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Maria Vamvalis, PhD

@mariavamvalis.bsky.social
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Founder of Anayennisi. www.anayennisi.org. Climate justice education for relational well-being. Working in service of collective regenerative systems change through education, facilitation, research, public speaking, strategy & writing. she/her

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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I will be giving a talk next Friday (September 18th) on reclaiming scholarship from extractive logics. Come join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming...
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Reclaiming the Field from Extractive Logics
Global Transformative Education Network research to practice webinar with Dr Maria Vamvalis.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm going to keep posting this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social because i think its analyses are right on. It is urgent and brilliant. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What does it cost a generation to hear “wrong venue” for every venue they try? Caring for youth mental health has to include whether they have real avenues to be heard on the defining crisis of their lives. #climatejustice #youthmentalhealth www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government asks court to strike down climate litigation | CBC News
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing it has no business directing Canada's climate policy.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 23/08/2026
Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
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Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It was so fantastic to speak with the incredible @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for her Climate Magic Podcast. We spoke about the kind of education needed to help us stay with the trouble and keep a more beautiful world on the horizon. www.khsu.org/2026-08-20/p...
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Putting the Soul in Climate Education
The role of an educator in this moment of the climate emergency is to be a culture-shaper. This is part one in a four-part series Climate Magic is curating for all the educators looking for inspiratio...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Beauty does not require a happy ending but a right relationship with truth.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love this! open.substack.com/pub/freewill...
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Picking Our Battles
A Manifesto of Sacred Discernment
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Make yourself unavailable to being authored by forces that cannot love you well.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The wildfire haze has reached dangerous levels where we live. Another day we must stay inside while our pup languishes from no walks outside. Yet our Prime Minister's vision for the country is to be able to "feed, fuel, and defend ourselves"? How do we "defend" ourselves from this?
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh my - did I ever love this commentary today.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Make something alive out of what modernity tells you is over. Love from lineage that honours ancestral transmissions. Let portals become the sky. Remember that truth always looks too bright before it becomes the new horizon.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Such a powerful interview! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/06...
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Love, loss, and rootlessness: The Chat with Ellis Scott · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Ellis Scott’s debut novel Night Terminus (Dundurn Press) traces the determination and resilience of the gay diaspora as the AIDS crisis unfolds and ...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We can do this, people! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sharing my recent talk on AI and the Living World: Toward Ecological and Transformative AI Literacy for educators. We need to open space for critical and courageous conversations about this technology and the criteria needed to guide us when considering its use. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Cg...
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AI and the Living World: Toward Ecological and Transformative AI Literacy
YouTube video by TDSB EcoSchools
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A wonderful review of Ellis Scott's Night Terminus. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
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The Departed | A review of “Night Terminus” by Ellis Scott | Literary Review of Canada
Kevin Shaw reviews “Night Terminus,” a debut novel on grief and survival during the AIDS crisis by Ellis Scott.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Happening tomorrow!
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Deeply concerning. Bill C-22 aligns Canada with the most oppressive regimes around freedom of expression and privacy.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Learn to sing the spells modernity exiled back into your own skin. The Earth's resurrection requires it.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Structural oppression perpetuates itself not only through force but through the systematic degradation of the interior capacities that would make genuine resistance and genuine regeneration possible. 1/4
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OISE Alumni & Friends @oisealumni.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
AI is reshaping education at a remarkable pace – but what does its rise mean for the planet? Join OISE alum @mariavamvalis.bsky.social to explore: www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/scan/even… @uoftenvironment.bsky.social
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Let's be clear: regeneration is not optimization. It is not making a damaged system run more efficiently. It is the return of living capacity to what has been deadened and the restoration of genuine relational coherence to what has been fragmented. What was broken can find a new, more truthful form.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"The call is coming from inside the house. Patriarchy goes deep. Overcoming it is a multitrack, generations-long effort."
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‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? | Andrew Boyd
It’s crucial to understanding how gender is affecting our ability to rally behind a shared ecological vision
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Getting boys in on climate action. hechingerreport.org/getting-boys...
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Getting boys in on climate action - The Hechinger Report
Studies suggest girls care more about the planet and climate action. A new project explores how schools and other institutions can encourage more boys to act, too
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/04/2026
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This McSweeny's nailed the moment. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fis...
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Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing
“We at Fisher-Price have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. T...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Cannot say enough about this excellent film, Palestine 36. www.tiff.net/events/pales...
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Palestine '36
Festival favourite Annemarie Jacir takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s, charting the lives and ambitions of those living under British rule. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously s...
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Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Big thanks to @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social for this thoughtful interview about some of my ongoing scholarship on masculinity, climate change, and education. Check it out: www.khsu.org/show/climate...
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Is it 'unmanly' to care about climate change?
What’s pulling so many men away from climate action?
