Nature-Based Programs and Wellbeing: A Photovoice Booklet (2025)
Curated by Morgan Brimacombe
This document is a photovoice collection featuring images and meanings provided by 11 newcomers to Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) who took part in a collaborative project between the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, Dalhousie University, and the University of New Brunswick. It was curated by Morgan Brimacombe as part of her Environmental Studies thesis project.
Exploring Connection to Nature and Place for Wellbeing with Refugees Who Access Nature-Based Programs in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia): Summary Report (2025)
Morgan Brimacombe
Youth Advisory Council Guide
This handbook was collaboratively written by members of the Youth Advisory Council (YAC) with support of the research team of the affiliated project called, “Creating Vocabularies and Rituals for Climate Grief Through Multiple Knowledge Systems and the Artistic Process.” This group was formed with the intention to include and centre youth’s insights about climate grief in the research project. By sharing their own experiences and resources about climate grief, the handbook aims to help others understand their own climate-related emotions and offer ways to process the entangled grief together. While this handbook aims to present some facts about climate change, we do not claim this handbook as an all-inclusive manual on policy or a comprehensive account of the perspectives of communities.
Zines for Climate Grief: White Pine
Created by Luke Fair
This project is a collaboration between artists, scientists, historians, and activists based at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and University of New Brunswick. White Pine includes art creation, community engagement, and multiple ways of knowing.
The project is guided by safe space principles that are supportive of BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, newcomer, disabled and other equity seeking peoples.
Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief (2022)
Art exhibition essay written by Erica Mendritzki
Academic Articles
Exploring Eco-Grief, Transformative Learning, and Action in Environmental Observers (2025)
Melanie Zurba, Polina Baum-Talmor, Andrew Park, Kateryna Rudenko, Erica Mendritzki, Roberta L. Woodgate, Lisa Binkley & David Busolo

Developing a typology of climate grief expressions in Canada: a scoping review (2025)
Melanie Zurba, Sara Boyd, Bryanne Lamoureux, Morgan Brimacombe, Aden Morton-Ferguson, Erica Mendritzki, Andrew Park, David Busolo, Roberta L. Woodgate & Lisa Binkley

“I start to doubt whether any of my actions will matter”: Youth activists’ experiences and expressions of the emotions associated with climate change (2024)
Melanie Zurba, Polina Baum-Talmor, Roberta L. Woodgate, David Busolo, Andrew Park, Erica Mendritzki & Lisa Binkley

Building Community: Vocabularies and Rituals Used to Define and Process Climate Grief by Politically Active Youth in Mi’kma’ki (2023)
Lilian Barraclough & Melanie Zurba

