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Monday, April 18, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Established in 1970, the United States Environmental Protection Agency is the leading federal agency working to protect public health, as well as maintain and restore critical watersheds like the Great Lakes. Currently executing on President Biden's Build Back Better agenda,...
Friday, March 18, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Tackling Domestic Climate Change Policy: Remarks from Sonia Aggarwal
As President Biden began his term, the New York Times commented that the President had entered his office with the "largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming." It was a bold move after several years...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
According to John Mitterholzer's calculations, if Ohio were its own country, we would be the 26th largest greenhouse gas emitter on Earth. As Ohio's only delegate from the civil society sector to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)...
Thursday, January 13, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Good Medicine: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer
In her university classroom, Robin Wall Kimmerer begins the semester by surveying her students on their perceptions of human’s interactions with land. She routinely found that nearly all her students believed humans and nature are a bad mix. Furthermore, they...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Youth Forum: 100 Seconds to Midnight*
*This program is not affiliated or endorsed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, creators and managers of the Doomsday Clock. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 as metaphorical gauge alerting humanity to how close...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Global Problem, Local Solution: Ohio’s Cities Leading on Climate Action
According to C40, a collaboration of 97 great cities of the world, cities occupy only two percent of the world’s landmass but consume two-thirds of the world’s energy and produce 70% of global CO2 emissions. Here in Ohio, many local leaders...
Thursday, October 07, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Journalism and the Environmental Movement: Amplifying Voices Through Local Action
In Cleveland and across the country, decades of deliberately racist policies and planning decisions have caused tremendous environmental harm to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Disproportionate exposure to air and water pollution, climate change (flooding, high heat...
Thursday, August 19, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
In 2016, the country’s attention turned to Indigenous Water Protectors in North Dakota as they stood up against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Plans for the pipeline would have it cross multiple waterways and threaten the water for...
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