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Andrew Revkin is one of the world's leading science and environmental journalists, with over 30 years' experience thinking and writing about climate change and sustainability. He has written at The New York Times and ProPublica, and his current outlet is “Sustain What?” at Substack. He is also the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. In this episode, Revkin shares his remarkable journalistic experiences, such as reporting from the Arctic, and how media and the climate discussion have evolved throughout his career. Our discussion is dynamic and wide-ranging, from extreme weather, to narrative capture, to tackling questions posed in previous episodes like climate doomism and ‘Is 1.5ºC still alive?' Links: Profile Revkin's Substack, 'Sustain What?' His 2003 Q&A from the Arctic sea iceHis dispatches from 2005 Montreal His blog 'Dot Earth' at NYT His 2016 Anthropocene article, An Anthropocene Journey Support the showSubscribe for email updates

Welcome to the Aphasia Access Aphasia Conversations Podcast. I'm Katie Strong and I'm  a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. Aphasia Access strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources. I'm today's host for an episode that will feature Dr. Jytte Isaksen. We'll be talking about Making Communication about Healthcare Everyone's Responsibility: Communication Partner Training for Health Care Professionals Jytte Isaksen is an associate professor at the Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. She has a background as speech and language pathologist. Jytte lectures in the speech-language pathology and audiology programs in evidence-based practice, qualitative research methodologies, neurogenic communication disorders including aphasia, and other clinical subjects. Jytte's research is centred around communication with people with aphasia, for example communication partner training of health professionals, but she is also interested in outcome evaluation of aphasia therapy, involvement of people with aphasia in research, and supporting access and services for people with aphasia in low- and middle-income countries. A current research project of hers is about families living with aphasia and how to make sure that they get support throughout the care pathway. Jytte is a part of the international research group Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists, where she serves in the executive committee and as chair of the working group Societal Impact and Reintegration.     In this episode you will: Learn about the importance of trained healthcare providers who can communicate with people living with aphasia. Be introduced to the KomTil method of training developed in Denmark. Be inspired to consider how you might incorporate communication partner training with healthcare providers in your community. Katie: As we get started, I wondered if you could you tell our listeners exactly what is meant by communication partner training. And why is it so important for health care providers?   Jytte: Thank you so much, first of all, Katie and Aphasia Access for inviting me to talk about this topic that is very close to my heart. I think that conversation communication partner training, CPT, is defined in different ways in literature. But one of the definitions that I usually stick to is that CPT is an umbrella term that covers different types of complex interventions for communication partners of people with aphasia, and possibly the person with aphasia themselves. And why is it important to healthcare professionals? I would say it's important for everyone working with a person with aphasia because you need to be able to communicate with them. No matter if you are a nurse, or a physiotherapist, or anyone in the healthcare system. The secretary on the ward that needs to communicate with people with aphasia. You need to be able to express yourself in a way that people with aphasia better understand you, but also support them in their expression so that they can say what they really want to say, or some of it at least.   Katie: Absolutely. I completely agree. Being able to have conversations about your healthcare is just so important. So important. What role do speech-language pathologists play in the training of healthcare professionals?   Jytte: We play a very important role. I think it's a way of opening up participation in life, including in healthcare, for people with aphasia. Since we are the professionals especially trained in being able not just to treat, but hopefully also to communicate with people with aphasia, I think we as a profession are a good way into that. But I will later in this podcast talk about how other healthcare professionals can also be CPT providers. We have tried to do that in the project I will tell you about later today.   Katie: Yeah, that's so exciting. I'm really excited to talk about your work. I was wondering though if you could tell us how you got interested in the area of CPT.   Jytte: Yeah, that's a good question. Mainly because so many clinicians in Denmark were interested and still are interested in CPT. I think it was back in early 2000, some of my clinical colleagues went to the Aphasia Institute in Toronto, Canada and got trained by Aura Kagan and colleagues in the Supported Conversation for Aphasia, or the SCA program. They got back to Denmark, wrote a little bit about it, told a little bit about it, but it didn't really get that traction in the beginning. Maybe we weren't ready for that. I was more or less newly qualified at that time.   An evaluation of the Danish neurorehabilitation system was written up in 2011 and my now retired colleague, Lise Randrup Jensen from University of Copenhagen, was invited to evaluate and show the evidence around everything related to aphasia. What she enhanced in that evaluation was that there was moderate evidence that healthcare professionals trained to be better communication partners could have a different impact on people with aphasia's participation. That was picked up mainly at that time by one medical doctor. I should say, this is my interpretation of everything. That medical doctor or consultant in neuro, I think it was acute neurology, she said “I want to have this implemented in this hospital. So, no matter who is working with people with aphasia here should be trained to be better communication partners.” So, I think they are very brave. They employed a clinician that was already trained at the Aphasia Institute, and they employed Lise as a researcher on this part-time. Then they started to train all their staff to do research on it and then it really started to get some traction. They not only wrote at some point a research article, but they were also invited out into different health professional communities. They wrote in the nursing magazine, and the physio magazine, and so forth. All of a sudden, so many people around the country knew about SCA specifically, and went back to their SLP asking, “Can we be trained in this method?” And, somehow, I got interested. It was very natural that I picked it up together with Lise and then we started to do research together.   Katie: It's fantastic, the energy, it's such an the organic way that it came about. That seems really authentic and people being interested. All of the different disciplines. Showcasing and getting work out in interdisciplinary audiences is so important. Yeah, I love that story. Thanks for sharing. So, I'd like to get into a little more of the details. You've taken a lead role in training healthcare providers in Denmark, and I was hoping you could talk us through a little bit about how the training was developed and the philosophy behind your training.     Jytte: Yeah, as I mentioned previously, it was a lot of SCA going on, and there still is in Denmark. So many of us, Danish clinicians and researchers, have been to Toronto and gotten SCA training. But we got back with a material developed in a Canadian context with English speaking videos, and we had to do some adaption. But it was hard to know what could we change and still call it SCA. So, at some point, I was invited into a project at the local hospital in Espia, where I live on the west coast of Denmark. It was really a nurse at the acute ward there that also had read about SCA, and she went to one of the project people there saying, “I think we should be taught some kind of CPT.” And then it started.   So, our project man, he was very great at getting people together. Very funnily, he knew what SCA and CPT were because his daughter studied to be an SLP and wrote her master thesis about it. Lots of clinicians from that hospital, from the neurorehabilitation unit that the acute hospital usually would send their patients to, and then to the five surrounding municipalities that got the people with aphasia out where they lived afterwards. They got together, some researchers, me as an SLP researcher, and a colleague from public health. It wouldn't be right to say we were doing something new. So, we were standing on the shoulders of the giants, like Aura Kagan and Nina Simmons-Mackie, and other people that have worked before with CPT. We invited healthcare professionals from all stages throughout the care pathway, but definitely also people with aphasia and significant others. At first, we started with studying, “What is going on here? How do you communicate in this area of Denmark? How does the transfer happen between hospitals and from hospitals out into community care?” We got some ideas on what could be better. But then we again invited people in to do some co-design and co-development with us. So, that was how it all started. But you also asked about the philosophy, Katie.   Katie: That's alright. Well, before we get into that, I know many of them might, but I'm not sure if all of our listeners know what you mean by co-design.   Jytte: Yeah, I'm not sure that I know that either, Katie.   Katie: Well, how are you thinking of it?   Jytte: I claim I use co-design in many of the things I do. By that, I mean we invite all of the relevant stakeholders in. Well not all, but at least some of the relevant stakeholders for whatever we were going to develop. In this case, it was a CPT program, but it was also some support materials, and we developed a few other things I can talk about later. We have done workshops with them [stakeholders] asking them different questions, very open questions in the beginning. Our overarching goal from the beginning was not to create CPT, or communication partner training. It was to create cohesiveness throughout the healthcare system. It would be a good idea, we assumed, that all the way from when you were hospitalized until you finished your treatment out in your own home or in the community, that you would meet staff that knew what aphasia was, that knew how to communicate with aphasia, that used some of the same support materials. So, we asked them very openly, “How could that look? What is needed for that to be a reality?” We were quite sure from the beginning that some training had to take place. So, really, the CPT program called KomTil that we developed was a part of answering that more broad question.   Katie: Yeah, it's really a beautiful way to get something to work. I think that's why it's been so successful in your country, because you really brought it in from the ground up. People are truly interested, and then getting input from the health providers who are going to be using it, and the stakeholders, people with aphasia, family members. Thank you for sharing. I think that it's certainly something that's easier said than done, and you're showing us that it can be done, so thank you. So, did you want to remark on the philosophy?   