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Climate Solutions in Color: Passing the mic to underrepresented climate heroes
February 1, 2022
This event focuses on the importance of creating more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just spaces for climate solutions—with an eye toward the past, present, and future. With Project Drawdown’s Matt Scott, McKnight Foundation’s Ben Passer, and Tree Pittsburgh’s Clara Kitongo, in partnership with Project Drawdown. Register for this free, virtual event at the link below:
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1:00 pm

Discussion: The Atlas of a Changing Climate
February 3, 2022
Brian Buma discusses his new book, The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized. Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration—just the type of revealing journey you will experience in The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Ecologist Brian Buma helps us envision—both literally and figuratively—the history, present, and possible futures of the imperiled ecosystems directly influencing our lives. By presenting the forces driving Earth’s changes through illuminating maps, charts, and infographics, he proves the depth of our connectivity to our planet, revealing both the vulnerability—and hope—intrinsic in that link. Sponsored by Odyssey Bookshop. Register at the link below:
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Virtual
7:00 pm

GIS after dark discussion: Migratory Bird Initiative and Science team, The National Audubon Society.
February 3, 2022
Join host Dr. Cassandra Hansen for a curated discussion with with Lotem Taylor, GIS and data analyst for the Migratory Bird Initiative and Science team at The National Audubon Society. A six-year veteran at Audubon, Taylor leads spatial analyses for both the Migratory Bird Initiative (MBI) and Conservation Science teams. As a Geographic Information System (GIS) and data analyst, her days are filled with developing automated processes to reformat, analyze, and visualize various datasets. In her time at Audubon, Taylor has helped create climate suitability models and migration maps for hundreds of bird species. Get the link to join the event below:
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Virtual
7:00 pm

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Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Protecting the Waters of Hawai'i
February 10, 2022
As we bear witness to the wastelanding of the earth by late liberal capital, we can strike at capital by mapping the abundance it fears. Corporate-induced climate change is bringing about the demise of capitalist economies of scarcity, making way for Indigenous economies of abundance. Indigenous knowledges center the laws of the elements discerned through the art of kilo, keen intergenerational observation, forecasting, and activation that enable us to turn devastating conditions into renewed possibilities for abundance. In this talk, Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi, will focus on the awe-inspiring moʻo reptilian water deities who are battling leaking US military jet fuel tanks in Hawaiʻi. Register below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm

Lecture: Environmental Racism, Destruction, and Repair
February 10, 2022
This talk with Nicholas Caverly, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, bridges political ecology with intellectual and political discussions around reparations for white supremacy in the United States—including but not limited to enslavement and its anti-Black afterlives. Nick Caverly is an anthropologist of technology whose research centers questions of racism, space, and justice. He is primarily interested in the ways structural inequities are built through the landscapes of North American cities.
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UMass 170 Design Building, 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
4:00 pm

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Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty -- The Soul Fire Farm Keynote address with Leah Penniman
February 15, 2022
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm in Petersburg, NY, committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. The Farm brings diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. Leah Penniman is a co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, the author of Farming While Black, and a frequent keynote speaker at various events including NOFA conferences. In this inspiring video, Penniman lays out the history of our racist land laws and the intersections with current policies, inequities in our food system, human health, and our climate emergency. This is the fourth event in an ongoing Food Sovereignty series, a collaboration between two Climate Action Now groups–Regenerative Farming, Forests & Food Systems and Racism, White Supremacy and Climate Justice–along with Grow Food Northampton. Join the Zoom below:
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Virtual via Zoom
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

webinar: Drivers of Exceptional Coastal Warming in the Northeastern United States
February 16, 2022
The Northeastern United States and the adjacent Northwest Atlantic Shelf have emerged as warming hotspots, but the connection between them has remained unexplored. In this webinar, Ambarish Karmalkar and Radley Horton will use observational datasets to discuss the role of oceanic and atmospheric processes in driving rapid warming trends along the NEUS coast, test the fidelity of climate models to capture the observed warming pattern, and discuss the need for more nuanced climate assessments to understand the impacts on human and natural systems. Join using the link below:
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Virtual
4:00 pm

Webinar: Drivers of Exceptional Coastal Warming in the Northeastern United States
February 16, 2022
The Northeastern United States and the adjacent Northwest Atlantic Shelf have emerged as warming hotspots, but the connection between them has remained unexplored. In this webinar, Ambarish Karmalkar and Radley Horton will use observational datasets to discuss the role of oceanic and atmospheric processes in driving rapid warming trends along the NE coast of the U.S., test the fidelity of climate models to capture the observed warming pattern, and discuss the need for more nuanced climate assessments to understand the impacts on human and natural systems. Ambarish Karmalkar is a Research Assistant Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Radley Horton is Lamont Research Professor of Ocean and Climate Physics at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Get information to join at the link below:
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Virtual
4:00 pm

Webinar: Regenerative Agriculture and Natural Climate Solutions
February 17, 2022
Ben Dobson, founder and president of Hudson Carbon, will discuss how agricultural systems transformation can help address the interconnected biodiversity, climate and ecological crises. Hudson Carbon is a research institute that studies the economics, ecological viability and carbon sequestration capacity of regenerative agricultural practices. Register below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm