SEI Climate Lectures 2021-2023
(italics titles are recorded lectures.)
2023:
May 18, 2023: The Inflation Reduction Act: What's the IRA all about? Andrew Ellis, Environmental Scientist and speaker from the Climate Reality Project
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Recording of the event on YouTube (60 mins.)
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Mother Jones, May-June 2023: "“Electrify Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”
April 28, 2023: See April Earth Month under this tab.
March 17, 2023: Incorporating a climate curriculum in non-STEM fields: a breakout session hosted by the SEI at Discipline Day 2023 from the DAS - LACCD
February 23, 2023: Finance and Fossil Fuels: a panel on banking, defunding, and divestment from carbon burning
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Recording of the event
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California-Pensions-Fail-to-Engage, Fossil Free California
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CalSTRS rebuts the divestment proposal
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Two Economies Collide: Competition, Conflict, and the Financial Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
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Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies
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Banking-on-Climate-Chaos-2021 (complete report)
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Bill announced to divest California, (FFCA)
2022:
November 10, 2022: Climate Anxiety and Younger People
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Recording of the Event
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Google Docs page with media sources on climate anxiety
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What Psychologists Want Today’s Young Adults to Know, NYT
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6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect Physical and Mental Health, Medium
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Campuses are offering therapy for anxiety over climate change WaPo
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Climate anxiety is a normal response to an abnormal situation
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Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now, Inside Higher Ed.
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Combating Climate Anxiety, KQED
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Try to Resist the Call of the Doomers, NYT
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The Joy of Saving the World, New Republic
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'OK Doomer' and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
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Students wait months for mental health help, LAT
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Facing extreme heat and drought, young Californians cope to beat climate anxiety and doom
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"Doctors: TikTok Mental Health Advice Videos Are a Cesspool of Misinformation"
October 20, 2022: Aridity and Water
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Beneath parched L.A. is a sea of water. But can it quench our thirst?
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California Coastal Commission OKs desalination plant in Orange County
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Water, water everywhere, and L.A. just lets it go to waste. What we need to do to keep it
September 22, 2022: "Climate Politics"
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Politics and Global Warming 2020 a Yale and George Mason Univ. study
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8/22/22: NYT- "Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer, here's how"
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8/5/22: NYT- "How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action"
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9/6/21: Guardian- "No point in anything else Gen Z and climate"
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9/2019: Vice: "The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History"
August 18, 2022: "Heat" seminar
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Federal Government Fires Up Website all about heat, NYT 7/26/22
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"How America's first heat officers are cooling Miami and Los Angeles: meet Marta Segura"
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"What is the Urban Heat Island effect and Urban Surface Roughness?" Medium
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LA Regional Collaborative for Climate Action: "Extreme Heat Campaign Social Media Toolkit"
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City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department "Beat the Heat" website
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"SoCal’s worst heat wave of the year: What’s the timing, who will be hit hardest?" LA Times 8/30
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6/17/21: NatGeo: “Los Angeles confronts its shady divide: A lack of tree cover in low-income areas has left many residents especially vulnerable to rising heat. It’s a legacy of the city’s design—and its history of racist policies”
April 22, 2022: Earth Day seminar
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The SEI hosted a morning of Earth Day via zoom
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There were 110 participants The program is here
2021:
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Life and Death on the Fire P lanet, an interview with Stephen Pyne
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California Wildfires Reach a Historic Scale and are still growing, WaPo
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Maps show where wildfires have burned over and over again in LA county (Curbed)
October 21: “Addressing the sixth largest mass extinction in natural history”
September 16: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment: Is sustainability Possible?
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Energy Efficiency and The Built Environment: Is sustainability Possible?
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YouTube Carbon friendly steel? Dave Borlace, Just Have a Think
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Facilities slides (PDF) courtesy of Dr. Rueben Smith and Bharat Patel
August 19: The Challenge of the Climate Crisis
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mp4 video (2:15 mins) Runaway Glaciers Antarctica NASA (videos)
July 15: California Water
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California Drought and the future for LA water (seminar from the SEI)
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mp4 video (9:30 mins) on CA Water from NeoChannel (videos page)
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mp4 video (4:55 mins) on CA drought from Climate Desk (videos page)
