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Ronald Mitchell

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Mar 17, 2020, 11:31:08 PM3/17/20
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One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our students better content. 

 

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks it’s a good idea.

 

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Hi Ron,
As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good speaker spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming to your class.

So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate people adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer time right now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income right now due to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out. 

That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.

Best to all and stay sane and healthy,
Susi

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Dana R Fisher

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Susi makes a good point for people who are brought in as experts and not currently teaching. 

Perhaps those of us who are currently teaching could consider putting together some sort of a cooperative though?  For example, I'm currently teaching my environmental sociology class to advanced undergrads and some graduate students.  I've got online classes coming up when we resume on: climate change, environmental attitudes and behaviors, post materialism, the environmental movement, environmental justice, food and waste, and environmental stewardship.  

If anyone on the list wanted to discuss a swap on one of these topics for something that I am an expert in and frequently give talks about (such as environmental activism, environmental stewardship, environmental protest, climate politics and echo chambers), I'd be happy to see if we can make something work...

I hope everyone else is staying safe in these crazy times!

Dana

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Charles Chester

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Mar 18, 2020, 7:47:57 AM3/18/20
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Hi all,

Susi’s concerns on compensation are more than justified, but I can attest that my institutions have no viable guest lecture budget for courses. A direct barter system thus seems to me the most equitable and feasible way of ensuring that guest lecturing doesn’t become inequitable. I’ve posted a very tentative Google Sheet showing how something like this might work. Happy to dump in the e-bin or pass along to anyone who has better thoughts on how to manage something like this….

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Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning. 

I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who then is shared virtually.

BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT? 

Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your classes to begin with.

So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about earlier.

I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:
* how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for (international) political and policy cooperation?
* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?
* what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
* what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak spots in our globalized systems?
* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?

Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery mechanisms."

Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism and serve society well in this difficult time.

Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...

Susi

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Roopali Phadke

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Mar 18, 2020, 9:36:03 AM3/18/20
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Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is shared, is do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis and throw out what I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions Susi posed. 

I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular" schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week or two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. Our campus has given them all the option of taking the semester pass/fail and most of them have done well enough to just quit and still pass. 

The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from me, seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question and resource repository. 

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Travis Stills

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Check out the PIELC.org brochure for several days worth of  potentially relevant presentations that were not presented in Eugene, but may be ready to go. 

Some went ahead as webinars and may be available.  The panelists are part of a generous community that often provides guest lectures. I am confident that the student organizers would enjoy seeing their efforts put to good use.

Stay well,

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You can also check out this project for Anthropology related videos:  https://anthrodendum.org/2020/03/16/introducing-the-collective-anthro-mini-lectures-project-for-covidcampus/

Good luck, everyone, in these uncertain times! 

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Paul Steinberg

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Mar 18, 2020, 5:25:46 PM3/18/20
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Hi All,

In a pinch, feel free to have students check out the multimedia materials of The Social Rules Project at rulechangers.org.  The film is 10 minutes long and the videogame (on institutions and the politics of tropical conservation) is about 1 hour of play.  They can also construct their own "institutional landscapes" like those in the "see your world" link by taking a day-in-the-life image of their choosing from the web, and creating a powerpoint presentation researching the institutional underpinnings of the scene.  There is an educator's guide on the landing page.

Cheers,
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this is a great idea!
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Wil Burns

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Great idea; we should do that; I’d be game, been increasingly moving to online presentations anyway. wil

 

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Hi I write and teach on China, some of you may know my textbook China’s Environmental Challenges.  I would actually be very happy to offer guest lectures via zoom or skype as it would enliven my days, if anyone has a unit that fits.  Email me directly at sha...@american.edu.

And by the way, I have a new book coming out this summer, coauthored with Yifei Li, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, from Polity.  Maybe some of you would like a review copy. Let me know.

Judy

Dana R Fisher

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Nice idea!

Dana R. Fisher, UMD

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:32 AM Stacy VanDeveer <Stacy.V...@umb.edu> wrote:

Hi all –

One related thought that has worked well for me (and is a smaller time commitment than a full guest lecture) is a virtual “meet the author Q&A”.