Jytte: Yeah. So, I'm sitting here with the sheet in front of me. I think you will all be able to have a look at it and Katie will talk more about that later, where you can find it. But we have what we call our strategies and tools. There is a drawing, and it really looks like a dart board. There is a bullseye in the middle, and that is what is really most important to this training. It's also important for me to tell you that it has been people with aphasia and their family members that have told us what they found was most important. That strategy is called “person-to-person”. With that, we mean that in any kind of healthcare contact, it's important that both the person with aphasia, but also the healthcare professionals, remember that it's two humans really talking together. It's not about if you have aphasia or not, or if you are a nurse or not, it's about two people having to communicate. So, you need to try to work on creating a relationship. Be respectful to each other coming from different systems and with different points of view. The last point is to be honest about what you don't know or what you don't understand. When you don't understand what the person with aphasia is saying, instead of pretending, it's okay to say, “I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.” So, that's the bullseye of our figure.   The next circle around the bullseye is parted into two, and one is called “your court”, like you are part of the tennis court. Those are the strategies that you can do yourself without making too much effort. So, you could slow down your speech rate. You could have a natural tone of voice, knowing that you are speaking to an adult competent person. Emphasize key words in your oral speech. Have short sentences, yes-no questions, one question at a time. So, that simple communication advice that many of us are using with clients, but also advise other people to use with people with aphasia. Also take your responsibility in the communication because you know, or are being taught, in the CPT program that you really need to not control but be responsible for moving forward the conversation and providing support. Then the other half of that middle circle is “know your co-player”. So, know who is on the other side of the court. Try to think about, “Who is it that you are speaking with? How must it be to have aphasia and not be able to express yourself in the way that you would like to feel that you are competent and intelligent?” It's as Aura Kagan always says, “the aphasia is masking who you are, and your competencies”. Make sure that there is enough time for the person with aphasia to give their response if you ask a question, or if they want to formulate something. Also, make sure that you understand each other. Try to check if, “What I understood you said was this and that. Is that true?” or “What I tried to say before was this and that, are you with me?”   Then there is the outer ring, divided into four parts and we call them “strategies”. They may be extra. Some of them are quite natural in communication and some of them are not so much. One tool could be “pointing”, so be more intentional about when you point at your body, towards things, and at the person you're communicating with. The next one is also rather natural. Try to use “facial expressions, gestures, body language”, and be intentional about it. Like right now as we are talking Katie, my hands are everywhere but it doesn't mean anything. But I could use my hands to be more precise in underpinning what I'm saying, and the same with my facial expression. Then the last two tools are the ones that are a bit more unnatural. “Write down keywords”. So, have pen and paper ready and write the keywords in whatever you were talking about. We're talking about tools, Katie, then I would write down tools on this sheet of paper. You could also use keywords if you want people to point at different choices you give them. So, it can work as a support for what you say, but it can also be something you write down based on what the person with aphasia says to make sure, “Have I understood you right?” In the written keywords section, we also have drawings. So, we could draw to show something more visually. The last one is “pictures” or any kind of pictorial support. Especially the last two things, written keywords, drawings, and pictures, need some kind of preparation. You need to have pen and paper with you. You need to be willing to draw. Many people say to me, “But I don't draw, and people can't see what I'm drawing.” Also, the pictures. Either you need to prepare the conversation and have pictures with you, or have a tablet or a smartphone, or have physical pictures that you can point at and talk about. So that was a long explanation about the KomTil.   Katie: Beautiful. So, this KomTil graphic will be in the show notes. The reference will be there as well as the articles that Jytte's talking about, so please check them out. I think brings [these strategies] to an intentional and simplified way. It really makes it make sense, breaking those things up into different areas. Wow, fantastic.   Jytte: Can I add one thing, Katie?   Katie: Of course.   Jytte: The idea with this model was also like, “Could we start in the middle, and actually solve or bridge over some of the communication challenges between us and the person with aphasia by just really being present and trying to build a strong relationship?” Or maybe a little bit more is needed. Maybe I need to slow down and do a little instead of starting in the outer circle with drawing or pictures because maybe it's not needed. You should use it if it's needed. If not, no need to do it.   Katie: Yeah. That's so important. I was actually earlier this week having a conversation with our local aphasia support group. We were talking about how to talk with your health care providers, and I think they would agree that being treated like a person and having that relationship is really the place to start. Well, you all have not only developed this, but you also are training different healthcare providers, speech pathologists, or other disciplines on how to train other people on communication partner training. So, could you talk to us about what's important about consistency in this program? Also, how does somebody become a trainer?   Jytte: Yes. So as SCA, that also has a train-the-trainer model, we have made the same. Because it's really not good to develop something and then keep all the knowledge within that small group. We wanted KomTil to have its own life, so that people could get trained as trainers and then go out into their workplaces and train their colleagues. That would also mean that you would have KomTil trainers in many places with specific competencies that could underpin implementation, train new staff, do some refresher training. So, that was really the intention from the beginning. For this to be sustainable, we need a train-the-trainer model. This is then a little bit different compared to most other CPT programs. We have chosen together with the co-designers we had in the beginning that it was not only SLPs that could be KomTil trainers. Our very first group of KomTil trainers when we were still a research and development project was a good group of SLPs, but also OTs and PTs. We had a few nurses, we had a nursing assistant. I think that is almost what I'm most proud about, especially when I look at those trainers today. They got trained, I think it was back in 2018 we did that. Here where I live, the local hospital is just down the road. When I speak with that nursing assistant and nurse on the acute neuro ward and listen to them still doing the training, still inspiring their colleagues, I get inspired, and I get very proud as well.   Katie: What a beautiful thing. I mean, that's just oh wow!   Jytte: Yeah. Also, I guess it's different because in the beginning, it was very much assumed you had to know a lot about aphasia to be able to train CPT. But I think we have cut it down to a model. Yes, there is information about training, but what is really needed in order to be a good communication partner is not necessarily a lot of knowledge about aphasia. Many of them know something because they work with people with aphasia, but it's a lot about how best to communicate with people with aphasia, and then training in it. So, really just practice, practice, practice. We have continued using that model. At the moment, I'm training a group together with a colleague in Iceland online. I also train with another colleague, some Danish healthcare professionals, and again, not just SLPs. We have a nursing assistant, nurse, and special education teacher onboard in our current group. So, the model is like that.   You are also asking, “How can you become a KomTil trainer?” At the moment, we have been charging a little bit here in Denmark when we have trained people. The group in Iceland is my second group outside the country. My second online teaching experience and the first teaching experience was a very mixed group. I got contacted together with Suzanne Beeke, who works with CPT for family members, by the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation because some, not necessarily only SLPs, also medical doctors and neuropsychologists, were interested in receiving training. That was right ‘bang' in the middle of the pandemic, so we met with them sometimes online. Well, they're all over the world, so we had to do that anyway. Then we agreed to make an online KomTil training for them. Now there are KomTil trainers in Egypt, Colombia, Serbia, Austria, and Greece. That was a crazy experience, but very fun. Some of the countries have really started using this and have trained their colleagues.   Katie: Wow, what an impact. What an impact. So, how many hours is the training for the train-the-trainer? What kind of investment of time do they put in?   Jytte: So, when we do the face-to-face package here in in Denmark, it's four full training days. We usually see them once a week for four weeks and would usually prefer a two-week break in the middle because we would like them to go out and use the KomTil strategies and tools themselves as well. When we have been training online, it's not just the training, we're also talking to them about how best to take a tool from one cultural context and not just do a linguistic translation, but also do a cultural adaption. But you can't meet for four full days on Zoom, you would go bananas. So, what I do with the group from Iceland at the moment is meet with them five times spread over five months. We expect them to read more and be a bit more proactive in acquiring this program because we can't be face-to-face so many hours online.   Katie: I love that there's some adaptability in that. That's great.   Jytte: What they then learn when they become a trainer is to give what we call the basic training. The training package is developed for their colleagues then. It's a two times three hours training. Again with a two-week break in between so you can go out and do some practice from time one to time two. A part of the train-the-trainer program is also adult learning strategies, implementation, implementation science, and I think we change a little bit every time we do this. Because we are not there yet, and we probably will never be. But what we hear from our trainers is, “Oh, it's so hard to get out and implement this, we really need more knowledge than that.” So that's really what we are very much working on at the moment. To be a bit more sharp in how to talk about implementation and how to get some good strategies out to people that need to not just convince their managers to spend time, but also get the trained colleagues to use the strategies that we taught them. And not just for the first month, but for the rest of their working career with people with aphasia.   Katie: Absolutely. Well, this all just sounds fabulous. And it sounds like it's working. But how do we know for sure? Have there been any measures that have been developed for the training?   Jytte: Yeah, we did develop some measures. Not exactly as a part of this project because so many clinicians here in Denmark also use SCA. They still should do that, I think it's a great program as well. Together with Lise from University of Copenhagen, and Iben Christensen and students we developed the Health Professionals and Aphasia Questionnaire, HPAQ, and it has been tested. It's a 16-item, self-report questionnaire. It can be given pre-post training to the participants (i.e., the health care professionals). It's really measuring if they think that they have become better. “Do I know what to do when I don't understand a person with aphasia? Do I know what kind of support I have in the system? Do I know what to do when things go wrong?” But it is measuring it from one side. We still need outcome measures or tools to measure the exact conversation, but that could be an observation tool. Many of you know that Aura Kagan developed that for her SCA training. There's the Measure of Support in Conversation and Measure of Participation in Conversation.   