Resources

Occupational Therapy Resources

Advocacy & Legislative Efforts

Educational Efforts

General Articles & News Reports

Movies and Documentaries

Organizations

  • Awake in the Wild (AitW)

    • Programs focus on everything from opening the heart to joy to healing grief to engaging in environmental activism. While some of our programs are hosted online, AitW teachers have led mindfulness-based nature retreats in breathtaking settings across the globe — from the coast of Baja, Mexico, to the mountains of Peru, to the desert canyons of the South-West.

  • Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

    • A global charity and world leader in sustainable healthcare research and expertise, committed to transforming the healthcare sector by integrating clinical care, wellbeing, and sustainability.

  • Citizens Climate Lobby

    • A climate change organization that exists to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power. Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address the national and global climate crisis.

  • Climate Change Makers

    • A modern climate advocacy network built for busy productive people. We advance systems-level climate solutions through strategic advocacy for policy and key electoral priorities.

  • Coalition of Occupational Therapy Advocates for Diversity (COTAD)

    • “The world's preeminent occupational therapy organization doing work in justice, equity, diversity, inclusion (JEDI), anti-racism and anti-oppression, [COTAD is] a network of OT practitioners, students, and educators working to make health equity a priority at all levels of healthcare”.

  • Community of Occupational Therapy Committed to Equity and the Environment (C4E)

    • A group of OT practitioners who meet bi-yearly, as a sub-working group, in order to address the climate emergency and negative impacts of human occupations on the ecological crisis.

  • Environment America

    • A national network of 30 state environmental groups. Our staff work together for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate. Our members across the United States put grassroots support behind our research and advocacy. 

  • Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE)

    • “Advancing global health security and educating professionals on the effects of climate change”

    • The GCCHE’s vision is that all health professionals throughout the world – doctors, nurses, public health practitioners, mental health practitioners, and allied health specialists– will work together to prevent, reduce, and respond to the health impacts of climate change. (“Climate Clinic” is their podcast!)

  • Health Care Without Harm

    • Seeks to transform health care globally so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becoming a community mainstay for sustainability and leading in the global movement for environmental health and justice.

  • JenLo Farm

    • Located in Longmont, Colorado, provides occupational therapy in a natural setting.The clinic is a small farm where the clients interact with animals, plants, the seasons, and perform farm chores as part of their therapy.

  • OT Susnet - Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

    • A network for occupational therapy practitioners, students and educators interested in exploring sustainable practice and looking for resources. 

  • PIRG

    • An advocate for the public interest. We speak out for the public and stand up to special interests on problems that affect the public’s health, safety and wellbeing.

  • Planetary Health Alliance

    • A consortium of over 240 universities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and government entities from around the world committed to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts.

  • Practice Greenhealth

    • Sustainability Solutions for Healthcare-is the leading membership organization for sustainable health care, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,100 U.S. hospitals and health systems.

  • Project Dandelion

    • A women-led global campaign for climate justice

  • Social Prescribing USE

    • We are committed to the belief that health is not only the absence of disease but the ability to explore, enjoy, and belong to our communities. Informed by research on the health impact of social connection — often facilitated through engagement with the arts, nature, movement, and service (volunteering). We are champions of social prescribing and believe deeply in the health professional’s duty to treat not only a patient’s immediate symptoms but to facilitate the patient’s wellbeing in their broader environment. By helping patients learn about and build healthy lifestyle habits, and by facilitating their engagement with the community resources that support them, we see social prescribing as a critically important component of preventative and curative care.

  • TED Countdown

    • A global initiative championed by TED and Future Stewards to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, convening scientists, activists, and leaders to mobilize millions toward a net-zero future.

  • The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health

    • Brings together associations representing over 600,000 clinical practitioners to convey that climate change is harming Americans, we must decrease decrease our use of fossil fuels and increase use of clean energy sources; and these changes in energy choices will improve the quality of our air and water and bring immediate health benefits.

  • Third Act

    • We're a community of Americans over sixty determined to change the world for the better. Third Act harnesses an unparalleled generational power to safeguard our climate and democracy.

  • 350

    • A movement of ordinary people working to build a world powered by clean, accessible, and affordable renewable energy 

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