Category Archives: Climate Change

Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 6: The Many Ways

Posted on June 6, 2023 by climatechangefork

Senator Schumer coordinated what was probably the most consequential senate resolution in his tenure as majority leader, close to midnight on Thursday (June 1st). Even so, he was able to show up Friday morning at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, to celebrate … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 5: Extending Boundaries

Posted on May 30, 2023 by climatechangefork

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller My last blog finished with a promise that this blog would propose ways to incorporate attempts to understand accelerated global changes into the strategic plans of local schools. Again, I will focus on my school. … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 4: Incorporated Research

Posted on May 23, 2023 by climatechangefork

Physics laboratory at Brooklyn College This blog tries to deliver on last week’s blog’s promise to look at the broader impacts of research in the Brooklyn College (BC) Strategic Plan. As I’ve mentioned in earlier blogs in this series, universities … Continue reading →

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Incorporating Changing Reality into College Strategic Plans: Part 2: Matching Students’ Expectations

Posted on May 9, 2023 by climatechangefork

This series of blogs started around Earth Day (April 25, 2023 post), with a question of how best to incorporate Earth Day’s aspiration on a local level. I decided to focus on my own college and university: Brooklyn College (BC) … Continue reading →

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Teaching Students to be Involved in the Energy Transition

Posted on April 18, 2023 by climatechangefork

Spring Break at Brooklyn College I am starting this blog at the tail-end of spring break at my university (CUNY). It will be posted as classes recommence for a month, followed by final exams and the summer break. This is … Continue reading →

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Inserting Climate Change into our Collective Thinking

Posted on April 11, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: SafeKids Worldwide) Last week’s blog focused on collective crimes, collective blame, and collective wisdom. A timely question relevant to my teaching and to this blog is how we “fertilize” collective wisdom to prevent or mitigate global disasters such as … Continue reading →

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Collective Guilt, Collective Blame, and Collective Wisdom

Posted on April 4, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Spreaker) A few days ago I was notified by our Judaic Studies Department about a new film that came out about the history of  German reparations to the Jewish people for the atrocities now known as the Holocaust. I … Continue reading →

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Politicizing ESG Means Politicizing Our Future

Posted on March 28, 2023 by climatechangefork

I have raised the issue of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investments in earlier blogs. A blog from this summer (August 16, 2022) delves into the details of the acronym, shown again in Figure 1. That blog also describes how … Continue reading →

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Dying in the Anthropocene: A Global Perspective

Posted on February 14, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Terracotta Soldiers in Xi’an Figure 2 – Petra (Source: Britannica) Last week’s blog focused on the finite availability of burial land and the unfulfilled wish of many of us to leave behind our stories without crowding the … Continue reading →

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Dying in the Anthropocene

Posted on February 7, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Graveyards of the contiguous US (Source: Joshua Stephens via Insider) I will die in the Anthropocene. The only uncertain part of this statement is whether the global epoch that is now under consideration will be officially named … Continue reading →

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