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“Building a UC/CSU Climate Knowledge Action Network”
Spring 2017 Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference
The UC-CSU Knowledge Action Network
for
Transformative Climate and Sustainability Education and Action
Comprehensive Kan Final Public Report with Appendixes, November 17, 2017
Jump to panels: Opening, Fullerton, Northridge, Monterey Bay, Humboldt
Welcome!
We are delighted to host this virtual space and welcome you to our community – We’re all in for an adventure, if this goes as we hope! This conference opened on Monday, June 12, 2017, and we now invite all participants to please view and comment on the talks for the next three weeks! On Monday, July 3, the conference and the Q&A will close. After that, the website will remain open to the public and continue to invite participation in the building of this Knowledge Action Network.
Guiding Principles
We affirm the essential roles social scientists, humanists, educators, and arts and culture play in advancing transformative climate action. We affirm the roles of California faculty in supporting younger generations to act on climate and in reaching beyond the campus to engage various publics to accelerate the shifts. We affirm the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 4.7: “To ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.”
Purpose
Over the course of the 2016-17 academic year, a network of 32 University of California and California State University teachers has been building a Knowledge Action Network (KAN) around issues of teaching sustainability, climate change, climate justice, and climate neutrality to all California students, from kindergarten to the graduate university level.
The purpose of this knowledge action network is to begin to take the steps necessary to provide California educators a collaborative framework to facilitate highly integrative sustainability and climate education and action. The KAN will accelerate California educators’ abilities to offer climate neutrality, climate change, climate justice,[1] and sustainability education to all Californian students in ways that are culturally contextualized, responsive and sustaining, as well as actionable and relevant to their futures. The network will also enable California educators to engage across and beyond our educational institutions for transformative climate action over time.
Process
In the spring of 2017, we came together in four regional workshops, and spent one and a half days together at each site getting to know each other, identifying the current state of climate change and climate justice education in California, envisioning what we hope to see in the future, and then beginning to identify ways to get there. In doing so, we explored the facilitation process of “emergent strategy,” based on the book by Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.
The present “nearly carbon-neutral conference” is the next step in that process. Each participant was asked to make a video of approximately fifteen minutes on one of the following themes:
Option 1:
What is one of your best practices in teaching climate change, climate justice, carbon neutrality/greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and/or sustainability in a culturally responsive and sustaining way?
What makes it work?
How does/can it scale?
[If appropriate] What obstacles and barriers have you encountered? Where are you stuck? What would you need to go forward?
Option 2:
What vision, proposal, or idea do you have for achieving the goals of the KAN in teaching climate change, climate justice, carbon neutrality/greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and/or sustainability in a culturally responsive and sustaining way?
What is exciting about it?
How does/can it scale?
[If appropriate] What obstacles and barriers have you already or might you encounter? Where are you stuck? What would you need or what would need to happen to make it a reality?
Format
This conference was unusual because of its format, as we took a digital approach. Because the conference talks and Q&A sessions reside on this website (the talks are prerecorded; the Q&As interactive), travel was unnecessary. By 2050, the aviation sector could consume as much as 27% of the global carbon budget (more). We need to immediately take steps to keep this from happening. This conference approach, which completely eschews flying, is one such effort (more).
Website
UCSB’s Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) is hosting this conference on the EHI website. While here, please feel free to explore the EHI site, perhaps starting with our Intro and Home pages.
Together We KAN! ¡Conjuntos Podemos!
[1] Mentioned in the December 2015 UN climate treaty, the “Paris Agreement, “climate justice” refers to a set of insights and practices that center the effects of climate change on the stakeholders and communities who are most affected by it yet least responsible for it and often possessing the fewest resources to adapt to it. These tend to be people who live on the “front-lines” of the climate problem, from low-lying island nations to populations in the Global South, to communities of color and low-income areas in the United States. Due to the broad and growing diversity of California’s population, we believe this is an appropriate and exciting lens on climate change to frame our sustainability efforts in the educational field.
