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Why do some people find it easier to believe that space lasers and ANTIFA started the fires in BC this summer instead of climate change making conditions riskier for fires? Why do some people oppose mundane planning work by associating it with vast and terrifying conspiracy theories instead of just emphasizing how it might impact them and why they find that concerning? As BC communities face complex and fast approaching challenges (Related to climate, artificial intelligence, etc.) misinformation risks exacerbating divisions and confusing communities about our risks, options, and opportunities as we face uncertain futures in which there are changes we could choose to make or those mother nature will make for us. Join me December 14th for a short presentation (by me!) exploring my dissertation research relating to these challenges followed by a discussion hosted by Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Environment Community Economic Development Program. https://lnkd.in/gYhFpV_V

The effects of climate change on global economic growth are significant, particularly for impoverished nations already grappling with challenges. In our Noella Environmental Education Science Comics Volume 3, we aim to raise awareness of these pressing issues among young audiences. This comic series combines academic knowledge and storytelling to teach children about our changing planet, utilizing research from esteemed institutions including Brown University, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University of Chicago, University of Melbourne, and University of California, Riverside. Amazon link: https://lnkd.in/g_5JCPpu #climateeducation #environmentaleducation #globaleconomics #scienceeducation #actnow #sdg4qualityeducation #globaleducation #k12schools #kidslearning #education

In the next few months, I am hoping to wrap up my PhD at the heart of which were questions about the way fire makes apparent the way our world is still wrapped up in the logics of racial capitalism, down to the ways that we observe and manage ecosystems, and the way we rationalize our increasingly untethered relationship to the Earth. While academic methods have been important it navigating where we are in history, and how various organizations and communities begin to try to address harms done by climate change to local ecologies, the most valuable learnings from me have come from the realm of human connection and creative approaches and responses. These ways of expressing our collective relationality with nature and climate change fosters epistemologies of the future beyond linear rationality, and compels us forward into the realm of boundless imagination, courage and pathways to organize our lives and societies beyond capitalist rhythms and temporalities. The answers to look for are not always in qualitative or quantitative data in the way we have been trained to look through within bounds of most institutions, but intangible webs of connection that inform, influence and ripple out into broader networks of being. The answers are in poetry, the arts and the everyday magic of the mundane around us. The answers call is into wonder and bewilderment, and being embodied and in direct connection to places and their unique histories. What we call climate justice, is often the holistic honouring of this divergent trajectories that converge to form life on Earth and our individual experiences of it as we perceive it. Increasingly, both in the realm of academic work and beyond, I am seeking to be part of projects and initiatives that take to heart these connections and relationalities, and the future potentials interwoven in thinking through and staying with the complexities of the climate crisis with artistic methodologies in mind. If any of this resonates with you, I'd love to have a chat. I am looking for opportunities that connect culture, people, place and nature and take seriously the role of the arts and place-based concerns. #climate #climatejustice #arts #creativity #earth #research #artscience #climatechange #nature #culture #environment #environmentaljustice

Oxford University is delivering, for the first time, a unique learning experience about the cross-disciplinary issue of #climatechange. This climate colloquium is offered to 200 students from all across the University departments. Through the theme of climate change, the Vice-Chancellor's Colloquium will develop students’ tangible skills related to critical thinking, numeracy and communication. Apart from learning about climate, the greatest challenges of our times, the programme offers STEM students the opportunity to experience and learn proficiencies from the social and humanities disciplines and social sciences and humanities students to experience working with “hard sciences” data. The seminar sections of the programme will allow all students to learn from each other’s perspectives and unique understanding. In her inaugural address, Professor Irene Tracy, Oxford University Vice Chancellor said: “Regarding climate, I want Oxford to lead in addressing what is now the most pressing issue of our times. This is an interdisciplinary problem, and we are very well placed to take a bold and innovative lead.” Read more about The Vice-Chancellor's Colloquium on Climate from Dr Bill Finnegan, programme lead. https://lnkd.in/e5AP4nVd #climate #climateaction #climatecrisis #oxforduniversity University of Oxford #ecology EAUC

Are you a Cambridge student keen to gain new perspectives and insights that you can apply to your work or personal life? 📚🤔 From revolutions and history, to climate change and genetics - discover exciting free lectures in and around the University of Cambridge: https://loom.ly/e3exKYI #CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeTrust #CambridgeEducation

The Next System Studies program at Fuse stems in part from the Next System Project, a grassroots initiative by The Democracy Collaborative. The project takes a deep and bold look at addressing challenges the U.S. faces now, and will face in the future, as a result of the intersection of systems formed around race, economy, technology, climate, and ecology. https://lnkd.in/eEjTKiz6

We're promoting books on STEM education that address the needs of science teachers, including two new books on climate change: TEACHING CLIMATE CHANGE by Mark Windschitl and TEACH FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE by Tom Roderick. https://bit.ly/45xbRv8 #STEM #STEMeducation #Science

Yale Climate Connections says, "After a harrowing summer — with stinging wildfire smoke, blistering heat waves, and raging floods — students returned to school. Then another round of heat waves sent students in 10 states back home. Clearly, climate change is already affecting American education. What, then, should schools teach students about it?" Thankfully, in the last couple of years, educators & educational scholars have risen to the climate challenge. From universities & their physical plants to primary & secondary curricula, from contemporary fiction's approaches to civic life & museums, these twelve books cover the gamut. I am honored that my peers Michael Mann, Brandi Robinson & I are included on this list through Joseph Henderson's & Andrea Drewes volume, "Teaching Climate Change in the United States." Joe & Andrea were fantastic leaders for this project, bringing together scholars, educators, students & advocates who've committed themselves to encouraging ecological literacy & citizenship at a time when it is most needed. Our chapter focuses on the role that climate change educators can take in public life by working with governments at all levels to inform programs, policies, & practices. And amazingly, I have to acknowledge the review’s author, Michael Svoboda. Michael was my boss when I was an undergraduate working at Svoboda’s Books in State College. How beautiful that life comes full circle. Well...I have a bunch more books to read now! #climateeducation #climateaction #actonclimate #sustainabilityeducation

One focus of #NCSS2023 will be "The Future of Social Studies—What’s Next?" Sessions will include: 🔹Teaching for the Future: Climate Change & Civic Engagement 🔹The Future is Integration: Social Studies, STEM and Children's Literature 🔹Respectful Discussions During a Time of Division 🔹American Visions: The Pasts and Futures of Digital History ➡️ Start planning your schedule here: https://hubs.li/Q022L_dk0 #history #civics #climate #educators