Episode No. 8: Talking With Grandchildren About Climate Change (February 24, 2022)

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Katie Ginsberg, founder and advisor of the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation, CELF, a not-for-profit organization fostering education of young people about the links between human health, consumption, conflict, equity, and the environment  and working with education and environmental thought leaders from around the world to bring best practices in Education for Sustainability to K-12 public and independent schools, discusses with host Geri Cole and another grandparent discussion topics and activities that grandparents can share with their grandchildren (including storytelling about grandparents’ childhood experiences with nature, connecting trees to environmental change, and nature journaling), actions that grandparents can encourage by their older grandchildren, vocabulary promoting open and collaborative conversations about environmental literacy in all communities, and five strategies to address climate change.