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Civic
Ecology
Lab
For Chinese participants, please use WeChat to scan this QR code to register.
Environmental Education and Community Engagement
Our Lab is excited to offer again this popular 4-week online course from April 3–30, 2023 (4 weeks).
Participants will explore and create new ideas for community engagement in formal and nonformal environmental education.
We expect hundreds of environmental educators and community leaders to join this global course.
Civic Ecology Lab's latest book explores how we can harness our social networks to fight the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne Krasny shows us the power of "network climate action"—the idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices and advocacy, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.
Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that lead to change. With easy-to-follow dos and don'ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful way forward into our shared future.
Features cartoons by former New Yorker cartoonist Emily Hopkins.
Available in audio, ebook, and paperback. Use QR code or enter 09CARD for 30% discount on Cornell University Press site.
In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis
Please join two powerful environmental champions for a 1-hour action party. You’ll learn about America's dirty secret -- the wastewater issue and how the climate crisis is exacerbating it, often in low-income communities and communities of color. Then fire up the Climate Action Now app and actually DO something about the problem!
About Our Featured Guests
Catherine Coleman Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities. She serves as the Vice Chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, and was a member of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on Climate Change. She is the author of the extraordinary, “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret”.
Caroline Lewis is the Founder and Senior Advisor of the CLEO Institute, the only women-led nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in Florida exclusively dedicated to climate education, advocacy, and engagement. In 2018, Lewis was named by Time Magazine as one of 31 individuals making a difference in the South.
This event is sponsored by the Climate Action Now app, which allows anyone to send letters to policy makers from their phone. Civic Ecology Lab is working with Climate Action Now to support science-based climate policy.
In This Together in the Media
Elders Climate Action Presentation
eCornell Keynote: register here
Advancing Environmental
Education Outcomes
by Marianne E. Krasny
Cornell University Press, March 2020
Being used as a university textbook at University of Connecticut and North Carolina State University, and by educators worldwide.
Social distancing is no reason to stop service learning – just do it online
Article about how universities can continue their community engagement during Covid 19.
Published in The Conversation