I ask someone in our community to skype or Zoom in for only about 20-30 minutes to take questions from students about a book/article authored by them, that we are reading and discussing in class. It usually produces great questions and discussions about things “behind the scenes” or academic work – things that would never appear in the written version or that I would never be able to know about the work I’ve assigned.  

Usually I let the students ask all of the questions.  But occasionally to mix it up, I “actors studio” a colleague with questions about why, how, difficult choices they had to make, and so on.

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Dear colleagues,

 

Our doctoral program in global governance and human security – www.global.umb.edu – has some truly outstanding graduates, candidates and students who could develop video lectures about the issues they are researching or could come in through zoom for a guest lecture. I will reach out to them and create a list of possible topics and send a note to the list.

 

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I’d be happy to follow Stacy’s model.

Cristina Inoue

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Hi, Charile and all,

Thanks!

I think that it is a great idea! If we keep feeding and updating the excel sheet you created we will have a rooster that everyone can go to and "barter" participations in our online classes.

Cristina

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Everyone,

 

I am NOT teaching this semester, and while I am behind on writing commitments thanks to a very long period of eczema-psoriasis-dermatitis, I am now more available, so if anybody needs a guest lecture on transnational environmental activism, bottled water, global waste, global water or qualitative research methods, I am happy to free my time up for up to 5 talks within the next 2-4 months.

 

I love Stacy’s model, and my recent work on the ethics of bottled water and infrastructure denial (2019, 2020) could potentially work well. Last semester I Skype’d in to Geoff Dabelko’s class where they read the 2020 reprint of my 2015 Review of Policy Research piece on transnational environmental activism, so happy to do something similar.

 

Sending you all much love and solidarity, and remember – if your productivity gets down, IT’S OK. You’re trying to survive a pandemic.

 

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Hayley Stevenson

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Stacy´s meet-the-author idea is a great one! If anyone is using or recommending my CUP textbook on GEP, I´d be happy to Zoom in to talk about any of the chapters. Aslo on topics of global/deliberative democracy and the environment.  

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I too would be willing, though am limited by childcare responsibilities.

 

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Great idea, Stacy.

I hope everyone is doing fine.

I would be open to having an author Q&A zoom session for my book Low Carbon Energy Transitions, especially to focus on one of the four country-level changes that the book covers. If you're interested, let's touch base off-list.

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Hello all - as someone who did not have much teaching to do this semester (my main class ended a week or two ago,) I'm happy to donate time. I can talk about global politics of (all kinds of) waste, recycling, resource recovery, as well as the immediate (and disastrous) impact of Covid on zero waste policies and recycling (working on that one).

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I also like the "meet the author" option. I'm happy to participate if the timing works with my schedule. 

I'm not teaching any environmental classes this semester, but might take you up on some of these offers in the future.

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Good morning,

I will also echo Stacy's suggestion, plus I'm happy to jump in to talk about disaster planning, risk assessment, and environmental security. Much of the text of our book from last year (Disaster Security) is freely available online right now, and I'll offer chapter copies for whoever needs them. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Disaster_Security/Y22MDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover  We ran wargames on just this sort of outbreak twice last year, and it was a constant concern while running military planning. A major risk is when multiple things happen at once, so not just COVID19, but how does that affect existing outbreaks (e.g. measles in Samoa or dengue fever in Fiji), routine hazards (e.g. wildfires), or climate-related risks.

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Hi All,

 

Me too! I’m happy to use Stacy’s model for a Q&A on Beyond Greenwash, but I’m also happy to guest lecture on transnational environmental governance or corporate environmentalism. I have some scheduling restrictions due to toddler-care.

 

Best,

Hamish

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You may list me for possible guest lecturing on climate policy, mainly California's (what's working and why cap-&-trade and offsets are not), problems of offsetting as a climate solution (why forest carbon offsets won't "save the Amazon", etc.), and the environmental injustice aspects of all this. Of course the content would be different for undergrads and postgrads, but I try to include hopeful directions, either way.

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Gellers, Joshua

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Hello All-

 

The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (www.gnhre.org) recently recorded a terrific webinar on “The Outcomes of COP25- Implications for the Climate Vulnerable.” You can find a link to the video here: https://gnhre.org/2020/02/13/outcomes-of-cop25-watch-the-gnhre-webinar/

 

In solidarity,

 

Josh

Downie, David L.

