In today’s climate, quite literally, the world is changing rapidly. Younger generations face new hurdles to manage—one being climate change and the anxiety that results from it. Experts today refer to the inducing anxiety caused by climate change as “climate anxiety,” a significant level(s) of psychological distress associated with climate change, exacerbated by the government’s failure to act quickly.
While the government has its due part and responsibility to fix the climate crisis, it requires all of humanity to work towards making significant changes to protect our environment and instill a culture of sustainability within our social structures. Watch our conversation with Vancouver Island University Professor of Psychology, Dr. Lindsay McCunn, below.
About Brightmark
Brightmark is a global waste solutions company taking a holistic, closed-loop, circular economy approach to tackling the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges with imagination and optimism for the future. Through the deployment of disruptive, breakthrough waste-to-energy solutions focused on plastics renewal (plastic waste-to-fuel) and renewable natural gas (organic waste-to-fuel), Brightmark enables programs tailored explicitly to environmental needs to build scalable project solutions that have a positive impact on the world and communities in which its stakeholders live and work.
Our Mission
We’re on a mission to Reimagine Waste—creating circular solutions to solve some of the world’s most pressing waste challenges. This includes developing circular solutions to the plastic waste crisis and turning organic waste into renewable natural gas. Brightmark is committed to providing solutions that benefit both partners and the planet.
About Lindsay McCunn
Dr. Lindsay McCunn is a tenured Professor of psychology focusing on environmental psychology and neuroscience. She is a Professor at Vancouver Island University and the Director of the Environmental Psychology Research Lab. She is also the Chair of the environmental psychology section of the Canadian Psychological Association, the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Psychology, the chair-elect of the Environmental Design Research Association, an associate editor and statistics editor for Cities & Health, and a Canadian Delegate to the General Assembly of the International Union of Psychological Science. Finally, she is the principal of McCunn & Associates Consulting.