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Agenda for the Teach-in On

Climate Change and Sustainability

CSUN Greening Project, and the Institute for Sustainability

sustainability@csun.edu

 

USU Grand Salon, CSUN

February 5, 2009

10:45 AM Ð 4:00 PM

 

10:45 AM Provost Harry Hellenbrand, Welcome

10:55 AM Introduction to the event

 

11:00 AM Andy Lipkis, TreePeople Ð

Engaging Nature and Community To Protect and Heal Our City: A Personal, Communal and Civic Response To Climate Change

 

11:45 AM Questions and discussion

 

12:00 PM Panel One - CSUN Greening Project; Opportunities for participation and engagement

 

Ashwani Vasishth, Urban Studies and Planning, Institute for Sustainability

Nancy Kurland, Management

Helen Cox, Geography

Erica Wohldman, Psychology

 

12:30 PM Discussion and input Ð Thematic Issue-based brainstorming clusters; Starting A Student Club on campus; Setting up a University Stakeholder Group for the Greening Project.

 

Moderator: Nancy Kurland, with support from the Green Core Team

 

1:15 PM Panel Two - Climate Change Science

 

Daniel Curtis: Climate and the greenhouse effect: A physical description

Doug Fischer: The business case for combating climate change

Helen Cox: Fuelling the world's energy demands

 

2:00 PM Panel Three Ð Climate Change Policy

 

Taehyun Kim: False Sense of Balance: American Media and Public Understanding of Science of Global Warming

Larry Caretto: Science versus public policy -- how do we resolve the conflict?

David Klein: Climate change and peak oil

Shirley Svorny: Policy options

 

3:00 PM Panel Four ÐActions to Combat Climate Change Impacts

 

William Sullivan: CSUN Actions to Combat Climate Change

Peter Bellin: Personal Carbon Footprint Calculations

Janet Kubler: Biomimicry and Adaptive Strategies

Kyriakos Pontikis: Climate Change and Building Living Environments

Mechelle Best: Climate Change and Tourism

Maria R. D'Orsogna: The power of education: stopping big oil in rural Italy, one powerpoint presentation at a time

 

 

 

 

CSUN-Linked Sustainability-related Resources On the Web

 

Institute for Sustainability and the CSUN Greening Project

            http://www.csun.edu/sustainability

 

Sustainability-related Web Log

            http://blogs.csun.edu/sustainability

 

Campus Sustainability Planning News Group

            send a blank e-mail to campussustplan-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

Facebook Page for Sustainability at CSUN

            http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33386017230&ref=share

 

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability In Higher Education

CSUN has an institutional membership to AASHE, and it is a great resource for ideas about sustainability on the campus. Anyone with a csun.edu e-mail address can open an account that will give you access to the full site. Start from:

            http://www.aashe.org/user/register

 

Sustainability-related Events On Campus

 

West Coast Superconvergence - USFT, CSSC, CAN and the Real Food Network Converge with students across CA: February 13 Ð 15, 2009, Santa Cruz

            http://realfoodchallenge.org/get-involved/summits

 

World Water Day: March 22, 2009, CSUN

 

Earth Day: April 22, 2009, CSUN

 

California Student Sustainability Coalition Ð 6th Annual Spring Convergence: April 24 Ð 26, 2009, San Luis Obispo

            http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/

 

The 8th Annual UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference: June 21st - June 24th, 2009, UC Santa Barbara

            http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/conference/

 

Potential Issue Areas for Engagement