Learning Goals
In this activity we take on the challenge of how to build better futures. In the midst of the climate crisis with such uncertain futures ahead, we ask ourselves: How …
Course: Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change
Learning Goals
This activity explores the relation between nature and culture. Nature and culture can be seen as separate from one other. This means that nature is set apart from humans. Alternatively, …
Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
How we navigate between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism affects how we can argue for climate justice, social justice and for environmental conservation. The term anthropocentrism derives from anthropos as in human …
Learning Goals
This activity is about the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene refers to the suggested name for a new epoch (geological division of time) where anthropogenic (human) action has left distinct marks in …
Care Between Generations
Sitting in a forest that has grown for nearly 200 years, Christina Fredengren reflects on how cultural heritage has been passed on from generation to generation. She argues that generations …
Learn more about Negative Feedbacks
Earth has a built-in natural thermostat which stabilizes the climate on geological timescales. This thermostat is the slow weathering of rocks. It works because weathering or rocks (1) removes carbon …
Deep Time
Standing on 700 million year old fossils, called stromatolites, Christina Fredengren explores perceptions about time. She explains how time is often perceived in a linear way, with the past behind …
Creating change in a Complex Adaptive System
Miriam Huitric explains what kinds of changes are needed in order to have meaningful impacts on climate change. This video was filmed in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden.
Exploitation and Regeneration Mindsets
Miriam Huitric meets with Kimberly Nicholas, author of “Under the Sky We Make. How to be a Human in a Warming World” to discuss the exploitation and regeneration mindsets that …
Planetary Boundaries and Donut Economics
Miriam Huitric explains how the Planetary Boundaries and Donut economics aim to support defining a safe and just operating space for humanity. This video was filmed on location in Stockholm, …
Climate Justice
In this interview we meet Andreas Magnusson and Mitzi Jonelle Tan, two young climate activists from very different parts of the world: Sweden and the Philippines. Our conversations cover why …
Coral reefs as an example of a Complex Adaptive System and their links to the Climate System
Miriam Huitric goes to the aquarium to look at coral reefs and tell us about a tipping point that has happened in large parts of the Caribbean and then connects …
Tipping Points
In this video, whipping cream is used to demonstrate a few aspects about tipping points: that the different states of the “system” – in this case the cream – are …
The Anthropocene Epoch
I welcome you to what can be called the Anthropocene Epoch. This is a time of global warming and human-induced climate change. The temperature of the planet is rising, ice …
Complex Adaptive Systems
To tackle climate change we must understand complex adaptive systems because they have features we need to understand if we want to make a change in the right direction. Miriam …