Resource Type: Social Science Research

Learn how to address eco-anxiety using evidence-based psychological frameworks, empowering yourself and your networks to build resilience, foster hope, and sustain long-term engagement in the fight for climate justice.

Climate change is already harming the health of all living beings and it is deeply personal! Want to be more effective in your climate messaging? Talking about climate change AND health is more effective in persuasion and engagement than talking about climate change alone. Why is this? Because we all care about our health and the health of our loved ones. Read on for more information about how climate change affects our health and how to engage health professionals in climate action.

Young people are not just the future of the climate movement—they are leading it today. This session is designed to equip youth activists with the skills and confidence to step into leadership roles and drive meaningful change.

We are in tough, uncertain, disempowering times right now. And yet we’ve been here (or someplace close) before. Looking back to Lab newsletters from the first year of Trump’s prior term, we wrote about dealing with ‘dark times’ and pushing back to save the EPA from assault. A core point from that advice still holds true: cultivating a sense of empowerment (for ourselves and our supporters) is the candle in the dark that will kindle hope, resistance, and progress. That’s why the opposition is obsessed with snuffing it out through intimidation, posturing power, and wanton disruption. In social science, we refer to empowerment as a constellation of “efficacy” beliefs. This newsletter hasn’t covered efficacy in-depth since the first Trump Administration, though much new research has emerged in recent years, including a number of field research projects we conducted with various partners. In today’s newsletter I’ll cover the latest on what we know about efficacy, along with examples and practical tips for fostering empowerment among supporters.

This Article describes and analyzes the growing local opposition to rural solar energy and ultimately argues for a wave of new state legislation designed to strengthen rural landowners’ rights to develop utility-scale solar projects on their land.