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We're delighted to have Maya K. van Rossum, founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, present key concepts and examples of Green Amendments from her new book, The Green Amendment: The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment at our next RESET CONVERSATION.

Ms. van Rossum will discuss how the US arrived at our current condition, what needs to happen, why constitutional amendments are the only viable way forward from a systemic perspective, and ways to empower environment advocates wanting real change.

Green Amendments For The Generations, is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring the passage of Green Amendments in every state constitution across our nation, and also at the federal level when the time is right.

The term "Green Amendments" is a phrase coined and defined by Maya van Rossum in her 2017 award-winning book -- that recognizes and protects environmental rights on par with other inalienable civic and political freedoms.



MAYA K. VAN ROSSUM

Founder: Green Amendments For The Generations

Author, The Green Amendment: The People's Fight For a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment

Maya K. van Rossum was named in 2019 as one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Power 100; She was named One Of The “10 Most Influential People of 2015” When It Comes to Energy Issues by SNL Energy; is the recipient of the 2022 PA Interfaith Power & Light Visionary Award; was announced as the 2020 River Hero by River Network, and received the Giraffe Hero award given to those who have the courage to stick their necks out for the common good. She has testified thrice, by invitation, to Congressional committees and founded the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple’s Beasley School of Law.

Most of us are well aware of the environmental impacts of climate change, however, have you wondered about the psychological toll Earth's changing climate is taking on humans? We have, too.

To what degree are people experiencing resulting anxiety, stress, and depression, and what is being done? What can we do?

In this RESET CONVERSATION, Dr. Lise Van Susteren will explore the psychological effects of the climate crisis, and what humans need to do now.

Van Susteren is a general and forensic psychiatrist in Washington, DC, and an expert on the physical and psychological impacts of climate change.

She is the co-author of "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the U.S. - Why the US Mental Health System Is Not Prepared".

A Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Van Susteren has been a consultant to the Executive Branch of the US government profiling world leaders.

After receiving her medical degree from the University of Paris, she practiced medicine in West Africa, at community centers and homeless shelters in metropolitan Washington, DC.

Lise Van Susteren, Ph.D. General & Forensic Psychiatrist;

Clinical Associate Professor, Washington University

MORE ABOUT DR. VAN SUSTEREN

In addition to community organizing on climate issues, Van Susteren serves on the Boards of Earth Day Network, and Physicians for Social Responsibility and is a co-founder of the "Climate Psychiatry Alliance," and the “Climate Psychology Alliance – North America “, professional groups dedicated to promoting awareness and action on climate from a mental health perspective.

Van Susteren is the expert witness on the psychological damages to young people from inaction on climate in Juliana v US Government, in Held v Montana, and in the European Court of Human Rights.

Dr. Susteren is a frequent contributor on television, radio, and in print media. In 2006 Dr. Van Susteren sought the Democratic nomination to the US Senate from Maryland. Her book, “Emotional Inflammation – Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times” was published in April 2020.