Changing Climates @ Colorado State

SueEllen Campbell,

John Calderazzo,

and many others

Art by Mahta Bazzaz (7), Iran, UNEP Children’s Art Contest, 2007

Our goals are to

• Make high-quality information about climate change readily available—to our faculty, our students, our community, and beyond

• Be as multidisciplinary as possible

• Aim for curriculum infusion

• Spread our ideas and offer our help to anyone interested

One big change since a year ago: CMMAP sponsorship

(along with CLA Dean, President’s Office, VP

Research, Lilla Morgan (cultural) Fund, Depts of Atmos,

English, Econ, Ag Econ . . . )

So far . . . .

I’ve learned basic Power Point . . .

• Seminar schedule with podcasts, streaming video, written reports

• Join network (& listserv)• Courses • Resources

http://changingclimates.colostate.edu

Faculty-

Teaching-

Faculty

Seminars

January 20082-day teach-in

for students & public

• 3100 or so listeners

• Almost 70 speakers from quite a variety of positions—including involved citizens, business & government folks; a few visitors from out of town; a few students, CSU staff, and researchers; and faculty from all 8 colleges & at least 23 departments

National Park Service

Governor’s Energy Office

NCAR/UCAR

City of Fort Collins

Poudre School District

CSU Facilities, Bookstore, Library

Center for Environmental Management of

Military Lands

Global Social & Sustainable Enterprise Program

Institute for the Built Environment

Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Ag EconAnthropology

Art Atmos

Biology Chemistry

Construction ManagementEnglish

Education Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed

StewardshipGeosciencesJournalism

Management

Mechanical Engineering

Pathology

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Social Work

Sociology

Soil and Crop Sciences

Speech

Wildlife Biology

Increasing Visibility:

Publicity support from university

Columns (papers, alumni mag)

Banners (Penley & new SoGES)

Our current agenda . . . .

Large lecture series

for community and student body

Climate Change:

What We All Need to Know

• Climate science (Dave, done, 375)

• Ecological effects

• Effects on humans

• The literary imagination

• Economics

• Policy

• Solutions (Scott)

Also CO 150, Scott (350-75)

Climate Change

Teaching Team

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Art by Bobbe Besold, from “The Thirteenth Tipping Point,” Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.

Library resource bibliographies

February teach-in

Website: archives,

annotated resources,

syllabi (whole and part),

short essays on “CC & X”

Maybes:

• Leiserowitz seminar

• Earth Day “carbon fest” CLA/CNR

• Course proposals via new school

• RMHS “Green Curriculum”

• Join in a few proposals and possible projects (NREL/NASA,

CSU Facilities, Artposium/Ecoarts)

Look out for more presentation ops:

• Blue River, just done, for NW nature writers, univ-level teachers, & center-

runners• Friday, for teachers of WAL

• ASLE, June, for teachers of L&E, probably international panel, follow-

up on 2007 discussion

Any suggestions, especially for infusion and diffusion?