In the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences and Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing discuss climate stories, climate grief, and climate literacy.
Hands working the soil of the orchard at the Penn Park Farm, part of the Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative.
Welcome to the latest episode of the “Understand This ...” series, a Penn Today podcast. This podcast series is designed as a journey to understand how to solve problems of the day—and of our time—by uniting minds from different disciplines.
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Jump-off points:
4:00: Wiggin explains “environmental humanities” and the interdisciplinary model of teaching and learning around the environment.
10:00: Pinto-Martin and Wiggin begin talking about the Penn Park Farm and its function as a space for “collaborative, place-based projects,” and knowledge of resilient farming techniques.
11:25: Wiggin talks about the My Climate Story project, which will have “Climate Classrooms” in Philadelphia School District schools that focus on climate literacy and placing climate change's impact on people and places. “A compelling story has great power,” adds Pinto-Martin.
19:00: “Quote Break”
19:50: Pinto-Martin distinguishes between “climate anxiety” and “climate grief.”
23:00: Discussion about the relationship between climate change and public health.
26:00: Pinto-Martin discusses lessons from the pandemic and how to relate them to climate change. “More and more we learn to be more adaptive,” she says.
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