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Climate Changed

Climate Changed

著者： The BTS Center
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Climate Changed explores spiritual leadership and imagination in a climate-changed world. Join hosts Rev. Nicole Diroff and Autumn Brown (from the hit podcast How to Survive the End of the World) as they talk with artists, healers, and frontline leaders who deepen the conversation and stir the waters. A project of The BTS Center.

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  • What does it mean to cultivate freedom for future generations? • Autumn Brown + Nicole Diroff

    What does it mean to cultivate freedom for future generations? • Autumn Brown + Nicole Diroff
    2026/07/21

    What does it mean to cultivate freedom for future generations? • Autumn Brown + Nicole Diroff

    In this episode of Climate Changed, Autumn Brown and Rev. Nicole Diroff continue reflecting on Autumn’s conversation with Francis Weller about grief, ritual, imagination, and “the long dark.”

    Nicole shares stories from a recent BTS Center retreat, Climate Advocacy and the Sacred Wild, where faith and climate leaders were invited to slow down, step away from project-making, and deepen their relationship with the natural world and one another.

    Autumn reflects on her work around fugitive practice, drawing from Black liberation and Black feminist thought. She explores freedom not only as something we do, but as something we are — even inside systems that deny freedom.

    Together, Autumn and Nicole ask what it means to work for a freedom we may not live to see. Autumn reminds us that we are part of a much bigger story of freedom, one that includes future generations whose lives we may never directly know.

    In this episode:

    • Francis Weller on “the long dark”

    • Seeing differently in a climate-changed world

    • Friendship and spiritual leadership

    • Margaret Wheatley’s question: “Who do we choose to be?”

    • Receiving wisdom with humility and care

    • Autumn Brown on fugitive practice

    • Freedom as a way of being

    • Ritual, conflict, community, and imagination

    Next Steps

    Name the hazards and gifts in your place. What are the real hazards where you live? What gifts do you, your neighbors, or your community already carry that could help when crisis comes?

    Ask who your friends are. Who can help you slow down, tell the truth, and remember that you are not alone?

    Practice imagination. Make space for dreams, images, and the imaginal. Lie down, cover your eyes, begin with a simple image, and let it unfold.

    Rest. Francis Weller names rest as a rebellious practice in a culture of productivity.

    Gather a listening circle. Invite three to five people to sit together for an hour. Turn off your phones. Take turns naming one thing that is weighing on your heart. Do not solve. Just listen.

    Use shared quiet. At the beginning or end of a meeting, try two or three minutes of silence. Notice what changes when the room slows down together.

    Resources

    Francis Weller: https://www.francisweller.net/

    Lament with Earth: https://thebtscenter.org/lamentwithearth

    Climate Changed Podcast: https://climatechangedpodcast.org/

    The BTS Center: https://thebtscenter.org/

    Contact: podcast@thebtscenter.org
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    44 分
  • What if it doesn’t get better anytime soon? • Francis Weller + Autumn Brown

    What if it doesn’t get better anytime soon? • Francis Weller + Autumn Brown
    2026/07/14

    What if it doesn’t get better anytime soon? • Francis Weller + Autumn Brown

    In this episode of Climate Changed, Autumn Brown speaks with psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist Francis Weller about grief, ritual, imagination, and what he calls “the long dark.”

    Francis invites us to consider that the climate-changed world is not a short crisis with a quick resolution. It is a generational passage that asks for patience, restraint, communal care, ritual imagination, and the courage to see with “a dark-adapted eye.”

    Before the conversation, Autumn shares a short speculative story called “Island,” opening a doorway into questions of land, belonging, migration, silence, and longing.

    Together, Autumn and Francis explore why grief and imagination belong together, why sorrow was never meant to be carried alone, and why communities need ritual ground where anguish, rage, shame, and heartbreak can be held. Francis also speaks to spiritual leaders about slowing down, warming the ritual field, and creating spaces where people can be changed rather than merely comforted.

    The conversation turns toward friendship as essential medicine. In a time marked by overwhelm and uncertainty, Francis reminds us that we do not mature alone. We need friends, elders, ritual, ancestors, community, and the living earth.

