<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"><i>--Please forward to all climate-concerned students--</i></span></span></span></strong></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">You are stuck at home for the next month. What can you do about climate change?</span></span></div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif">Ask all of your teachers who care about climate change to <a href="https://mx.technolutions.net/mps2/c/3QA/jM0HAA/t.30f/tITzks-HQu-pWdmrXjFCbw/h0/UgaStWBIiLYn8eevue7q8NCedfnFewG2HCH3zTGzBUzL9HJaTRuGhl2ARpxEZb0P/o5aD" target="_blank">#MakeClimateaClass!</a> (see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-PkP_yAnnc/">instagram video here</a>)</span></strong></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black">On Tuesday, April 7, the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College is coordinating a <a href="https://mx.technolutions.net/mps2/c/3QA/jM0HAA/t.30f/tITzks-HQu-pWdmrXjFCbw/h1/LL-2BJ9HmEymDmsNJ7E-2BHtQfO-2FvTdM98G-2BXE-2BlbPYW3PXgti1gnHrmsgZNl8-2BCpSuL/nswJ" target="_blank">Virtual Teach-in On Climate Solutions and Justice:</a> 55 university-hosted webinars, one in almost every state and internationally, focused on ambitious but feasible state and local solutions to help solve climate by 2030. See </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://mx.technolutions.net/mps2/c/3QA/jM0HAA/t.30f/tITzks-HQu-pWdmrXjFCbw/h2/N3IzW6zuayiqrNBJxIjgWhv7FEugCXWzoU0azycQa9vvBRxPUbou84-2FY1povDJYt24JPbWOjKpHZaEkQ-2Fb-2Bccg-3D-3D/2mbY" target="_blank">which university is hosting your state webinar here</a> </span><em>(Click on your state link)</em>. At colleges, universities, and high schools, teachers can use the webinars to #MakeClimateaClass on-line and help refocus the nation and the world on climate change.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><strong><u><span style="color:black">This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. </span></u></strong><span style="color:black">The challenges posed by solving climate change necessarily range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism, and the arts. Solve Climate has </span><a href="https://mx.technolutions.net/mps2/c/3QA/jM0HAA/t.30f/tITzks-HQu-pWdmrXjFCbw/h3/N3IzW6zuayiqrNBJxIjgWhv7FEugCXWzoU0azycQa9vobVFU3ZZm4-2BdlGxT-2BxablH5V-2FgMZrurukSjdNJKrOqw-3D-3D/q5TB" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">teachers guides for all these subjects</span></a><span style="color:black"> for a one-hour follow-up discussion to the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black">Ask your climate-concerned teachers today-- in every subject-- to #MakeClimateaClass. They can do it by assigning your April 7 state webinar as Homework and then using the teachers' guides to talk about it in class. Teachers should </span><a href="https://mx.technolutions.net/mps2/c/3QA/jM0HAA/t.30f/tITzks-HQu-pWdmrXjFCbw/h4/N3IzW6zuayiqrNBJxIjgWhv7FEugCXWzoU0azycQa9vvBRxPUbou84-2FY1povDJYt24JPbWOjKpHZaEkQ-2Fb-2Bccg-3D-3D/jKTJ" target="_blank" style="color:blue">Register your class here</a><font color="#000000">.</font></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><u><strong>NOTE:</strong></u> The webinars will all be recorded, so you can view and discuss them in class ANYTIME DURING APRIL AND MAY. Register </span><a href="https://mx.technolutions.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