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...
Category - Speaker series
Schatz Center
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, November 4 @ 5:30 pm: Sam Arons — The road ahead: shared electric vehicles
REGISTER for this talk (Thursday, November 4 at 5:30 pm Pacific)View the flyer for this talkView the fall 2021 Sustainable Futures speaker series (SFSS) flyer Transportation is the largest sector of greenhouse gas...
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...
Thursday, September 23 @ 5:30 pm: Grace Wu — Building a net zero energy system that protects biodiversity
REGISTER for this talk (Thursday, September 23 @ 5:30 pm Pacific)View the flyer for this talkView the fall 2021 Sustainable Futures speaker series (SFSS) flyer Grace Wu Achieving net zero economy-wide carbon emissions...
SFSS webinar — Building a data backbone: using data to drive the design of vaccine cold chains in low income countries
Register for this talk (May 6 at 5:30 pm Pacific) Reliable infrastructure is core to the functioning of most systems, including water, sanitation, and health. Nexleaf’s project work includes integrating sensor data and...
SFSS webinar — Labors of love: on the political ethics and economy of bovine politics in Himalayan India
Register for this talk (April 22 at 5:30 pm Pacific) This talk will explore how conceptualizing love as work can provide a fresh perspective on scholarly concerns about the ethics of a politics rooted in love...
SFSS webinar 4/15 — The hamburger is eating the forest: changing the trajectory of one of Brazil’s largest exports
Register for this talk (April 15 at 4 pm Pacific) — please note revised time Cattle raising is the chief driver of deforestation in many parts of the world, demanding huge amounts of land for both pasture and...
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...
