The Arts, Innovation, & Climate Adaptation
A climate resiliency tool for community enlightenment and civic engagement.
1. Art & Climate Adaptation
Each chapter in this unit will assist your climate journey in the following ways:
- Use the climate as a pathway into artmaking. (60 minutes)
- Imagine futures you want to see. (30 min + 60 min activity)
- Highlight strategies to help with climate anxiety. (30 min + 60 min activity)
What is climate adaptation?
Climate adaptation describes the actions taken to prepare for climate related events.
What is climate resiliency?
Climate resilience describes how well people and communities prepare for and bounce back from changes due to climate related events. Climate resiliency is a goal. It's a community project to take care of ourselves and the people around us.
Community related climate projects will become more important as we experience more climate hazards.
What's a derecho?
A derecho is a big weather event that causes big damage.
What is a climate journey?
A climate journey is your story of how you start to see the world through a climate lens. People have different reasons for beginning their climate journey. Many people will start their journey through a climate hazard.
- A weather event like a derecho, tornado, atmospheric river or forest fire
- Coastal and riverine flooding
- Landslide
- Droughts
- Extreme heat
We will all adapt to the changing climate. Where you live will define your pathway to adopting a climate lens.
Thankfully, tens of thousands of people have been building strong climate care foundations for over 60 years. You are already benefiting from their expertise. And, you can join them!
Strength in numbers.
Climate change in context
Put yourself on the map. Everybody's relationship to climate change depends on their location.
This unit provides a road-map for how to get involved with climate adaptation. It doesn't take long to become involved in your community. It also feels good to be part of the solutions. And, there are so many ways to contribute.
- Identify your region.
- Understands what is special about your area.
- Link your land to community agendas.
- Link agendas to your action.
- Link your action to feeling better.
Maps! Location! Location! Location!
What is special about where you live? Here are three ways to look at your area through maps.
Indigenous place names
Find your location on this map and find the Indigenous name for your location. This is the name that was used before European settlers arrived.
Indigenous peoples have a more holistic approach to land compared to the dominant extractive/western/capitalist/settler/colonialist mindsets.
Returning to some basic Indigenous land care-taking concepts is a key component of climate adaptation. These might include:
- Living with trees as beings.
- Thinking 7 generations into the future.
- Planting and harvesting resources sustainably.
- The 4 Rs: Respect, relevance, reciprocity, and responsibility.
Climate adaptation in your backyard
Locate yourself on this map and find the climate adaptation initiative closest to you.
- Did you know about this initiative?
- Is it enough?
- What needs to be added or changed in your city?
Energy: Another way to look at your backyard
Locate yourself on this Renewable Energy Power Plants map.
- What energy sources are closest to you?
- Did you already guess that you relied on these sources of energy?
Your access to energy sources is determined by the community in which you live.
Climate adaptation planning
Link to case studies on this map to see where vulnerability assessments were done, by whom, and for what.
Who made this map?
Engineers and city planners across Canada have come together to help people look at their communities through the lens of risk and see how they can build strength.
The Climate Risk Institute (CRI), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) , and the The Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) have been working together for the last ten years.
- What PIEVC plan is closest to you?
- What is it for?
- Could your community use a PIEVC protocol? For what, and why?
Let's begin by focusing on some under-reported good news! Good news helps us be resilient.
Responding to climate events with positive actions is remarkably fulfilling and easy.
The amount of positive change resulting from climate change is awesome.
- Systems innovations
- Renewable energies
- Tech revolution
- More sustainable agricultural practices
- More project-based learning
- More nature-based solutions
- More ways to re-distribute food
- More ride sharing
- More awareness about waste management
- Better ways to build infrastructure
- Cultural awareness
- Re-indigenizing land practices and social justice systems
Artist, Benjamin Von Wong
Benjamin is a climate artist that combines trash, manufacturing, and photography to build installation art that brings awareness to climate change.
This installation is part of a campaign called, # TurnOffThePlasticTap .
He moves this three storey sculpture to different places to highlight different concepts such as
- Climate and children
- Plastics and oceans
- Plastics and transportation
Everything used in this project was up-cycled or recycled.
- Ropes were made from plastic bottles.
- The faucet was made from galvanized steel ducts that were saved from a landfill.
My mission is to help make positive impact unforgettable. - Benjamin Von Wong
Artist, Amanda McCavour
Amanda is a climate and fibre artist from Toronto, Canada.
