College Teach-in 2009 & 2010
The National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions
Over the coming months, The National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions will provide four opportunities to keep students, faculty, staff and citizens engaged in the critical national and international policy debates that, this year, will profoundly shape the future:
The National Climate Seminar
350 Teach-In: 10/22
Signs of Change Teach-In: 2/11
The National Climate Seminar will launch a bi-weekly, national phone conversation featuring top climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts. Hosted by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the seminars will be available live to educators, students and citizens-just dial-in.
The half-hour seminars will be held the first and third Wednesday of each month, at 3:00 PM Eastern, Noon Pacific. Questions for the presenters can be submitted on-line prior to the seminar, and all conversations will be available in podcast.
National Climate Seminar-- 2009-2010
Fall Semester: The World Decides
9-Sep Dallas Burtraw/RFF Policy: Strong Enough?
23-Sep Stephen Schneider/Stanford Meaning of Business as Usual
7-Oct Bill McKibben/350.org Climate Citizens
21-Oct Hunter Lovins/Natural Capital Business on Board
4-Nov Andy Revkin/NYT Copenhagen Prospects
11-Nov Hon. Ed Markey* What Needs
18-Nov Mohan Monasinghe/IPCC China, India and the US
2-Dec David Orr/Oberlin Educators, Citizens, Copenhagen and Beyond
16-Dec Jessy Tolkan/Energy Action Spring 2010: The Youth Voice
Teach-In's: 350 and Signs of Change. On Thursday October 22nd, and Thursday, February 11th, the National Teach-In will provide support for two campus-wide educational events. In contrast to the open-ended events held in 2008 and 2009, this academic year we are recommending single, campus-wide Interdisciplinary Plenaries: one half hour of roundtable presentation followed by discussion and action.
10/22: 350 Teach-In. In conjunction with the International Day of Action being organized by Bill McKibben's 350.org movement we recommend: five faculty, staff and students talk for 6 minutes each about the science, economics, politics and moral dimensions of the long run 350 target for CO2 concentrations. The Teach-In will provide background documents to help presenters lead this discussion, including a report being prepared on the Economics of 350.
2/11: Signs of Change Teach-In. By February, the outcome of the Copenhagen negotiations will be known, and the US will either have passed, or be in the process of debating, landmark climate legislation. We recommend: Ten faculty, students or staff, each talk for three minutes about “signs of change” from different disciplinary perspectives: science, politics, religious studies, psychology law, economics, art, public health. How is the reality of global warming changing the physical world now, and what possibilities for social, technical, economic and political change have emerged? What are the next steps?