Weber State is again participating in the Worldwide Climate & Justice Education effort, this year focused around the month of March.  This initiative is part of Solve Climate by 2030, a project of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College in New York (From 2020-2024, the project was supported by the Open Society University Network) to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people (from universities, colleges, K-12 schools and more) to spark real dialogue on climate solutions and justice in classes and in communities around the world. 

All campus and wider community members are welcome to attend and participate!

Event Schedule

Monday, March 30: Located in 

9:30 - 10:20 a.m. Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321)

Climate Issues & Solutions

Presenters: Alice Mulder, Dept. of Geography, Environment & Sustainability and Students

10:30 - 11:20 a.m. Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321) 

WSU Climate and Sustainability Action 

Presented by members of the WSU Sustainability team

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. McKay Education (ED) Room 108 - the Fab Lab

Hands-On Climate Resilient Housing Design Challenge 

Organized by Jessie Nixon, Dept. of Teacher Education

Tuesday, March 31: Located in Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321)

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Film Screening

A New Climate Vision

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Climate Conversations

Join others for an informal session to share thoughts, feelings, concerns or perhaps excitement (for all the good things that could come with emissions reductions) and ideas regarding climate change. You're likely not alone in your thinking/feeling.  Co-facilitated by faculty Alice Mulder and Craig Obershenk, not experts in climate grief/eco-anxiety, but folks familiar with the issues and/or the value in talking through our feelings and thoughts.

3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Environmental Psychology: Human-Nature Relationships Along the Wasatch Front

Presenters: Aminda O'Hare, Dept. of Psychological Science and Students 

Wednesday, April 1: Located in Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321)

        12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Eco-Poetry Jam and Climate Theater

Facilitated by Sunni Wilkinson, Dept. of English and Sarah Brew, Dept. of Performing Arts
Participate in and/or listen to a poetry jam with and experience climate related theater performed by students. 

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

"In Poor Health; The Great Salt Lake and Us"

Presenter: Chalice Gustaveson, Dept. of Medical Laboratory Sciences

Thursday, April 2: 

Noon - 1:15 p.m. Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321) 

Career Exploration Panel

Are you curious about careers in climate-related fields? This event is for you! Join us as we hear from professionals who are currently working in a variety of climate fields. Panelists will be followed by a Q&A session.

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321) 

Fostering Local Climate Resilience for You and Nature  
Presenters: Alice Mulder, Dept. Of Geography, Environment & Sustainability and Sustainabilty in Practice students (Geog 4920)

5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Wattis Business (WB) Room 203

Effects of Climate Change on Supply Chains
Presenters: François Carrier, Dept. of Supply Chain and Management Information Systems and students

Friday, April 3: Located in Stewart Library, Hetzel-Hoellein (Room 321)

         11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

Climate Games!
Come play games related to climate and eat snacks - hosted by the sustainable clubs on campus!

Saturday, April 4: Located at the 21st Street Pond

           10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Reconnect to the River:  Ogden River Clean Up - Location the 21st Street Pond, 650 W 20th St, Ogden, UT 84401, sign-up to volunteer through GivePulse.
Help WSU's Sustainability Practices and Research Center, Center for Community Engaged Learning, and the Ogden Nature Center clean part of the Ogden River corridor. Any updates will be provided through the GivePulse link.

Everyone Can Engage with Solutions

Visit this page for lots of ideas for climate action related to a range of topics:  air quality & transportation, biodiversity & land, civic engagement, energy & buildings, food, water, and working toward zer0.  Explore these and make a pledge to yourself, family, friends, or organization of what you can do next. 

This Climate Resource Page also includes ideas for ways to engage in education/action related to climate change on campus or in our wider community through events, organizations.

 

Resources for Educators

Resources to engage on climate change-related topics, impacts, and solutions independent of the campus event are available in a module in the Canvas Commons. These may prove useful for those faculty teaching online/hybrid courses or who just wish to pick their materials for a class assignment/discussion, etc., as a way of participating in the larger Teach-In. 

The module in Canvas Commons is called "Climate and Justice World Wide Teach-In" (faculty will need to be logged in to Canvas to access it). 

Additional resources to bring the Teach-In to your course include the recording of the 2022 World Wide Climate/Justice Teach-In, which included 5-minute flash presentations by various WSU faculty (available now, with indexed time markers for each presentation), and these thought-provoking "Turn it Around" art and text flashcards made by youth for adults (educators, students, policymakers and more). A sampling of resources for engagement on campus and beyond can be found here. 

Follow this link for resources for classes from college to pre-school, created by Bard University and the Open Society University Network.