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Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures

Professor Ursula K. Heise, UCLA   Novelists, journalists, film directors and artists have created fictional and nonfictional stories about anthropogenic climate change for the last fifty years. The majority of these stories focus on scenarios of large-scale disaster and end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, with cities under water as a prominent motif. Such stories have been criticized for scientific […]

Conversation with IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, Dr. Lisa Schipper

Join us on March 29 for a conversation with Dr. Lisa Schipper, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author on Climate Change Adaptation. Dr. Schipper is a Senior Professor of Development Geography at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on the interface of climate change and development research. Event is open to IDCE students. Lunch will be […]

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The Box Truck Film Screening

A New Earth Conversation welcomes guest speakers Alex Eaves and Derek “Deek” Diedricksen, who will screen their film, “The Box Truck FIlm: Building a Reuseful Home” (2022), share their experience, and answer questions about building a “reuseful” home — a box truck turned into a house made from 100 percent recycled materials.

Virtual talk with Dr. Jade Sasser

In a forthcoming book, Dr. Sasser examines young people and climate emotions, including grief and love.

Powering Consent: Mapping battery mineral company public commitments informed consent

The principle of free, prior, and informed consent is critical to ensuring that Indigenous communities have a say in how mining or other large-scale infrastructure projects moves forward in their territories. Scott Sellwood of Oxfam will discuss that organization’s research into the policies of companies engaged in the exploration and production of five in-demand minerals.