Welcome to Climate Activism Lab!
We all can play a part in the
climate justice movement and
activism comes in many forms.
If you find that you are
overwhelmed by the climate crisis,
exhausted by the challenges of our time,
and not sure what steps to take next...
you are in the right place!
Head over to the
Climate Anxiety to Action Course!
Pre-Sale on NOW!
Course Starts Spring 2024
At your own pace and LIVE coaching options.
Launch date TBA
Activism Comes in Many Forms
Knowing you want to do something is the first step! This is a GREAT place to be! You don't need to know everything about the climate crisis and your voice and actions matter. Figuring out how to navigate through your climate emotions so that you can take action is imperative, with our ever-changing future. The "Climate Anxiety to Action" course provides a step-by-step roadmap leading to your personalized climate wellness action plan!
Learn more about the course here.
What is Climate Wellness?
Do you find yourself doom scrolling and in a state of feeling as though nothing you do will make a difference? Time to break out of that cycle! You can incorporate health habits with climate action, for a purpose driven life and it's essential to balance your health and wellness with your activism. Coping with climate emotions is part of climate wellness. Download our FREE 2024 Climate Wellness Habits Hotsheet!
About the Founder
My name is Jill and I’m an activist, university instructor, and now wellness coach being called to use my skills to scale my efforts to match the scale of the climate crisis. With COVID-19 colliding into the climate crisis, the anxiety and stress I have both experienced and witnessed in my students has led me to want to help others with dealing with these crises by combining activism and wellness as these challenging times are calling for us to create a new path forward. And oh my goodness, at the end of 2019, I landed on the United Nations TOP 100 Human Rights Defender list with Michelle Obama, Malala Yousazfai, Greta Thunberg and others. This pushes me to elevate my efforts and so here we are…Climate Activism Lab – a place to “get informed, get outraged, get inspired, get active“ as my dear friend, Late Dame Anita Roddick professed are necessary ingredients for activism.
Why climate activism?
In 2006, I saw An Inconvenient Truth and at the end of the film, Vice President Al Gore said that our children 20 years from now will be asking us, “What were you thinking”…and… “Why didn’t you do anything when you had the chance?” In that moment, I had never cried so hard in my entire life because I didn’t want my 2 daughters asking me those questions! I became a certified Climate Reality Leader with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in 2012 and have since given over 200 climate presentations, organized to help stop N. America’s largest coal export terminal from being built in our community, wrote a Climate Justice Field Manual, given a TEDxVail Talk, and has taught over 2,000 students about climate justice at Western Washington University.
The most common question people ask after learning about climate change is “What can I do?”
Knowing that we need to push governments and businesses to take bolder action on climate change, I wrote the Climate Justice Field Manual to help people organize in their communities. The manual has been downloaded hundreds of times all around the world and can be found at climatejusticenow.earth. I have since received training at the Mayo Clinic to become a wellness coach because I recognize the importance of balancing wellness and activism, because this is for the rest of our lives. We don’t get the choice to burn out, yet we do get to choose how we care for ourselves, each other, and the planet.
Land Acknowledgement
I pay my respect to the Coastal Salish Peoples, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe on whose land I work from each day, and to their continuing connection to land, sea and community. My aim is to aid in the healing and reparations from the colonization of this land and I encourage you to refer to Native Land to learn more.