[gep-ed] Summer school at ETH Zurich

[Bernauer Thomas]

Dear All

I am organising a summer school that will deal with the politics, economics, 
and psychology of reducing society’s environmental footprint. The summer 
school, which is primarily for advanced Master and PhD students,  is organised 
via an alliance of technical universities in Europe (IDEA league), but I can 
add a few doctoral students from outside that alliance. Applications (for 
instructions see the attached program) should be sent to Marina Voudrisli: 
Voudrisli Marina 
mailto:marina.voudri...@istp.ethz.ch>>.

Best wishes,
Thomas Bernauer



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[gep-ed] Campus Sustainability

[Schreurs, Miranda]

Dear GEP-EDers

I’ve been asked to head up a task force at our university to upscale our 
sustainability activities. I would be very appreciative if any of you who are 
at universities doing something particularly powerful/effective in this area 
could share it with me.  I will be happy to collect and send around ideas.

Thanks!

Best wishes

Miranda Schreurs


Prof. for Environment and Climate Policy
Bavarian School of Public Policy (Hochschule fur Politik München)
Technical University of Munich
Richard Wagner Strasse 1
80333 Munich, Germany

miranda.schre...@hfp.tum.de
Tel: 0049 (0) 89 907793220

website Deutsch: http://www.hfp.tum.de/startseite/

website English: http://www.hfp.tum.de/en/home/

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[gep-ed] The 2020 Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis - call for applications

[Wil Burns]

FYI. wil

Dr. Wil Burns
Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Dioxide Removal Law & Policy
American University
917 Forest Ave., Unit 3
Evanston, IL 60202
650.281.9126 (Phone)
https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/


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From: Jennifer Marlon 
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Subject: Fwd: The 2020 Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis - call 
for applications
Date: January 16, 2020 at 10:14:18 AM PST
To: Jennifer Marlon mailto:jennmar...@gmail.com>>


Happy New Year!
I wanted to make sure you all saw this announcement and considered it and/or 
spread the word through your networks. Diversity is key.

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Call for Applications: The Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis
LINK: 
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/call-for-applications-the-public-voices-fellowship-on-the-climate-crisis/
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Thank you!

Jenn



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Dear Friends,

I am delighted to announce an exciting new initiative - the inaugural Public 
Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis. The goal of the project is to bring 
new, diverse voices into the national climate conversation via training in 
op-ed writing and thought leadership. Please consider applying and/or sharing 
the opportunity with anyone you think might be interested.

The Fellowship will provide twenty climate change thought leaders, the majority 
of whom will be women and people of color, with extraordinary support, 
leadership skills and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their 
respective fields, but public opinion and policymaking on the most urgent issue 
of our age.

The program includes four in-person, day-long workshops and one-on-one coaching 
by leading journalists and editors. All participants will publish at least two 
written pieces of thought leadership (and hopefully many more) during their 
fellowship. Attendance at all four workshops is required – applicants must save 
the dates in order to apply.

The curriculum explores leadership, power, and action in an unfair world. Over 
the course of a year, fellows will learn how credibility works, how ideas 
spread, when and why minds change, and how ideas play out over time and space.

SELECTION
We are looking for new voices from civil society, academia, and the private 
sector, including advocates, entrepreneurs, community and business leaders, 
scientists, educators, and writers, among others.

We seek leaders working at the intersection of climate change, communication, 
and social justice, with a demonstrated desire and ability to contribute to 
public dialogue on climate change. Areas of focus could include activism and 
movement building, financial risks and opportunities of climate impacts and 
solutions, local, national or global policy, climate science, sector approaches 
(e.g., faith, business, health), or many others.

Fellows will be chosen through a competitive selection process. We are 
committed to building a diverse cohort. We will consider a variety of factors, 
including but not limited to gender, race/ethnicity, age, geography, area of 
expertise, work history, and experience as an agent of change.

DETAILS
● Up to 20 fellows
● Year-long program
● Four interactive day-long workshops in or near NYC (dates are: April 23-24, 
2020; July 17; October 2; December 9, 2020). Applicants MUST commit to and save 
those dates.
● Dedicated editors (top journalists) to provide regular, one-on-one 
support/editing/coaching
● Access to ongoing mentoring for the fellowship year
● A limited number of travel and lodging stipends for those who need them. The 
workshops are provided free of charge.

APPLY 
NOW

MORE ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis is a collaboration between 
the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The OpEd Project, and Ann 
MacDougall and is part of The OpEd Project’s national Public Voices initiative 
to change who writes history. The OpEd Project is a think tank and leadership 
organization that amplifies the ideas and public impact of new and necessary 
voices, including women of all backgrounds. Ann MacDougall is an impact 
investor, independent public board member and experienced senior executive. She 
serves as a senior advisor to the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate 
Crisis.

