-First Draft of the papers are handed in. Feedback to be given before midnight on Nov 21st.
-Final Draft Due DEC 4th
-Water Sample Due Dec 4th (locate the faucet closest to where the water line enters your building. Samples taken after all house faucets have been off for at least an hour are stronger samples. Fill the jar half way and label it with the address of the building sampled.)
We will test these.
-For EXTRA CREDIT you may write four paragraphs connecting today's talk with either
-your research paper
-your Meadowlands trip
-your zombie preparedness modeling exercise
Students attend
the Institute for Environmental Studies, and
Ramapo Green
Climate Action & Education
Ramapo’s Reckoning with Reality
9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Trustee’s Pavilions
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mike Edelstein (medelste@ramapo.edu),
Ashwani Vasishth (
Ashwani Vasishth (vasishth@ramapo.edu)
or
Harriet Shugarman (
Harriet Shugarman (hshugarm@ramapo.edu)
Invite you to a day focused on
Anchored By N.J. First Lady Tammy Murphy
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Find Out What Your Future Holds, and What You Can Do About It
9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: Young People Take Charge: Empowering the
Youth Climate Movement
Welcome Provost Stefan Becker
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.: Rachel Lee, Zero Hour, The American Youth Climate
Movement
9:45 – 10:00 a.m.: Samantha DiFalco, Sunrise Movement
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.:
N.J. First Lady Tammy Murphy, Empowering
through Climate Education
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.: The Green New Movement Samantha DiFalco, Sunrise
Movement
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.: Fadoua Brour, The International Youth Climate
Movement
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Interactive Panel with audience Q & A
12:00
p.m. – 1 p.m.: Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: The Climate Crisis and the
Actualization of a Positive Future
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: The Prospects for 2030: Inhabiting a 1.5
or 2 degree C World? – Harriet Shugarman & Ashwani Vasishth, Ph.D
Two Climate Reality leaders give the presentation made famous by
Vice President Al Gore in the movie An Inconvenient Truth. The current Climate
Reality Presentation makes clear the issues at stake living in a world where
the most recent projections of climate change are realized.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: What Climate Change Means to Current and
Future Generations – Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D.
A paradigm shift toward sustainability begun in the 1970s was
delayed by the tight grip of old ways of thinking and acting. Climate change
now brings a clear urgency to the sustainable transition, with the clock no
longer ticking but thundering in our ears! Along the way, people will
experience significant psycho-social impacts as shrinking habitability affects
the way we live and think about our lives and the state of the world we live in
and major changes to our ways of life occur. Can we pull together to limit the
severity of the climate crisis and achieve a sustainable transition? That is
the nagging question.
2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.: Voices of Ramapo Students
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.: Round Table Brainstorming
3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: Report Out of Round Tables
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.: Closing Keynote – Ananya Singh, High
School Student
For
More Information:
For
special accommodations, please contact us.
Visitors
to Ramapo College should enter at the Magnolia Road entrance (closest to Rt.
17) and get a parking sticker from the security booth.
Confirmed Speakers
Faduoa Brour, Founder and President of MYCM---the Moroccan Youth Climate
Movement is a lawyer by training. By action Ms. Brour is a leading climate
activist in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) and played an active
role in the UN climate process. She organized and chaired the UN Climate Youth
meeting that preceded the Marrakesh Climate Negotiations in 2016. She is
currently pursuing joint Green MBA and Environmental Policy graduate degrees at
Bard College. She was previously a visiting scholar in residence at Ramapo
College of New Jersey.
Rachel Lee
is President of NYC Zero Hour, a youth climate organization. Rachel
Lee is a high school sophomore from Closter, NJ, who loves nature and is deeply
pained by the destruction of our planet. She became a serious climate activist
after watching a video by Bill Nye about the Canadian tar sands, and looks
forward to building her career in environmental activism as the Co-Head of Zero
Hour NYC.
Samantha DiFalco is the Hub Coordinator of the Morris County NJ
Sunrise Movement. After finishing college she began to feel the urgency of our
global need to take action on the climate crisis. Soon after, she and a friend
got involved in the Sunrise Movement and formed the Morris County hub. She has
recently helped form the North Jersey Climate Strike Coalition and is helping
organize actions across North Jersey on December 6th.
Harriet Shugarman has run the website Climate Mama for more than
a decade, providing a space for parents to discuss their concerns about
bringing up children in an age of climate uncertainty. Her forthcoming book
expands on this topic. She is a senior Climate Reality trainer featured in high
profile events and media. She also teaches climate change at Ramapo College.
Ashwani Vasishth, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of
Sustainability at Ramapo. He has built upon backgrounds in architecture and
planning to advance his interest in whole systems thinking and how to create
sustainable organizations by training leaders for sustainability. He heads
RCNJ’s own climate and sustainability initiative and is co-head of the new
major in Sustainability and Environmental Studies.
Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D. is an Environmental Psychologist now in
his 48th year of college teaching, 45 of them at Ramapo College of
New Jersey, where he co-heads the new Sustainability and Environmental Studies
program. He has spent his life working on two threads: the psycho-social
effects of environmental contamination and degradation and the transition to a
sustainable society as an academic, an expert witness, consultant and leader of
a non-profit organization. He is currently preparing a third edition of his
book Contaminated Communities, as well as a book on World Sustainability and
another on his Theory of Environmental Turbulence and its applicability to the
climate and other contemporary crises.
Ananya Singh discovered her passion for activism nearly 5 years ago after
attending the Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp, a week-long activist summer
camp. The experience showed her that young people can make a powerful impact
and inspired her to take action on the climate crisis. She began by talking to
her friends and family, researching the issue, and speaking in front of her
middle school peers. With some support from her teachers, resources from
organizations, and supportive mentors, Ananya was able to turn that energy into
a youth activist group at her local library and a campaign target her
congressperson with the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. Since then, she has made
strides as a leader, expanded the scope of her work, and found an interest in
thinking about the structures and systems that support youth leadership. She
currently serves as the CEO of Greening Forward, a youth-led environmental
organization, is the Partnerships Coordinator for the NJ Student Sustainability
Coalition, and is the Planning Team Leader for the North Jersey Climate Strike
Coalition.