Katie: Yeah, we can put those references and the HPAQ in the show notes too if people are interested in checking that out more.   Jytte: And then we need an outcome measure for people with aphasia. But of course, you can't measure that “you have been speaking with staff that was not trained, and then they went on training, and now they maybe speak with you in a different way” because people with aphasia would be hopefully long gone from that hospital or wherever the training took place. But it would be nice with an outcome measure measuring the communication accessibility and the level of support. The Aphasia Institute has done the different CAMS measures (the Communication Accessibility Measures in Stroke), I think it is.   Katie: I believe so too, yeah.   Jytte: There is a version for frontline staff, there is a manager's version and there's also a version for people with aphasia, but it's very lengthy. And it has not been developed for this purpose, so I think there's still a gap there to be filled out.   Katie: Yeah, but some great things in the works and the HPAQ currently available. Fantastic. Well, I know in some of our previous conversations that this original project had some grant funding, but I believe that's ended now. But the program is still running today, and as you've been talking about, it sounds like it's growing, which is amazing. Can you share how the project has been sustained?   Jytte: Yeah, I have already said a little bit about the nurse and the nursing assistant down the road. So, we have those KomTil trainers from the first group of trainers. We have the training course we are doing face-to-face at the moment in Denmark, it's our third one. Hopefully we will be able to offer those training courses in the future as well. I know I'll be giving one with a clinical colleague later this year. Here, I'm connected with University of Southern Denmark, and I teach future SLPs. They have an elective course in our master's program that they can choose. They get the train-the-trainer training if they choose that course. So, hopefully lots of clinicians will come out here. The first 25 came out last year, and I'll repeat it later this year in the fall.     Katie: Fantastic. Well, you talked about that this is really something that started in Denmark, but that has grown into a more global effort. I know you recently had a publication in 2022 in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (IJSLP) with some colleagues that aligns with the Sustainable Goal Development 17. Can you tell us a little bit about that? I'm not sure if I know all about that, and I'm not sure if our listeners do, but talk to us about the importance of that.   Jytte: Yeah. So, the Sustainable Developmental Goals 17 is about partnerships, especially partnerships between developed countries and developing countries. That was really the idea when we first got in touch with the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation. I forgot to mention India, actually, when I mentioned all those countries. It was India, Egypt, at that point, also a physician from Kazakhstan. So, different developing countries where the SLP services are not necessarily that good, and that are maybe even more dependent on other healthcare professionals knowing something about aphasia and being able to communicate with people with aphasia. Maybe there are not at all or very few SLPs at hand. So, that was really what the project was about at that point. Then we ended up sort of sticking the Sustainable Developmental Goals to the whole framework of the work we have done because it was a special issue (in IJSLP) on the UN Sustainable Developmental Goals.   Katie: Wow, that's just amazing. As I'm listening to all of the things that we've talked about today, really CPT training takes a community effort, right? It really seems like it takes a lot. I'm sure a lot of our listeners, and myself included, are thinking, “Wow, this is a really big effort. I'd love to see something like this happen in my own community, but it just seems so big.” Do you have any tips that you could share with clinicians or researchers who are listening who might be interested in starting something in their own facility or region?   Jytte: Yeah, I could say many things. First of all, I think I will say “just do it”. I mean, the whole story I have told here is that in Denmark, it has all been very grassroot-led. It was clinicians thinking this was interesting, let's go to Toronto. It was clinicians asking managers or their colleagues, “Why don't we teach you some strategies for you to be able to better communicate with people with aphasia?” And get some training. I know there's online training available, the Aphasia Institute. Get in touch with me maybe to see what we could do together. I think there are several people that could provide some training to you. Then go out, find your people that would advocate for this as well. Try to tell other healthcare professionals the consequences if we are not able to communicate well with our patients/clients with aphasia. There are so many devastating consequences, as many of you would know already. Also, when we just look separately at the healthcare system. Like we know that people with aphasia are communicated with less when they are hospitalized, they are at greater risk of different types of adverse events, they fall more. Maybe they take the wrong medication because they don't understand what we have taught them. They have longer hospital stays, they are at risk to get back into hospital again because of different things when they are discharged home. So many devastating consequences should talk to everyone really, no matter if you are a manager, or if you are the staff on the ground, that you should do this. I'm sure everyone would be a better healthcare professional if they have those strategies and tools in their working toolbox. It's not enough to be a great nurse, you also need to be a great nurse that can communicate with people with aphasia, in order to be a great nurse to that specific group of patients that you're serving.   Katie: Absolutely. Well, I love this! You're inspiring. And the “Just do it.” I hear your message also in that we need to get out of our offices and really go out and start collaborations with colleagues. Beautiful.   Jytte: And I know many people do that already. Value that, but also spread it more. I know of many people training ambulance drivers and all sorts of staff. I think this could go on at so many different levels of healthcare and community.   Katie: I agree. You've got my wheels turning too. I spoke last month to the Michigan Stroke Program, and they are primarily frontline providers and a lot of EMTs, and so it makes me think a little bit about that continuum of care. I love it. Well, as we wrap up, any final thoughts you'd like to share with our listeners?   Jytte: Oh, that's a good question. I have already said “go out and do it”. I'm sure that so many of you support communication with people with aphasia every day. So many of your colleagues are already watching you when you do it. So, try to be a bit more expressive about that and say, “This is what I usually do, could you maybe try to do this?” It doesn't need to be complicated. That's really what we have tried to build into this model that I have talked to you about today. Don't start with pictures and keywords if you think that is complicated and not natural for your communication style. We can get most people to ask yes-no questions, or sit down, have a quiet conversation, and be respectful and slow down the pace. As we have said many times when doing this training, this is not rocket science at all. Many of us are doing this but teach everyone you meet on your road when working with people with aphasia to try to do some of the same things.   Katie: Absolutely. Well, Jytte, it's been a fabulous conversation. Thanks so much for joining us today.   Jytte: Thank you, Katie. It has been so nice to be able to talk about this.   Katie: Lots of food for thought. So, listeners, check out the show notes. I'll have all the links to the articles and the KomTil visual that you'll really want to make sure you take a minute to download and some other things that we talked about during today's conversation.   On behalf of aphasia access, we thank you for listening to this episode of Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast. For more information on Aphasia Access, and to check out our growing library of materials, go to www.aphasiaaccess.org. And if you have an idea for a future podcast topic, email us at info@aphasiaaccess.org. Thanks again for your ongoing support of Aphasia Access.         Contact information for Jytte Isaksen – Email jisa@sdu.dk  Twitter @jytteisaksen   Resources Aphasia Institute - Supported Conversation Training – https://www.aphasia.ca/communication-tools-communicative-access-sca/ Aphasia Institute – Communication Access for Measures for Stroke (CAMS) https://cams.aphasia.ca/ Aphasia Institute- Measure of Skill in Conversation (MSC) and Measure of Participation in Conversation (MPC) https://www.aphasia.ca/health-care-providers/resources-and-tools/rating-scales/ Bertram, M., Isaksen, J., Toft, L. E., Olsen, A. M., & Breckling, M. (2021). Evaluering af projekt Forløb for borgere med afasi samt afrapportering af implementeringsopfølgningen KomTil – fra udvikling til drift. Unpublished report from University of Southern Denmark. Cruice, M. Johansson, M. C., Isaksen, J., & Horton, S. (2018). Reporting interventions in communication partner training: A critical review and narrative synthesis of the literature. Aphasiology, 32(10), 1135-1166.  https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2018.1482406 Isaksen, J., Beeke, S., Pais, A., Efstratiadou, E-A., Pauranik, A., Revkin, S. K., Vandana, V. P., Valencia, F., Vuksanovic, J., & Jagoe, C. (2022). Communication partner training for healthcare workers engaging with people with aphasia: Enacting Sustainable Development Goal 17 in Austria, Egypt, Greece, India, and Serbia. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2145355 Kagan, A. (1998). Supported conversation for adults with aphasia: Methods and resources for training conversation partners. Aphasiology, 12(9), 816-830. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687039808249575 Kagan, A., Black, S. E., Duchan, J. F., Simmons-Mackie, N., & Square, P. (2001). Training Volunteers as Conversation Partners Using "Supported Conversation for Adults With Aphasia" (SCA): A controlled trial. Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, 44(3), 624-638. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2001/051) Kagan, A., Simmons-Mackie, N., & Shumway, E. (2018). Revised rating anchors and scoring procedures for Measure of Skill and Measure of Participation in Conversation between adults with aphasia and their conversation partners. Toronto, ON: Aphasia Institute. Retrieved from https://www.aphasia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/VF-MSC-MPC.pdf Kagan, A., Simmons-Mackie, N., Victor, C. J., & Chan, M. T. (2017). Communicative Access Measures for Stroke: Development and evaluation of a quality improvement tool. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 98(11), 2228-2236.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2017.04.017 Randrup Jensen, L., Fromsejer Heiberg, R., Isaksen, J., Berg-Beckhoff, G. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Health Professionals and Aphasia Questionnaire (HPAQ): a new self-assessment tool for evaluating health communication with people with aphasia. Aphasiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1900534 Simmons-Mackie, N., Raymer, A., Armstrong, E., Holland, A., & Cherney, L. (2010). Communication partner training in aphasia: A systematic review. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 91, 1814-1837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2010.08.026 Simmons-Mackie, N., Raymer, A., Cheney, L. (2016). Communication Partner Training in Aphasia: An Updated Systematic Review. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2016.03.023       Acknowledgements – A special thank you to Serena Chase from the Strong Story Lab at Central Michigan University for her assistance in the transcription of this episode.       Please note: Be sure to scroll down to the next page to find the KomTil visual and citation.   