Her artworks express a sense of vulnerability as it relates to the many overlapping and interconnected elements of nature.
She works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. She is interested in thread’s assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together.
In her work, Prairie Plant Studies, she creates a relaxing and expansive vision through her use of multiple organic forms. The repetition of forms highlights the importance of each individual plant to the health of the larger prairie system.
Good change is already here.
All the CHANGES that improve on our past UNSUSTAINABLE LIVING HABITS are very very good changes.
Yes, climate change is bad. But, we are tired of doom-scrolling when there is so much positive change happening.
People feel climate anxiety for many different reasons.
One of the reasons people feel climate anxiety is because they don't have access to the good news to combat the bad news.
The other major factor is that people don't know where or how to start participating in climate action because it feels very complicated.
Start with your favourite things!
Climate activism, 2001
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada in 2023 is Steven Guilbeault. This is Steven being arrested for scaling the CN Tower as a Greenpeace activist. He was protesting Canada's inaction on climate change . Now he is the most powerful environmentalist in Canada. He started as an environmental activist while young, and never stopped.
His bio says:
Minister Guilbeault’s commitment to environmental issues started at the age of five, when he climbed a tree to protect it from real estate developers who were about to cut down the woods behind his home in La Tuque. Twenty-five years later, he scaled the CN Tower in Toronto to call for Canada to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
The good things happening now are due to people like him caring so much in the past.
A lot of people have been caring for the climate for a long time.
Changing approaches to climate change.
Talking about good change makes us feel good. You are allowed to feel hope for the climate because so much consistent and well-informed good change has already happened.
The change we need is already here.
Zac Goldsmith, the UK's Minister for International Environment and Climate, feels positive about progress on the climate. Zac spoke with CBC from the UN Conference on Biodiversity, and said:
Costa Rica has managed to break the link between agricultural commodities and deforestation. Other countries haven't. So there is best practise and there is worse practise. Our job and the best we can hope for, I think, is to take the best examples of what's being done right and make that the default. And the thing that gives me most confidence, even in an event such as this, is that we don't need to invent new things. Almost everything that needs to be done is already being done somewhere by someone. If we could take best practises, in other words, stuff that's actually happening and working, and creating prosperity, not at the expense of the environment, and made it the norm across the board. Then we wouldn't need to have another Montreal, we wouldn't need another COP (UN Biodiversity Conference 2022). And I think that is, for me, that's a very positive message because we don't have to imagine, we know. (parenthesis added)
Listen to the whole CBC segment on The Current with Matt Galloway if you want to feel good!
Activity 1: Group creativity warm-up!
You are one of many! Each person is an essential part of climate resilience. Working together and understanding that you are an important part of a bigger community is an important part of climate resilience. Working together builds hope and trust.
Using creativity to build resiliency
Climate resiliency is about each one of us being part of a bigger vision.
Reconsider the artists Amanda McCarvour and Benjamin Van Wong from the beginning of this chapter. They both use thousands of one thing to create the overall vision. Amanda uses thousands of stitches and Benjamin uses thousands of plastic bottles
Guidelines for group art project
- As a group, develop a list of what is special about your area on this planet. Use stickies. Group them into themes. (5 minutes)
- Focus on one or two characteristics that inspire a visual idea. What phrases come to mind? What is visual about your idea? (5 minutes)
Be inspired! Assemblage and quilting
- Review assemblage as a technique. (3 minutes)
- Watch this video on the history of quilting for inspiration. (4 minutes)
- Sketch a group art project inspired by these art techniques. (5 minutes)
- Select and collect materials to represent your overall vision. Consider focusing on two colours to help unify your vision. (10 minutes)
- Glue, staple, sew, and nail your many pieces into a whole vision. (30 minutes)
Discuss: Creativity and resilience!
- How did many parts come together to make a whole?
- What was easy and difficult about working together?
- What would you do differently next time?
Creativity and climate resiliency reflection
Creativity and Climate Action
2. Experience & Weather
Look at the sky. That's your weather. The weather is often not very remarkable. It follows a general pattern for your location on the planet. No single day of weather anywhere on the planet should be connected to climate change. It's the overall weather patterns that are linked to climate change.
Weather patterns are changing
The increase in heat and rain is linked to climate change. Exactly how weather events and climate hazards are linked is still being established.