OPENING TALKS (visit panel)
John Foran, Welcome
John Foran is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at UCSB, teaching courses on climate change and climate justice, activism and movements for radical social change, and issues of what the world might look like in 2050: alternatives to development and globalization beyond capitalism. His books include Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution (1993) and Taking Power: On the Origins of Revolutions in the Third World (2005). He has served as UCSB’s Sustainability Champion, works on the UC Carbon Neutrality 2025 effort, and is co-facilitator of UCSB’s 2015-17 Critical Issues in America series – Climate Futures: This Changes Everything. His research and activism are now centered within the global climate justice movement, and can be found at the Climate Justice Project [http://www.climatejusticeproject.org] and the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory [www.iicat.org]. He is a member of 350.org, the Green Party of California, and System Change Not Climate Change.
Ken Hiltner, NCN Conference Format
Ken Hiltner is a Professor of the environmental humanities at UCSB. The Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI), Hiltner has appointments in the English and Environmental Studies Departments. He has published five books, including Milton and Ecology, What Else is Pastoral?, Renaissance Ecology, and Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader, as well as a range of environmentally oriented articles. Hiltner has served as Director of UCSB’s Literature & Environment Center, its Early Modern Center, the English Department’s graduate program, and as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University’s Environmental Institute. Prior to becoming a professor, for many years he made his living as a furniture maker. A second-generation woodworker, he received commissions from five continents and had collections featured in major metropolitan galleries.
PANELS
1. FULLERTON AREA TEAM (visit panel)
Julie Ferguson (UC) Irvine
Julie Ferguson is a lecturer in the Earth System Science Department at UC Irvine. Her research interests include paleoclimate – analyzing stable isotope and elemental composition of biogenic calcium carbonate e.g. coral, to reconstruct sea surface temperatures, salinities, upwelling and ocean current for the past. She is now trying to move into carrying out geoscience education research. She is interested in the role that large general education geoscience classes can play changing student attitudes to societally relevant geoscience topics such as climate change, sustainable fisheries. Julie is also interested in studying how the adoption of the new generation science standards affects the background geoscience knowledge of non –science majors.
Gabriela Nunez (CSU) Fullerton [co-coordinator]
Gabriela Nuñez is an Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at CSU Fullerton. Her areas on academic research and interests include contemporary Chicana/o/Latina/o literature and culture, ethnic U.S. literatures, genre fiction, ecocriticism, food studies, transnational American studies, and cultural studies in the Americas.
Lily House Peters (CSU) Long Beach
Lily House-Peters is Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science in the Department of Geography. She serves on CSULB’s Sustainability Task Force and leads the Resilience Working Group commitment to the Second Nature Climate Resilience Commitment in April 2016. Her research focuses on water governance, specifically the nexus between water security, climate change, environmental justice, and conservation. She has also researched rural community resilience along the US-Mexico border, compared urban water demand and adaptive capacity planning in the cities of Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona, and explored effective interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team collaboration for sustainability across the Americas. She is excited to develop innovative curriculum for sustainability, including plans to develop a capstone course for students in the Environmental Science & Policy (ES&P) major and minor, and in the future to develop curriculum for the Sustainability minor, if that program becomes a reality.
Jessica Pratt (UC) Irvine
Jessica Pratt is a community ecologist broadly interested in research and education in the applied fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology. Currently, I am a lecturer in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UC-Irvine and teach courses in the campus-wide minor in Global Sustainability! She has been a dedicated researcher and educator in the fields of ecology and conservation since 2003 and have been working and living in Southern California since 2005. Jessica has conducted research on animal behavior, tropical bird foraging ecology, the conservation value of tropical agricultural ecosystems, the dynamics of butterfly species range shifts in response to climate change, and most recently for her Ph.D., the effects of plant species responses to environmental change on associated animal communities. Her teaching experience spans middle school up to the university level and she has taught courses ranging from genetics to conservation biology.
Jade Sasser (UC) Riverside
Jade Sasser is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Her research and teaching explore the relationships between environmental problems and women’s health. Her interests include population, environmental activism, global public health, and feminist approaches to political ecology and science studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Making Sexual Stewards: Population, Climate Activism, and Social Justice in the New Millennium”, which analyzes the role of young activists in transforming population stabilization advocacy into a movement for social and reproductive justice.
Nicole Seymour (CSU) Fullerton [co-coordinator]
Nicole Seymour is an assistant professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at CSU Fullerton. Her research and teaching areas include contemporary American literature, culture, and film; environmental humanities/ecocriticism; and gender and sexuality studies. Her first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination, won the 2015 Book Award from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. She is currently working on her second book, Bad Environmentalism, which considers irreverent and anti-sentimental expressions of environment concern in contemporary literature, film, TV and performance art.
