Dickinson College to Host Virtual Panel on Pandemic’s Impact on Sustainability
Neil Leary, directory of the Center for Sustainability Education, leads a COP21 simulation for a First-Year Seminar the week before the event in Paris. Photo by Carl Socolow '77.
Part of Earth Day Online Teach-In April 21 & 22
Dickinson will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with an online teach-in and special virtual discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental sustainability. The livestream event, “Global Pandemic: What It Reveals About Prospects for a Sustainable World,” will take place Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. The link to view the event will be available on the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues website at 6:50 that evening. The public is invited to watch the discussion and submit questions for panelists in the comments section of the YouTube live stream.
Participants:
- Heather Bedi is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dickinson. Her research examines how civil society and socio-environmental movements experience and adapt to natural resource and landscape modifications related to energy processes, climate change, industrialization and agricultural transitions.
- Michael Beevers is an associate professor of environmental studies and contributing faculty member in the Department of International Studies at Dickinson. He specializes in global environmental politics with an emphasis on the linkage between the environment, security, conflict and peace.
- Neil Leary is the founding director of Dickinson’s Center for Sustainability Education. Recently, People magazine featured three of his tips for living sustainably in its special Earth Day issue. Leary has been an author and editorial board member for science assessment reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was a leader of the IPCC’s 2001 report and was recognized by the panel for work that contributed to the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. It is part of Dickinson’s virtual Earth Day Teach-In, which marks the 50th anniversary of the environmental event and celebrates the college’s sustainability achievements, including recently becoming carbon neutral. Online Teach-In sessions on Wednesday, April 22, are accessible to the public. For more information and a full list of livestream teach-in sessions, visit dickinson.edu/earthday.
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Published April 16, 2020