    Guest: Francis Weller https://www.francisweller.net/

    Climate Changed Podcast: https://climatechangedpodcast.org/

    The BTS Center: https://thebtscenter.org/

    Contact: podcast@thebtscenter.org
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    49 分
  • How do we cultivate agency in the face of climate change? • Autumn Brown + Nicole Diroff

    How do we cultivate agency in the face of climate change? • Autumn Brown + Nicole Diroff
    2026/06/16
    In this episode of Climate Changed, Autumn Brown and Rev. Nicole Diroff continue the conversation sparked by Autumn’s interview with disaster-response specialist Katie Mears. Together, they explore what disaster can reveal about human beings and the communities we create. They discuss the limitations of the term “climate refugee,” the difference between charity and solidarity, and the importance of preserving agency when people are displaced or forced to adapt. Drawing on the work of Rebecca Solnit, Amitav Ghosh, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and Colette Pichon Battle, Autumn and Nicole consider how faith communities can become places where people practice democracy, collective care, moral imagination, and self-determination. They also imagine public rituals for a climate-changed world, including the practice of witnessing high tides. Key Themes and Conversations Disaster as an Opportunity Multiplier: Climate change magnifies existing threats, but Autumn and Nicole ask whether it can also multiply opportunities to rethink how we live in community. The Language of Climate Displacement: Terms such as “climate refugee” may make sense to scholars and policymakers but may not reflect how displaced people understand their own experiences. From Extraction to Collective Care: Nicole draws on Amitav Ghosh’s work to suggest that displacement is often rooted in longer histories of exploitation, conflict, and violence—not simply a single climate event. Safe, Sanitary, Secure, and Chosen: Disaster recovery must include more than technically adequate shelter. People and communities need agency in determining where and how they live. Practicing Democracy: Faith communities and other “third spaces” can help people develop the skills required to listen, disagree, make decisions, and shape a shared future. Charity and Solidarity: Charity asks what we can give. Solidarity asks how we can come alongside others, accompany them, and recognize that their well-being is connected to our own. Witnessing High Tides: Nicole considers public ritual as a way of noticing climate change, accompanying the more-than-human world, making space for grief, and cultivating hope. Next Steps Autumn and Nicole remind listeners that imagination becomes meaningful when it enters our shared lives through practical action. Explore your community’s disaster preparedness. Ask what plans your congregation, neighborhood, or community organization already has in place. Is there a communication plan, phone tree, emergency contact list, or strategy for checking on vulnerable people? Look for preparedness resources offered by your denomination or local emergency-management organizations. Resource: United Church of Christ Disaster Preparedness Resources https://www.ucc.org/disaster_index/disaster_resources/ Listen to a story of displacement. Speak with someone who has experienced uprooting because of weather, housing costs, evacuation, or housing loss. Listen without trying to fix the story. The practice of witnessing and accompaniment can itself become part of rebuilding community. Notice what water is doing where you live. Find a local tide, river, rainfall, drought, or watershed resource. Spend time observing how water is changing in your region. Consider how witnessing these changes might become a personal or public ritual. Move from charity toward solidarity. After offering money, supplies, or practical assistance, ask what relationship might come next. How can your community accompany people rather than simply deliver resources? Share what you discover. Email: podcast@thebtscenter.org Voice Message: 207-200-6986 People and Resources Mentioned Katie Mears Senior Technical Specialist for U.S. Disaster and Climate Risk at Episcopal Relief & Development https://www.episcopalrelief.org/?s=katie+mears Episcopal Relief & Development https://www.episcopalrelief.org/ Adaptation Through Shock — Katie Mears and Sarah Labowitz https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/10/adaptation-through-shock A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster — Rebecca Solnit https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise-built-in-hell-by-rebecca-solnit/ The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis — Amitav Ghosh https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson https://www.getitright.earth/ Colette Pichon Battle and Taproot Earth https://www.taproot.earth/ Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean — Jonathan White https://www.trinity.edu/directory/jwhite1/tides-science-and-spirit-ocean United Church of Christ Disaster Ministries https://www.ucc.org/disaster_index/disaster_resources/ NOAA Tide Predictions https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.html About the Hosts Autumn Brown is a mother, artist, facilitator, and freedom worker who supports communities in cultivating resilience, imagination, ...
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    40 分
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