Dear all, I hope everyone is staying healthy and relatively sane. Following on from the theme of Earth Day and with apologies for the delay (better late than never!), I wanted to draw your attention to a series of short videos I curated over the past week in my capacity as chair of Ireland's national committee of Future Earth.
We had originally planned an event to mark 50 years since the first Earth Day in which we would have asked speakers to reflect on our collective journey over the past 50 years and what the next 50 years might bring. Once the shutdown came, we decided instead to curate a series of short videos in which we asked a range of experts from academia, policymaking, civil society and business to share their thoughts on these themes. We called the video series "Future Earth Week" and released them through the Future Earth Ireland twitter account <https://twitter.com/futureearth_ire> over the past week, finishing yesterday. All 16 videos are available on the Future Earth Ireland YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5yD9tSqZk-VPP8aCZoeGYQ/videos>. They are all in the region of 5-6 minutes and cover themes as diverse as sustainable food transitions, reducing the carbon impact of construction, citizen science and health oceans, sustainability accounting and reporting, and eco-translation, among other interesting topics. They may be of interest to some of you and also potentially to your students. Best wishes, Diarmuid -- *Dr. Diarmuid Torney*Associate Professor School of Law and Government, Dublin City University Tel: +353 1 700 6468 | Skype: diarmuidtorney | Twitter: @diarmuidtorney <https://twitter.com/diarmuidtorney> | Website: diarmuidtorney.org <http://www.dcu.ie/dc669> *Recent publications:* *European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders* <http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319609300> (Palgrave, 2018). Diarmuid Torney (2019). Environmental policy and European Union politics <http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1080>, *Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics*. Diarmuid Torney (2019), Climate laws in small European states: symbolic legislation and limits of diffusion in Ireland and Finland <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2019.1625159>, *Environmental Politics*, 28(6). Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Duncan Liefferink & Diarmuid Torney (2019), Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2019.1522033>, *Environmental Politics*, 28(1): 1–21. On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 16:38, O'Lear, Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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