An aware society is one of the best weapons against climate change. Sustainable solutions can only advance if voters and policy makers understand what's at stake. From vanishing biodiversity to the widespread intensification of destructive weather patterns, that's where environmental journalists play a decisive role acting as the bridge between scientists and the general public. Andrew Revkin is a renowned science journalist, author, and educator. He's covered a variety of environmental topics, including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the changing climate of the North Pole. Revkin is also the founding director of the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at the Columbia Climate School. On this episode of Discover Science, hosted by graduate student Shelby Herbert of the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism's Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science, Andrew Revkin speaks with NatGeo Monster Fish host Zeb Hogan and Professor of limnology Sudeep Chandra about the media's coverage of climate impacts around the world, Revkin's 35+ years of experience in the field, even how music has influenced his perspective as a journalist and climate defender.

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After Chico's death, he became a martyr for the rainforest, and his work continued with significant success. But where is Chico's name today? And why is it important that we remember his work?Sources:Complicity in Destruction III. Amazon Watch. (n.d.). https://amazonwatch.org/news/2020/1027-complicity-in-destruction-iii.Guardian News and Media. (2019, November 2). Brazilian 'forest guardian' killed by illegal loggers in ambush. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/02/brazilian-forest-guardian-killed-by-illegal-loggers-in-ambush.Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: the Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Island Press, 2004.Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. University of Chicago Press, 2010.Chris Mooney, B. D. (2019, December 22). Top scientists warn of an Amazon 'tipping point'. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/top-scientists-warn-of-an-amazon-tippingpoint/2019/12/20/9c9be954-233e-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html.Brasil, V. (n.d.). Chico Mendes House: Visit Brasil. Visit Brasil - Site oficial de turismo do Brasil. https://www.visitbrasil.com/attractions/chico-mendes-house.html.Fabricius, K. E., Neill, C., Van Ooijen, E., Smith, J. N., & Tilbrook, B. (2020). Progressive seawater acidification on the Great Barrier Reef continental shelf. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75293-1Maisonnave, F. (2020, October 23). The second death of Chico Mendes. Climate Home News. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/03/06/second-death-chico-mendes/.Shoumatoff, Alex. “Murder in the Rainforest.” Vanity Fair, 1989.Rodrigues, Gomercindo, et al. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. University of Texas Press, 2007.Mendes, Chico, et al. Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words. Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd, 1989.Chico Mendes: Voice of the Amazon, a documentary about rainforest martyr Chico Mendes. (n.d.). https://www.mirandaproductions.com/voice/reviews.htm.The Amazon: A Global Treasure. Amazon Watch. (n.d.). https://amazonwatch.org/about.Guajajara, S. (2020, October 2). Can Our Culture Survive Climate Change? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/amazon-indigenous-people-brazil.html.

Chico begins organizing against deforestation and starts a war with the local ranching community. The hosts see first hand what the burning looks like on the ground and learn more about the “good guys” and “bad guys” in the complex conflict between rubber tappers and ranchers, as well as the individuals and groups opposed to Chico before his murder. Finally, Chico is put into a leadership role in 1980.Sources:Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. University of Chicago Press, 2010.Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: the Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Island Press, 2004.Rodrigues, Gomercindo, et al. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. University of Texas Press, 2007.Mendes, Chico, et al. Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words. Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd, 1989.Mann, Charles C. 1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. 2nd ed., Random House LLC, 2005.Shoumatoff, Alex. “Murder in the Rainforest.” Vanity Fair, 1989.Mendes, Francisco. “Antihero.” Spin, September 1989, page 76-78.Brown, Foster. “Morte Entre Muitas.” Jornal A Gazeta, February 2020.

In the second episode, hosts Graham and Jim explore the origin story of Chico Mendes. They explore the past of the rubber trade in the Amazon, the rubber tappers' relationship with the forest, and their plight. More about the show:In the second season of Wildfire, we're shifting our perspective from fires in the forests of the American west to those taking place in the Amazon rainforest alongside a story of violence and heroism.On December 22nd 1988 in the town of Xapuri, Brazil a man named Chico Mendes was shot and killed at his home. He was killed for trying to protect the rainforest from the fires that were burning at an increasing rate; fires that were turning one of the most complex ecosystems in the world into cow pastures. In this season of Wildfire, hosts Jim Aikman and Graham Zimmerman look into the story of Chico Mendes—who he was, what he was fighting for, and how his legacy lives on. It's a story filled with intrigue and violence but also hope, both for the Amazon and for humankind. This 6-part series is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Episode sources:Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. University of Chicago Press, 2010.Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: the Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Island Press, 2004.Rodrigues, Gomercindo, et al. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. University of Texas Press, 2007.Mendes, Chico, et al. Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words. Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd, 1989.Mann, Charles C. 1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. 2nd ed., Random House LLC, 2005.Shoumatoff, Alex. “Murder in the Rainforest.” Vanity Fair, 1989.“Making a Difference : Chico Mendes . . .” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1989, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-22-op-1186-story.html.Mendes, Francisco. “Antihero.” Spin, September 1989, page 76-78.

