[SPN-Discussion] On April 7: Focus Your Campus on Ambitious Climate Solutions (WEBINAR Weds)

[Eban Goodstein]

*Please Forward Widely to College, University and High School Educators*

Dear Colleagues,

As the climate crisis unfolds daily into our students' lives, we owe them
one focused day in all of our classes to discuss how we can act now to
change the future.

On the night of Tuesday April 7, the Center for Environmental Policy at
Bard College is coordinating a series of 52, university-hosted webinars,
one in every state of the country, <http://www.solveclimateby2030.org>focused
on ambitious but feasible state and local solutions to help solve climate
by 2030. Help us engage 300,000 students across the country in this
conversation on April 7.

Learn more about the 4.7.20 Power Dialogs in an AASHE webinar this
Wednesday, at  3 PM EST.
<https://www.aashe.org/calendar/ambitious-climate-solutions/>

You don't have to be an environmental studies teacher for your classes to
participate. The challenges posed by solving climate change necessarily
range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology,
religion, government, media, journalism and the arts. We will offer
disciplinary entry points for follow-up discussion to the state-level,
solutions-focused webinars, regardless of the class you are teaching.

What can you do? (1) Organize a live screening with your class of your
state Power Dialog, or (2) Assign the live or recorded versions of the
state Power Dialog as homework, and discuss them in your course.  The week
of April 7, please use the opportunity provided by the state webinars to *Make
Climate a Class*.

Information about your state event will start going live at this site
<https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/powerdialog/> next week. For now,
please add April 7 to your syllabus, and sign up here to stay informed.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiqizzggbwL7tYphvo58jww9OPwYciKoiFYoLwTBGGr9ow6A/viewform>

The world's top climate scientists have told us that the time to act is
short.
<https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/>
We must help our students understand just how extraordinary is the moment
in which we are living. Action taken, or not taken, in the next few years
will have impacts for thousands of generations into our human future, and
now, this spring-- not next year-- is the time to focus our students on
feasible, ambitious, local solutions. Thank you for joining this critical
dialog.

Eban Goodstein
Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability / Bard College

MBA in Sustainability <http://www.bard.edu/mba>
MS in Environmental Policy and MS in Climate Science and Policy
<http://www.bard.edu/cep>
M. Ed in Environmental Education
<http://www.bard.edu/cep/program/ms-education/>

Follow #MakeClimateaClass on Twitter @Solveby2030 & Instagram
@SolveClimateBy2030.
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