Climate Change Education Solutions Network

Educators, make sure to register for this truly life-changing program this summer. Stipends are still available to cover the registration fee.

Summer Institute for Climate Change Education Registration - Climate Generation You are registering for the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education, coming to you virtually July 15-16, 2024, plus on a regional cohort day on July 17th, 18th, or 19th.  We invite you to complete the registration in full. We use your responses to customize the sessions to your needs and back...

Check out these awesome illustrations by Lynn Finnegan. We have lots of work to do right now

Fig & Ishka #1 "What you doing?"

Young Changemakers Fellowship NOAA's Young Changemakers Fellowship (YCF) is a year-long opportunity for high school students across the United States, U.S. territories, and tribal nations to make a difference for the ocean and environment. With support from NOAA, participating students design and carry out an action project to a...

Protect the Porkies! Take action now

Protect the Porkies Join us in opposing a Canadian company's plan to turn Lake Superior and the Porcupine Mountains into a "SACRIFICE ZONE"

Many thanks to Michigan Tech and Keweenaw Land Trust for such a successful Upper Peninsula premier of Climate Sisu!

Climate Sisu — Copper Beacon This 55-minute film takes the viewer on a journey through Michigan in search of community knowledge about climate action, resilience, adaptation, and education.

Join our friends at the Great Lakes Environmental Festival, Inc. this April to celebrate the Earth Day, connect with likeminded friends and colleagues, and watch the latest environmental documentaries and presentations about the Great Lakes.

Join us April 20. 2024.

Thanks to Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Center for Science and Environmental Outreach, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Sustainability Demonstration House and Keweenaw Youth for Climate Action, as well as the Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Keweenaw Land Trust, Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative, Friends of the Land of Keweenaw and WUP Mistem for organizing the Houghton and U.P. premier of Climate Sisu!

Sustainability Film: Climate Sisu Sustainability Film and Discussion Series Climate Sisu (2022, 60 min.) Description Take a journey through Michigan in search of community knowledge about climate action, resilience, adaptation...

GVSU Virtual Climate Change Symposium is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10, starting at 10 AM Eastern Time. VCCSS is a part of the GVSU 28th Student Scholar Day, featuring undergraduate student research on climate change.

Agenda:
10:00 AM Welcome by Elena Lioubimtseva, Professor of Geography, Co-Founder of GVSU Climate Change Education Solutions Network
10:05 AM “Climate Change and its Effects on Banana Production in Central America” by Brailee Duitsman, Abby Simcox, and Miranda Gonyeau.
10:30 AM "Impacts of Climate Change on Coral Reefs along the Australian Coast" by Claire Samberg and Chris Kotkowicz.
11:00 AM "Equity and Inclusion in Climate Action and Adaptation Plans of Michigan Cities" by Bushra Rashrash and Katherine Carron
11:30 AM “A Search for Happiness though Connection with Environment and Sustainability” by Katherine Carron and Bushra Rashrash
12:00 PM "Climate Change Effects on Wildlife in the Great Lake Region" by Sophia Elhart.
12:30 PM Closing remarks by Elena Lioubimtseva

Join the VCCSS webinar tomorrow, April 10 at 10AM EST at

Climate Change Education Solutions Network - Grand Valley State University Geography and Sustainable Planning Department at GVSU is a home of the CCES Network

Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change. He was selected by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002, and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union in 2012. Mann explains in this interview that a difficult road lies ahead, but there is time still to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C.

Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says — Harvard Gazette Michael Mann points to prehistoric catastrophes, modern environmental victories.

Youth globally are fighting for a healthy and just climate future! 🌿 Please join us during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) for "Indigenous Youth Leading Solutions for Climate Justice"! 🌍

🗓️ Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
🕒 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
📩Virtual Zoom Event, Register today: https://tinyurl.com/56jnh4uc

During this virtual event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Indigenous youth leaders from around the world will gather to share their strategies and solutions for addressing fossil fuel extraction, deforestation and the climate crisis. Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge, panelists will discuss efforts to defend Indigenous rights, champion self-determination, and promote climate justice to forge a path toward a healthy and just climate future. Let’s take action to support youth globally who are fighting for a healthy and just climate future!

