Category Archives: climatechange

For Earth Day 2024

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Bryan Alexander

Today is the 54th Earth Day, a holiday generally aimed at raising global ecological consciousness. It began in 1970 as a UNESCO project and I can’t help but hear Earth as system and Spaceship Earth from that origin then. earthday.org … Continue reading →

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Universities on Fire, one year later: glimpsing the present and a hopeful future

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Bryan Alexander

One year ago Johns Hopkins University Press published my book on the future of higher education and the climate crisis, Universities on Fire.  Today I wanted to look back on the book’s progress in the world, how academics and others … Continue reading →

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Positive notes on which to start 2024

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Bryan Alexander

Greetings 2024! I’d like to greet you with optimism and a story of gifts.  You see, I ended 2023 with some grim posts (1, 2) and would like to balance those out with some of what cheers me up. 2023 … Continue reading →

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From 2023 to 2024: academia and climate change

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

2023 is almost through and we prepare ourselves for 2024. Today I’ll continue my reflections on the two years with an emphasis on one topic.  (Here’s my previous post.) The past year has been the hottest on record, which is … Continue reading →

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America and China’s big ask for higher education: on the Sunnylands statement

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

Last month Chinese and United States leaders met in the San Francisco area. It was a major diplomatic meeting for the world’s largest geopolitical struggle. Many developments emerged from this event, yet I want to draw your attention to a … Continue reading →

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More academic climate action occurring

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

Greetings from COVID containment. My wife and I remain sequestered. We spent Halloween night watching costumed visitors from our bedroom window and watching horror movies. But COVID can’t stop my work!  Today I’d like to share several stories about global … Continue reading →

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Pummeling campuses and research

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

(A short post today. I apologize for the low level of blogging.  That’s due to an explosion of overwork plus the family challenges I’ve shared.) One feature of the professional futurist’s work is monitoring the present to check how it … Continue reading →

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A new campus climate change group appears: Cornell on Fire

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How can academics respond to the unfolding climate crisis? One was is to organize your campus to think hard and to take serious steps about global warming.  Today’s example comes from upstate New York, with the launch of a faculty … Continue reading →

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To grow or not to grow? Take this with a giant pile of salt.

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

One of the great questions of our time is: shall we continue to grow? I’m referring to our civilization and its massive, complex footprint, which we can measure in many ways.  Will we keep growing our economy, making more goods, … Continue reading →

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One nation mandates climate classes for its entire higher education system

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How might academia respond to the climate crisis? One way is for colleges and universities to teach more content and classes on the topic. This is a path individual faculty who are passionate about global warming can follow, to the … Continue reading →

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