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My Full-Scale Global Focus

Posted on December 5, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Ismail Sadiron/EyeEm/Getty Images via Harvard Business Review) Things are happening around each one of us on all scales; we better pay attention. Two weeks ago (November 21st), I started a series of blogs focused on what I can do … Continue reading →

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Student Impacts on College Priorities

Posted on October 25, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: ABC News: Andie Noonan via Greeneration Foundation) College strategic plans reflect colleges’ priorities (put “college strategic plans” into the search box to review prior blogs). Reflecting on my own school, when the budget becomes tight, and there is a … 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 1

Posted on May 2, 2023 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog focused on the celebration of Earth Day, ending with a promise that this week’s blog would focus on a local effort. The natural local effort for me to address is my place of work: the City University … Continue reading →

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Back to Educating in the Anthropocene

Posted on February 21, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: The Lancet) The original caption of this figure reads “The Planetary Health Education Framework.” However, it is similar to the Venn diagram that I discussed in a previous blog (August 4, 2020), which includes climate change, equity, Covid-19, population, … Continue reading →

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Antisemitism and Collegiality

Posted on November 8, 2022 by climatechangefork

Two days before the Israeli elections (Tuesday, November 1st) and a week before the approaching elections in the US (Today, Tuesday, November 8th), I received an email from a Jewish colleague about an ongoing, anti-Israeli petition that was circulating in … Continue reading →

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Electric Utilities Through the Lens of the IPAT Identity

Posted on May 31, 2022 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs focused on applying the IPAT identity to sub-country organizations. For obvious reasons, I started this analysis with a focus on oil companies and their supposed commitments to net-zero carbon emissions in the “near” (mid-century) future. One … Continue reading →

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Single-Use Plastic and Decarbonization

Posted on April 5, 2022 by climatechangefork

Source: Advanced Waste Solutions As I mentioned in last week’s blog, I will temporarily leave the topic of the devastating Russian aggression against Ukraine and shift back to the impending global environmental threats connected to climate change. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict … Continue reading →

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Meta (Facebook) and Cherry Picking

Posted on January 19, 2022 by climatechangefork

A recent announcement from Facebook informed us all that “Connection is evolving so are we … welcome to Meta.” While I was not born there, I grew up in Israel, so Hebrew is my “native” language. In Hebrew, “meta” refers … Continue reading →

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