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Thank you Josh - and everyone for this wonderful thread!


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The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (www.gnhre.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.gnhre.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!SVRqlI9oO55FlDkj4zviXf7jvkNaB24WJnjIKNBOkNlzcVjNtJOKpsroFjahfmHHT0c$>) recently recorded a terrific webinar on “The Outcomes of COP25- Implications for the Climate Vulnerable.” You can find a link to the video here: https://gnhre.org/2020/02/13/outcomes-of-cop25-watch-the-gnhre-webinar/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gnhre.org/2020/02/13/outcomes-of-cop25-watch-the-gnhre-webinar/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!SVRqlI9oO55FlDkj4zviXf7jvkNaB24WJnjIKNBOkNlzcVjNtJOKpsroFjahhmrA_AQ$>

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You may list me for possible guest lecturing on climate policy, mainly California's (what's working and why cap-&-trade and offsets are not), problems of offsetting as a climate solution (why forest carbon offsets won't "save the Amazon", etc.), and the environmental injustice aspects of all this. Of course the content would be different for undergrads and postgrads, but I try to include hopeful directions, either way.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:59 AM shapshapj <shap...@gmail.com<mailto:shap...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi I write and teach on China, some of you may know my textbook China’s Environmental Challenges. I would actually be very happy to offer guest lectures via zoom or skype as it would enliven my days, if anyone has a unit that fits. Email me directly at sha...@american.edu<mailto:sha...@american.edu>.

And by the way, I have a new book coming out this summer, coauthored with Yifei Li, China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, from Polity. Maybe some of you would like a review copy. Let me know.

Judy



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One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers. We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our students better content.

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks it’s a good idea.

Ron

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Maria H Ivanova

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Greetings!

 

I would be glad to talk about:

 

  1. history of global environmental governance and the creation and work of UNEP
  2. implementation of multilateral environmental agreements

Our team at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at UMass Boston has created an Environmental Conventions Index that compares the level of implementation of 6 conventions (Basel, Stockholm, Ramsar, CITES, and World Heritage) and we have data for all countries parties to these conventions. Glad to show the results and discuss this research and engage our alumni and current PhD students working on this project.

Maria

 

Maria Ivanova, PhD

Associate Professor of Global Governance

Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability

John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies

University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

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Faculty webpage / ResearchGate / @mivanova

Peter Jacques

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Hi everyone, wow I love this collective energy, how can I stay silent-- glad to do lectures on climate denial and marine politics. 
stay healthy!
Peter


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Susan Park

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Happy also to contribute! Can speak to the multilateral development banks and environmental impacts, the role of international grievance mechanisms and protecting environmental rights, and accountability and global environmental governance. Best, Susan

 

Susan Park

Professor of Global Governance

Department of Government and International Relations

University of Sydney

Social Sciences Building A02 Sydney NSW 2006

Australia

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TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow

Institute for Advanced Study

Technical University of Munich

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Germany

 

New books:

International Organisations and Global Problems: Theories and Explanations (Cambridge, 2018).

Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (with Teresa Kramarz MIT Press, 2019)

Aysem Mert

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Hi,
I would be happy to talk about 
- democracy in the Anthropocene
- transnational environmental governance (public-private partnerships, orchestration, politics of participation in UN-civil society relations)
- a discourse historical /post-structuralist approach to global environmental politics and sustainability governance 
- climate related emotions (anxiety, loss, grief, hope, etc).
Some of these would be longer than others, but I am happy to discuss it with course responsible teachers.

All the best,
Aysem


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Recent publications

Mert, A. (2020) “Democracy in the Anthropocene,” in Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance, A. Kalfagianni, D. Fuchs & A. Hayden (eds), Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 282-295.

Mert, A. (2019) “Democracy in the Anthropocene: A new scale,” in E. Lövbrand and F. Biermann (eds) Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 107-122.

Mert, A. (2019) “The trees in Gezi Park: Environmental policy as the focus of democratic protests,” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21 (5): 593-607.

Mert, A. (2019) “Participation(s) in Transnational Environmental Governance: Green values versus instrumental use,” Environmental Values, 28 (1): 101-121.





