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It's currently April 4th, 2024. And like most people, I'm not usually one to maintain New Years' Resolutions for more than a month or two. But this year I've succeeded in one. (So far.) Since I was worried I wouldn't go
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I've made it past the 50 episode mark, and there are some minor changes I'd like to make to the format of the show. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform! * Google Podcasts: TSL: Solve For Nature on Google Podcasts * Apple Podcasts: TSL: Solve For Nature on
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This week, I began attending a workshop offered by the Climate Stories Project (https://www.climatestoriesproject.org/) called the Climate Stories Ambassador Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to create more Climate Stories Ambassadors, people who are wanting to go out and encourage more people to share their climate
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Environmental activist and renowned neuroscientist, George Paxinos has identified and named more brain areas than anyone in history and published 57 books. His atlases and concepts of brain organization are used by most scientists working on the relationship between the brain and cognition, emotion, motivation and thought, including neurologic or
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For the first time ever, I've made it to the final exercises in Josh Spodek's Initiative book on bringing your passions to life. It took four rounds of going back to square one and building up a project and over 4 years, but I finally found
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For Exercise 8, the goal was to come up with a spreadsheet detailing out the financials for The Campfire (still my working title for this event!), per my visual model from Exercise 7. I started out basic and tried not to add any of the extra stuff like sound/lighting
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The purpose of Exercise 6 of Method Initiative was to get more advice, but this time from people "closer to your field." This means we're going a step beyond friends and family to people who may actually have some experience in the field of your project.
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If you've been following my Initiative exercises this time around, you might be wondering where my Exercise 6 reflection is. The answer is: I'm still working on exercise 6, since getting 10 people who can give me advice on my project takes some time. Because finishing
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The goal of Initiative Exercise 5 was to find 5 people who feel the problem my project describes and hear the problem in their words, not mine. Initially, when I started looking for people who possibly feel the problem I described, I assumed I'd be talking to just
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Project Reminder In case you were trying to remember what my newly select project was… Problem: Environmental conversations carry a stigma that hinders people from discussing their feelings of joy about nature, and horror, alarm, and grief over it's destruction. In the end, they just end up feeling
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UPDATE: I just realized I accidentally did exercises 2 and 3 together before writing this reflection. Whoops. Changed the title and graphic to account for it! For the last Initiative project I did, I was focused on trying to find something that would align with my work, figuring that if
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Welp. I'm starting all over again with Joshua Spodek's Initiative exercises from the very start. For the fourth time. But I'm happy about it. And here's why. If you read Josh's book on Method Initiative, there's one thing