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EPISODE 7: In Climate Conversations, Empathy is Everything (Brandon Leshchinskiy)
Uploaded 21-04-21
In our previous episode we met Professor Dava Newman, cofounder of the nonprofit group EarthDNA. Today’s guest is Brandon Leshchinskiy, a graduate student in Technology and Policy at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, who has helped Prof. Newman create the EarthDNA Ambassadors program, training young people in communication, negotiation, and storytelling to build support for individual and collective action on climate change. Leshchinskiy has crafted an engaging interactive presentation, called Climate 101, that creatively employs materials from various sources to examine climate change from scientific, economic, and civic perspectives. By teaching young people to deliver this presentation effectively, he is developing a cohort of trained climate educators who can in turn teach their peers to reach out to friends and family on one of humanity’s most pressing issues. In this episode, Leshchinskiy discusses why young people make effective climate ambassadors, how climate presentations can be made more powerful by customizing them with specific details that are relevant to people’s own communities, what we can learn from society’s response to the challenges of Covid-19, and how to avoid developing “doom fatigue” from exposure to negative news stories.
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OCW’s 20th anniversary celebration registration page
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The OCW Educator Portal
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EarthDNA on the Web
https://earthdna.org
EarthDNA’s Climate 101 on OCW
https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-env-003-earthdnas-climate-101-fall-2019/? utm_source=youtube and utm_medium=shownotes and utm_campaign=chalkradio and utm_term=s2e7
EarthDNA Ambassadors program
https://earthdna.org/ambassadors/
Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize winner)
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/facts/
“I will be a hummingbird” (YouTube video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMW6YWjMxw
Professor Dava Newman at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
https://idss.mit.edu/staff/dava-newman/
Rand Wentworth at Harvard’s Center for the Environment
https://environment.harvard.edu/people/rand-wentworth
Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions
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Credits
Sarah Hansen, host and producer
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Dave Lishansky, producer (https://twitter.com/DaveResonates)
Show notes by Peter Chipman
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