A climate hazard refers to both a damaging weather system or the results of weather. For instance a hurricane can cause flooding. Or, a sustained atmospheric river that dumps more water than the land can hold may trigger a landslide. An electrical storm in an area that is dry can cause wildfires. Both the weather and the events on the ground can be called climate hazards.
More people are experiencing climate hazards. Most people know somebody who has been through a weather event. These events are shared yet personal.
Weather meet ground!
Yes, you are between them.
Humans have built a lot of stuff on the ground
Roads and houses are connected by pipes and wires. And we're constantly travelling between all the structures we've built with inefficient vehicles.
There are also 9 billion of us that need to eat at regular intervals. All of this uses energy and needs to be managed.
Communities are responding to weather events
Weather events make a mess, hurt people, and cost money. Our governments help us take care of ourselves and manage the clean-up.
Communities are responding to weather events and climate hazards by developing climate adaptation plans, also known as resiliency plans.
Climate Adaptation Plans (CAPs) are being adopted by cities all over the world.
Experiencing a weather event
Big weather events can be overwhelming.
Debbie was in the middle of the derecho
Debbie lives south of Ottawa and was out of power for 13 days after the derecho. The derecho event lasted roughly 15 minutes in Ottawa. Generators and chainsaws were whirring within minutes after the supercell thunderstorm moved west over Quebec.
What do weather events have in common?
- These events are shared, yet personal. Even though we share the event, we can experience and react to them differently.
- Events are shocking. It's scary partially because it can happen so suddenly.
- You have to think on your feet and there is a lot that is left to chance.
- You get to know your neighbours really fast sometimes!
Weather events have an immediate aftermath
- People respond to each other's needs when energy, water, and roads are compromised.
- Your local representative becomes involved when you live in an area with high infrastructure needs. But, if you're on a private well or very rural, it can take time before your needs are acknowledged.
Debbie's community came together
- People who had power shared their power so people could charge their phones.
- They set up food stations and cooked.
- People shared tools, gas, and generators.
- There was a lot of communication and "checking in."
- They had a neighbourhood website in place that helped them coordinate, and their elected official provided regular updates.
Weather events have long-term effects
We feel less safe and have to adjust to this new reality. If we don't deal with emotions, then they can get bottled up.
Action and well-being are connected.
Preparing for future events can help with the process of healing because it helps you build back a sense of control. Never underestimate the emotional value of helping your neighbours and participating in positive change.
Getting involved feels good!
Can you plan for an extreme weather event?
There are 2 main ways to plan for an extreme weather event.
- Emergency Preparedness
- Reflecting on past events.
Take steps to emergency preparedness
To prepare you need to think ahead and pick up some things for an emergency backpack. It's not difficult. It will take a couple of days to run errands, fill in some forms, and communicate with people. You can also order an emergency preparedness kit online.
Why build an emergency preparedness kit?
You might be stuck without food or water or electricity for a couple of days. You should keep 3 days of supplies on hand, just in case.
What's in an emergency preparedness kit?
Plan ahead by looking back
Communities look at past events to help them think ahead.
Art actions are adaptation experiences
Use your experiences, your peers, and your creativity to send a message to your community.
People in communities, cities, and regions are coming together to adapt to the climate hazards.
3. Innovation & Solutions
Thinking critically and creatively in systems
Western society was built on a linear economic model. Linear economies expect to make trash. In fact, it relies on waste. It wants people to throw stuff out so that they buy new stuff.
The "developed" countries shifted to a linear, "waste" mindset during industrialization.
We have to be creative to shift away from a waste-based economy. This is called innovation. We need to shift our societies back to a circular economy mindset.
Good News Alert!
Humans used to live in circular economies.
Use your environment to make your artistic statements
The best news within climate adaptation is that Indigenous communities have saved much of humanity's creative solutions. Phew!! Oral storytelling cultures that rely on elders to pass information down to youth is a great system that will help climate adaptation. In fact, oral storytelling is the system all humans, everywhere, used until we started recording and writing stories.
Humans have been innovating solutions for tens of thousands of years.
Step 1: Use the knowledge we already have! Yay!
Indigenous knowledge is based in a mindset of being grateful
Indigenous people see the land and its resources as gifts. When we approach the land through an Indigenous lens, we think seven generations ahead . We value land for our children.
