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Category Archives: climatechange
The 2021 Earth Day summit and higher education
Starting tomorrow, Earth Day, the president of the United States will host an international summit about climate change. Joe Biden will announce new American greenhouse gas targets and there are opportunities for negotiations and deals, possibly brokered by the US. … Continue reading
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Higher education and climate change: a snapshot of this month’s developments
How climate change may impact higher education: as I write more of Universities on Fire new developments and stories keep crossing my research radar. Let me share several as a glimpse of the topic from the past few weeks. ITEM: … Continue reading
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What our pandemic year tells us about how we might respond to the climate crisis
What does our experience with the COVID pandemic suggest about how humanity will deal with the far greater crisis of climate change? As a futurist, I’ve been thinking about this for a while (see earlier posts 1 and 2) and … Continue reading
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From the Kara Sea to the college quad
Thinking about the intersection of higher education and climate change sometimes can be daunting in its scope and complexity. Sometimes small, individual stories are a good way into the topic. Today’s case in point: a Russian gas tanker just traveled … Continue reading
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My climate change work in Numérique responsable
In October I gave a talk (online, of course) about climate change and the future of higher education. EDUCAUSE hosted the event; accordingly, my focus was on campus information technology. I appreciated the chance to try out my most recent … Continue reading
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Looking ahead to the next eight years of climate change action: possibilities and a poll
Now that Biden has defeated Trump, what are the options for climate change activism? With those post I’d like to poll you all, dear readers, getting a sense of your thinking while crowdsourcing some futures awareness. To explain: President-elect Biden … Continue reading
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Higher education and climate change, a view from late 2020
This week I gave a short talk on climate change and higher education. The venue was the EDUCAUSE annual conference, online entirely for the first time. This was a new talk. I haven’t spoken solely to climate change and academia … Continue reading
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How does the coronavirus intersect with climate change? Part 2: the dress rehearsal
What does the coronavirus experience tell us about climate change? Last week I started posting on connections between these two enormous challenges. There I touched on the ways climate change can change the spread of diseases, the possibility that COVID … Continue reading
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How does the coronavirus intersect with climate change? Part 1
Over the past few months I’ve been blogging, speaking, and writing about some of the largest issues concerning the future of higher education: demographics, inequalities, international academia. I’ve also explored climate change, possibly the largest challenge facing colleges and universities, … Continue reading
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One example of climate change directly impacting higher education
Climate change has fallen away from public attention this season, given the demands of other issues. I’m still tracking it, though, with an eye towards its impact on higher education, the subject of my next book. In that vein, today … Continue reading
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