Plugged In Megan Bennett

Jinhwa Hwong Ambrose shares a framework for how we can each discover our own unique, joyful experience and offering to the diverse tapestry of climate solutions we need. It’s a refreshing, practical and supportive approach.

The panelists shared how they care for these powerful emotions within these challenging contexts, how these emotions fuel their work and can impact their workplaces.



Finally, ideas were shared on how we can do things differently to care for ourselves so that we can continue to have the resources and vitality necessary to do the work of these times.

Kim Nicholas’ book, Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World, was the book that had the most impact on me in 2022.
It woke me up to the urgency of the climate crisis in a way that I hadn’t felt before.
Specifically, how laser focused we need to be on eliminating fossil fuel consumption and extraction for a livable planet for humans. Period.
Dr. Kim Nicholas, a climate scientist at Lund University in Sweden, is ringing the alarm bell and connecting with the issue and the solutions in new ways - often through personal storytelling and even poetry.
Calling on all of us to go beyond-net-zero to actual zero.
She acknowledges the need to centre voices, perspectives and solutions that aren’t typically at the centre if we are going to solve this crisis.
It’s a hard topic. These are not easy truths to grapple with. But there are solutions.
Take a listen to this episode. Pick up her book. Get shook up.
Then let’s get to work and stay well and resilient, so we can fix it.

Jordyn Burnouf, an Indigenous leader in clean energy, climate and community divides her time between many impactful pursuits including advising the Vice President of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, Co-Charing Student Energy’s SevenGen Indigenous Youth Energy Summit, starting a new podcast with the David Suzuki Foundation, advising Efficiency Canada and getting out onto the land as a guide with her family’s land-based camp.

Being connected to the land is an important influence for Jorydn’s work and she shares in this episode about what’s at risk when we lose our connection to land and it’s teachings, using getting out onto the land as an example:

“You need to get out on a canoe and you need to struggle for hours, and there's lessons in that. You need to get outside and be rained on, you know, you need to get outside and experience the earth for all her beauty and all of that struggle, because that's, that's what it's really about.”

Jordyn shares why Indigenous perspectives, knowledge and leadership matter for a just, clean energy transition and what she thinks the biggest opportunity for non-Indigenous people is to learn from Indigenous teachings on the topic of climate.

Be sure to follow Jordyn on Instagram and Twitter and visit her website: https://jordynburnouf.com/

Inspired by what Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson’s are calling a renaissance in climate leadership that is “more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity and collaboration…open to people of any gender”, this episode explores the significance of feminine and feminist leadership in climate work in Canada – from the community to the global stage.
You will hear the voices of Britt Wray, Jordyn Burnouf, Kim Nicholas, Shawna Henderson, Desiree Norweigan and Miranda Baksh speak about how they are experiencing in their climate work, including the importance of feeling our climate emotions, how empathy and emotional intelligence are critical when negotiating climate policy, how the feminine can help hold space for diverse voices and bodies in organizations and businesses results in unique and the valuable collaborations and solutions, and finally what feminist approaches can teach us about emotional resilience during these challenging times.

The episode closes with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson explaining how the poem "Natural Resources" by the feminist poet Adrienne Rick helped unlock the title of the book All We Cna Save. She shares beautifully that “Our hearts have to be broken by all we cannot save, all that's already lost, all that will be lost. And, our hearts have to be moved by all that we still can save together”.

Today’s episode is all about how to talk about climate and why it matters. #TalkClimateToMe