Re: [gep-ed] Thoughts for 50th Earth Day

[Maria H Ivanova]

Thank you, Shannon! I would like to add a couple of resources to this list:

Lecture by Christiana Figueres as the 2020 Robert C Wood Visiting Professor at 
UMass Boston
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis in the Age of 
COVID-19
April 16, 2020

Boston Globe 
op-ed
 “As Earth Day turns 50, the US has abdicated its leadership role in protecting 
the environment”

I am sure that many colleagues have also been interviewed in various outlets 
today. Would be great to collect these. Here is my contribution:

wnhn 94.7 – The Attitude with Arnie 
Arnesen 
talks with Maria Ivanova about Earth Day at 50

Maria
Maria Ivanova, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Governance
Director, Center for Governance and 
Sustainability
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global 
Studies
University of Massachusetts Boston

Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Collective 
Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

maria.ivan...@umb.edu / 
mivan...@mit.edu
Faculty webpage / 
ResearchGate / @mivanova

From: gep-ed  on behalf of "O'Lear, Shannon" 

Reply-To: "ol...@ku.edu" 
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM
To: gep-ed 
Subject: [gep-ed] Thoughts for 50th Earth Day

[EXTERNAL SENDER]
Greetings, Gep-Ed Colleagues!

Here is the compiled list of offerings from this group for the 50th Earth Day:

Thoughts for 50th Earth Day

>From Aseem Prakash:
Coronavirus Encouraged Pro-Climate Behaviors: Here’s How Earth Day Celebrations 
Could Help Sustain Them
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/03/19/coronavirus-encouraged-pro-climate-behaviors-heres-how-earth-day-celebrations-could-help--sustain-them/#6d3e4abdb7b5


Climate Change Helped Global Cooperation. Will Coronavirus Undermine It?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/04/11/climate-change-helped-global-cooperation-will-coronavirus-undermine-it/#e5efa8fccfe1



>From Ron Mitchell:
Make a small deal out of being an environmentalist. Calculate your daily carbon 
footprint as of today. Then simply try to that amount over the next two weeks. 
Then, maintain that change, and do another 1% over the next two weeks. In 2 
years, you would be at 0% and moving into negative territory and can sell your 
carbon offsets to somebody else!


>From Thea Riofrancos:
Join us for a public discussion with the authors of "A Planet to Win: Why We 
Need a Green New Deal"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-planet-to-win-why-we-need-a-green-new-deal-tickets-82910975961


>From Timmons Roberts
Sorry but I think the 50th Earth Day should be a wake-up call that 
environmental efforts have been inadequate and are being actively and rapidly 
rolled back by this Administration.  The climate deniers and industry lobbyists 
are running the government. Environmental scholars and the environmental 
movement have not understood well their opposition. They thought good ideas 

[gep-ed] American University Divests out of Fossil Fuels

[Paul Wapner]

Hi Gepers,

Some good news on Earth Day: I’m proud to report that American University has 
divested its endowment from fossil fuels.  In the shadow of COVID-19, moving 
toward a clean energy future can continue.

https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2020/04/breaking-au-announces-full-financial-divestment-from-fossil-fuel-stocks

Stay safe and green,
Paul

Paul Wapner
Professor, Global Environmental Politics
School of International Service
American University
pwap...@american.edu

My latest book, Is Wildness 
Over?
  is now available from 
Polity or 
Amazon.

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[gep-ed] Postdoctoral Fellow: Center for Environmental and Animal Protection

[Yifei Li]

Dear Colleagues,

On this wonderful occasion of the 50th Earth Day, I write to share with you
information about a postdoctoral opening at NYU Shanghai and the NYU Center
for Environmental and Animal Protection. The successful candidate will be
based in Shanghai or New York. Applicants with a PhD in sociology,
geography, journalism, environmental studies, environmental sciences, or
related fields are welcomed to apply. Review of applications will begin
immediately until the position is filled. Please see more information at
https://apply.interfolio.com/75784. The position announcement is also
pasted below. I'd be happy to answer any questions about this position.

Cheers,
Yifei


*Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Shanghai and the Center for Environmental and
Animal Protection*


*Description*NYU Shanghai and the Center for Environmental and Animal
Protection (CEAP) at NYU New York invite applications for a Postdoctoral
Fellow to work on “Bending the Curve: Meat and Dairy Production and
Consumption in China.”  The Postdoctoral Fellow will be jointly supervised
by Professor Yifei Li (NYU Shanghai) and Dale Jamieson (CEAP). Postdoctoral
Fellow will be based in Shanghai and be part of the NYU Shanghai academic
community. We offer a generous compensation package, funds to support
research and travel, and aim to offer access to NYU faculty housing.

Bending the Curve is a three-year project focused on understanding present
and future trends in animal protein consumption in the PRC and on producing
recommendations for actions and policies that would reduce consumption from
the “business as usual” projections. The work will involve inventorying and
understanding present consumption and trend lines, understanding and
inventorying present incentives and disincentives for production and
consumption, and providing recommendations and engagement with key
stakeholders.

