Creating the Climate University of the Future
A conversation with Duke University’s Dr. Toddi Steelman Last May I moderated a panel at a 2-day event hosted by Duke University focused on climate change and higher education. The conference was called All In: Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity and Our Collective Climate Challenge and brought together faculty and administrators from 2- and 4-year institutions from … Read more
Using the En-Roads Climate Simulator to Learn About Effective & Equitable Climate Action
For the average person, the complexity of climate change and a lack of clarity on impactful solutions can be paralyzing. For governmental leaders and decision-makers, it can help drive misguided investment in pie-in-the sky solutions that avoid more impactful policy decisions. En-Roads, a free, easy-to-use online dashboard and modeling tool co-developed by today’s guest, Andrew … Read more
Opening Access to Knowledge to Accelerate Climate Action, with Dr. Monica Granados of the Open Climate Campaign
The nature of the climate crisis, and the unprecedented speed with which the world needs to address it, requires global, national, and local actions that are informed by the latest research from multiple disciplines. However, like a lot of academic research, the majority of climate change research is locked behind the paywall of one a … Read more
Building a Network of Sustainable Colleges & Universities with AASHE’s Julian Dautremont
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education has been helping higher education institutions not only think about climate change and sustainability in regard to their own campuses but also connecting and coordinating these individual campus efforts across its global member network of 900 colleges and universities. Established in 2005, AASHE’s goal is … Read more
Training the Clean Energy Workforce with IREC’s Dr. Cynthia Finley
We can’t meet our climate goals without building, as fast as we can, a robust, diverse pipeline of well-trained workers. Unfortunately, here in the US, there is no real workforce education and training SYSTEM, per se. Short-term programs, apprenticeships, and non-credit credentials are delivered by a patchwork of community-based organizations, for-profit training providers, industry associations, … Read more
Universities on Fire with Bryan Alexander
Today’s guest on Climate.edu is Dr Bryan Alexander, author of the book Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis. Universities on Fire is one of the first books that I’ve seen focused on how climate change is impacting higher education. The futures he describes for higher ed, even the best scenarios, are unsettling, … Read more