In December 1988, Brazilian environmentalist Chico Mendes was murdered at his home in the Amazon Rainforest. Chico was a rubber tapper who witnessed the destruction of the forest—of his home—and built a community both in Brazil and abroad to stop the devastation. For this, he was killed in cold blood.In episode one, hosts Graham Zimmerman and Jim Aikman set off to better understand the Brazilian Amazon. They explore both the politics and biology of one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. They also learn about the history of the conflict in the Brazilian Amazon and why someone like Chico Mendes risked his life to safe it.Episode sources:Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. University of Chicago Press, 2010.Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: the Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Island Press, 2004.Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America. Univ. of Washington Press, 1997.“I. Foster Brown.” Woodwell Climate, 2 Dec. 2020, www.woodwellclimate.org/staff/foster-brown/Shoumatoff, Alex. “Murder in the Rainforest.” Vanity Fair, 1989.Rodrigues, Gomercindo, et al. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon. University of Texas Press, 2007.Rabie, Passant. “NASA Satellites Confirm Amazon Rainforest Is Burning at a Record Rate.”Space.com, Space, 27 Aug. 2019, www.space.com/amazon-rainforest-fires-2019-nasa-satellite-views.html#:~:targetText=Firedetections by NASA's Moderate,over the world since 2003.Hoover, K., & Hanson, L. A. (2021, January 4). Retrieved January 28, 2021, from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdfPasquali, Marina. “Number of Wildfires in Brazil 2020.” Statista, 14 Sept. 2020, www.statista.com/statistics/1041354/number-wildfires-brazil/.Templeton, Amelia. “Eagle Creek Fire Perpetrator Ordered To Pay $36.6 Million.” Opb, OPB, 2 June 2020, www.opb.org/news/article/eagle-creek-fire-wildfire-restitution-oregon-columbia-river-gorge/.Kloster, Tom. “After the Fire: A Closer Look (Part 2 of 2).” WyEast Blog, 28 Feb. 2018, wyeastblog.org/2018/02/27/after-the-fire-a-closer-look-part-2-of-2/.Borger, Julian, and Jonathan Watts. “G7 Leaders Agree Plan to Help Amazon Countries Fight Wildfires.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 26 Aug. 2019, www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/26/g7-leaders-agree-plan-to-help-amazon-countries-fight-wildfires.“Amazon Fires: Crisis Mobilization Update.” Rainforest Alliance, Rainforest Alliance, 8 Nov. 2019, www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/an-update-on-our-crisis-response-to-the-amazon-fires.“It's Okay to Be Smart.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 24 Oct. 2018, www.pbs.org/video/the-largest-river-on-earth-is-in-the-sky-ayxiyl/.Surui, Almir Narayamoga, et al. Save the Planet: An Amazonian Tribal Leader Fights for His People, The Rainforest, and the Earth. Editions Albin Michel, 2015.Mendes, Chico, et al. Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words. Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd, 1989. “Making a Difference : Chico Mendes . . .” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1989, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-22-op-1186-story.html.

Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honored and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.  He has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine and won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Revkin has written acclaimed books on the history of humanity’s relationship with the weather, the changing Arctic, global warming, and the assault on the Amazon rain forest.He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:That we need to be aware of narrative capture and being misled by stories or avoiding truth.That we should engage in more conversations with others who have different views, and stay in curiosity rather than debate. That we need to work through the trauma of recent times and “look for compassionate intervention in our traumatized psyches”.That the resilience of an ecosystem to environmental stress is a function of the diversity of responses and species; we need the “edge pushers”That like the “Serenity Prayer”, we should embrace “the perfect imperfectness of our nature as humans”.ResourcesArticle: “Complicating the Narratives” Article: My Climate ChangeVideo: We are perfect*: Andrew Revkin at TEDxPortland Article: My Lucky StrokeConnect with Andrew RevkinWebsite // Facebook // Twitter // InstagramFollow WCPGRFacebook // Twitter // InstagramJoin our Patreon Community to receive bonus conversations with guests and "backstage" conversations between Vicki and other podcast hosts.Learn more: https://bit.ly/wcpgr-resSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/vickirobin)

Episode 23: This month we talk to GLD's Senior Research Fellow Kristen Kao about her work on post-conflict reconciliation in Iraq. Kristen tells us about her a study on the drivers of forgiveness versus revenge among diverse groups in Iraq and how her research could help promote long-term peace. Kristen Kao is a Senior Research Fellow with the Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a PhD and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is an expert in survey methodology and experimental design in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa contexts. Selected work: Kao, Kristen and Revkin, Mara. (2019). "How the Iraqi crackdown on the Islamic State may actually increase support for the Islamic State," The Washington Post Monkey Cage. Kao, Kristen and Revkin, Mara Redlich. (2018). “To punish or to pardon?” The Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. 17, University of Gothenburg, Available At: http://gld.gu.se/media/1503/gld-working-paper-17-final.pdf Selected research projects: From Revenge to Forgiveness: Strengthening Durable Peace in Post-Conflict Societies. http://gld.gu.se/en/projects/from-revenge-to-forgiveness-strengthening-durable-peace-in-post-con%EF%AC%82ict-societies/ To Punish or to Pardon? Attitudes Towards Justice and Reintegration for Europeans who Cooperated with the Islamic State. http://gld.gu.se/en/projects/to-punish-or-to-pardon-attitudes-towards-justice-and-reintegration-for-europeans-who-cooperated-with-the-islamic-state/

In this illustrated talk, prize-winning journalist Andy Revkin outlines his environmental journey and his call to action for anyone interested in being the signal amid the noise. Revkin describes how storytelling still matters, but shaping constructive conversations may matter more, and how top-down governance still matters, but community-up solutions hold the key.

Detention Centers. Reunite families separated at the border. In this month's Mom Talk episode, Casey Revkin shares the truth about what's going on in the detention centers across America and what you can do about it. The Unspoken Some detention centers across the country do not allow children to even touch each other. So they have absolutely no comfort. But despite the horrors of separating families at the border, they are reunited, even if they have lifelong trauma because of the experience. What We Discuss with Casey Revkin Casey gives heartbreaking accounts of what the families and children go through who are separated.  She gives us answers on why they are divided and how they can be united. Casey also gives us ways to help not just hurt.    If you’re dealing with a picky eater who won’t make the food you make them, we have an incredible course that can put your mealtimes at ease. Check it out at https://www.raisingchildrenyoulike.com/pickyeater We’ve taken the super popular Toddler Tantrum Toolkit out of the vault for good! If you’re living in Toddler Tantrumville, learn how to put an end to the power struggles with your strong-willed toddler once and for all at https://www.raisingchildrenyoulike.com/toolkit Learn to become an even more mindful mama without having to go to a yoga class or spend 30 minutes meditating with this free guide at notyourmotherspodcast.us/mindful.   If you have a babe that is 0-5 years old and are wondering if they are on track to hit their milestones, grab our free milestones guide at notyourmotherspodcast.us/milestones.   If you wonder what toys your child should be playing with to promote their best language, motor, cognitive, and social-emotional skills, Monti Kids takes the guesswork out and send them right to your door! Boom! And for our podcast listeners, Monti Kids is giving $50 dollars off your purchase PLUS free shipping. Go to Montikids.com and enter the code MOTHERS   Mom-life wears you out, coffee doesn’t always help and really, it’s not that deeply nourishing. We are obsessed with Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee! It’s so good for your whole being. Check them out at foursigmatic.com/mothers  and make sure to use the code MOTHERS for 10% off!   Your relationship to money and your money managing tools, are skills you pass on to your children. Set yourself up for a life of abundance and confidence by attending this FREE masterclass at notyourmotherspodcast.us/money. As mamas, it’s really hard to get out the door and get to therapy and talk about all the incredible things that are going on in your life like career, mom-life, marriage, identity, all the aspects of being a mom and being a woman and being a human being. Better Help is offering our listeners 10% off their first month! So go to BetterHelp.com/NotYourMothers and enter the code: Not Your Mothers to get that 10% off.   Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Instagram handle so we can thank you personally!   Full show notes and resources can be found here.

