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Solve Climate by 2030: 
Climate solutions for Massachusetts 

Tuesday, April 7, 5:00-6:00pm ET

Join us for a unique national climate education initiative called Solve Climate By 2030, where over 55 university-hosted webinars on climate solutions will occur simultaneously. Each webinar will focus on ambitious but feasible state and local solutions to help solve climate by 2030. 

Brandeis is the host of the Massachusetts webinar

Join over 200 attendees already registered from across the state, including high schools, colleges and universities, NGOs and more. 
Register Here
COVID-19 has us shown how fragile our health and economic systems are to extreme events. Our scientists have also told us clearly that, unchecked, climate change will cause many extreme events: floods, droughts, rising seas, pests and disease, more extreme storms and hurricanes, and more. 

There is still time to change that future. And now is the time to learn how, by focusing on feasible, ambitious, local climate solutions that can help solve climate by 2030.

Agenda

Moderators:
Mary Fischer, Manager, Office of Sustainability, Brandeis University

Prof. James Ji, Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Environmental Economics, Brandeis University

5:00 - 5:10 pm Welcome to the Power Dialogue - Solve Climate by 2030 

Eban Goodstein, Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability / Bard College (via video) 

 5:10 - 5:45 pm Climate Solutions Panel 

Local climate leaders in Massachusetts will each discuss an ambitious but feasible solution to move us toward solving climate by 2030.

Panelists

Alli Gold Roberts, Director, State Policy, Ceres

Alli Gold Roberts leads Ceres' state policy efforts to mobilize investor and company support for stronger climate and clean energy policies. Through her outreach, Alli leverages the influential voice of the business community to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transportation, and to improve corporations' access to clean energy. 

Dr. Nathan Phillips, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Nathan Phillips, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, is Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Acting Director of the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment, especially in the context of environmental change. Most recently, Dr. Phillips made headlines by going on a hunger strike to protest a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, MA that will provide a link between major pipelines and the Atlantic Ocean. His activism put the spotlight on environmental justice and has made him a local hero.

Eben Bein, Climate Solutions Educator & New England Field Coordinator, Our Climate
Six years into his biology teaching career Eben realized he could no longer just work with students on climate solutions on the side. To #MakeClimateAClass, he became the New England Field Coordinator for the youth-led nonprofit Our Climate, where he applies his teaching and writing skills to empower young people to lobby their legislators for science-based, equitable climate policy. Eben grew up in an environmentally-mind cohousing community in Acton, MA and earned a B.A. in biology and teaching certificate from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Science Writing from MIT. He taught high school biology and for six years, mostly at Revere High School in Revere, MA and Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, NH. He has written about science and environmental solutions for the likes of YES! Magazine, NOVA PBS, and The Atlantic. When he isn’t happily obsessing over his work, Eben might be writing poetry, doing yoga, singing with his rock bands, or sautéing leafy greens with cracked pepper in gratuitous amounts of olive oil. FB/T: @beinology 

5:45 - 6:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A
This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism and the arts. Solve Climate has teachers guides for all these subjects for follow-up discussions to the webinar.

Sign up now to #MakeClimateaClass!

Students: Ask your teachers to #MakeClimateaClass by assigning your April 7 state webinar as homework, and talking about it in class.

Teachers: #MakeClimateaClass by assigning your April 7 state webinar as homework, and talking about it in class.


Everyone: Everyone knows a teacher or a student. Forward this post and tell them what they can do to #MakeClimateaClass.

NOTE: The webinar will be recorded, so you can view and discuss it in class anytime.
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