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Paul Wapner

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It is so nice to see all this generosity. 

 

I’m happy to join any class as either a lecturer or as part of a Q&A.  I could speak on:

 

--climate politics (with special emphasis on climate suffering)

--environmental ethics/environmental justice

--consumption

--international environmental diplomacy

--environmental activism

--contemplative environmentalism

 

I’m also open to stepping in (and adjusting remarks to various topics) if someone is ill, overwhelmed by childcare, or otherwise unable to carry their class. 

 

Thanks, Paul

 

 

Paul Wapner

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School of International Service

American University

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Juliann Allison

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Yes it is! 

I can do: 

race/class/gender and climate change
spatial justice and climate politics 
energy, air quality, and/or planning politics at the regional level in California 
ecological grief

Best wishes,
jea 
Juliann Emmons Allison
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Director, Sustainability Studies Major
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Axelrod, Mark

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Hi all,

Yes, this is great.

My schedule is still at its normal level (plus some additional childcare), but I am happy to join in if I can be useful to someone’s class. And if we don’t find a time this semester, happy to in future as well. Some possible topics:

  • Comparative environmental politics
    • I have a case study I use comparing air pollution and policy responses in China, India, US, though it does require students reading materials in advance and some ability to discuss; similar comparison of 3 Gorges and Sardar Sarovar dams
  • International environmental law
  • Gendered impacts of resource harvesting restrictions (building on case study from Indian coastal fisheries)

Also, I have had good experience having people share works in progress with my upper level students…it is especially nice for them to see that research is a process not just suddenly appearing on a piece of paper. I am happy to do that too.

 

All the best to everyone. Please stay healthy!

Mark

Christopher Gore

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Hi all:

Very happy to help and contribute - please just ask. 

Areas I can contribute:

- energy and climate in sub-Saharan Africa
- urban environmental management and governance sub-Saharan Africa
- electricity access, particularly decisions about generation investment choices and provision challenges, sub-Saharan Africa
- climate adaptation sub-Saharan Africa
- urban agriculture sub-Saharan Africa
- cities and climate change Canada
- environmental, infrastructure and energy investments and policy of World Bank and bilaterals in sub-Saharan Africa
- infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa
- comparative environmental politics, policy and administration - North America and Africa

Chris

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Politics and Public Administration
Ryerson University
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Simon Dalby

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Folks:

I'm happy to do a few skype of zoom sessions on "meet the author" on my recent thinking on the Anthropocene over the next few weeks.

While my Anthropocene Geopolitics volume is too new for any of you to have assigned it in a current semester or quarter, its relatively cheap to download as an e-book (link below), and I would be happy to volunteer a few hour or 90 minute sessions.

My current grad seminar on climate politics is winding up, so this isn't a matter of doing an exchange arrangement so I don't fit the spread sheet!

Simon

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Kathleen Araujo

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Hello everyone,

It's great to see the momentum on virtual session topics. I'm happy to consolidate and share your replies, if you submit them in the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SKXZWJ9. 

All the best,
Kathy

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Jennifer Allan

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Hello everyone,

First, I think we should start a podcast of a couple people chatting about key issues.  But that's for another, less scrambling time.

One resource might be these videos on climate governance: https://enb.iisd.org/paris-knowledge-bridge/. There are interviews with 70 odd delegates, leaders, scientists etc involved in climate governance. Videos 1-3 stand (2 is missing the 1.5 report). Video 4 is leading into Paris, what the key issues were. Ignore me. I think the video editor sped me up.... or I need a sedative. 
Maybe you could show them, then the online bit would be filling in the gaps since 2015... what's changed; what hasn't, etc

I'll fill in the spreadsheet. If anyone can't trade because of illness, child care, elder care, partner care, etc. Let me know and I can step in no trade needed.

Thank you all for this lovely community.
Best,
Jen

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Peter Newell

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Thanks everyone for these generous offers. Like others, subject to organising childcare, I could do a meet the author session on my new book Global Green Politics

Here’s a short blog about the book to give you a flavour of what it covers:

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/01/global-green-politics/

Keep safe everyone.

