triangle logo poster in the background behind the man's head.|Three protestors hold a yellow and black banner that reads 'If they frack$

Groundswell Gloucester: Fighting and Winning against Fracking

Insights into how a grass roots community campaign based in Gloucester Valley, NSW scored a major victory against the Coal Seam Gas industry.

Kathryn McCallum hands out climate policy scorecards at a polling booth in Macnamara electorate in Melbourne during the 2019 Australian federal election. There is a cardboard stand that reads 'This is the Climate Election'.|audio player

Power and Agency: Lessons from Ten years of Climate Campaigning

Kathryn McCallum, an Australian Climate Campaigner, shares her lessons from ten years of climate campaigning in this talk given in 2023.

Poster reading Organising for Climate Action. Climate Action is Union Business. Has an illustration of various workers and workplaces.||

How to Organise about Climate Related Workplace Health and Safety Issues

Resources produced and compiled by the Australian Services Union for workers organising around climate change and extreme weather related workplace health & safety.

Female highschool walking in protest against inaction on climate change holding painted pandanus mat with words 'stop adani'.

We Need a Climate Movement that Addresses the Trauma of Fighting for a Burning Planet

To build an impactful climate justice movement able to face the challenges ahead we must first build cultures that care for the people doing the work.

Students marching down street in protest with banner that reads Cairns. Many of them are holding their hand up in the air in a fist shape.

There’s No Place for Burnout in a Burning World

Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.

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