GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Ease Eco-Anxiety? (ICYMI) with Dekila Chungyalpa

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Earth hit record-high temperatures—three times. We’re feeling the heat of climate change, literally, and it’s f*cking scary. To help us handle this moment, we’re re-releasing an episode from our archives, with Dekila Chungyalpa. She joins Jonathan to discuss how she confronts climate change disinterest and skepticism, and why she’s bringing the sacred back into science. Dekila Chungyalpa is the founder and director of the Loka Initiative, a capacity building and outreach platform at the University of Wisconsin – Madison for faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions who work on environmental and climate issues. She received the prestigious Yale McCluskey Award in 2014 for her work and moved to the Yale School of Environmental Studies as an associate research scientist, where she researched, lectured and designed the prototype for what is now the Loka Initiative. Dekila is originally from the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India and is of Bhutia origin. You can keep up with Dekila by visiting her Facebook and by following her on Twitter and Instagram @dchungyalpa. For more information about the Loka Initiative, visit their Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @LokaInitiative and on Instagram @loka.initiative. Struggling with eco-anxiety? Read Dekila’s five tips on how to alleviate eco-anxiety or visit SoundCloud, Tricycle Magazine, or the Healthy Minds app for contemplative practices to address eco-anxiety and climate distress. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Production support from Julie Carrillo. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:08.0	Honey, we are on a little recharging moment at team Getting Curious. We are getting ready to launch two very
0:15.4	exciting new projects in the Getting Curious universe so we're really excited
0:19.5	about that but to do that we're on boarding some new team members. We are getting some things together.
0:24.8	We are researching for upcoming projects.
0:26.9	So we are taking these top two weeks of July to recharge, re-enter and get ready for the very exciting things that we have coming up so we just love you
0:34.3	thank you so much for your support but in the meantime while we are on that journey we
0:38.7	have another amazing episode from our vaults to share with y'all. If you miss this one it's just so good and
0:44.5	this is why it's really timely so last week Earth hit record high temperatures
0:48.4	not once not twice but three times we're feeling the heat of climate change literally and it's
0:54.1	bucking scary. To help us process this moment as I said earlier we're re-releasing
0:58.3	an episode from our archives with Dequila Chagnapa all about eco-anxiety and climate action.
1:03.8	Take a listen and then head over to Act Curious with Avian on Instagram for more facts and resources
1:08.4	from our climate and environmental experts. Welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Venice. We have such an interesting
1:20.3	episode and I feel like all of our episodes are interesting, but this one's especially
1:24.1	interesting because it's super intersectional. It's like bringing like all these
1:27.9	worlds together. So welcome to the show to Kila Chagnolpa, who is the
1:31.9	founder and director of the Lococa Initiative at the University of Wisconsin
1:35.4	Madison.
1:36.4	She works with faith leaders and religious institutions to support environmental protections,
1:41.7	sustainable development, and global health.
1:44.2	She is also from Secum, which, y'all, if you remember our gorgeous episode about the Eastern
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