What is Climate Optimism?

What does it mean to be a climate optimist?

Everything in here The Climate Optimist Universe is designed to spark optimism, creativity, and solutions thinking while keeping a fact-based and awareness-driven approach to climate change.

You will learn how to empower yourself as a citizen as well as understand how small shifts in habits and mindset will invite positive change into all areas of your life.

Awareness + Action = Optimism

(Sustainable) climate optimism can only exist in an intersection of grounded awareness and empowered action. Awareness will trigger your will to act, but only continuous action will allow your optimism to sustain. Here, we call it being an Optimist In Action.

Our mission is to shift the narrative on climate change so that we can act from courage and excitement, not fear.

A new world is possible if we believe it and choose to act.

Therefore, climate optimism is not about taking a step back and hoping for the best to happen. It’s about diving into awareness and choosing a path of resilience, action, and hope.

Climate Optimism Resources

  • The motivational self-help book on climate change that will take you on a journey of empowered awareness, teaching you the basics of climate psychology and the science of optimism, as well as how to gain agency in your actions and turn your life into one of meaning and hope.

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  • Get climate optimism straight to your inbox every Wednesday by subscribing to our weekly Substack newsletter.

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  • In the Hey Change Podcast, co-hosts Anne Therese Gennari and Robin Shaw speak with scientists, experts, and activists about the challenges we face with climate change and what we can do about it.

  • Check out our free resources page for guided meditations, journaling prompts, and more.