Best wishes

Pete



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Ronald Mitchell

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I also have youtube videos of 20 lectures from my International Environmental Politics course taught at Stanford a while back. Down side, they may be a bit dated. Upside, they are ready to go AND there are guest lectures by (the late) Steve Schneider, David Victor (UCSD), and Karen Seto (Yale).

Topics and links to the videos are here: https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/iep-videos/

Best,

Ron

     

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Reed M. Kurtz

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Hi everyone,

Briefly, I wish to thank you all for the productive discussion and echo some of the points and concerns that Susi (and others) have raised. Speaking as someone who is currently untenured, and (still) on the job market with little to no certainty about what my future economic prospects holds, I would urge some caution about expecting too much from our fellow colleagues in providing any extra "work" beyond what is necessary to meet basic standards. Even before coronavirus hit, my institution was struggling from a ransomware cyberattack hit that shut down all our networks, right as we were supposed to be making the transition to digital remote teaching. So right now, for me and my students, I feel like the best thing I can expect is that they (we) take care of ourselves, manage our time and our responsibilities as best we can, and just make it through the next several weeks, to remain resilient and self-aware about how to be prepared the next time something like this hits.

So while I am all for the collaborative, exchange-based model of supplying and sharing guest lectures and other provisions for teaching work, I would hope that we are being fair and judicious about the expectations and burdens we might be imposing if we make such requests upon others (especially contingent faculty and relatively vulnerable conditions and statuses, like grad students). We need to be conscientious about how what might provide opportunities for some may impose additional burdens on others (even if only by being made to "feel" obligated to contribute, do "more," etc.) Fortunately me and my family are in a safe and relatively-stable position for the time being, but I cannot imagine the same applies to so many we are working alongside - including our students! Hopefully coming together to collaborate in spaces like this list can help us build the communities we need to survive and thrive in the face of the coming challenges we will face this century.

With that said, I would be more than happy to collaborate and help provide support/appearances on subjects of Climate Justice movements and politics, Critical/Marxist ecology, and/or Capitalism and Ecological Crisis.

Take care,
-Reed

Cristina Inoue

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Hi, all

Hope everyone is doing well and learning from this totally new situation. This pandemic is terrible but is making us stop and look for ways to collaborate.

I thought of putting together all the emails, but Charlie Chester have posted a "very tentative Google Sheet"  (I  copied-pasted exactly the way she wrote on her email so that the link would not break). 

If everyone could please write there what s/he is willing to share/contribute, it would be great. Thanks,

Stay well!


Cristina

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Charles Chester

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Mar 23, 2020, 11:43:21 AM3/23/20
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Hi all,

As we go along figuring out this new world, I think the main thing is that we feel comfortable saying: “No, I’m sorry, I just can’t do this right now.” I know that’s easier for someone older like me to say, and very hard for someone at the start of their career to say, but I do think this is something we all have to learn. I also have trust that everyone will understand that if a request is made, there should be no expectations whatsoever. Just too much chaos on the personal and societal level right now. I know we all (well, most!) hate to say “no,” but we’ve got to do the honest self-assessment now more than ever—anti-cabin fever and personal sanity is our new stock in trade. 

There was part of me I couldn’t suppress who said: “Shelter at home?! Great, now I can catch up on my email!” Well, I’m deeper in the time sink hole than I ever expected possible (and trust me, I’ve been deep, deep, deep in that hole). I haven’t even had a chance to keep up with this gep-ed thread, and am just now trying to read through all your great posts.

Thanks everyone, 

Charlie Chester
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Kathleen McAfee

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Mar 25, 2020, 8:56:55 PM3/25/20
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Hi Miranda - sorry I'm just now getting back to you. I'm not sure if my work is what you're looking for for your business classes. Carbon markets can be a 'business opportunity', although many investors have been burned by carbon-market scams (see REDD-monitor.org). Unfortunately carbon trading does not help to mitigate climate change. Just the opposite it true. For instance, in California, cap-and-trade and offsetting are slowing the very modest progress we have made on climate.

