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To celebrate Earth Day on April 22, the Earth Institute has a variety of great events and stories lined up for you throughout this entire month. Check out the list, which we’ll be updating as we publish new content.

Join Andy Revkin, who’s covered climate change since the 1980s, in a brisk chat with the all-star news team assembled by a new outlet, Canary Media, to tackle the trillion-dollar story of the century: the transition to a decarbonized economy and society. The independent newsroom was launched by RMI, the 40-year-old nonprofit think tank. Explore http://canarymedia.com You’ll meet managing editor Eric Wesoff, formerly of Greentech Media; Rebecca Cole from RMI; and editor at la...rge David Roberts, the veteran clean-energy blogger who recently launched his Volts newsletter (http://volts.wtf) Joining the conversation are Kate Ricke, an expert on climate and energy policy at the University of California, San Diego and Genevieve Guenther, founder of endclimatesilence.org More Sustain What episodes: http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive Send feedback and ideas: http://j.mp/sustainwhatfeedback

Aurora (northern lights), Fairbanks, Alaska, January 2020 Another beautiful #ColumbiaBeautifulPlanet photo sent in from @einatlev1, a volcanologist at @LamontEarth Visit https://earthday.columbia.edu/ for all our upcoming Earth Day events, gorgeous photos, and more!

La pandemia del COVID-19, los huracanes, los eventos climáticos extremos y otros desastres nos recuerdan que la resiliencia de nuestra comunidad, incluida la resiliencia económica, depende del regreso a la normalidad para los niños y los programas que los atienden, incluso si es una nueva normalidad. Sin priorizar la normalidad para los niños, el regreso a la vida cotidiana sigue siendo una aspiración lejana para los cuidadores y los padres. Establecer rutinas en la vida de u...n niño después de la interrupción causada por un desastre permite que comience la recuperación económica y comunitaria. La Iniciativa Resilient Children/ Resilient Communities (RCRC), financiada por una subvención de la compañía global de salud GSK, ha creado una serie de informes temáticos que son un reflejo de cinco años de trabajo comunitario en seis comunidades de los Estados Unidos y sus territorios. Este seminario web presentará perspectivas sobre el cuidado infantil y la salud mental y su intersección con la política pública en desastres de miembros de la Coalición para la Resiliencia Comunitaria de Puerto Rico. Panelistas del webinar: Yesenia Delgado - RCRC Community Champion, Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative Helga Maldonado - Directora Regional, ESCAPE, Centro de Fortalecimiento Familiar Maryanne Ramírez - Coordinadora de Primera Infancia, Departamento de la Familia, Puerto Rico Myrnalis Castro - Coordinadora de Servicios, Movimiento para el Alcance de Vida Independiente (MAVI), Puerto Rico Anfitriona: Antonia Samur - Staff Associate, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Earth Institute, Columbia University Recursos: RCRC Toolbox https://rcrctoolbox.org/ RCRC más información: https://rcrctoolbox.org/rcrc-issue-briefs/ Sustain What programas: http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive Envíe comentarios o ideas para programas futuros: http://j.mp/sustainwhatfeedback

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As we go about celebrating Earth Month and Earth Day, it’s worth reflecting on how far we’ve come since last year’s Earth Day.

Thriving Online is Andy Revkin’s weekly brainstorm with innovators & skill builders making the most of our wondrous, but imperiled, communication environment. One of the hardest tasks, in person or online, is holding constructive conversations amid seemingly intractable conflict. This webcast is the first in what will be a regular series on difficult conversations. This Election edition features Peter Coleman of Columbia University’s Difficult Conversations Lab; the journalis...t Amanda Ripley, who wrote a pioneering Solutions Journalism primer for reporters on how to cover complex conflict; and Reggie Harris and Wallis Raemer, descendants, black and white, of the slaveholder Williams Carter Wickham, whose statue was toppled in Richmond, Virginia, in June. Harris, a black songwriter, storyteller and educator, and Raemer, a white retired educator, are part of a group within Wickham's descendants that - for several years prior to this summer's protests - had been seeking, through legal means, to have the statue removed from public land. Here's a feature in the The New York Times centering on the learning journey of Wickham descendants: http://j.mp/wickhamfamilyjourney Here's more on Reggie Harris, a longtime songwriter, storyteller and educator: http://reggieharrismusic.com Across several centers at Columbia University, Peter Coleman applies insights from science to advance peace, constructive conflict and social justice. His latest book is "Making Conflict Work." He founded Columbia's Difficult Conversations Lab. Explore here: https://j.mp/34vKOmI Amanda Ripley is a seasoned journalist and author. https://www.amandaripley.com/ Her much-read 2018 essay for the Solutions Journalism Network explored how journalists can break reporting and writing habits that have tended to intensify, rather than offer nuance, around charged issues: "Complicating the Narratives - What if journalists covered controversial issues differently based on how humans actually behave when they are polarized and suspicious?" http://bit.ly/2RzH8vj These conversations are produced and run by Andrew Revkin, founding director of the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability. To support this initiative or send feedback and ideas, click here: http://j.mp/sustainwhatfeedback

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Climate Science Legal Defense Fund have developed a tool for journalists and the public that they can use to see how science is being "silenced" under the Trump administration.

