Global Warming Worry-Wart Diary

An artist attempts to make sense of the biggest challenge yet to humankind, learn how to be part of the solutions and feel a whole lot better

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Buddhist mindfulness suggests an approach to climate change I could live with. Not just one huge act, the ultimate solution, but a daily step by step practice.

I even made myself some little Mindful Practice forms to push myself along.

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(That's Kenny Ausubel's comment on the Biosphere)

Among my various readings was Stephanie Kaza's Hooked, a collection of essays by Buddhists on dealing with the pressures of consumerism.

It made me look inside my crammed closet.

They're right. Happiness is not in there.

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Step One: Is this really happening? (It cant be, can it?) A quick look at the scientific data:

Afraid so, And its not going away. Its a little hard to believe 10,000 scientists are up in the arctic with flame throwers meting the ice as a concocted plan to get grant money.

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This is my Global Warming Worry-Wart Dairy, started in 2009.

I found that when talking to people about climate change, many just considered it too overwhelming and depressing and glazed over. 

I myself felt paralyzed by its sheer magnitude and I couldn't imagine where or how to start doing anything about it.

So, being an artist I made it into an art project- a collaged journal- journey.