STEM Ed Announcement: Climate Talks

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass  program.
 Contact information is below.
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 Next week, be sure to check out Nia Robinson's visit to the 5
 Colleges, as well as the rescheduled Northeast Climate Science
 Center Webinar. 
  
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 Tuesday March 13 - 1:30 pm
 First Annual Clean Energy Day at the Massachusetts State House
 
 Various speakers from the State Legislature and Patrick-Murray
 Administration   
 Massachusetts State House   (read more)
 
 
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 Tuesday March 13 - 4:00 pm
 "Toward Climate Justice: A Panel on Human Rights, Race and the
 Environment."
 
 The panel is co-sponsored by CPPA, the Population and Development
 Program at Hampshire College, and the Five College Public Policy
 Initiative, with support from Five Colleges, Inc., and the Andrew
 W. Mellon Foundation.
 
 
 Gordon Hall 302-304, UMass Amherst - Light refreshments will follow
 the panel in the Gordon Hall atrium.  For additional information
 about the panelists and other activities during Nia Robinson's
 residency (March 4-18), please visit
 http://www.masspolicy.org/FCPPI/events_Robinson.html.
 
 
 Panelists will include:
 Nia Robinson, the inaugural Five College Social Justice
 Practitioner-in-Residence and former director of the Environmental
 Justice and Climate Change Initiative in Washington, D.C.,
 co-author of A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming
 and a Just Climate Policy in the US, and featured activist in
 Courtney Martin's 2010 book, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of
 Activists is visiting the Five Colleges for the next two weeks.;
 
 Michael Ash, associate professor of economics and public policy at
 UMass, and co-director of the Political Economy Research
 Institute's Corporate Toxics Information Project;
 Diego Angarita Horowitz, Food Systems Coordinator at Holyoke's
 Nuestras Raices;
 
 Helen Scharber, visiting assistant professor of economics at
 Hampshire College, and a staff economist for the Center for Popular
 Economics.
 
 Jen Berman, MPPA '13 and former executive director of the Maverick
 Lloyd Foundation, will moderate.  
 
 
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 Wednesday March 14 - 3:30pm EST
 The Northeast Climate Science Center Colloquium presents,
 "Shifting Seasons: Tribal Communities Fostering Resiliency to
 Climate Change"
 
 
 Three speakers, College of Menominee Nation:
 Melissa Cook, Sustainable Development Institute Director
 Beau Mitchell, Sustainability Coordinator
 Mike Dockry, Forest Service Liaison 
 
 
 For a direct link to the webinar, click on the title above.
 For detailed webinar instructions, visit:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/webinar
 
 
 American Indian Tribes have continuously adapted to changing
 climates, culturally, physically, and politically, for thousands of
 years by adapting their lifestyles and cultural practices to their
 changing environment. Contemporary climate variability and changes
 on American Indian Tribes are again necessitating adaptation. Our
 presentation aims to share our understanding and our efforts as it
 relates to climate change and its impact on American Indian
 communities and lands. We will share stories of how Tribal Colleges
 are leading efforts that build resilience to climate change in
 their tribal communities; sharing our story of College of Menominee
 Nations Sustainable Development Institute.
 
 Tribal Communities-Tribal Colleges Building Resiliency to Climate
 Change - Melissa Cook and Beau Mitchell
 
 College of Menominee Nation and its Sustainable Development
 Institute - Melissa Cook
 
 Sustainable Development Institute and Climate Related Efforts -
 Beau Mitchell
 
 American Indian Forestry Facing Climate Variability and Change -
 Mike Dockry
 
 
 
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 All Colloquium events are video archived at:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/videos
 For more details and other upcoming events, visit:
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
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 Addie Rose Holland
 Climate System Research Center
 Department of Geosciences
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
 aholland@geo.umass.edu
 http://www.cns.umass.edu/neclimate/
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