By Guillaume Leroux MACN Hi, I’ve been asked to tell my story as a nurse climate activist. Yes, a nurse climate activist; because that inevitable transformation we call the climate crisis is still very much of current actuality. SARS-CoV-2 is certainly putting us to a change challenge and we could argue this is good for…
Catelyn Richards MACN during her AusAid placement in the Solomon Islands in 2013 I wasn’t always as motivated to engage with the issue of climate change as I am now. As a teenager I was very much aware of the risks it posed to our world; and yet I never felt connected with the issue.…
By Catelyn Richards MACN (ENL) Communications Coordinator, Climate and Health Community of Interest When I was at school I remember my music teacher educating me about collective responsibility; where we must all be held accountable for the outcomes of our group. All twenty of us scrawny school children were seated in a messy semi-circle around…
Catelyn (the penguin) campaigning against Climate Change on the freezing Hobart streets way back in 2011. Nothing has changed – except the outfit! Welcome to the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Climate and Health Community of Interest’s (COI) Climate and Care Column: an opportunity for nurses to access inspiration, innovation and information on all topics…