In this special work from home edition of Pod of the Planet, Kyu Lee catches up with Andrew Revkin, founding director of the Initiative on Communication & Sustainability at the Earth Institute. Then we shift over to a conversation between Revkin, Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on how human progress should be pursued and measured (15:26). Herman E. Daly, a founding force behind “steady-state economics,” examines possible paths to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics” model aims to build economic policies and metrics that put thriving ahead of growing. This episode draws from Revkin's SUSTAIN WHAT series, a global video conversation identifying solutions to the complicated, shape-shifting and epic challenges of humanity's Anthropocene moment. Parts of this conversation refer to graphics that we unfortunately can not show here. We encourage listeners to seek out Daly's "Emtpy world, full world" diagram (36:00), Raworth's "Doughnut Economy" (46:00) and "Hulling's Adaptive Cycle" (1:25:00) to better understand the discussion. As always please send your feedback.

What if your home sat on 22,000 tons of buried chemical waste? That was the reality of the roughly 1,000 residents of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly use their chemaginations to take us back to the 1970s, the idyllic time when polluters could just dump whatever wherever. Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands. Cite your sources: “Background Information.” University at Buffalo Libraries Love Canal Collections, library.buffalo.edu/archives/lovecanal/about/. Brown, Michael H. “Love Canal and the Poisoning of America.” The Atlantic, Dec. 1979, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/12/love-canal-and-the-poisoning-of-america/376297/. “Delisting Love Canal.” The New York Times, 22 Mar. 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/opinion/delisting-love-canal.html. Gibbs, Lois. Love Canal : Start of a Movement, www.bu.edu/lovecanal/canal/. Greene, Ronnie. “From Homemaker to Hell-Raiser in Love Canal – Center for Public Integrity.” Center for Public Integrity, 15 Apr. 2013, publicintegrity.org/environment/from-homemaker-to-hell-raiser-in-love-canal/. Herbeck, Dan. “Exclusive: Are Love Canal Chemicals Still Making People Sick? .” The Buffalo News, 1 June 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/06/01/new-lawsuit-claims-love-canal-chemicals-still-causing-health-problems/. Herbeck, Dan. “More Than 550 Notices of Claim Have Been Filed in Love Canal Lawsuit.” The Buffalo News, 27 Feb. 2013, buffalonews.com/2013/02/27/more-than-550-notices-of-claim-have-been-filed-in-love-canal-lawsuit/. Kleiman, Dr. Jordan. “Love Canal: A Brief History.” SUNY Geneseo, www.geneseo.edu/history/love_canal_history. Liu, Qina. “You Asked, We Answered: Why Do People Still Live at Love Canal?” The Buffalo News, 7 Aug. 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/08/07/you-asked-we-answered-why-do-people-still-live-at-love-canal/. “Love Canal.” Center for Health, Environment and Justice, 2016, chej.org/about-us/story/love-canal/. Moran, Jay, and Mike Desmond. “Reporter's Notebook: Love Canal Sparked a Change in Environmental Coverage.” WBFO, news.wbfo.org/post/reporters-notebook-love-canal-sparked-change-environmental-coverage. Newman, Richard S. Love Canal: a Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford University Press, 2016. Prohaska, Thomas. “Love Canal Today: 'We Know What's In Our Backyard'.” The Buffalo News, 4 Aug. 2018, buffalonews.com/2018/08/04/love-canal-today-monitoring-and-reminders-for-those-living-nearby/. Revkin, Andrew C. “Love Canal and Its Mixed Legacy.” The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/booming/love-canal-and-its-mixed-legacy.html. Thompson, Megan, et al. “Residents Say Love Canal Chemicals Continue to Make Them Sick.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 5 Aug. 2018, www.pbs.org/newshour/show/residents-say-love-canal-chemicals-continue-to-make-them-sick. Waldman, Scott. “State Official Jumps in Lake, Ripples Continue.” Politico PRO, 31 July 2015, www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/07/state-official-jumps-in-lake-ripples-continue-024123.

Why is it so hard to focus attention on the climate crisis? We know the damage we’re doing to the climate and we know why we’re doing it. We even know the obstacles to the solution (fossil fuel companies, denialist political parties) and yet it’s still a challenge to keep the issue front and center. After spending 30 years covering the climate crisis, Andrew Revkin knows what it’s like to be sounding the alarms that seem to fall on deaf ears. In this episode, Revkin talks about the huge role social science plays when it comes to talking about climate, explores what it would take to get the world to pay attention, and explains why he says, in his expert opinion, we’re already “in the shit”.Email us at WITHpod@Gmail.comTweet using #WITHpodRead more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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We're taking on Scott Pruitt, the EPA, global warning, weather and climate change this week on TALKish with Halli Casser-Jayne when Andrew Revkin, the prize-winning science reporter and the author of a truly fascinating new book, WEATHER: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY FROM CLOUD ATLASES TO CLIMATE CHANGE joins me at my table, the podcast posted at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.Andrew Revkin has spent a quarter of a century covering subjects ranging from the assault on the Amazon to the Asian tsunami, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. Since 1995, he has been covering the environment for the New York Times, but his first prize-winning magazine articles on the human influence on climate were published more than 20 years ago, before the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.He has written acclaimed books on the Amazon, global warming, and the changing Arctic. His multimedia work on the Web has also been widely lauded, particularly his New York Times blog, Dot Earth. He is the first science reporter to win a John Chancellor Award for sustained excellence in journalism. Now following his prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, Revkin has taken a new position at National Geographic Society as the Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism to help expand grants and support for journalism worldwide, focusing on our human journey on this fast-changing planet. And he is out with a new book, WEATHER: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY FROM CLOUD ATLASES TO CLIMATE CHANGE co-written with his wife Lisa Mechaley in which he presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates. Oh, and in his spare moments, he is a performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who occasionally accompanied the late Pete Seeger at regional shows and plays in a folk-blues band, Uncle Wade.For more information visit Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

Andrew Revkin has spent his professional career covering environmental issues and writing about them contemporaneously. However, his most recent book, just published in May 2018, tracks climate change by looking at 100 historical events that help explain today’s climate debate. The book is “Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change” published by Sterling and it is co-authored by Revkin’s wife, Lisa Mechaley. He goes back to pre-history and brings the important climate events, people and milestones forward to our current political climate-change debate. Each short narrative section is accompanied by stunning illustrations. During his discussion with Spectrum’s podcast host Tom Hodson, he highlights some of the most noteworthy historical events and personalities with fascinating and sometimes witty stories about people such as Benjamin Franklin and his lightning rod and weather events like the killer London Fog of the 1950’s. Revkin certainly has the credentials to write a retrospective on weather and climate change. He is award winning environmental journalist, author, educator, musical composer and performer. Andy spent 21 years writing about the environment for the New York Times and created the popular Dot Earth blog for the Times. He also was the first journalist to report from drifting sea ice at the North Pole. He then spent time writing for ProPublica doing investigative pieces. He now is the Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism at the National Geographic Society. He also has spent time teaching at Pace University. In addition to writing, Revkin is a musical composer and performer. He often performed with the legendary environmentalist/folk singer Pete Seeger. In 2013, he released his musical CD called a Very Fine Line filled with compositions he wrote. It is performed by “Andy Revkin and Friends.”

