[SPN-Discussion] Today @12EDT: Impacts Hour Online w/Climate Communications Experts

[Tara DePorte]

The Human Impacts Institute <http://www.humanimpactsinstitute.org> is
excited to invite you to join us *TODAY* for our first, online "Impacts
Hour" with author, entrepreneur, and psychologist Per Espen Stoknes, where
we will explore the psychology of climate change communication and how we
can all talk about global warming in a way that creates action and
solutions, not further inaction and despair.

*Impacts Hour:  Communicating for Climate Action*
TODAY! Thursday, June 16th
12pm-1pm Eastern
Hangout Online w/Per Espen Stokenes and Mark Schapiro
*Join the conversation>>*
<https://plus.google.com/events/cqmknpc9atj7m6ip8jiohijl6mg>

Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist with PhD in economics, based in Oslo,
Norway. He is the head of the Norwegian Business School’s executive program
on green energy and co-chairs the Center for Climate Strategy. He
previously worked as a clinical and organizational psychologist and adviser
for scenario planning for a wide spectrum of international businesses,
government agencies and nonprofit institutions. He has founded several
clean-energy companies in Norway and elsewhere. He is author of the book,
WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHEN WE TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING: Toward a
New Psychology of Climate Action. Learn more at:http://stoknes.no/

Mark Schapiro is an award-winning journalist who investigates the interplay
between the environment, economics and politics. His most recent book was
just published, in paperback: THE END OF STATIONARITY: Searching for the
New Normal in the Age of Carbon Shock
<https://www.amazon.com/End-Stationarity-Searching-Normal-Carbon/dp/1603586806/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465847514&sr=1-1&keywords=The+End+of+Stationarity%2C+Schapiro>,
probes into the economic and political changes underway in the face of
climate disruption, and the search for a post-carbon equilibrium (an
updated and revised version of the book CARBON SHOCK).

His work is published in Harper's, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The Nation, Yale
360, and elsewhere; and he has worked as a correspondent with the PBS
newsmagazine FRONTLINE/World. He is a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate
School of Journalism; and was formerly senior correspondent at the Center
for Investigative Reporting. Previous books include EXPOSED: The Toxic
Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power,
which reveals the health, economic and geo-political implications of toxic
chemicals.
More info at: www.markschapiro.com

Impacts Hours are curated conversations, where inspiring people share their
knowledge, ideas, stories, and solutions in beautiful and engaging ways.
Impacts Hours are an initiative of the Human Impacts Institute whose
mission is to inspire YOU to transform environmental challenges into social
action for a just and livable world. Learn more at HumanImpactsInstitute.org

*Support for this program was provided by Invoking The Pause - An
Environmental Small Grants Program.*

Tara DePorte
*Executive Director and Founder*
*The Human Impacts Institute <http://www.humanimpactsinstitute.org> *
Tara at HumanImpactsInstitute.org
*Office:* +1 917 727 9761
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