Kristina Shull (UC) Irvine
Kristina Shull is a lecturer in the History Department at UC Irvine. Her research interests include immigration, immigration enforcement and detention, foreign policy, US and the world, climate change, race, gender, media culture. As a Soros Justice Fellow, Shull is currently working with non-profit Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) to dismantle the immigration detention system from the “inside” by challenging censorship practices, exposing abuses, and lifting up migrant voices in popular media and public discourse.
Lucy HG Solomon (CSU) San Marcos
Lucy HG Solomon lives and works in the hybrid world of art and science. Co-founder and artist with The League of Imaginary Scientists, HG Solomon is an assistant professor of Media Design at California State University, San Marcos. She teaches art across STEAM curriculum. Her work has exhibited globally, including throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. In Bogotá, Colombia, her artwork was featured in the country’s celebration of the World Year of Physics. An internationally exhibiting artist whose subjects range from microbiological landscapes to manmade glaciers, her work layers science with narrative. Lucy HG Solomon received an MFA in Art from Claremont Graduate University, after which she co-founded and directed the Institute of Arts and Multimedia at Los Angeles Mission College. She is a founding member of the art and science collective, The League of Imaginary Scientists, whose creative output has been anthologized in a book by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles: Social Practice at MOCA 2008-2012.
2. NORTHRIDGE AREA TEAM (visit panel)
Amanda Baugh (CSU) Northridge
Amanda Baugh is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge, where she is also Director of the Program in Civic and Community Engagement. Baugh specializes in the study of American religion and environmental values with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and class. She is the author of God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White.
David Cleveland (UC) Santa Barbara
David Cleveland is a human ecologist who has done research and development project work on sustainable agrifood systems with small-scale farmers and gardeners around the world, including in Bawku District, Upper East Region (Ghana), Oaxaca (Mexico), Zuni and Hopi (southwest USA), Peshawar Basin, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (Pakistan) and Santa Barbara County (California, USA). He is a Research Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is also co-director of the Center for People, Food and Environment in Tucson, Arizona. Cleveland’s research and teaching have focused on sustainable, small-scale agrifood systems, including plant breeding and conservation of crop genetic diversity, local and scientific knowledge and collaboration between farmers and scientists, and on the role of local food systems in climate change, nutrition, and food sovereignty.
Ken Hiltner (UC) Santa Barbara
Ken Hiltner is a professor of the environmental humanities at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). The Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative, Hiltner has appointments in the English and Environmental Studies Departments. This site was originally created to house a variety of materials supporting his courses, though now also aggregates resources relating to research and professional service. Although earlier versions of this website contained dozes of pages, this incarnation contains just three, which serve as gateway (principally via the curriculum vitae) to a range of online material, such as course descriptions, recent talks, research, teaching philosophy, and more.
Allison Mattheis (CSU) Los Angeles
Allison Mattheis joined the CCOE faculty in 2013, and teaches in the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, M.A. in Educational Foundations, and B.A. in Urban Learning degree programs. She is a former secondary school science teacher and holds a K-12 Principal’s License (administrative credential) from the state of Minnesota. Her research interests include sociocultural analysis of policy and the exploration of educational cultures and climates, using critical ethnographic qualitative approaches as well as interdisciplinary mixed methods. Her work as an educator is driven by a commitment to creating inclusive learning environments that value diversity and promote equity for all students.
Rosa RiVera Furumoto (CSU) Northridge
Rosa RiVera Furumoto is a Professor in the Chicano/a Studies Department at CSUN. Her research interests include: Chican@/Latin@ Parents’ Critical Consciousness, Cultural Capital, School Involvement, Use of Chican@/Latin@ Children’s Literature with Families for Purposes of Humanization, and Urban School Militarization.
Stevie Ruiz (CSU) Northridge [coordinator]
Stevie Ruiz is an Assistant Professor in the Chicano/a Studies Department at CSUN. His areas of research and teaching interests include critical social geography, Chicana/o Studies, U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, and comparative race and ethnicity. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and attends conferences that include the Association of American Geographers, Organization for American Historians, American Society for Environmental History, and/or Law & Society.
