Wk 12 First Draft

-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

Confronting the Climate Crisis:
Ramapo’s Reckoning with Reality

The President's Committee on Campus Sustainability, 

the Environmental Studies and Sustainability majors,

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

Confronting the Climate Crisis:

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 48^th 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.

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For More Information:
Mike Edelstein (medelste@ramapo.edu),
Ashwani Vasishth (vasishth@ramapo.edu) or
Harriet Shugarman (hshugarm@ramapo.edu)