Linear systems, or large-scale capitalist systems, see resources in terms of costs and not in terms of value. Linear systems are extractive. Extractive systems are systems that take resources away from nature without putting any back.
Indigenous communities across the world still hold the knowledge systems we need.
Watch, Terry Teegee explain why it's important to overcome this dominating linear mindset. He is Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, Tribal Chief of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, and the former forestry coordinator for Takla Lake First Nation.
Regional knowledge is important for food security
Agroecology combines many fields.
- agriculture
- sustainability
- ecology
- food security
- policy
Indigenous communities have local land knowledge that is central to regional sustainability.
How do you access regional indigenous knowledge systems?
Use the Tribal Adaptation Menu developed by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) , as a guide for accessing indigenous elders and knowledge in your area.
Design Thinking & Systems Thinking
Indigenous knowledge systems are a central way to shift from linear thinking to circular thinking. This is important for people, society, and the planet as we adopt a climate lens.
Many systems will come together to organize for climate adaptation. Here are other useful systems.
Systems Thinking and changing mindsets
When we grow up in a linear economy it makes us have a linear mindset.
Tim Brown, from IDEO, will explain what that means in this video.
In western society, we expect to throw things in the trash. Western society has created most of the greenhouse gases that are now affecting communities that have never lived in a waste economy. Billions of people live in the global south and are experiencing climate devastation as a result of western mindsets.
IDEO is a human-centered design consulting company that has solved many problems by focusing on a 5 step process.
When you use Design Thinking to solve a problem, let yourself skip around these steps as soon as you get more information. It's not a linear path:
- Empathize! Travel to the location of the "problem" and observe and interview the people at the heart of the problem.
- Define! What is the problem? What do they need? What assumptions did you uncover?
- Ideate! Brainstorm, challenge even more assumptions, and create ideas.
- Prototype! Build rough and dirty models to test new products and systems.
- Test! and retest and restest and restest.
Systems thinking
Systems thinking is a way of valuing how things impact each other. It's a way that helps us find the places to enter the system for the greatest impact.
What's a system?
A system is a group of interacting parts.
You are a system, and you are a part of many systems.
- Our bodies are a combination of many systems.
- Our families are systems.
- Our schools are systems.
- Our cities are systems.
- Our roads and sewers are systems.
- Anthills are systems.
- The climate is a system.
Watch Drew Jones from Climate Interactive explain systems.
Key idea in systems thinking
Things don't just create themselves. Things happen because other things happened before them.
You do systems thinking all day - every day!
Quick break from serious stuff!
Shout out to children's author Richard Scarry!
This children's book author was a systems thinker. He spent a lifetime explaining to kids that all parts of society are all linked together.
Lots of things are happening all at once.
That's always been the way for all the creatures in the world.
Key ideas in systems thinking
Systems have many parts. If you change a part, then you can change a system.
There are three main ideas to keep in mind when approaching a problem like climate adaptation with a systems thinking mindset.
What is a feedback loop?
A change in one part of the system effects other parts of the system. There is a ripple effect.
Cause and effect.
When the feedback, or information, comes back then it is called a feedback loop. Here are some examples:
- When the body gets too hot, then it sweats.
- When you sweat too much, then you might shiver.
- When soil is healthy, then it can store carbon.
- When soil is not healthy, then it doesn't store carbon.
What is a leverage point?
A leverage point is a single place in the system where a little effort goes a long way.
You can be a leverage point in the climate adaptation system.
Here are some places where people can leverage the system for climate adaptation:
- Writing laws that protect the climate.
- Protesting climate inaction and big oil.
- Biking instead of driving and asking your company to put in more bike racks.
- Organizing into climate action groups.
- Planting trees and sustainable crops.
- Talking about climate adaptation.
What is a bottleneck?
A "bottleneck" is that place in a system where things get stuck. It's the problem area where the system always holds everything else back.
- A traffic intersection can be a bottleneck during rush hour.
- Governments can be a bottleneck when they are slow to pass laws that benefit the climate.
- Valuing nature can release the bottleneck on climate action.
Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville explains how our relationship to nature creates a bottleneck for climate adaptation:
We value nature but for the most part it's value is invisible in our economic system, in our businesses, and indeed in our political system. So, we need them all to transform the way we look at, and value nature."
Using nature as a resource without valuing it is creating a bottleneck.
