Climate justice: join, listen, learn & act together
- Mar 9
- 5 min read
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” — Pirkei Avot 1:14
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but it’s also a call to come together, learn, and act with purpose. We hope that the resources gathered by the DJC’s Climate Action Team will help you deepen your understanding of climate change, navigate climate anxiety, and discover meaningful ways to take action. Join with others, listen to a podcast, check out our reading list and discover the positivity of solutions journalism.
Join together for climate action
Toronto Climate Action Network (TCAN) – A network of over 70 climate action groups dedicated to preventing climate breakdown, strengthening climate resilience, and advancing climate justice. Find your thing, find your people!
Climate Action for Lifelong Learners — We work together to reduce personal emissions, strengthen relationships with the natural world, and advocate for climate action. Monthly webinars with Canadian climate leaders.
Seniors for Climate Canada advocating for affordable, healthy solutions to the climate crisis.
350.org – a global, people-led movement pushing to end fossil fuels and power up clean, safe and affordable energy for all. Climate action calls for Canada!
Project Drawdown – an independent, internationally trusted organization driving meaningful climate action by connecting people like you to science-based climate solutions and strategies.
Climate mental health support
Carbon Conversations TO We’re here to help you process and speak through the emotions that climate change creates and find ways to take action.
Force of Nature empowers individuals, aged 16-35, to challenge the status quo, drive climate justice and feel less alone in the face of the climate crisis.
Eco Anxious Feeling worried about climate change is normal. Embrace your anxiety with courage and compassion and transform it into meaningful action.
Solutions journalism
Solutions Journalism: Story Tracker Discover creative ideas to help build a better world.
Reasons to be Cheerful: A search engine for solutions
BBC: People Fixing the World: People and projects working to make the world a better place.
The Guardian: The upside Answers, solutions, movements and initiatives tackling the world’s biggest problems.
Positive News: What went right this week. The good news that matters.
Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Strategies to create a more just, prosperous, and ecologically diverse world – what we call a “good Anthropocene”.
Podcast picks
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a-matter-of-degrees/id1534829787 https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/climate-magic/id1836007339
Booklist
Drawing on personal experiences, scientific research, and practical exercises, elin kelsey explores strategies for cultivating emotional resilience, fostering community engagement, and recognizing the role of both human and non-human actors in environmental action.
Energetic and altruistic, and filled with Thich Nhat Hanh’s inspiring meditations, Zen stories and experiences from his own activism, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet shows us individual actions help guide institutional change, and bring healing and harmony to ourselves, our relationships, and our planet Earth.
Women are on the front line of the climate-change battle, and are uniquely situated to be agents of change–to find ways to mitigate the causes of global warming and adapt to its impacts on the ground. Curated by two climate leaders, this book leads us away from the brink and toward the possibility of a life-giving future
In her debut collection of comics, artist and climate activist Madeleine Jubilee Saito offers a quietly radical message of hope. Framed as a letter in response to a loved one’s pain, this series of ethereal vignettes takes readers on a journey from seemingly inescapable isolation and despair, through grief and rage, toward the hope of community and connection.
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.
With the skill of a psychologist and the passion of an activist, Salamon helps readers process fear and grief and find their place in the climate movement. The second edition of this beloved book highlights the critical role of disruptive protest.
Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.
As a professor of plant ecology and Potawatomi woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as “the younger brothers of creation.”
Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential toolkit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice.
A long-awaited guide to climate action and justice for young readers by bestselling, award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer and climate activist Naomi Klein.
Ten steps to help nourish, ground, and inspire anyone who is worried about climate change. Filled with exercises and reflection questions to help readers process grief, uncertainty, and painful emotions, while also looking towards where we can make positive changes-in both big and small ways.
Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it’s easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn’t just happening in those models. It’s happening here… It’s happening to us… Human Nature is [an] … inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth.
Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it’s an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively.
Weaving in insights from climate-aware therapists, critical perspectives on race and privilege in this crisis, ideas about the future of mental health innovation, and creative coping strategies, Generation Dread brilliantly illuminates how we can learn from the past, from our own emotions, and from each other to survive—and even thrive—in a changing world.
The sixth extinction is likely to be humankind’s most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
“Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century…people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it.” — Margaret Atwood
A critical eco-feminist scholar, Wiebe invites collective envisioning and enacting of caring, ethical relations between humans and the planet, including our atmospheres, lands, waters, animals, plants and each other.