WHAT IS SUCCESS?
We are not interested in providing a service as much as creating an outcome. 
Our goal is 100% success: 

[gep-ed] research funding/carbon offsets

['Andrew Biro' via gep-ed]

Dear GEP-ED-ers,
Some colleagues at my university are pushing to be able to spend research funds 
on carbon offsets. Our current policy is that they are an ineligible expense, 
so while research funding can be used, for example, to pay for a plane ticket 
to a conference or fieldwork, offsets associated with that ticket (if desired) 
have to be paid for out-of-pocket.

I’m well aware of the debates around the limitations or efficacy of carbon 
offsets, and not wanting to re-spark that debate here. Rather, I am interested 
to whether our policy of ruling carbon offsets an ineligible research expense 
is in or out of line with the policies of other universities or funding 
agencies.

If someone could point me to a list of institutions/agencies that allow offsets 
as an eligible expense, that would be ideal…. In the absence of that, can you 
let me know if your institution does allow it? Please reply to me privately 
andrew.b...@acadiau.ca and, per listserv 
tradition, I will share compiled results on the list in a few days.

Thanks,

Andrew


Andrew Biro
Professor, Dept of Politics
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS  B4P 2R6
phone: 902-585-1925
email: andrew.b...@acadiau.ca
twitter: @andrewbiro

Acadia University is built on the traditional and unceded territory of the 
Mi’kmaq Nation. We are all Treaty People.



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[gep-ed] Nature Food

[Stacy VanDeveer]

FYI
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· Published: 13 January 
2020

>From silos to systems

Nature Food volume 1, 
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The global food system needs a radical overhaul to sustainably feed 10 billion 
people by 2050. Nature Food calls on scientists from the many disciplines of 
food to contribute their knowledge and experience to a collective dialogue on 
food system transformation.

The food system unifies activities in the food supply chain, highlights the 
interdependencies of actions and actors, and is contextualized by societal, 
economic, environmental and health priorities. Food systems are highly 
connected and increasingly global. And yet, from anthropology to zoonosis, 
scientific disciplines relating to the study of food remain, to a large degree, 
defined by silos of activity of the food supply chain.

Nature Food will publish research from the many disciplines relating to food, 
drawing the wealth of knowledge and experience from the studies of food 
production, processing, distribution and consumption, and guiding it towards 
narratives for food system transformation. Nature Food aims to be a resource on 
evidence and action for human health, social justice, economic endeavour and 
the preservation of planetary resources.

The current food system does not work for much of the world’s population in 
terms of providing affordable, healthy diets. Undernutrition, characterized by 
micronutrient deficiencies, is now double-burdened with overweight and obesity, 
especially in many low- and middle-income countries. Tensions are mounting 
between the food system and planetary boundaries — the impacts of the agri-food 
sector on natural resources, biodiversity and pollution are significant. As we 
face increasing climate change and population growth in the decades ahead, the 
resilience of the food system is fundamental to the resilience of society. 
Calls to future-proof the food system have never been stronger.

Momentum has been growing for food system transformation, and the academic 
community has been successful in drawing sharp focus to the critical challenges 
the world faces with food (notably through Lancet commissions 
1,2,3
 on the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change; food in 
the Anthropocene; and the double burden of malnutrition). With the Sustainable 
Development Goals increasingly embedded in our lexicon, sustainable food 
systems are the subject of discourse in high politics and on the high street. 
The UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 will be a crucial moment for political 
leadership. The public have also been sending clear directives through the food 
supply chain about sustainability — plant-based diets and alternative proteins 
are major trends to which the food industry has responded with speed and 
creativity. There is a real sense of increasing political will, and of science 
starting to win over hearts and minds when it comes to our defective food 
system.

In such a climate, an evolving interdisciplinary knowledge base and social 
strategy are vital. Simply put, capacity needs to be built from the research 
community to deliver assuredness to the wider food community, including 
industry and policy-makers, on what needs to be done — and how to do it. With 
its dual aspects of research and commentary, Nature Food is poised to make that 
connection.

In this first issue, David Kanter and colleagues bridge the link between 
evidence and action with a 
Perspective on 
extending the responsibility for nitrogen pollution beyond the farm gate. They 
identify direct and indirect policy options for fertilizer companies, food 
traders, wastewater managers, retailers and consumers in nitrogen abatement, 
shifting some of the burden of responsibility and regulation from the farming 
community.

We also have a number of pieces on the contentious science of nutrition. In a 
broad Review 
Article, Sharon 
Friel and colleagues assert that trade policy, shaping global food supply, 
contributes to poor nutrition. Yet, the role of diet in health and disease is 
littered with controversy, according to Dariush Mozaffarian in his Review 
Article on the 
interplay between diet, obesity and