Solutions that help shift the system
There are a cray-Cray-CRAZY amount of great solutions happening right now. As we review some of these solutions, imagine how you might help shift the system.
Imagine yourself as part of a solution.
When, where, why, and how do you enter the climate adaptation system?
10 Everyday Sustainable Living Swaps
Activity 4: Imagine your local next steps - be outrageous!
Urban Imaginaries, Experimentation and urban transformations
Meet Gabriella Gomez-Mont and her work in Mexico City. UNDP - Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) , Urban Talks: Virtual Forum on Urban Transformation, Mayors and cities making change.
M4EG Virtual Forum_Interview with Gabriella Gomez-Mont
(Academic activity plan to come for Fall 2023).
5. Your Well-being
Big weather and big changes cause big emotions.
Where to begin?
Greta Thunberg started her climate journey at home and with small goals. She was feeling overwhelmed about the climate. Listen to her tell her story in the video below.
Greta Thunberg on how to tackle climate anxiety | The One Show - BBC
Be together in our struggles.
Use an holistic approach.
Whole person. Whole communities. Whole planet.
What is climate anxiety?
First, What is anxiety? Anxiety is characterized by feeling fear, overwhelmed, tension, and worried thoughts. It can be accompanied by physical symptoms like increased blood pressure, rapid breathing, and nausea.
Natania Abebe created an eco-anxiety toolkit for her graduate degree at the University of British Columbia. Use it! Let's break it down!
What is eco-anxiety? Anxiety Canada defines Eco-anxiety as
a dread of environmental perils, especially climate change, and a feeling of helplessness over the potential consequences for those living now and even more so for those of later generations.
What is eco-paralysis? Nurse and Lecturer, Rancu Radu defines it as
the response people give when faced by the feeling that one cannot do anything meaningful to positively affect climate change.
Climate Change and Mental Health #ecoanxiety #ecoparalysis #ecogrief
What is eco-grief?
Grieving for Earth: How to Cope with Climate Anxiety | Seat At The Table
Coping with climate anxiety
Working on climate adaptation can feel a lot of different ways.
Below are some ways to cope with your climate anxiety.
Links for climate anxiety
There are many people who focus on climate anxiety.
- The Climate Psychology Alliance have developed a resource list.
- Read this article on Eco-anxiety by Anxiety Canada.
- Neolth is a stress and mental health support app that helps kids and teachers navigate through difficult feelings and situations.
If you are feeling distress please reach out to your local health provider.
Meditation
There are lots of types of meditation. Nature meditation. Soft Pine Wellness offers a self-guided meditation practice on their website.
Exercise
Get moving. Don't sit there. Dig a hole and plant a tree. Or, go for a bike ride. Play frisbee golf or plant a garden.
Social activism as meditation.
Gathering in groups to protest climate inaction is a soulful experience.
Check in with your friends
Most people are feeling anxious about the climate.
- Share your feelings: sadness, frustration, hope, anger, grief
- Share new knowledge
- Share good stories
It's easier to deal with emotions when you're with people and while working on solutions.
Activity 5:
(Academic activity plan to come for Fall 2023).
Learning Standards
Learning implies that there is change in understanding over time within a given area of knowledge and skills. Learning is an acquisition of knowledge and an ability to apply a new skill set in a specific context.
Selecting standards for change
Climate adaptation is an interdisciplinary pursuit. The required skill sets for the future are not in one discipline or domain. Research has established that applied and project-based learning is the key to deep learning and change. Let's review the possible standards for AdaptEd units.
Ontario Ministry of Education Standards
Consider additional education standards such as the following:
Pan-Canadian Global Competencies
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Learning to Learn: Self-aware and Self-directed
- Global Citizenship and Character
- Communication
- Collaboration and Leadership
- Creativity, Inquiry and Entrepreneurship
Sustainable Development Goals
- GOAL 1: No Poverty
- GOAL 2: Zero Hunger
- GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
- GOAL 4: Quality Education
- GOAL 5: Gender Equality
- GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
- GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- GOAL 13: Climate Action
- GOAL 14: Life Below Water
- GOAL 15: Life on Land
- GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
- GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Climate Adaptation Competency Framework
The Adaptation Learning Network has developed a Climate Adaptation Competency Framework to guide the skill-sets needed for our future communities.
They are free to download, use, and share.
Activity 5: Share what you know with others
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