Talking To Your Kids, Economics of Climate Change, Resilient Agriculture, Climate Resilience & MORE

This week is the annual Climate Preparedness Week: dedicated to learning, service, and actions that better prepare our communities for extreme weather events. There are many great events which you can browse and register for below.

One we would  like to draw special attention to is on Wednesday, Sept 23 at 10 AM on Facebook Live called “The Climate Reality & How to Talk to Your Kids About it,” featuring virtual presentations by Keith Bergman and Harriet Shugarman. Both speakers are strong and influential leaders in the climate movement. They are long term mentors in The Climate Reality Project, founded by former Vice President Al Gore.
Keith Bergman lives in Concord and is the retired Town Manager for the Town of Littleton. He will talk about the climate crisis and its solutions. Author Harriet Shugarman will speak about how to talk with your children about climate change. She is the Executive Director of “Climate Mama,” the Chair of Climate Reality’s New York City Metro Chapter, and the recipient of Climate Reality’s 2017 Green Ring Award.
 Join on Facebook Live on September 23 at 10 AM.

Palaces for the People: A Community Discussion with Eric Klinenberg 

• A virtual discussion with acclaimed writer Eric Klinenberg with CREW Founder Craig Altemose and librarian Clayton Cheever on the role of social infrastructure in building climate resilience.  Eric Klinenberg is an internationally renowned scholar known for his novel Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago and his more recent book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.
• September 23th at 7pm - Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PjqyASu7Tre02T3l6zSEEA
  
  

Resilient Agriculture: Climate Impacts on Our Foods Systems and How We Can Respond: Lessons from the frontlines in Zimbabwe

• A panel discussion led by Enet Mukurazita and hosted by Rachel Sperling, Librarian for Environmental Studies at Yale University's Marx Science and Social Science Library, with women farmers in Zimbabwe on their experiences dealing with climate impacts
• September 24th at 1pm - Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JN23Rk8sRHaLpjCWydb7Mg
  
  

Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Mapping Our Resilience 

• Which neighborhoods of Boston are most vulnerable to climate change? How do we leverage social infrastructure in these neighborhoods to enhance their resilience? Join to hear an overview of a mapping project between the Conservation Law Foundation, the city of Boston, and CREW to explore the community assets that exist within the city of Boston and how they can be leveraged to create a more climate-resilient future, with a particular focus on how we can serve communities of color and other marginalized neighborhoods.
• September 25th at 10am - Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fPfn2qrUSKa3aN2ehUz1EA
  
  

The Economics of Climate Change with Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD

• Our economic system has fostered individualism over community and competition over collaboration, because simply, these are the channels that promote economic growth as we measure it in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We sell more when everyone has to have their own. But, individualism and competition results in unequal distribution that mimics the inequitable distribution of access to resources in our country. In many cases, inequity is a moral issue because the basis of it is exploitation of the vulnerable in a myriad of forms across historical time. In our discussion we will focus on the relationship between economics and sustainability: social justice, environmental justice and economic equity and also how our focus on economic growth has facilitated the speed of global Climate Change and exacerbated social justice issues along with the other two components of sustainability.
• September 26th at 7pm  Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-ysqzwuH9KR_7dA234paGe1sR9WIpvV
  
  

 How Repair Events Can Transform Our Throwaway Culture

• A conversation on How Repair Events Can Transform Our Throwaway Culture with Elizabeth Knight and John Wackman, authors of Repair Revolution. This event will look at how repair events in libraries and other spaces are helping bring people together around common goals of sustainability, stewardship, community resilience, as well as social and climate justice. This conversation will be led by Blue Marble Librarian, Gabrielle Griffis. 
• September 29 at 6:30pm - Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UHRz2-VHTn27KnTNyy_G_Q
  
  

The Linked Fight for Racial Justice and Climate Justice 

• Join us for a conversation with CREW Program Manager Reverend Vernon K. Walker as he speaks to Reverends Karlene Griffiths Sekou and Hajar Logan of Alternatives for Community and Environment about how there is no climate justice without racial justice and how the fight for equality has to be led by those who have been most impacted. 
• September 30 at 6:30pm - Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NeSN-Ym7Rv-KzNDWePu4OQ