Kairn Carrington
About Kairn Carrington
Kairn is a life-long environmentalist, trainer and teacher. She was a principal architect in the landmark campaigns to protect the old-growth rainforests of Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada’s West coast. Since then she has been working to stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, developing and implementing climate policy and organizing for climate justice.
Intertwined with her environmental work Kairn has been a student and teacher focused on the intersection of the inner spiritual and emotional realms with the outer ecological and social crises. Kairn has developed a framework for engaging with the climate crisis in a way that enlivens us and calls into deeper relationship with the world around us.
Looking forward on climate, the case for hope amid the heartbreak
Grief is natural when contemplating a future where carbon emissions are not curtailed, but people should never lose hope.
Could we be turning the corner on climate change?
The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.
Hurry up, please. It’s time
Sometimes it's hard to realize that I am listening to world leaders in Glasgow, rather than some of my colleagues from my old Greenpeace days, writes Kairn Carrington.
We need to get good at grieving so we can get good at living
Grief itself is a well-known, well studied human emotion and there is much we have learned from the death and dying process of individuals that can help us navigate this larger ecological grief.
Meeting the darkness: dealing with your feelings about climate change
How do we be present to the suffering caused by climate change – and not let it overwhelm us, but rather move through it to a place of hope and empowerment?
Now that the BC Greens hold power, what will they do?
Now, given our rather strange election outcome, it seems that the climate trajectory for the province I love is in his hands.
I watched the Trudeau government at the Paris climate talks. I'm heartbroken by their LNG decision.
I am used to seeing good governments make bad decisions - yet this decision really shook me.