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Be unapologetic in nurturing the kind of beauty that terrifies oppressive systems and nourishes the land. The kind of beauty that can’t be possessed, but only witnessed and blessed.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Had such a beautiful time leading a session on regenerative facilitation for the fantastic national food security network, Right to Food. I loved seeing some folks name "presence is resistance" as one of their key takeaways from the workshop.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"It’s as if we had set off 11 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs in the ocean, every second of every day." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/30/o...
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The scariest climate statistic
It isn't the target set out in the Paris agreement, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere or the record-breaking string of record-hot years. Now, climate scientists have released a figure that sounds...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” @drkatemarvel.bsky.social said. “But actually, who they went after 1st was pediatric cancer & Parkinson’s research, and childhood vaccines. I was completely unprepared for an attack on science, because it’s a means of finding out & telling the truth.”
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Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The climate movement needed this.
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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We need to start paying attention: "Cerezo-Mota expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century, soaring past the internationally agreed 1.5C target and delivering enormous suffering to billions of people. This is her optimistic view, she says." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows
Exclusive: War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America
Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It was great to speak about the critical role of educators in responding to the climate crisis. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Part 2: Climate Change in the Classroom
Podcast Episode · CCNL's Teaching Climate Change Series · April 15, 2021 · 43m
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Amazing news coming out of New York! I want to encourage a courageous and visionary education that addresses root causes and centers regenerative and relational futures. www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-...
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Regents’ Approval of Statewide Climate Education Requirement is Welcome News
Statewide climate education, approved by the New York Board of Regents, will ensure that kindergarten through 12th grade students are given the opportunity to learn about the causes, impacts, and solutions to the climate crisis.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"The blueprint of our current fossil fuel dependency has a long colonial background whose ecological ruination and social inequalities are still haunted by the specters of its colonial legacies." ajammc.com/2023/08/04/u...
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Unmasking Petro-Utopias in Iran: Searching for Acts of Refusal and Solidarity in the British Petroleum Archives - Ajam Media Collective
Oil has a residual effect on memory for those who have lived in proximity to it. Archive is a verb: it sees and it silences. Now more than ever, we need to start by weaving and reading through these s...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I am so appreciative of Dr. Greger's deep knowledge, ethics, values, and approach to holistic health. This is one of the best sources of information to support your overall health and well-being, and address specific health issues. Highly recommend. nutritionfacts.org
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NutritionFacts.org | The Latest in Nutrition Related Research
The latest in nutrition related research delivered in easy to understand video segments brought to you by Michael Greger M.D. FACLM
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Carol Christ has an excellent conceptualization of patriarchy and women's oppression. feminismandreligion.com/2013/02/18/p...
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Patriarchy as a System of Male Dominance Created at the Intersection of the Control of Women, Private Property, and War, Part 1 by Carol P. Christ
Recently feminist scholar Vicki Noble commented that this is the best definition of patriarchy she has read–but she hadn’t read it earlier. I am reposting it now in the hopes that all o…
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I really enjoyed my conversation with Thomas Doherty and Panu Pihkala on their Climate Change and Happiness podcast. I had the opportunity to discuss regenerative and relational educational approaches to climate change. climatechangeandhappiness.com/episodes/sea...
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Season 5, Episode 13: Fostering “Good Mind”: Teaching for Climate Change with Maria Vamvalis — Climate Change and Happiness
Maria Vamvalis designs learning environments that strengthen collective well-being that help people rediscover their capacity to act together in conditions of uncertainty, through promoting critical t...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Until the collapse of military dictatorship in 1974, successive rightwing governments marginalised the role played by the leftist-led resistance during the second world war." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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‘We can see that courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions
Culture ministry hails ‘exceptional historical importance’ of prints that show resistance fighters’ final moments
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is glorious.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We need to deepest shift in collective consciousness imaginable to respond to what is unfolding in ways that are life-affirming.
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
”We’ve been so bombarded by climate disinformation from fossil fuel companies that it is hard to imagine what our life would be like without them, but there are examples of cities, towns and communities doing it.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope | Nina Lakhani
I’ve spent six years writing about environmental justice. The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sharing a talk now publicly available on EcoAnxiety in Youth from 2024. I was grateful to part of this collaborative conversation and engage questions from community members and environmental organizations taking this issue seriously. ecoanalyticscanada.org/documents/op...
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Opinionation: EcoAnxiety in Youth: the evidence, the impacts and how to work with it | EcoAnalyticsOpinionation: EcoAnxiety in Youth: the evidence, the impacts and how to work with it – EcoAnalytics
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We collaboratively created a meaningful professional learning experience in climate justice education for Canada's largest school board. Check out this webinar video for some inspiration around our learning design and hear from educators on the impact of this work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZX4...
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Springing Into Climate Action - Climate Camp Alumni
YouTube video by TDSB EcoSchools
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