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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). And as the climate crisis continues, whose mental health is most at risk?

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The good news is that there is demonstrable demand for seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across previously siloed efforts in democracy protection, public health, climate action, social justice, and peace and security.

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice. “You just have to put on a mask and take care of yourself the best you can.”

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In Ukraine: Eco-Crimes and Anxiety as the War Drags On

NonProfit Quarterly

Climate Anxiety in Wartime Climate anxiety, as Harvard Health Publishing defines it, relates to the “worries about the effects of climate change. Her climate anxiety now adds to a four-year mental health battle that began when she organized a climate strike in Kyiv in 2019. “I It is not a mental illness. I can smile.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

3 During and after climate disasters, access to such essential services as women’s and girls’ mental and physical healthcare overall is often severely constrained, 4 and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal care, becomes limited or stops altogether. 37 Investing in women’s and girls’ leadership is essential.

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The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals: What Field Research Reveals

NonProfit Quarterly

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Another respondent talked about “nursing themselves” back to health. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

5 We won’t hazard a guess as to the psychology of androids, but we can say with certainty that corporate messages have entered human dreams. Farmworkers who cultivate our food would have a say in what is grown and produced, with environmental sustainability and community health, rather than profits for agricultural conglomerates, prioritized.