The responsibilities of the successful applicant will be quite diverse
including conducting research, planning workshops, and managing data. The
Postdoctoral Fellow will be centrally involved in publishing project
results in refereed journals and in preparing occasional briefings for a
broader audience.

NYU Shanghai is the third degree-granting campus within New York
University’s global network. It is the first higher education joint venture
in China authorized to grant degrees that are accredited in the U.S. as
well as in China. All teaching is conducted in English. A research
university with liberal arts and science at its core, it resides in one of
the world's great cities with a vibrant intellectual community. NYU
Shanghai recruits scholars of the highest caliber who are committed to
NYU's global vision of transformative teaching and innovative research and
who embody the global society in which we live.


*Qualifications*Qualifications include a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in a
relevant field, fluency in both English and Chinese, ability to work with
both English and Chinese data, and familiarity with multiple methods of
social science research.


*Application Instructions*Interested applicants should submit a CV, contact
information for three academic referees, and a cover letter addressing
research, academic interests, and interest in this project.

Application review will begin immediately and continue until the position
is filled.  The appointment can begin on May 1st, 2020 and preferably no
later than July 1st 2020. If you have any questions, please e-mail
shanghai.faculty.recruitm...@nyu.edu.


Yifei Li
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University Shanghai
Global Network Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies,
New York University

Email: yifei...@nyu.edu, URL: http://yifei.li/, Phones: +86 21 20595202;
+01 608 616 0417
Address: Room 1203, NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai 200122,
China

Sign up for an office hour meeting via Google Calendar

.

Check out my new book *China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a
Troubled Planet *.

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[gep-ed] Thoughts for 50th Earth Day

[O'Lear, Shannon]

Greetings, Gep-Ed Colleagues!

Here is the compiled list of offerings from this group for the 50th Earth Day:

Thoughts for 50th Earth Day

>From Aseem Prakash:
Coronavirus Encouraged Pro-Climate Behaviors: Here's How Earth Day Celebrations 
Could Help Sustain Them
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/03/19/coronavirus-encouraged-pro-climate-behaviors-heres-how-earth-day-celebrations-could-help--sustain-them/#6d3e4abdb7b5

Climate Change Helped Global Cooperation. Will Coronavirus Undermine It?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2020/04/11/climate-change-helped-global-cooperation-will-coronavirus-undermine-it/#e5efa8fccfe1



>From Ron Mitchell:
Make a small deal out of being an environmentalist. Calculate your daily carbon 
footprint as of today. Then simply try to that amount over the next two weeks. 
Then, maintain that change, and do another 1% over the next two weeks. In 2 
years, you would be at 0% and moving into negative territory and can sell your 
carbon offsets to somebody else!


>From Thea Riofrancos:
Join us for a public discussion with the authors of "A Planet to Win: Why We 
Need a Green New Deal"
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-planet-to-win-why-we-need-a-green-new-deal-tickets-82910975961


>From Timmons Roberts
Sorry but I think the 50th Earth Day should be a wake-up call that 
environmental efforts have been inadequate and are being actively and rapidly 
rolled back by this Administration.  The climate deniers and industry lobbyists 
are running the government. Environmental scholars and the environmental 
movement have not understood well their opposition. They thought good ideas and 
international cooperation would move things forward; that the arc of history 
was bending toward justice.

I am NOT saying give up. To the contrary, I am saying that the movement needs 
to get much more savvy, tough, and political. Scholars in this area could be 
much more helpful with research on the forces blocking and rolling back the 
protections we need to have a functioning ecosystem when we get to Earth Day 60 
or 75.


>From Stacy VanDeveer:
Most hopeful, for me:
n  Growing youth activism - that, while not globally "equal" certainly looks 
more global than most international activism
n  Growing success of anti-coal movements and strategies And the hope that 
natural gas and oil or next in line, as targets



...and to round up this collection, here is a link to the newsletter that my 
department put together for the 50th Earth Day:
https://mailchi.mp/004b8f8a3b04/graduate-professional-student-appreciation-week-1295834?e=e7c76011c2

The first Earth Day didn't happen here in Lawrence, KS because the city was in 
the midst of race riots (well, racist riots, if we are going to label it 
accurately).

For this newsletter, a colleague of mine in Atmospheric Science and I wrote the 
"letter from faculty" together, and we got sign off from the Geography & 
Atmospheric Science Department, the Environmental Studies Program, and the 
Geology Department (and I'm not sure they read it carefully enough to notice 
they were signing off a letter with a call for ethical decisions related to 
human-environment interactions!).

We sent this newsletter not only to students, alumni, etc., but also to our 
Dean and our Provost. In light of the collapse of normalcy that university 
administrations are dealing with related to COVID19, it seems like a good time 
to connect the current situation to ongoing work on related concerns about our 
planetary life support system.

I'm sending this message off to all of you and wishing you good health, mental 
stamina, and continued, creative thinking for all the work you are doing!

Shannon O'Lear



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Center for Global and International Studies

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Environmental Studies Program

University of Kansas
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