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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 9h

thank you for your coverage!! love your substack!

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 9h

love this messaging - it's also great for energy independence and resilience. so many benefits.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 9h

There are moments so still the universe forgets which way time is supposed to flow.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? buff.ly/HdBtIZ1

I love this idea that understanding the communications of other species will help us protect them. So curious to see how this technology will progress!

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’…

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

An answer to:
Climate communicators often state "all doom and gloom messaging" will only depress people & reduce activism and finding climate solutions. Is this actually true?

Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

I recommend this paper as an overview: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
It is unfortunately not the case that "the harder it gets the more they dig in," as the human brain has remarkable defense mechanisms that surface to enable us to continue functioning under duress.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

In the case of climate, those defense mechanisms result in denial, violence, paralysis / inaction, scapegoating, despair / inaction / giving up, etc.

So it is in our best interest to find ways of making the climate crisis more approachable to bypass these defenses!

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

I recommend this paper as an overview: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
It is unfortunately not the case that "the harder it gets the more they dig in," as the human brain has remarkable defense mechanisms that surface to enable us to continue functioning under duress.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

striking imagery. 😢

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

This pack is a living list. Who’s missing? Drop climate thinkers, doers, and dreamers you follow on Bluesky. Link for context: https://go.bsky.app/G9ynaXP#ClimateNetwork

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 1d

sail cargo, baby!! ⛵️🌊

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 2d

this book "Surviving Climate Anxiety" came across my feed recently and piqued my interest - has anyone read it? thoughts?

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 2d

It breaks my heart receiving calls from students in a panic about being accused of using AI on assignments where they never used AI.

People. If you are going to police AI use, the most important thing you can do is be human. Remember there is a human heart on the other end of that accusation.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 2d

The "silent majority" is where the vast majority of people want climate action but they don't talk about it because they think other people won't agree.

I imagine if that problem were resolved we would see climate climbing in voter importance.

Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 2d

Climate change and the environment is important to voters! Twice as salient as crime!

Not saying it needs to be the primary platform plank, but green policy is not turning anyone away from Dems.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 2d

this is a collage I made to describe my purpose statement “for people and planet”

A mentor pointed out that it made her think of “the people’s planet” and “the planet’s people,” which birthed this yin and yang symbol representing the people of the planet and the planet of the people.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 2d

switching from SMART goals to HEART goals:

H = honest

E = energizing

A = aligned

R = realistic

T = transformative

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Climate Change Solutions @climatechange.solutions · 3d

Today's top climate solutions! 💖🌱🌎

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 3d

happy halloween! 🎃

The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 3d

Skeletons aren't just bones—they're stories. Steve Huskey’s "The Skeleton Revealed" shows how vertebrate skeletons reveal movement, behavior, and evolution. From chameleons to alligators, these displays show how bones shape the form and function for survival. ➡️ https://nature.ly/4hxrt8C

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 3d

this is so perfect for halloween!!!

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 3d

my negotiation tutorial (packed with 10y of hard-won negotiation knowledge) is finally up! buff.ly/LCTvMnd

Negotiation for People Who Hate Negotiation

You don’t have to be pushy to be powerful.

www.brichapman.com

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 3d

I feel like something that often gets lost in the climate conversation is:
it's not succeed or fail.
it's: every bit of CO2 makes it worse, and every bit of emissions reduction and conservation makes it better.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 4d

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

My quote from an Axios interview, stating that: People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world," Hayhoe told Axios.
This includes poverty, disease and access to clean water.
"Climate change is not a separate bucket," Hayhoe said. "The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket."

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 4d

silent majority! 💪✊

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’

‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis

Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard

www.theguardian.com

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 4d

climate solutions digest #7!
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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest

Welcome Late October arrives with a thin silver light. In the north, the first frosts etch the edges of leaves, while far south, jacarandas toss purple confetti over warm sidewalks. Along the…

www.forpeopleandpla.net

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 4d

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' apple.news/AJZGwWdM5R9C...

11.5 million for food equity, climate justice, carbon reduction, and combating climate change. Thank you, Billie 💗💗💗

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' — Complex

Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly in the room during Eilish's acceptance speech for the WSJ Magazine’s Music Innovator Award.

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Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 @brichapman.com · 5d

I am perpetually curious about sail cargo as a climate solution. A prime example of how solving climate change can make the world more awesome.

Hayes Gardner @hayesgardner.bsky.social · 5d

Fossil-fuel guzzling ships power the global supply chain. One climate solution is good ol’ fashioned sailboats.

The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship is on its maiden voyage, carrying cars and cognac. Its destination? Baltimore, where it’ll arrive today.
www.thebanner.com/economy/worl...

World’s largest sailing cargo ship headed to Baltimore on inaugural voyage

With sails towering 300 feet tall — which need to be lowered to fit under the Bay Bridge — the Neoliner Origin will regularly unload automobiles, bottles of Hennessy and even cruising passengers at th...

www.thebanner.com

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