Right now offsetting is in fashion as a 'no-sacrifice' way for companies to look greener. Everywhere businesses and other organizations are embracing the idea in the form of plans to become 'carbon neutral' - but not carbon zero. Most of these plans involve offsetting - paying somebody else, somewhere else, to reduce emissions or to stop putative plans that would increase emissions - in exchange for the 'carbon neutral' entity continuing its own emissions. Since most of these releases of greenhouse gasses are then permanently circulating above ground, while the offset activities are mostly temporary, and very often based on wishful thinking or outright fraud, the net result is more, not less global warming. The most celebrated example right now offset-financed tropical forest conservation and tree planting. 

So, while there are many things businesses can do to reduce their emissions, none of it is painless and not much of it is profitable. It might nevertheless be worthwhile to show your students how to avoid making things worse by joining these schemes, such as the 'trillion trees' campaign recently announced at the Davos WEF  and endorsed by Trump. (Of course tropical forests ought to be conserved, but there are better ways to do that.) 

Most of my work related to this is a bit too academic (see attached example) for undergrad students, but I also have slides that could be adapted. There also the 2-p letter to California climate authorities from 110 scientists (that I started) explaining why the signers oppose the current proposal to allow California companies to offset part of their emissions by paying for tropical forest conservation. Other states may be considering similar policies. I am close to finishing a simpler, 2000-word article on tree-planting and climate that students could understand - I hope. I'll be happy to share it.

If this still interests you we can discuss what might work, but if it's too far from what you need, I understand. 

Kathy

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 7:49 PM Miranda Chase <vmirand...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Kathleen, 
I hope you are doing well. 

My name is Miranda Chase, and I'm currently teaching a course on Environmental Politics at Babson College, which is a top school in entrepreneurship and business. I say this because all my students are business majors, and not pol. sci or IR students. The last part of our course will focus on how businesses and corporations can adapt to climate change, how carbon markets could be a business opportunity (if they can?), and how the private sector in general can prepare towards a low-carbon economy. 
I saw your message on the GEP-Ed group with your generous offer to talk about cap-&-trade. So I'm reaching out to ask whether you would be interested in being a virtual guest-lecturer at our course? It could be a meet-the-author format as Stacy suggested. If you would like, you could send me one of your publications on cap-&-trade and I can incorporated it on the syllabus.

I would be honored if you can accept this invitation. If you would like, you and I can Skype first and figure out the details. 

Kind regards, 
Miranda

Veronika Miranda Chase
Environmental Governance 
Building Bridges of Understanding 

IGERT Fellow (National Science Foundation)
Adam Smith Fellow (Mercatus Center)
PhD. Candidate- Global Governance and Human Security  
MSc. Integrated Water Management
B.A. International Relations 
 


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Charles Chester

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May 6, 2020, 9:23:11 AM5/6/20
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Hi gep-eders,

At my teaching institutions, it looks as though there’s a good chance that fall classes are going to go online. I’m thus resurrecting this thread as the idea of sharing lectures seems to me to be something I’d personally like to pursue. Although at this point I am feeling “zoomed out,” I am fairly impressed with the fact that zoom got my class through to the semester without a complete crash. That said, it was only for half of a semester...and I and my students are exhausted with 80 minute sessions of the Hollywood Squares or Brady Bunch theme song (apologies for the dated cultural references—I’m sure Paul Lynne made a good joke about that at some point). 

Assuming that zoom is with us to stay, I think one way to keep it fresh-as-can-be for a full semester will be to bring different voices into the conversation. So, at my webpage on Teaching & Research in GEP & IEL, I’ve posted a section on “GEP online lectures,” which starts with a link to the GEP Online Sharing, Volunteering & Trading sheet (originally just “Bartering Sheet”). Please note that there are now two tabs (findable at the bottom of the sheet), one entitled “Sign-ups,” the other “Notes”; if you decide to use this sheet, please don’t only read the Notes, but add your ideas to them. This is an inchoate beast that can use all our input.  

I’ve also posted a few other links to other online GEP-related lecture resources that I found in various strands of this gep-ed thread; please let me know what (not “if”...) I’ve missed. I should also note, obvious as it may be, that I’m winging this; if there’s an institution that would like to formally host this listing (and even promote it), I’m happy to pass it on. It’s not exactly a heavy administrative lift, but if this turns into something that gets used a lot, there might be an advantage to giving it an institutional home.

Best wishes as we enter the bizarro graduation season,
  
Charlie Chester
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