<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Colleagues, </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">On Tuesday evening April 7, the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College is coordinating 55 university-hosted webinars, one in almost every state in the US and internationally, focused on <a href="http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/" target="_blank">ambitious but feasible state and local solutions to help solve climate by 2030.</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> At colleges, universities and high schools, teachers can "make climate a class" (on-line) and help refocus the nation and the world on the challenge that still lies beyond Covid 19: climate change.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><u style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. </span></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The issues raised in solving the climate crisis necessarily range across history, science, mathematics, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism, music and the arts. The project has </span><a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/resources/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">teachers guides for all these subjects</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> for a one-hour follow-up discussion to the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">From Nebraska to New Jersey, from Idaho to Alabama, and from Bangladesh to Brazil, on April 7th, we'll find out what we can all do right at home to smooth the path for clean energy, and to bring energy justice to our communities. Professors can assign their state webinar as homework, and follow up with an on-line, discipline-specific discussion in class. </font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">NOTE that the webinars will be recorded, so you can view and discuss them in class ANYTIME DURING APRIL AND MAY. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><div><font size="4">What can you do? </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">1. Take a break with your students from whatever you had planned during one day in April, and use the recorded April 7 New York webinar, plus <a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/resources/" target="_blank">the subject-area online resources,</a> to #MakeClimateaClass. <a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/powerdialog/" target="_blank">Register here for the webinar</a> (scroll down and click on your state). </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">2. Pass on the opportunity to colleagues at other colleges, universities and high schools.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Covid-19 has shown how fragile our health and economic systems are to extreme events. Our best climate scientists have also told us clearly that, unchecked, climate change will turn our lives into a series of unending extreme events: floods, droughts, rising seas, pests and disease, more extreme storms and hurricanes, leaving hundreds of millions of people homeless and on the move.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><font size="4">There is still time to change that future. And now, this spring-- not next year-- is the time to focus our students on feasible, ambitious, local climate solutions. Thank you for engaging your students in this critical dialog. Of course, glad to answer any questions. </font></span></div><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><font size="4">Eban</font></span></div></font></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Dr. Eban Goodstein /  Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability / Bard College</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba" target="_blank">MBA in Sustainability</a><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep" target="_blank">MS in Environmental Policy and MS in Climate Science and Policy</a><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep/program/ms-education/" target="_blank">M. Ed in Environmental Education</a><br><br>845-758-7067<br><a href="mailto:ebangood@bard.edu" target="_blank">ebangood@bard.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>