The Tribal Energy Resilience and Sovereignty project (TERAS) will empower four tribes in Northern California to transform one of the state’s least reliable electrical circuits into a highly resilient renewable energy...
Category - Justice
Schatz Center
Thursday, Nov 30: Lessons on Climate Communication and Environmental Storytelling with Rosanna Xia
When: Thursday, November 30 from 5:30-7:00 pm (with a book signing to follow the talk) Where: Native American Forum (BSS 162) at Cal Poly Humboldt Who: Everyone is invited to attend this free event! “Tell me the facts...
Thursday, April 6 @ 5:30 pm (webinar)– The justice conundrum in coastal adaptation
With Jola Ajibade, Ph.D., of Portland State University REGISTER for this webinar Next up in our Climate and Clean Energy series, we explore the justice conundrum in coastal adaptation: should we retreat or invest in...
Thursday, April 28 @ 5:30 pm: Andrea Rodgers — Children’s fundamental rights and the climate crisis: the call for judicial branch engagement
REGISTER for this event (5:30 pm Pacific)Download the event flyer Children and youth around the world are among those most affected by the climate crisis and have turned to the courts to seek protection of their...
Thursday, March 3 @ 5:30 pm: Alison Bates — Conflict and coexistence: lessons learned from coastal community experiences with offshore wind
REGISTER for this event (Thursday, March 3 @ 5:30 pm Pacific)Download the event flyerLearn more about upcoming speaker events this fall What might a just and equitable energy transition look like for coastal communities...
Maia Cheli
Thursday, January 27 at 5:30 pm: Jill Lindsey Harrison — Why do government agencies allow environmental inequalities to persist?
REGISTER for this event (Thursday, Jan 27 @ 5:30 pm Pacific)Download the event flyerLearn more about upcoming speaker events this fall In this presentation, Jill Lindsey Harrison will present key findings from...
Thursday, October 7 @ 4 pm: Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org — What can we still do?
REGISTER for this talk (Thursday, October 7 at 4 pm Pacific)View the flyer for this talkView the fall 2021 Sustainable Futures speaker series (SFSS) flyer Bill McKibben (photo by Nancie Battaglia) Clearly we’re not...
Fall 2021 Sustainable Futures speaker series begins this week!
We’re excited to welcome Grace Wu (UCSB), Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College), Bill McKibben (350.org), Sam Arons (Lyft), and William Bauer (University of Nevada) this fall for our Sustainable Futures...
SFSS webinar 4/8 — Quantifying systemic racial and ethnic disparities in air pollution in California
Register for this talk (April 8 at 4 pm Pacific) Despite decades of effort to improve air quality in California, large and systemic racial and ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure still persist. In...
SFSS webinar 4/1 — E kūkulu nā kiaʻi: guarding against green colonialism in Hawaiʻi
Register for this talk (April 1, 5:30 pm Pacific) This talk will explore two recent, interconnected land struggles in Hawaiʻi — one over the proposed Thirty-Meter Telescope on Maunakea, and the other over a renewable...
SFSS webinar 3/11 — Environmental justice in Indian Country and moving toward a transformational land ethic
Register for this talk (March 11, 5:30 pm Pacific) In her acclaimed book As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock, author Dina Gilio-Whitaker...
Sustainable Futures speaker series opens March 11
Join us this spring as eight visiting speakers tackle a breadth of questions related to energy, society, and the environment! March 11 at 5:30 pm — Dina Gilio-WhitakerEnvironmental justice in Indian Country and moving...
