<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,  As part of the<a href="http://www.solveclimateby2030.org" target="_blank"> Solve Climate By 2030 </a>project at Bard College's Center for Environmental Policy, we are asking for help to <b>#MakeClimateAClass</b>-- a one-hour discussion-- by every teacher, in every subject, in every semester, over the critical decade ahead. Please forward this blog post to climate concerned teachers and students -- university and college, high school, K-8. Thank you- Eban<div>-<br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Original <a href="https://leadthechange.bard.edu/blog/a-powerful-simple-way-to-fight-climate-change-makeclimateaclass">article here</a>, LinkedIn<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eban-goodstein-phd-83a89b22_how-to-make-climate-a-class-activity-6769636011598200832--Jyw"> here</a>. </div><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:ivypresto-display,serif;margin:0px 0px 1rem;letter-spacing:1.3px;font-size:3.125rem;font-weight:400;text-align:center"><span id="gmail-m_1190756498855605304m_4964129606537421057gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_name" style="box-sizing:border-box">A Powerful, Simple Way to Fight Climate Change: #MakeClimateAClass</span></h2><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span id="gmail-m_1190756498855605304m_4964129606537421057gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px">The year 2020 was the hottest on record, beginning with massive wildfires in Australia and ending with record hurricanes in the U.S.  These are warnings. We have to fight to change the future, and hold global heating to the low end. To do that, we need your help to focus the world on climate solutions. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px">Are you a student, or a teacher who wants to help solve climate? Or do you know a student or a teacher?  Here is one simple thing you can do today to make a real difference, and  help get millions of students across the world talking about climate solutions and justice in the transition. So, students: </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px">Ask all of your teachers —all of them—to <a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/powerdialog/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,128,123);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Make Climate a Class</span></a>,  a one-hour discussion, this semester. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px;text-align:center">And then send them <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asss58KK3SI" target="_blank">this video</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asss58KK3SI" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,128,123);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5Wga3LckIqI0doZvutO50PqkY05pz7KZfXMeNqmm3CSxAggaMmKiLgCeJqzNbJQxemwk8sLu7lFABU4Dyb9VuUY98yGDhVE3YwTgGPm2da-bF4ycZhtmQGeWHqXvhIXzTE5QQNvZ" width="624" height="403" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; max-width: 100%;"></a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1rem;margin:0px 0px 1.4rem;line-height:35px">On April 7, 2021 the movement launches at over 100 universities worldwide. The Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College has <a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/powerdialog/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,128,123);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">a roadmap for Making Climate a Class</a>—a one hour discussion—in every Subject: philosophy, political science, art, engineering, biology, business, music, literature, economics and more. Climate change touches every discipline, in K-8, high school and university. A<span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)">nd the </span><a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/resources/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,128,123);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">teachers guides are grounded in climate solutions and justice </span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)">in the transition, specific to </span><a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/solardominance/find-your-dialog/#2021" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-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