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In partnership with the Centre for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, we engaged in the development, execution, and evaluation of a pilot for a novel intervention that supports people with ‘eco-distress’. The project was tested in three locations: Lagos, Nigeria; New Orleans, LA, US, and London, UK. In each location, youth and elders participated in 18 small group conversations that employed evidence-based methods for understanding and coping with eco-distress. These small group conversations were facilitated by community facilitators in partnership with the research team.
Local Voices Network (LVN)
We used Local Voices Network (LVN) technology, a speech-processing platform that enables partners to bring communities together for listening, understanding, and sharing. Through a combination of deep human listening and artificial intelligence, LVN enabled us to make sense of the conversations about eco-anxiety we collected to amplify typically underheard voices, inform public understanding, and drive better policy and interventions that take this data into account.
In Lagos, London, and New Orleans, Climate Conversations illuminated how people are living through the climate crisis, how it makes them feel and revealed what communities believe is necessary to adapt with dignity and resilience.