Dekila Chungyalpa
@dchungyalpa
Works w faith & Indigenous leaders on enviro & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative @UWMadison @HealthyMinds. Same handle on Insta & BlueSky.
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https://centerhealthyminds.org/loka-initiative 15-03-2012 21:07:43
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Across multiple demographics, the #1 thing most folks in the US want to know about when it comes to climate is...SOLUTIONS!
Check out the new Yale Program on Climate Change Communication analysis (link in the reply).
“For the state, a dam is an important symbol of modernity. But for local Tibetans, these cultural artifacts — monasteries and murals — signify their identity,' ICT's Tenzin Norgay tells Alessandra Bergamin of Waging Nonviolence about the #Derge dam protests in #Tibet wagingnonviolence.org/2024/04/tibet-…
While most European countries struggle to #coexist with the few #megafauna species that still persist, they find it easy to prescribe how Global South should behave with their #wildlife
#neocolonialism
Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany bbc.co.uk/news/world-687…
Sacrality once drove the conservation of sacred groves in Kerala. Now, waning beliefs, migration and expanding infrastructure is jeopardising these biodiversity hotspots. In my first for The Christian Science Monitor, I write- csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Sou…
On the heels of WI's warmest winter ever, WUWM 89.7 FM's Thin Ice explores the impacts. Loka’s director Dekila Chungyalpa spoke w/ Lina Tran re: climate change's effects & our upcoming free online course to help people build inner, community, & ecological resilience, debuting May 2024!
And here we go.
#DespiteTheState has been launched.
You can buy it online as paperback or ebook at Amazon: amazon.in/Despite-State-… (Indian subcontinent) or amazon.com/Despite-State-… (World).
And at a growing number of bookstores. On whom, this slowly accreting thread.
𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗳 #𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 Center for Healthy Minds. Loka is hiring!! Applications reviewed on rolling basis starting immediately: centerhealthyminds.org/assets/images-…
This brilliant piece is straight going in to my syllabus next semester. It far surpasses Bill Cronon's 'Trouble with #Wilderness ,' Noel Castree's 'Strange #Natures ,' or Mahesh Rangarajan's work. It needs to be read widely! Bravo m rajshekhar!
himalmag.com/politics/relia…
“For Ladakhis and Zanskarpas, receding #ice cannot be dissociated from feelings of being marginalised by the Indian state, from an ethics of responsibility for these changes and from ideas about social justice”
#Himalaya #stories
Mabel Denzin Gergan berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…
Out today for #WorldWaterDay -- my piece in @nature on a topic that is central to my research: How to achieve safe water access for all.
Listening to local communities & building collaborative governance is essential for water justice. Check it out! nature.com/articles/d4158…