Climate Change | Susan Bodnar PhD

Going Outside as a Mental Health Strategy

June 27, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

Part three of the series on convergence of environmental and mental health (see part 1 here and part 2 here). Mental health experts (and parents) argue that people of all ages need to spend time outside. Richard Louv has gathered some of the latest research in his two books: Last Child in the Woods and The […]

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The Changing Climate Changes Me

May 26, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

Do human beings continue to adapt to their environments? Are some of those changes psychological? Are humans experiencing subtle alterations in their emotional and cognitive organization in response to climate change? While we ponder these questions with regard to humans, we are noticing suh chnages in other mammals. Antarctic Penguins are being driven […]

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Summer 2010: Paralyzed

August 19, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

This blog has gone dark since the end of June. Why? Every morning the heat rose trapping me in a vapor of thick intoxication. When the sun burned high in the sky the humidity coated my skin in a waxy sweat. The news was no lighter. The every hour on the hour triviality emerging from […]

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People Don’t Always Act in their Best Interest

March 9, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

Some people have been debating whether or not scientists should become climate change activists or if they should stick to the data. The concern is that the general population seems less worried about environmental issues. Given our culture’s typical reliance on external solutions to problems, it doesn’t surprise me that journalists and pundits are looking […]

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We the People: A Response to Evan Thomas and Al Gore

March 2, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

An adolescent with whom I work discussed the complexity of privilege. “My parents paid just over $12,000.00 for our family to go on a 5-day wilderness backpacking trip, with a service that provides the gear, the food, a plane to transport you there and a guide. I loved it and it changed me, like any […]

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Copenhagen

December 11, 2009 by Susan Bodnar

The news from Copenhagen is mixed. Josh Marshall is downright gloomy, and concerned. The talk is all politics and few seem to recognize that global warming is happening to people now in the small scale universe of the human mind. Climate change is a psychological problem as much as it is geological and meteorological. My […]

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