After tough weekday conversations untangling the toughest questions in sustainability, Andy Revkin of Columbia University’s Earth Institute kicks back with lyrical and artistic friends and guests recharging hearts and souls and pursuing human progress through the arts. With the regular array of unusual suspects, this week's Election special features: - Dean Friedman, who is famed for 1970's radio hits Ariel and McDonald’s Girl and remains a nonstop entertainer: http://deanfr...iedman.com - Reverend Billy Talen, a performance artist and activist focused on ending overconsumption and advancing social justice, with a radio show on WABC (the same station bringing you, yes, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro). Follow him at twitter.com/revbillytalen. Get in touch with ideas for more shows, or to participate, by filling out the feedback query here: j.mp/sustainwhatfeedback

In what will be perhaps the most insanely consequential and unpredictable week in an insanely consequential and unpredicted year, we pause to reflect on whatever happens. Join Andy Revkin and a mix of guests - musicians, pundits, poets and more - as we explore the day after Election Day in the U.S., in an open Earth Institute brainstorm on the state of the planet, and ourselves. I'll make the green room link available at certain points for civil visits by viewers (there is a "banish" button, just so you know).

In April, Andy Revkin of the Earth Institute hosted Hammer to Dance communication innovator Tomas Pueyo, Columbia virologist Angela Rasmussen and Howard Frumkin, the former director of the federal Center for Environmental Health in a groundbreaking conversation on paths to a pandemic-resistant America. There was a chance, at that time, with federal leadership and investment, to mitigate many of the losses and societal costs since then. But of course that didn't happen. So ...what now? We revisit the failures since then, and explore options ahead with Eliza Barclay, the science and health editor of Vox, and Matt Simon, a science journalist at WIRED who has written on the pandemic and much more. Reading: Howard Frumkin's May 4 Medium essay outlining a National Recovery Corps: https://medium.com//a-new-deal-for-coronavirus-recovery-95 Tomas Pueyo's September 14th New York Times op-ed article: "To Beat the Coronavirus, Build a Better Fence" https://j.mp/2HsG3BV Matt Simon's WIRED story: The Case for Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps https://j.mp/35AbwKl Watch our April discussion of the Hammer-to-Dance imperative: https://www.earth.columbia.edu//communicating-the-covid19-

Nick Frearson builds devices that can survive just about anything. From brutally cold Antarctic conditions to the lashing winds atop a volcano, Frearson’s instruments have to be rugged in order to collect vital scientific information in some of the world’s remotest locations.

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Join us live now! Women in science explore harrowing issues and promising insights revealed in a documentary charting three tough journeys toward gender equity and justice. In this special episode of the Earth Institute’s Sustain What webcast, leading and emerging female researchers discuss circumstances and lessons revealed in the piercing and invaluable documentary Picture a Scientist, a vivid exploration of the hard-won gains of three women working in different fields. T...he guests are: - Jane Willenbring, associate professor of geosciences at Stanford University whose harrowing undergraduate experience in the field in Antarctica and subsequent pursuit of justice is one of three story lines in the film. (The film also traces the fights of the biologist Nancy Hopkins and the chemist Raychelle Burks.) - Angelica Patterson, a doctoral candidate at the Earth Institute focused on the interaction of climate change and changes in forests and an enthusiastic science communicator who has helped encourage Black engagement in botany. - Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences and, among many other past positions, was editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals and director of the U.S. Geological Survey. - Sharon Shattuck, who co-directed and co-produced the film with Ian Cheney. https://fb.watch/1pjQUr1QTt/

Women in science explore harrowing issues and promising insights revealed in a documentary charting three tough journeys toward gender equity and justice ~ Through much of the history of science, women have faced outsize hurdles and risks in pursuing careers in research and academia -- ranging from denied credit and advancement to physical and emotional abuse. Sadly, many of those impediments to equitable and productive participation in work advancing human knowledge persist ...to this day. In this special episode of the Earth Institute’s Sustain What webcast, leading and emerging female researchers discuss circumstances and lessons revealed in the piercing and invaluable documentary Picture a Scientist, a vivid exploration of the hard-won gains of three women working in different fields. The guests are: - Jane Willenbring, associate professor of geosciences at Stanford University whose harrowing undergraduate experience in the field in Antarctica and subsequent pursuit of justice is one of three story lines in the film. (The film also traces the fights of the biologist Nancy Hopkins and the chemist Raychelle Burks.) - Angelica Patterson, a doctoral candidate at the Earth Institute focused on the interaction of climate change and changes in forests and an enthusiastic science communicator who has helped encourage Black engagement in botany. - Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences and, among many other past positions, was editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals and director of the U.S. Geological Survey. - Sharon Shattuck, who co-directed and co-produced the film with Ian Cheney. The webcast will be hosted by Andrew Revkin, the founding director of the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, and Kuheli Dutt, Assistant Director for Academic Affairs & Diversity at the Earth Institute’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The webcast, which streams on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Periscope, will be open to the general public, and open for questions. The film was made available for viewing by the Lamont and Earth Institute community through the generosity of the Heising-Smons Foundation, which also was the principal funder of the documentary. Learn more about the film here: http://pictureascientist.com Learn about the Earth Institute’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/3369 This is a production of the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability: http://sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu

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