Thoughts for 50th Earth Day
O'Lear, Shannon
Greetings, Gep-Ed Colleagues!
Here is the compiled list of offerings from this group for the 50th Earth Day:
Thoughts for 50th Earth Day
From Aseem Prakash:
Coronavirus Encouraged Pro-Climate Behaviors: Here’s How Earth Day Celebrations Could Help Sustain Them
Climate Change Helped Global Cooperation. Will Coronavirus Undermine It?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/04/11/climate-change-helped-global-cooperation-will-coronavirus-undermine-it/#e5efa8fccfe1
From Ron Mitchell:
Make a small deal out of being an environmentalist. Calculate your daily carbon footprint as of today. Then simply try to that amount over the next two weeks. Then, maintain that change, and do another 1% over the next two weeks. In 2 years, you would be at 0% and moving into negative territory and can sell your carbon offsets to somebody else!
From Thea Riofrancos:
Join us for a public discussion with the authors of "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-planet-to-win-why-we-need-a-green-new-deal-tickets-82910975961
From Timmons Roberts
Sorry but I think the 50th Earth Day should be a wake-up call that environmental efforts have been inadequate and are being actively and rapidly rolled back by this Administration. The climate deniers and industry lobbyists are running the government. Environmental scholars and the environmental movement have not understood well their opposition. They thought good ideas and international cooperation would move things forward; that the arc of history was bending toward justice.
I am NOT saying give up. To the contrary, I am saying that the movement needs to get much more savvy, tough, and political. Scholars in this area could be much more helpful with research on the forces blocking and rolling back the protections we need to have a functioning ecosystem when we get to Earth Day 60 or 75.
From Stacy VanDeveer:
Most hopeful, for me:
n Growing youth activism – that, while not globally “equal” certainly looks more global than most international activism
n Growing success of anti-coal movements and strategies…. And the hope that natural gas and oil or next in line, as targets
…and to round up this collection, here is a link to the newsletter that my department put together for the 50th Earth Day:
https://mailchi.mp/004b8f8a3b04/graduate-professional-student-appreciation-week-1295834?e=e7c76011c2
The first Earth Day didn’t happen here in Lawrence, KS because the city was in the midst of race riots (well, racist riots, if we are going to label it accurately).
For this newsletter, a colleague of mine in Atmospheric Science and I wrote the “letter from faculty” together, and we got sign off from the Geography & Atmospheric Science Department, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Geology Department (and I’m not sure they read it carefully enough to notice they were signing off a letter with a call for ethical decisions related to human-environment interactions!).
We sent this newsletter not only to students, alumni, etc., but also to our Dean and our Provost. In light of the collapse of normalcy that university administrations are dealing with related to COVID19, it seems like a good time to connect the current situation to ongoing work on related concerns about our planetary life support system.
I’m sending this message off to all of you and wishing you good health, mental stamina, and continued, creative thinking for all the work you are doing!
Shannon O’Lear
--
Shannon O'Lear, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Global and International Studies
Professor
Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science, and
Environmental Studies Program
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Tel. (785)864-2041
Email ol...@ku.edu
Environmental Geopolitics - 2018 - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265806/Environmental-Geopolitics
Maria H Ivanova
Thank you, Shannon! I would like to add a couple of resources to this list:
Lecture by Christiana Figueres as the 2020 Robert C Wood Visiting Professor at UMass Boston
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis in the Age of COVID-19
April 16, 2020
Boston Globe op-ed “As Earth Day turns 50, the US has abdicated its leadership role in protecting the environment”
I am sure that many colleagues have also been interviewed in various outlets today. Would be great to collect these. Here is my contribution:
wnhn 94.7 – The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen talks with Maria Ivanova about Earth Day at 50
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
maria....@umb.edu / miva...@mit.edu
Faculty webpage / ResearchGate / @mivanova
From: gep-ed <gep...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "O'Lear, Shannon" <ol...@ku.edu>
Reply-To: "ol...@ku.edu" <ol...@ku.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM
To: gep-ed <gep...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [gep-ed] Thoughts for 50th Earth Day
[EXTERNAL SENDER]
Greetings, Gep-Ed Colleagues!