Host Andy Revkin chats with Georgia Tech's Kim Cobb about the importance of paleoclimate and what records of the earth and environment’s previous eons can tell us about where we are, where we’re headed and what can be done. Paleoclimate finally has a seat at the table in climate matters, which leads to a related discussion on the importance of diversity in the climate community. Find Kim on Twitter @CoralsnCaves https://twitter.com/coralsncaves Related links: http://pastglobalchanges.org -The chapter on Paleoclimate from the most recent IPCC report: https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch6.html Links to Andy's anecdotes: Andy’s Anecdotes: Andy’s story on Lonnie Thompson and Mt. Kilimanjaro — http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/world/a-message-in-eroding-glacial-ice-humans-are-turning-up-the-heat.html “Study Finds Storm Cycles Etched in Lake Beds — http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/us/study-finds-storm-cycles-etched-in-lake-beds.html Visiting Sea Ice — http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html Response diversity —  https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/response-diversity

Featuring pounding dancefloor-ready beats, scintillating vocal work, dreamy soundscapes, with a truly cutting-edge, progressively-oriented bent. A veritable United Nations of powerhouse melodic electronic music LOVE - with representative artists hailing from: Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Houston (Texas), Scandinavia, Paris (France), Japan, Los Angeles, Russia, Pittsburgh, and the UK TRACK LISTING: 1) Ben Phipps (@benphipps) - Mrs. Mr. Feat. Lizzy Land (@lizzylandmusic) (Sanctiar Remix - @sanctiar) [https://soundcloud.com/sanctiar/ben-phipps-mrs-mr-feat-lizzy-land-sanctiar-remix] 2) Alexvnder (@alexvnderofficial) - Snowfall [https://soundcloud.com/alexvnderofficial/sets/alexvnder-originals] 3) Kavinsky (@deadcruiser) - Night Call (Estiva Bootleg - @estivamusic) [https://soundcloud.com/estivamusic/free-download-kavinsky-night-call-estiva-bootleg] / https://kavinsky.bandcamp.com/album/nightcall-ep] 4) PhuturePhil (@phuturephil) - Riding at Dawn (Original Mix) - [https://soundcloud.com/phuturephil/phuturephil-riding-at-dawn-original-mix-free-download] 5) Atragun (@atragun) - Days Gone By (Original Mix) [Inception Music (@inceptionpromo)] 6) Leonety (@leonety_music) - Osaka City Lights (Original Mix) [Inception Music (@inceptionpromo)] 7) RAM (@djram-nl) - Guiding Star (LTN Remix - @dj-ltn) [Black Hole Recordings (@blackholerecordings)] 8) Asioto (@user-312465fs) - Clouds Flowing (Original Mix) [Soluna Music (@soluna-music)] 9) JP Lantieri (@jplantieri) - Inspired feat. Daniela Rhodes (@dvoxdj) (Mystik Vybe Remix - @mystikvybe) [Flemcy Music (@flemcymusic)] 10) Basic Forces (@basicforces) - U [https://soundcloud.com/basicforces/basic-forces-u] 11) Kygo (@kygo) - Stargazing (Skrezz Remix - @skrezz) [https://soundcloud.com/skrezz/kygo-stargazing-skrezz-remix-1] 12) Overick (@overick) - Pure Summer (Original Mix) - [https://soundcloud.com/overick/overick-pure-summer-original-mix] 13) Koala - Heavy Turbulence (Original Mix) [Sound Vessel Records (@soundvesselrecords)] 14) NUEX (@nuexsound) - Blue Stones [https://soundcloud.com/nuexsound/nuex-blue-stones-free-download] 15) Katrin Souza (@katrinsouza) - Goodbye Lian [Ghost Digital (@ghostdigital)] 16) Winterya (@winterya) - High Coast (Z8phyR Remix - @z8phyr) [Synth Collective (@synthcollective)] 17) REVKIN (@revkinofficial) - Outer Heaven [Fuzzy Lite (@fuzzylite)] 18) Midnight Request (@midnightrequest) - Groove All Night [https://soundcloud.com/midnightrequest/groove-all-night-soul-matters-comp-part-2-ledge-sounds-out-now-free-dl-in-description]

Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes Listen here. Now on Spotify! On Google Play here. To get a tease how our conversation went: DOUG PARSONS:  Do you think the Scientist March is a good idea?   ANDY REVKIN:  No. ANDY REVKIN:  People should visit Woodward County, West Virginia — the most climate skeptical county in the U.S. ANDY REVKIN:  Nothing we can do right now will change the course of climate change for at least a decade. In the latest episode of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with legendary journalist, Andy Revkin.  Andy has been a long time reporter for the New York Times, covering climate change science, policy and impacts for decades. Andy also blogged at Dot Earth for the New York times, one of the most popular ‘hang outs’ for those wanting to learn more about global warming. Doug talks with Andy about his recent move to Propublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.  Andy talks about his early days in science journalism, going all the way back to the 1980s when he started working for the now defunct Science Digest. In what becomes almost a climate change history lesson, Andy then explains how global warming awareness grew in the sizzling summer of 1988, with Yellowstone National Park on fire and famed climatologist James Hansen testifying before Congress. As Andy put it regarding his shift to climate reporting after these events, “I never got off the bus.” Discussing climate change with Andy is like rehashing an Indiana Jones movie:  from his visit to the North Pole, writing on the Vatican and global warming, to the policy and science implications of the issue. Andy has long been associated with his perch at the New York Times and we discuss the details of that identity pivot to Propublica. We talk about his long term goals of writing longer investigative pieces, to highlighting some of the daily reporting he’s done during the first weeks of the Trump administration. Andy discusses the need for anonymous tips in climate reporting and how Propublica has created an encrypted page for these tips. Other topics covered: Propublica has a section “Steal our stories” that encourages others to repost their work. Andy describes how the Obama administration went through their own secretive information sharing process especially regarding the work of scientists at the EPA. Andy revisits his reporting during the George W. Bush years,. This includes the tampering with NASA research by Bush administration officials. “Science is like putty, unfortunately, in the policy arena,” as Andy describes how administrations handle issues like science. Andy describes how natural gas fracking, went from officially ‘unconventional gas’ to a ‘conventional gas’ supply and how that affected climate emissions trends. For other countries, climate change has become a key issue like trade and security, so Trump just can’t come in and ignore it. Andy describes his own podcast, Warm Regards, which he cohosts with Eric Holthaus and Jacqueline Gill. Andy discusses the positive aspects of adapting to climate change versus fighting global warming through mitigation. Andy thinks focusing on adaptation is a good thing, since it’s a ‘now’ issue, with impacts impacting communities now, whereas mitigation will be an issue that takes decades to address. Encourage America Adapts to go on the road and talk to the communities facing these challenges first hand. Key Quotes: Doug poased the question, “Do you think the messaging that will come out of the upcoming scientist march on Washington will be helpful?”  Andy responds: “No.” (Again, listen in to hear the nuance behind his answer.) “The global warming problem is too big for Trump to do much about…” meaning Trump’s ability to impact action in a negative way. “He can’t make it worse. Just like Obama couldn’t make it better.” (Listen to get the nuance of these quotes!) “Trump can’t order West Virginia’s miners to go back in the mines” meaning Trump’s ability to get the country to switch back to coal. “The end of coal in America is a done deal, and Trump can’t force that to change.” Andy’s final message and it’s a great one:  “At the grandest scale, the thing I’ve learned about the climate problem, it is so big and multi-faceted, that everyone can play a role.” Doug also brings on previous guest, Tristram Korten to discuss reporting in the age of Trump.  Tristram is the reporter who broke the viral story, “Florida Governor Bans Climate Change”.  Tristram and Doug discuss the challenges of journalism in the face of a hostile government and what some options are for those in government who want to share information with reporters. So please have a listen, it’s an amazing conversation with a legendary figure in climate change circles.   Additional Resources: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114029917 For those who didn’t know, Andy is quite the accomplished musician (and toured regularly with the late, great Pete Seeger). http://j.mp/revkinmusic Stories in Propublica: https://www.propublica.org/search/search.php?qss=revkin+climate+trump+obama&x=0&y=0&csrf_token=664986bb133b59015d7ad527eed303a11be63e61a421860d7a81d39a760d75e5 Final Dot Earth Post: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/my-propublica-move-from-blogging-and-teaching-back-to-deep-digging-on-climate/ Books by Andy https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Revkin/e/B001IXNSRK/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1390325965&sr=1-2-ent Andy on Twitter: @revkin Warm Regards @ourwarmregards America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Finally, yes, most of your favorite podcasts are supported by listeners just like you! Please consider supporting this podcast by subscribing via PayPal! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Itunes.   America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! On Twitter: @usaadapts Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com .

