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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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Students’ Input into Institutional Commitments: Climate Action Plans

Posted on October 10, 2023 by climatechangefork

College enrollment has become an important issue that preoccupies most schools, including mine. The reasons are complex and will not be addressed here. Most colleges also, whether directly or indirectly, live on public support. If the public, through its elected … Continue reading →

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Nations in Debt

Posted on September 26, 2023 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs dealt with insurance against catastrophic damage that is associated with the accelerating impacts of climate change (September 12th and September 19th). Both blogs were focused on the United States. The first was focused on the increasing … Continue reading →

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Bringing My Family Tree to Australia

Posted on August 15, 2023 by climatechangefork

The details of our trip to Darwin were outlined in the first blog that I wrote and posted three days after our return (July 25th). I wrote that “the main driving force that led us to take the trip was … 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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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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Population Decline – Background

Posted on February 28, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 (Source: World Economic Forum) While I was busy over the last few blogs talking about living and dying in the Anthropocene, a few major changes in the demography of the planet took place. These changes drove me to … Continue reading →

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Energy Intensity

Posted on December 20, 2022 by climatechangefork

My recent blogs have focused on COP27 and its main decision of creating a mechanism for developed countries to transfer resources to developing countries to help them adapt to the damage that climate change inflicts. The best way for everybody … Continue reading →

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Will Our Children and Grandchildren be Grateful and Think Well of Us??

Posted on December 14, 2022 by climatechangefork

The title of this blog doesn’t set any time frame. My grandchildren and my students are approximately the same age. However, it strongly indicates that something good is now happening. This good thing is happening as a result of the … Continue reading →

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