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Our Spring 2018 series

January 12, 2018mcharney Leave a Comment

Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis Spring 2018 Series Sustainability Slammer Tues. 1/30 10am-3pm Stop by the Talking Truth booth at this info. fair for campus sustainability groups Location: Cape Cod Lounge Interactive, Creative Responses to Climate… Continue Reading →

Two Truths and a Lie

January 9, 2018mcharney Leave a Comment

This guest blog post was composed by Evan Kuras, MS student in Environmental Conservation at UMass Amherst. I attended my first Talking Truth/Hearts in Action session in Fall 2017. We played a game based on Two Truths and Lie as… Continue Reading →

Climate Change in the American Mind

December 29, 2017mcharney 1 Comment

Here is the latest report (October 2017) from Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.  The nationally representative survey finds that: The number of Americans “very worried” about global warming has reached a record high (22%) since first measured in 2008. A majority of… Continue Reading →

The Hinge Decade: What Will Be the Story of This Time?

November 29, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

We had an exhilarating final fall session of “Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change.” To those who wanted to come but couldn’t, we missed you. Stay tuned for spring 2018 happenings. 1 – The last group meeting was larger… Continue Reading →

Did you know? We are a node of Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere

November 21, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

Did you know? Talking Truth is a Node of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB). That means MAHB recognizes Talking Truth’s commitment to deeply shifting human behavior to foster environmental sustainability and the health of the ecosystem services upon which… Continue Reading →

Announcing the Fall 2017 series

August 10, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

Fall 2017 Series Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis TalkingTruth Fall 2017 (flyer) “Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change” Art making, creative writing and contemplative practices Mondays 4-5pm, Sci and Engineering Library 9/11-11/27 Reading of… Continue Reading →

Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change (coming Fall 2017)

June 30, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

Hearts in Action: Creative Responses to Climate Change (a partnership between Talking Truth and Paperbark Magazine) facilitated art making / creative writing / readings / contemplative practices Mondays from Sept. 11-Nov.27, 2017 4:00-5:00 pm Science & Engineering Library, 3rd floor… Continue Reading →

Open meditation all summer

June 15, 2017mcharney 1 Comment

Talking Truth is on hiatus this summer (with fall plans bubbling away). In the meantime, join us for Open Meditation through August 31st.  Monday through Friday 12:15-12:45 George Parks Minuteman Marching Band Building, Room 115 Note: This is a DIY meditation… Continue Reading →

Talking Truth in the News

May 31, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

We set up a Talking Truth booth at the Amherst Sustainability Festival on April 22, 2017. Great way to get climate change “out in the open!” Here are two articles about the Fest: Sustainability Comes to Amherst and Sustainability Festival… Continue Reading →

Gazing 5 minutes at a climate change headline

March 28, 2017mcharney Leave a Comment

Every Monday 3:00-3:45pm in room 1638 of the Du Bois Library, we gather for “Holding Earth: Mindful Climate Action.” Yesterday we listened to excerpts of this NYT article, “Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4.”… Continue Reading →

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