climate change
Book Launch: Our Warming Planet (vol 2): Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Online/ZoomWednesday, February 16th @ 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Published by World Scientific, this is a unique set of authoritative lectures on climate change impacts and adaptation by world-recognized leading scientists. There is nothing like it available elsewhere. Speakers at the launch include…
Ocean Encounters: Seaweed Solutions
Online/ZoomWednesday, February 16th @ 7:30 p.m. This talk will be about how scientists, ocean farmers, and policy makers are looking to kelp as a sustainable solution to some of the toughest issues facing our world today. As our climate continues…
The Best Climate Science You’ve Never Heard Of
OnlineThursday, February 17th @ noon Most journalists have long echoed what we thought was the scientific consensus: Even if greenhouse gas emissions stop, global temperatures will keep rising for 30 to 40 more years, mainly because of carbon dioxide’s long…
SPEAKER SERIES: Ecological Solutions to Climate Change with Author & Entomologist Dr. Doug Tallamy
Online/ZoomThursday, February 24 @ 6:30 — 8:00 p.m. Global declines in the population of insects and birds in North America suggest that traditional landscape designs don't do a good job sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. In the…
Unprecedented Funding for Unprecedented Times: Demystifying Federal Funds for Climate Resilience
Online/ZoomFriday, March 4th @ 10:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. via Zoom The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act are bringing unparalleled amounts of funding to state and local governments to address climate change and its…
Deep Dialogue: ECA Mass Conversation Series
Online/ZoomMonday, February 28th @ 4:00 — 5:30 p.m. via Zoom Elder Climate Action's February Deep Dialogue features Energy Realities, a presentation by by David Butz, local engineer and inventor, who has studied energy and climate issues for more than 20…
Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment Community Discussions
Online/ZoomHelp shape Massachsuetts' understanding of cliamte impacts to help plan for the future by joining a statewide conversation on climate change impacts — such as extreme heat and flooding — affecting you, your families, and your community. Choose your preferred…
Talk on the Hill — “Look Back to See Our Future”
Online/ZoomThursday, March 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. — 8:30 p.m. via Zoom Williamstown Rural Lands (WRL) is hosting a talk by Tom Johnson, Looking Back to See Our Future. The lecture is one of the monthly WRL series Talks on the Hill. A…
Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment Community Discussions
Online/ZoomHelp shape Massachsuetts' understanding of cliamte impacts to help plan for the future by joining a statewide conversation on climate change impacts — such as extreme heat and flooding — affecting you, your families, and your community. Choose your preferred…
Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment Community Discussions
Online/ZoomHelp shape Massachsuetts' understanding of cliamte impacts to help plan for the future by joining a statewide conversation on climate change impacts — such as extreme heat and flooding — affecting you, your families, and your community. Choose your preferred…
Massachusetts Climate Change Assessment Community Discussions
Online/ZoomHelp shape Massachsuetts' understanding of cliamte impacts to help plan for the future by joining a statewide conversation on climate change impacts — such as extreme heat and flooding — affecting you, your families, and your community. Choose your preferred…
Climate Change Impacts: How Will We Cope as Individuals and Communities?
Online/ZoomWednesday, March 9th @ 7 — 8 p.m. via Zoom Speakers: Ezra Markowitz UMass Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation; Member, American Psychological Association Climate Change Task Force & Ben Weil UMass Extension Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, Member,…
The Senate President and the Speaker: Insights on the Legislative Session and Beyond
Online/ZoomWednesday, March 23 @ 11:00 AM Beacon Hill has a full plate: Offshore wind, solar, and other climate change policies. Leftover ARPA funding and spending options. The FY 2023 budget. Tax cuts. Mental health care access. Prescription drug costs. Education…
CLF Virtual Break: The Future is Electric
Online/ZoomThursday, March 24 @ 5:30 PM Concerned about the dangers of fossil fuels and damage to our climate? Wondering if it’s even possible to break our addiction to them? Join Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and friends in visualizing the future of clean…
Bard’s One-Night Teach-in on Climate and Justice
Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd., Great Barrington, MATuesday, March 29 — “Hope for Our Mother Earth: An Interfaith Service of Prayers, Meditations, Dance, and Music,” Chapel, 5:30 PM Wednesday, March 30 @ 4:45 — 9:30 PM Karianne Canfield, Bard alumni class of 2020, is at the center…
Our Warming Planet – Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation (Webinar Series)
Online/ZoomLectures in Climate Change is a unique combination of written text plus electronic slides that together comprise an informative and up-to-date set of presentations. This second volume, entitled Our Warming Planet: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, covers areas of climate…
How to Prepare for Climate Change
Athol Public LibraryWednesday, April 13th @ 6:00 p.m. In person at the Athol Public Library – limited seating In How to Prepare for Climate Change, bestselling self-help author David Pogue offers sensible, deeply researched advice for how we can ready ourselves for…
Log Lunch – Climate Change & Greenland: Environmental Impacts of the Cold War
The Log 78 Spring St, Williamstown, MA, United StatesFriday, April 15 @ 12:00 — 1:00 PM Climate Change & Greenland: The Environmental Impacts of the Cold War, Paul Bierman, Professor of Environmental Science, University of Vermont All are invited to Log Lunch for a locally grown homemade veggie…
Climate Change and Health: Indicators and Pathways
OnlineFriday, April 15 @ 12:00 — 4:30 PM The influences of weather and climate on human health are varied and increasingly alarming. Exposure to health hazards related to climate change has the capacity to affect all individuals physical and mental…
Amending NEPA to Enhance Environmental Justice and Climate Change Assessments
OnlineThursday, April 21 @ 12:00 — 1:20 PM The Biden administration has proposed reversing a number of Trump administration changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations by requiring federal agencies to evaluate the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental…