OASIS February newsletter--a little early because of some time sensitive events!
Liz Cutler
OASIS FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
EVENTS—Time sensitive:
For facilities folks: During this season of high road salt use, please share the opportunity for this free webinar, March 3 about how to lower your school's salt use: save money and reduce salt runoff into local waters.
Katherine Hayhoe giving the HMEI Taplin Environmental Lecture “Finding Hope in a Warming World” free at Princeton University March 17, 4:30-5:30, Briger Hall Auditorium, 11 Ivy Lane Students would be welcome!
TRASHION SHOW at Morven: (great event for your students to enter!)
The popular Trashion Show at the
Earth Day Celebration is returning for its second year! Presented by
Sustainable Princeton and Morven Museum & Garden in collaboration with
Princeton Public Library and Princeton Environmental Film Festival (PEFF).
What? Trashion
– original designs made from items that would otherwise have been discarded or
recycled. Turn ordinary trash into extraordinary fashion!
When? Sunday,
April 19, at the Earth Day Celebration at Morven Museum and Garden. The show
will take place at 3:15pm.
Who? You! Participation
is open to community members aged 8 and up. To enter the Trashion Show,
complete our online registration form. The
deadline to enter is Friday, April 3.
How? Entries
must use a minimum of 75% recycled content, such as: metals, paper, rubber,
glass, plastic, and cloth.
Full contest rules and registration
Check out photos from 2025
Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions are Failing and How to Fix Them
Monday, April 6, 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Speaker: Jessica Green, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto
Forging Just Futures: Solutions-Based Science to Address the Climate Gap
Monday, April 13, 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Speaker: Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Free Training and Supplies from The Watershed Institute, Online 2 hour asynchronous + 9-3 in-person on March 14
BOOKS AND VIDEOS”
The End of Education as We Know It: Regenerative Learning for Complex Times
by Ida Rose Florez Ph.D. “People are born systems-thinkers. Education has the power to encourage our innate connection with the complex world, yet instead our schools focus on creating a workforce educated just enough to feed the capitalist pipeline. Reminiscent of and building further on John Taylor Gatto's education critiques, The End of Education as We Know It is for people who want to create schools that teach how to live in harmony with each other, with Earth, and with all the Earth holds.”
Imagine 5. Cool Magazine: a bit pricey, but maybe worth it, especially if you can charge to a school budget.
INTERESTING WEBSITES and RESOURCES:
UNESCO Greening School Curriculum
Regenerative Economics for Secondary Schools: free curriculum
Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Month
Regenerative Economics Online Textbook for high school econ classes
Green Schools Alliance February Newsletter: has a particularly inspirational story about student-led sustainability in French Schools and one about use of school grounds.
INSPIRATIONAL SCHOOLS
Check out Hillfield Strathallan School , especially their sustainability curriculum
AWARDS:
GROUPS TO JOIN:
MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:
· New study projects 500,000 additional malaria deaths in Africa by 2050 due to climate change
· Chronic wildfire smoke exposure linked to over 24,000 annual US deaths
· Quantifying the global health impacts of plastic pollution lifecycles
· Venezuelan oil and pending environmental injustice concerns of US refinery locations
· Heat prevention plans in Europe saved thousands of lives
· “Reimagining Global and Planetary Health” – a recap of January’s CIGH / HPH Global and Planetary Health Research Convening
· Project Unleaded spotlight in The Stanford Daily’s “Research Roundup” – plus a new HPH job opportunity as Project Unleaded Applied Scientific Researcher; learn more and apply here
· HPH’s Electrification for Health Program is hiring a postdoctoral fellow focused on the epidemiology of ultra fine particles emitted from gas appliances; learn more and apply here
· Using fish to reduce schistosomiasis transmission in Senegal – DECO spotlight feat. Giulio De Leo, SDSS Accelerator, and SWAP program
· Weather impacts sanitation interventions to reduce E. coli in Bangladesh – new paper feat. Anna Nguyen, Steve Luby, and Jade-Benjamin Chung
· Exploring community adaptation and climate resilience in Bangladesh – new publication feat. Natalie Herbert, Liza Goldberg, Gabby Heitmann, Jade-Benjamin Chung, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
· Improving medical education with Medicine for a Changing Planet curriculum – new article feat. Erika Veidis and Michele Barry
· Evaluating the impacts of plant-based meat analogues on meat consumption – from Jacob Peacock
· Congratulations to the recently launched Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures!
· “Defending Health in the Fields: Community Lawyering for Farmworker Safety” – new HPH Voices blog post by Ava Acevedo; if you’re interested in writing your own post, learn more here
· EPA sued by APHA and other health organizations “over illegal repeal of climate protections”
· The key elements of transformational adaptation to climate risks – new publication feat. Kris Ebi, coming to Stanford as Spotlight on HPH speaker on Mar 5; please join us!
· Climate change could lead to over 120 million additional malaria cases and over 530k additional deaths in Africa by mid-century, with extreme weather events as primary driver
· Catalyzing climate-resilient agriculture through school feeding programs
· Global governance of AI for planetary health
· New study links fire-prone weather days, wildfires, and climate change
· 2026 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Journalism goes to uncovering lead poisoning
· The link between air pollution and Alzheimer’s – based on this study
· Bayer to pay $7.25 billion under proposed settlement in Roundup cancer litigation
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“How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act towards our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.”
--Laurance S. Rockefeller