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What does it mean to manage our eco-anxiety?

As the weather warms up, CBC Edmonton's podcast explores how we cope with difficult feelings around climate change

As the weather warms up, CBC Edmonton's podcast explores climate-based grief

A large crowd stands with signs with climate-change related slogans. One says It's getting hot in here, another says there is no planet B.
Climate change activists marched alongside oil and gas industry supporters in 2019 at a rally with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press)

Climate grief and eco-anxiety are not mainstream ideas, but the term is gaining ground among researchers. But what does it actually mean to cope with our feelings around climate change?

Alberta had several record-setting weather events in 2023, we're coming out of a weird winter and spring is just days away. On the latest This Is Edmonton podcast, host Clare Bonnyman is joined by CBC climate reporter Stephanie Cram to take a closer look at our weather patterns and data.

Plus, the podcast enjoys the great outdoors with Stephanie Olsen, a University of Alberta master's student who is using a public health perspective to study ways community can come together to overcome climate-based anxiety. 

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