Noons for Now is a weekly teach-in event to discuss climate change related issues. Our March 3rd event will focus on the topic of climate grief, and features Anne Raine (Ottawa U) and Jennifer Baker (Sierra Club Canada) as speakers.

Climate grief is experienced for some as a daily reality and for others an active crisis. For some, it is an abstract concept and for others an obstacle to solutions-oriented discourse/action. It can be a source of writer’s block and professional anxiety. But it can also be a source of insight and motivation and a catalyst to action. Join us for a discussion of climate grief in all of its facets.

Jennifer Baker is a poet and an adjunct Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa, where her research interests include the cultural history of agriculture in Canada, environmental history, literature and the environment, cultural studies, and Canadian poetry and poetics. She currently serves as Vice President of Sierra Club Canada Foundation, a national grassroots environmental charity in operation for over 50 years.

Anne Raine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches American literature, modernist studies, and the environmental humanities. Her work has appeared in American Literature, Callaloo, and The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. She has written on “Modernism, Eco-Anxiety, and the Climate Crisis” for the In These Times forum on Modernism/Modernity Print+, and her chapter on “Literary Reading, Mindfulness, and Climate Justice” appears in the forthcoming collection Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppression Pedagogies for Higher Education (2022).

For more information on the series and upcoming events, visit the climate commons website here: https://carleton.ca/climatecommons/noonsfornow/