UBC Climate Hub

Week 4 of the term? Let's goooooo! Join us this Wednesday where Adriana (our Project Coordinator aka climate and plant queen ) will be leading a mini-workshop on the essentials of taking care of houseplants. She'll chat about the some of the lowest maintenance house plants and overall tips. We'll have a discussion on your favourite plants, fun plant trivia and a breakout room talking about what we can learn from nature and plants to apply to our lives. BYOHP (bring-your-own-houseplants) and learn something new! Link in bio to register for new folks. For our usuals, we'll see you soon!

Our very own Meghan Wise and Em Mittertreiner were featured in an article on climate anxiety and distress. Climate anxiety is a natural response to a climate trauma, says UBC PhD candidate Meghan Wise. It’s a rational fear. We want to let (students) know that it’s normal to feel these things. There’s a really fine line between guilt and shame, says Mittertreiner, who hopes to get a PhD in psychology and teach the subject to university students. Collective guilt around climate change is in a lot of ways a healthy thing, as long as the ways that people are trying to get rid of that guilt is in a productive way that is mitigating climate change.

Anna Brookes is a second-year student in Global Resource Systems, originally from Piscataway lands outside Washington, DC. She came into climate world through campaigning against styrofoam lunch trays in elementary school, and has since organized climate strikes, worked with the Sunrise Movement and Climate Justice UBC, and found a lot of joy in the community at the Climate Hub. She coordinates and leads the weekly community chats as well as the Youth Climate Ambassador workshop program. Outside of the hub, she spends a lot of time on Zoom scheming new campaigns and dreaming of a new world with @climatejusticeubc and in her front yard trying to grow potatoes. Come say hi to Anna at our weekly community chats every Wednesday! Interested in sharing a skill or leading a commmunity chat? Drop us a message and we'll make it happen!

Nafeesa (she/they) is a Khoja settler who grew up in Blackfoot / Niitsítapi territory, currently learning and teaching on stolen Musqueam lands. They have been taught, formally, in genetics, physiology, and neuroscience, as well as informally in cultural anecdote and the lived experience of the people they encounter, and strive to use this background to provide patients with holistic medical care. Recognizing the extent to which human and planetary health are intertwined motivated Nafeesa to become more engaged in Climate Justice movements. Nafessa also supports the Climate Teaching Connector with Pablo and has been a huge force in getting it up and running!

Pablo (he/him) is a Japanese American settler with a Mexican father and German-Ukranian-Jewish ancestry born and raised on Tongva and Chumash lands in Culver City, California. He is a UC Berkeley graduate and current international student from Hawaii. Pablo is pursuing a Master’s in planning with a focus on Indigenous community planning and climate adaptation and resiliency at the School of Community and Regional Planning. In Hawaii, he was the wildfire mitigation specialis...t and community outreach coordinator for a non-profit called Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, co-founded a social justice organization called the North Hawaii Action Network, and has been a member of several working groups for environmental and social justice causes, including for a Hawaii Green New Deal. Pablo is also a slam poet, capoeirista, musician/artist, gardener, skier, biker, and loves just about anything to do with being in nature. Check out his amazing work here: https://thepabloverse.wordpress.com/ At the Hub, Pablo leads the Climate Teaching Connector, an initiative that integrates climate-related content into undergraduate classes by connecting UBC course instructors at the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses with climate change and climate justice experts from the UBC community.