Sustainability resources
Net Zero Mental Healthcare Webinar Series
The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) and the College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) have developed a report and educational resources on delivering greener, more sustainable and net zero mental health care.
Their free webinar series is now available to watch on the KnowledgeHub. The webinars are also available on YouTube:
Climate Cares
Climate Cares is a collaboration between Imperial College's Institute of Global Health Innovation and the Grantham Institute. The College collaborated with them on 'We need to talk about mental health in a changing climate (PDF)'.
Nature and health resources
These documents provide a comprehensive list of resources focusing on nature based interventions for mental health care. They include publications from sources such as the Natural England Commissioned Report, MIND, University studies, Defra, and experts from around the world. View more resources in specific areas:
- Overviews (PDF)
- Child and adolescent mental health (PDF)
- Faculties (PDF)
- Interventions (PDF)
- Mechanisms (PDF)
- Public health (PDF)
- Nature on prescription (PDF)
For further resources on child and adolescent mental health, see also the following pages:
Report by the Climate Coalition and UKHACC
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) – in collaboration with Climate Coalition – have produced a report which the College's sustainability leads, Jacob Krzanowski and Lisa Page, contributed to.
This Report Comes With a Health Warning: The Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health (PDF) highlights that more than 12 million people in the UK are vulnerable to climate change through heatwaves and major flood events.
What we're reading and listening to
Members of the Sustainability Committee have sought out recommendations of books, podcasts or anything that has inspired them in the fields of sustainability and planetary health. Here are some of their reading and listening recommendations, aimed at provoking thought, giving interesting perspectives and related content.
- The Well Gardened Mind, by Sue Stuart-Smith. Dr Alan Kellas often recommends this to his patients when nature might help. It combines observation, horticulture, literature and history to elucidate how mentally enriching it is to swap screen for green.
- Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams.
- The future we choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac.
- Women's Empowerment for Resilience and Adaptation Against Climate Change. The UNFCCC has done a huge amount of work promoting the empowerment of women in developing countries and this article highlights the role of women in adaptation to climate change.
- Deep Ecology (PDF) by David Abram. Committee co-chair, Jacob Krzanowski explains "The essay ... discusses a wonderful, humbling and, I think, above all, tender way of relating to our place in space. Abram describes this idea further in the Spell of the Sensuous. His writing has, without exaggerating, transformed how I relate to the natural world."
- Shuo Zhang recommends a two-part podcast For Some Future Time, in which Historian Giulia Smith and South London Gallery's Art Assassins discuss ideas around utopia, gender, health and well-being in the context of The Peckham Experiment archive.
