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 https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/03/19/coronavirus-encouraged-pro-climate-behaviors-heres-how-earth-day-celebrations-could-help--sustain-them/#6d3e4abdb7b5<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fprakashdolsak%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fcoronavirus-encouraged-pro-climate-behaviors-heres-how-earth-day-celebrations-could-help--sustain-them%2F%236d3e4abdb7b5&data=02%7C01%7Colear%40ku.edu%7C76dea4c43014440e87ac08d7e2f2622a%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637227402974673859&sdata=4WO2St1%2BWAI5dFQwAihc5zYapcSpLkfgz%2BWEpkITR5w%3D&reserved=0> 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<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fprakashdolsak%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Fclimate-change-helped-global-cooperation-will-coronavirus-undermine-it%2F%23e5efa8fccfe1&data=02%7C01%7Colear%40ku.edu%7C76dea4c43014440e87ac08d7e2f2622a%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637227402974683854&sdata=cWEyHOkuciZHy%2BfX8dhAARLkwB0dTQlrNx3nsNMQbk8%3D&reserved=0> >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 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Environmental Geopolitics - 2018 - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265806/Environmental-Geopolitics<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frowman.com%2FISBN%2F9781442265806%2FEnvironmental-Geopolitics&data=02%7C01%7Colear%40ku.edu%7Ca0bba3b5831042bc733908d778c5b611%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637110662869475686&sdata=1AjiuQsQhVWbNhGlZG8kh3p4KA3Hl6333k%2FcUpe6b9g%3D&reserved=0> -- 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 [email protected]. 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