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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ECO RESILIENCE INITIATIVE
Transforming Climate Distress to Action
Milestones 2026 🎉
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We published our class evaluation showing improvements in eco anxiety and mental health!
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Due to popular demand, offering the class to UCSF community!
The UC Eco Resilience Initiative is led by Drs. Elissa Epel at UC San Francisco, Jyoti Mishra at UC San Diego and Philippe Goldin at UC Davis. Together, these leaders have expertise in the psychology and physiology of the human stress response (Epel), the impacts of climate trauma on the human brain, cognition and mental health (Mishra), and the neuroscience of contemplative practices and sustainability education (Goldin). This initiative is part of the UC wide Center for Climate, Health, and Equity, and we actively collaborate with national and community mental health leaders such as the Climate Psychiatry Alliance.
Mission: To develop and promote climate resilience education and resources within the UC community and disseminate these to the wider public nationally and internationally.
News: Our initiative has been featured in the Nature magazine, the BBC, NPR, Sierra Club Podcast and UC News!