Confirmed Speakers, with more to be announced soon, include:
✨Pema Wangmo Lama (Megum), Program Coordinator, National Indigenous Women's Federation (NIWF), Nepal
✨Morgan Brings Plenty (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe), Environmental Justice Activist, Digital Organizing Fellow, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), Turtle Island/USA
✨Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek), Founder of Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth Network (KOWYN), Kenya
✨Sheelah Bearfoot (Chiricahua Apache), Environmental Justice Advocate, MHS

With moderation by Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), USA

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Hosted by Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Russel H. Kirkhof Center, Room 2204
Allendale Campus

AGS Presents Matt Huber: Climate Change is a Class War (But not for the reasons you think) - Events - Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies - Grand Valley State University Event details for AGS Presents Matt Huber: Climate Change is a Class War (But not for the reasons you think) - Events

Are you taking action to stop climate change? We want to hear from folks all over the world! 🌍 Share your climate solutions story through the Global Solutions Diary, a community-generated video library inviting everyday people to join the conversation: https://bit.ly/3PDxHau

See you on April 4th!

Save the date for the Great Lakes Conference

Save-the-date and submit your proposals! The 2024 Great Lakes Conference will be held from September 26-27 in Chicago, Illinois. We’re currently accepting proposals for field trips and breakout sessions. Stay tuned for registration info in the coming weeks!



HealthyLakes.org/great-lakes-conference-2024

- This week the World Meteorological Organization's report - https://bit.ly/WMSoC - confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record.

This figure from IPCC’s Synthesis Report shows the extent to which current and future generations will experience a hotter and different world depends on choices now and in the near term.

🔗 https://bit.ly/SRYRpt23

Congratulations to all ten teams around the Great Lakes, who have received GLISA grants. Climate Change Education Solutions Network at Grand Valley State University is proud to work with GLISA and all project partners to amplify justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in climate adaptation efforts in the Great Lakes.

GLISA Announces 2024 Small Grantees GLISA is excited to announce ten grantees under our 2024 Small Grants Program. The awardees will receive two-year grants of up to $35,000 each to collaborate with GLISA to advance equitable climate adaptation across the Great Lakes region. “All of these projects will amplify justice, equity, diver...

We’re hosting a film showing of Chasing Ice on Sunday March 24th. This event is free with refreshments provided, but has limited space. Max 35 people and an RSVP is required to attend so make sure you sign up ASAP! Info in bio!

🍀Calling all eco-warriors 🌍

Ready to lead the charge in restoring the planet’s ecosystems?

Apply now to represent GYBN on the UN Decade Youth Task Force and make a difference!

Read more in the application link: https://forms.gle/hYuj9CzCpdFrKs8Y8

Deadline 🚨: March 27, 23:59 UTC.

GYBN Africa GYBN Francophone GYBN Asia GYBN Europe GYBN LAC Convention on Biological Diversity

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Mark your calendars! We are proud to join forces with the United Nations Development Programme - UNDP and our global network of members to bring you a World Meteorological Day ( ) celebration unlike any before.

🤫 While we're keeping the details under wraps for now, we're so excited about what's in store.

To be part of this special event, be sure to register today and tune in on March 21: https://ow.ly/s3n550QNw6q

Webinar Announcement! 📣 Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., executive director of Project Drawdown, will present a new framework for addressing climate change from food, agriculture, and land use.

📆 March 28, 1 PM, ET
Register here! https://bit.ly/48EgT9H

Climate change education is critical for community resiliency and successful adaptations

Three reasons climate change education is critical for adaptation and resilience Education provides the most consistent pathway out of poverty and vulnerability, it is said. UNDP and UNITAR look at how this argument plays out for climate change, particularly around resilience.

We are so proud to cosponsor the Black History Month event hosted by Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action February 28 at 6 pm.