Cultivating a Livable Future: Thanksgiving Resources
A critical part of building a livable future for all involves learning, unlearning, and confronting difficult truths about our past. It is only when we dispel our myths and take an honest, critical eye to our stories that we can authentically begin the work of reconciliation, reparation, rebuilding, and realizing a truly livable future for all.
We have gathered this (non-exhaustive) list of resources to help guide us on this journey of learning, unlearning, confronting, connecting, and taking action.
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Creating Space for Climate Stories
We at Families for a Livable Climate recognize the power of storytelling, and we also acknowledge how important it is to speak up about climate change. We know, despite widespread misinformation and attempts to divide and silence us, that there is actually vast support for climate action - we simply have to normalize it and mobilize those who are concerned.
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Replacing Climate Guilt with Conversation
What I’m realizing I want is NOT to have to do all the research and work and suffer the burden of making the more difficult but “right” choice - what I want is for the right choice to be the easy, accessible, and obvious choice. What I want is a system where workers are valued, water is kept clean, ecosystems are healthy, air is breathable, and our climate is stable, all inherently. I want a system that enriches rather than pollutes. I want a future that is livable for all.
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Building Connection and Empowering Our Inner Climate Protector
We held our annual Climate Protector Ride last Saturday (9/17), and are feeling emboldened, empowered, and refreshed in our work to build a livable future for all.
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Let us be like water
When we are isolated and alone with our thoughts and fears (and doom scrolling) we are like a lonely rain droplet on the window, but joining together in public spaces in conversation and collective action, we have the potential to become a wave. Isolation and despair are the tools and messages of oppression, we reject them when we reach out and connect.
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Juneteenth
Black resilience, joy, and resistance are powerful, inspiring, and worthy of celebration. And, this celebration needs to be accompanied by real, sustainable, systemic change.
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Solutions to complex challenges are within reach
Thoughts and prayers are never enough when terror or disaster strikes, we need actual plans that steer us toward long term security. And when considering the work to keep our climate in the safe zone, how can we think about security without sustainability?
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For the Common Good
On Thursday, May 19, we stood proudly with the many other member organizations at Common Good Missoula’s founding event at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The weather conspired toward cold and windy, but nearly 420 people showed up anyway. It was a phenomenal event realizing years of work to bring together a broad base of community organizations to work for the common good.
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GUIDE: How to Talk to Kids About the Climate Crisis
These resources from Our Kids’ Climate help teachers, parents, and caregivers meaningfully and effectively communicate with young people about climate change. They provide top tips for helping children and young people deal with emotions and questions related to the climate crisis.
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