Maria Vamvalis, PhD
@mariavamvalis.bsky.social
Founder of Anayennisi. https://www.anayennisi.org/. Climate justice education for well-being. Working in service of collective transformative systems change through education, facilitation, research, strategy & writing. she/her
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I am grateful to the youth climate activists who contributed to this research. “We’re fighting for our lives”: Centering affective, collective and systemic approaches to climate justice education as a youth mental health imperative"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00345237231160090
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00345237231160090
Just reviewed @jenniecstephens.bsky.social excellent book, Climate Justice and the University. She names so clearly what’s at stake and how post-secondary institutions could be mobilizing for climate justice, equity, and community well-being.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Just reviewed @jenniecstephens.bsky.social excellent book, Climate Justice and the University. She names so clearly what’s at stake and how post-secondary institutions could be mobilizing for climate justice, equity, and community well-being.
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#climatejustice
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#climatejustice
"The promise of democracy was that the lives of all would steadily improve as knowledge spread: we would turn our gathering understanding of the world into social progress. For a while, in some places, we did. But that era now seems to be coming to an end."
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"The promise of democracy was that the lives of all would steadily improve as knowledge spread: we would turn our gathering understanding of the world into social progress. For a while, in some places, we did. But that era now seems to be coming to an end."
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right
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Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right
The changing climate doesn’t just threaten younger people in the distant future, it’s happening now at a massive scale. But we can turn it around.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right
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Take what broke you and teach from the gold in the fracture.
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Take what broke you and teach from the gold in the fracture.
Happy to share that my doctoral thesis on climate justice pedagogies is now available online. My deepest hope is that it contributes to educational renewal, regeneration and relationality in these dark times.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy to share that my doctoral thesis on climate justice pedagogies is now available online. My deepest hope is that it contributes to educational renewal, regeneration and relationality in these dark times.
utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/f386f4...
utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/f386f4...
Deep transformation is always possible where truth and tenderness meet.
October 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Deep transformation is always possible where truth and tenderness meet.
Survey: Only four per cent of Canadians give schools an ‘A’ on climate education – students deserve better
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Survey: Only four per cent of Canadians give schools an ‘A’ on climate education – students deserve better
A strong majority of Canadians believe climate change should be a priority in education, but teachers and students lack the necessary tools and support to effectively incorporate it into classrooms.
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June 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Survey: Only four per cent of Canadians give schools an ‘A’ on climate education – students deserve better
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Witnessing and being witnessed in love across time is a form of justice.
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Witnessing and being witnessed in love across time is a form of justice.
This is how we come together.
Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion.
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Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion.
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This Is How We Come Together
Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion
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June 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is how we come together.
Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion.
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Transforming their divisiveness into our cohesion.
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In these times of great unravelling, where we name our losses, we must also remember that we can still receive guidance from what what was never colonized.
May 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In these times of great unravelling, where we name our losses, we must also remember that we can still receive guidance from what what was never colonized.
Where this culture mistakes the depth of relationality for weakness is where it has sown the most potent seeds of its unravelling.
May 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Where this culture mistakes the depth of relationality for weakness is where it has sown the most potent seeds of its unravelling.
Having experienced their Little Amal performance art to highlight the plight of refugees, the Herds project promises to offer a powerful opportunity for a profound shift in consciousness - one that the arts are uniquely capable of bringing forth.
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Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle
The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world
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May 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Having experienced their Little Amal performance art to highlight the plight of refugees, the Herds project promises to offer a powerful opportunity for a profound shift in consciousness - one that the arts are uniquely capable of bringing forth.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This world is not designed to value what cannot be curated for consumption. It is wearying...a slow bleed of the imagination until the collective soul flatlines from the lack of nourishment, expression, and reverence.
May 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This world is not designed to value what cannot be curated for consumption. It is wearying...a slow bleed of the imagination until the collective soul flatlines from the lack of nourishment, expression, and reverence.
“There is fatigue, but the momentum is still there, it’s just not as visible.”
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Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?
Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lost
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May 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“There is fatigue, but the momentum is still there, it’s just not as visible.”
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Academic freedom is vital to climate justice. We can’t tackle urgent crises if educators are silenced for questioning systems or naming injustice. Protecting critical thought is protecting our future. #AcademicFreedom #ClimateJustice #Education
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Stephen Bede Scharper: Attacks on academic freedom prompted U.S. scholars to flee the U.S. and come to Toronto
This was not the usual academic move, done for higher pay, enhanced research funding, or greater prestige. For all three professors, the move was done for academic and personal freedom.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Academic freedom is vital to climate justice. We can’t tackle urgent crises if educators are silenced for questioning systems or naming injustice. Protecting critical thought is protecting our future. #AcademicFreedom #ClimateJustice #Education
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The 2024 Lancet Countdown warns: delayed climate action is driving record-breaking health threats worldwide. From heatwaves to food insecurity, human lives are on the line. #ClimateHealth
Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climate Extremes, Habitat Loss, Zoonotic Diseases, Fossil Fuel Pollution, & Health 🧵
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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action
Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is now dangerously
close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to 1·5°C.
Annual mean surface temper...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The 2024 Lancet Countdown warns: delayed climate action is driving record-breaking health threats worldwide. From heatwaves to food insecurity, human lives are on the line. #ClimateHealth
Empire has always been deeply invested in inducing the forgetting of the deep aliveness and connection to this Earth that is our birthright. World-shaping revolutions commence from this remembering.
May 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Empire has always been deeply invested in inducing the forgetting of the deep aliveness and connection to this Earth that is our birthright. World-shaping revolutions commence from this remembering.
It is painful to live in a world that continues to mistake self-destruction for freedom.
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It is painful to live in a world that continues to mistake self-destruction for freedom.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - At a town hall hosted by Shelby County Health Dept. on Fri. night, designed to help ease concerns about the xAI supercomputer’s impact on Memphis’ air, electricity and water www.actionnews5.com/2025/04/26/e... xAI’s representative Brent Mayo…
Emotions run high at SCHD town hall on xAI environmental concerns
A town hall by the Shelby County Health Department on Friday addressed concerns about xAI’s effects on Memphis’ air, electricity, and water, but did not meet the expectations of environmental activist...
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April 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - At a town hall hosted by Shelby County Health Dept. on Fri. night, designed to help ease concerns about the xAI supercomputer’s impact on Memphis’ air, electricity and water www.actionnews5.com/2025/04/26/e... xAI’s representative Brent Mayo…
"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy."
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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April 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy."
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"The stereotype of a scientist is a dispassionate, objective and neutral seeker of nature’s truths, and many think that this makes a career in science incompatible with political activism. Canadian climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe thinks that this is a mistake." www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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April 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"The stereotype of a scientist is a dispassionate, objective and neutral seeker of nature’s truths, and many think that this makes a career in science incompatible with political activism. Canadian climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe thinks that this is a mistake." www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
“We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks...the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay...Entire regions are becoming uninsurable.”
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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April 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks...the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay...Entire regions are becoming uninsurable.”
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