Here is the compiled list of offerings from this group for the 50th Earth Day:
Thoughts for 50th Earth Day
From Aseem Prakash:
Coronavirus Encouraged Pro-Climate Behaviors: Here’s How Earth Day Celebrations Could Help Sustain Them
Climate Change Helped Global Cooperation. Will Coronavirus Undermine It?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/04/11/climate-change-helped-global-cooperation-will-coronavirus-undermine-it/#e5efa8fccfe1
From Ron Mitchell:
Make a small deal out of being an environmentalist. Calculate your daily carbon footprint as of today. Then simply try to that amount over the next two weeks. Then, maintain that change, and do another 1% over the next two weeks. In 2 years, you would be at 0% and moving into negative territory and can sell your carbon offsets to somebody else!
From Thea Riofrancos:
Join us for a public discussion with the authors of "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-planet-to-win-why-we-need-a-green-new-deal-tickets-82910975961
From Timmons Roberts
Sorry but I think the 50th Earth Day should be a wake-up call that environmental efforts have been inadequate and are being actively and rapidly rolled back by this Administration. The climate deniers and industry lobbyists are running the government. Environmental scholars and the environmental movement have not understood well their opposition. They thought good ideas and international cooperation would move things forward; that the arc of history was bending toward justice.
I am NOT saying give up. To the contrary, I am saying that the movement needs to get much more savvy, tough, and political. Scholars in this area could be much more helpful with research on the forces blocking and rolling back the protections we need to have a functioning ecosystem when we get to Earth Day 60 or 75.
From Stacy VanDeveer:
Most hopeful, for me:
- Growing youth activism – that, while not globally “equal” certainly looks more global than most international activism
- Growing success of anti-coal movements and strategies…. And the hope that natural gas and oil or next in line, as targets
…and to round up this collection, here is a link to the newsletter that my department put together for the 50th Earth Day:
https://mailchi.mp/004b8f8a3b04/graduate-professional-student-appreciation-week-1295834?e=e7c76011c2
The first Earth Day didn’t happen here in Lawrence, KS because the city was in the midst of race riots (well, racist riots, if we are going to label it accurately).
For this newsletter, a colleague of mine in Atmospheric Science and I wrote the “letter from faculty” together, and we got sign off from the Geography & Atmospheric Science Department, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Geology Department (and I’m not sure they read it carefully enough to notice they were signing off a letter with a call for ethical decisions related to human-environment interactions!).
We sent this newsletter not only to students, alumni, etc., but also to our Dean and our Provost. In light of the collapse of normalcy that university administrations are dealing with related to COVID19, it seems like a good time to connect the current situation to ongoing work on related concerns about our planetary life support system.
I’m sending this message off to all of you and wishing you good health, mental stamina, and continued, creative thinking for all the work you are doing!
Shannon O’Lear
--
Shannon O'Lear, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Global and International Studies
Professor
Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science, and
Environmental Studies Program
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Tel. (785)864-2041
Email ol...@ku.edu
Environmental Geopolitics - 2018 - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265806/Environmental-Geopolitics
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
gep-ed+un...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/DM6PR01MB4284F3F749C6540772B854ACCBD20%40DM6PR01MB4284.prod.exchangelabs.com.
Diarmuid Torney
Associate Professor
School of Law and Government, Dublin City University
Tel: +353 1 700 6468 | Skype: diarmuidtorney | Twitter: @diarmuidtorney | Website: diarmuidtorney.org
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+un...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/DM6PR01MB4284F3F749C6540772B854ACCBD20%40DM6PR01MB4284.prod.exchangelabs.com.
Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer
Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo.
This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here.