Andrew Revkin, of the NY Times Dot Earth blog, captures "the history of our love affair with fossil fuels" with a memorable performance of his song Liberated Carbon. As for breaking news, will President Obama's latest initiatives to battle global warming move the needle? Revkin shares his nuanced take informed by nearly 3 decades of his original reporting. Recorded live, by @NCTV18, before leaders of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, the "NASA of the Earth."

Andrew Revkin, of the NY Times Dot Earth blog, captures "the history of our love affair with fossil fuels" with a memorable performance of his song Liberated Carbon. As for breaking news, will President Obama's latest initiatives to battle global warming move the needle? Revkin shares his nuanced take informed by nearly 3 decades of his original reporting. Recorded live, by @NCTV18, before leaders of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, the "NASA of the Earth."

“Humans are problem-solving animals – you would never know it reading the press,” said environmentalist Paul Hawken. He and NY Times writer Andy Revkin discussed how attitudes have changed in the 25 years since NASA scientist James Hansen testified before Congress about human-caused climate change. “Right now, the attitude is that climate change is happening to us...instead of the idea that actually climate change is instead happening for us,” Hawken said. Some problems stem from lack of education, while others can be attributed to policies and mindsets. “It’s our social systems that impede progress,” Revkin said. “The technologies are there, to some extent, but how do you facilitate them?” The speakers presented a hopeful outlook in the face of rising seas and extreme weather. “Carbon is the element that holds hands and collaborates in nature,” Hawken said. “We’re going to have to be like carbon and hold hands and collaborate.” Paul Hawken, Author and Entrepreneur Andy Revkin, Writer, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on October 18, 2013

Andrew C. Revkin is one of the most respected and influential journalists covering climate change and other global environmental issues. Building on a quarter-century of prize-winning print work, he now writes The New York Times’ Dot Earth blog, a forum where hundreds of thousands of readers “meet” each month to evaluate and discuss population, climate, biodiversity, and related subjects. After fifteen years at the Times, Revkin recently left his staff position to become the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University’s Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. He has reported on the science and politics of global warming from the North Pole to the White House and the tumultuous treaty talks in Copenhagen. He is the author of books on the Amazon, global warming, and the changing Arctic in addition to countless newspaper and magazine articles. Revkin has received journalism awards from numerous organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Columbia University, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Pace and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in the Hudson Valley, where, in spare moments, he is a performing songwriter and member of the roots band Uncle Wade.

Andrew Revkin, an award-winning science reporter and author who covered environmental issues for The New York Times for nearly 15 years presented this public talk at the UA on Jan. 26, 2012. During his talk, Revkin presented an optimistic, but realistic, exploration of ways to foster progress on a finite planet-including the unique role of universities as hubs of innovation, learning and, most important, doing. Revkin has spent more than a quarter of a century covering subjects ranging from the assault on the Amazon to the Asian tsunami, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. As a journalist for The New York Times, he made three trips to the Arctic to report on climate change and was among the first reporters to file stories and photos from the floating sea ice around the Pole. Revkin left the Times staff at the end of 2009 to become a senior fellow at Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Sciences. A pioneer in multimedia journalism, he continues to write the Times' Dot Earth blog, which is read by millions of people in more than 200 countries.

We live in a science centered age—a time of private spaceflight and personalized medicine, amid path-breaking advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology. And we face science centered risks: climate and energy crises, biological and nuclear terror threats, mega-disasters and global pandemics.   So you would think science journalism would be booming—yet nothing could be further from the case. If you watch 5 hours of cable news today, expect to see just 1 minute devoted to science and technology. From 1989-2005, meanwhile, the number of major newspapers featuring weekly science sections shrank from 95 to 34.   Epitomizing the current decline is longtime New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin, who recently left the paper for a career in academia.   In this conversation with host Chris Mooney, Revkin discusses the uncertain future of his field, the perils of the science blogosphere, his battles with climate blogger Joe Romm, and what it’s like (no joke) to have Rush Limbaugh suggest that you kill yourself. Moving on to the topics he’s covered for over a decade, Revkin also addresses the problem of population growth, the long-range risks that our minds just aren’t trained to think about, and the likely worsening of earthquake and other catastrophes as more people pack into vulnerable places.   Andrew Revkin was the science and environment reporter for the New York Times from 1995 through 2009. During the 2000s, he broke numerous front page stories about how the Bush administration was suppressing science, and launched the highly popular blog Dot Earth. But last year, Revkin announced he was leaving the Times. He accepted a post as a senior fellow of environmental understanding at Pace University in White Plains, New York, where he will focus on teaching and two new book projects—complementing existing works like The North Pole Was Here, a book about the vanishing Arctic aimed at middle and high schoolers. In his new life, Andy will also have much more time to play with what he dubs his “rustic-rootsy” band, Uncle Wade.

--{ Top Climate-Fudging Professors -- The Higher They Climb, The Harder They Fall: "For the Greenies Who Think Warming is Our Fate, Here Comes the Hot Scandal of Climategate, Top Climate Professors, Opinion Not Budging, Admit to Each Other Their Theories They're Fudging, Hacked E-mail Exchanges will Make You Sick, Such as Altering Data Using 'Nature Trick,' Combining Real and Fake Data for Casual Perusal So the IPCC Masters Tolerate No Refusal To Reorganize All Life Existing on Planet, Their Lies Now Exposed, We Demand They Can it!" © Alan Watt }-- Collusion of Academia in Climate Change Scam, Fake Data to Suit Agenda, Deleted Contrary Evidence - Greatest Con in History - Figures Fudged to Show Global Warming - Record Low Temperatures - Science blended with Politics - Relevant (Contrary) Findings Stifled by High-Paid IPCC Clique of Liars - Exposure of World Political Agenda. Smear Campaign against "Climate Deniers", Psycholinguistics, Discrediting by a Term - Blend of Soviet System with West - New Religion for Totalitarian Regime. New History, Obliteration of the Past, Elimination of "Bad Parts" - Brainwashing Children. Club of Rome Think-Tank, "Political Globalization" - Re-formation of United Nations as Ultimate Power, Only Body Allowed to Use Deadly Force - Takedown in Standard of Living, Creation of Apathy in Public. (Articles: [-- Here are a bunch of articles on the Great Climategate Scam Exposed, following hacked e-mail exchanges coming to light, concerning global warming professors agreeing to fudge the data, etc.: -- "Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked - hundreds of files released" (wattsupwiththat.com) - Nov. 19, 2009. -- "Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?" by James Delingpole (telegraph.co.uk) - Nov. 20, 2009. -- "Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute" [Hacked E-mail Exchanges of Global Warming Con-Men] by Andrew C. Revkin (nytimes.com) - Nov. 21, 2009. -- Link to E-mails in .zip file - "Climate audit whistleblower FOIA / FOI2009.zip / File size: 61.93 MB" (megaupload.com). -- "Warmist conspiracy exposed?" [Warming Scientists' e-mails expose Tremendous Fraud] by Andrew Bolt (news.com.au) - Nov. 20, 2009. -- "Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data" (environmentalleader.com) - Nov. 23, 2009.] ["Climate change denial MEP attacks church" [Member of Euro-Parliament Blasts Church for Preaching Global Warming] by Allegra Stratton (guardian.co.uk) - Nov. 20, 2009.] ["IMF warns second bailout would 'threaten democracy' " [Democracy Can't Tolerate Second Bailout] by Angela Jameson and Elizabeth Judge (timesonline.co.uk) - Nov. 23, 2009.] ["EU history will be all the history taught in schools" [EU History to Replace all Countries' Histories] by Christopher Booker (telegraph.co.uk) - Nov. 21, 2009.] ["Author Francesco Stipo to Present Book 'World Federalist Manifesto' at the National Press Club" [Club of Rome Director presents World Federalist Manifesto] (mmdnewswire.com).]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Nov. 23, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)