Valerie Wong (CSU) Los Angeles
Valerie Wong is a lecturer in Biology at CSULA, Fullerton College, and UCLAX. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota from 2011-14, where she worked in the Scientific Teaching Program on active learning techniques, developing exercises for scientific concepts, and museum exhibition for elementary school children. She also volunteers at the LA County Natural History Museum and as a University of California Master Gardener, working on public outreach about plant use in California, citizen science, and biodiversity. Her research is in plant and fungal biology, including on the impacts of global temperature increases on plants.
3. MONTEREY BAY AREA TEAM (visit panel)
Ryan Alaniz (CSU) Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Ryan Alaniz is currently an assistant professor in sociology at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo and collaborates with various academic institutions including: United Nations University-Institute for Human and Environment Security, International Social Science Council, and the Fulbright program. Ryan also volunteers with Engineers Without Borders, The Futbol Project, and Restorative Partners. His fields of interest include Post-disaster recovery, resettlement, and community development, community social health, non-governmental organizations, international development, inequality and social change, California drought, water scarcity resilience, and Latin America.
Chelsea Arnold (UC) Merced
Chelsea Arnold is currently an Assistant Project Scientist-Environmental Soil Physics and the CalTeach Program Director at UC Merced. In addition to her research interests in how climate impacts soil processes, she is an advocate for environmental and outdoor education in K-12. She manages a variety of initiatives including various STEM outreach programs for teachers and students and the new Research in Action program. This program works directly with faculty and K-12 teachers to bring research into the classroom.
Eugene Cordero (CSU) San Jose
Eugene Cordero is a Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at SJSU. His research interests include climate change and atmospheric dynamics (detection and attribution of climate change, wave-ozone feedbacks and the solar cycle), climate change education, and food climate connections. Eugene is also the Director and Climate Specialist of the Green Ninja Project, an educational initiative to inspire interest in the science and solutions associated with our changing climate. Green Ninja curriculum is used to support teachers in the classroom and promote hands-on learning experiences that are designed to meet the Next Generation Science Standards.
Victoria Derr (CSU) Monterey Bay
Victoria Derr is an Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at CSUMB. She engages communities in participatory research for the design, planning, and restoration of natural and built communities. Her published research includes topics of participatory planning with children and youth; environmental education; sense of place; and sustainable, resilient and socially just communities.
Daniel Fernandez (CSU) Monterey Bay [coordinator]
Dr. Daniel M. Fernandez is a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at CSUMB. He teaches classes in first-year physics, Sustainability Systems, Environmental Studies Capstone, and Infrastructure Systems. He also co-coordinates the Environmental Studies program at CSUMB. Dr. Fernandez research focuses on the collection of water from fog, studying techniques to assess the presence of fog and to maximize the collection of fog water. Dr. Fernandez is also engaged with campus-wide sustainability initiatives, and he manages the incipient Sustainable City Year Program.
Summer Gray (UC) Santa Cruz
Summer Gray is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Her current areas of interest include global inequality and sea change, climate and environmental justice, and the sociology of development. She has written about the Maldives, and is currently working on a book that addresses questions of climate and environmental justice through the interrelated case of Guyana, the Maldives, the Netherlands, and Japan.
David Shaw (UC) Santa Cruz
David Shaw is a Continuing Lecturer at Kresge College, Coordinator of the Program in Community and Agroecology (PICA), and Coordinator of the USCS Right Livelihood College (known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’). His courses focus on ecological sustainability, collaborative learning, social justice, and economic prosperity. David has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz since 2004, and in 2012 founded the Kresge College Common Ground Center, offering suite of programs for social justice, economic resilience, and ecological sustainability. He is the Program Coordinator for the Program in Community & Agroecology and coordinates Environmental Studies internships in coordination with the UCSC college gardens and Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems. David is also a Permaculture designer and educator with his company, Santa Cruz Permaculture, and the Regenerative Design Institute.
David Pellow (UC) Santa Barbara
Professor David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on environmental and social justice, race/class/gender and environmental conflict, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social change movements that confront our socioenvironmental crises and social inequality. He has volunteered for and served on the Boards of Directors of several community-based, national, and international organizations that are dedicated to improving the living and working environments for people of color, immigrants, indigenous peoples, and working class communities, including the Global Action Research Center, the Center for Urban Transformation, the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Global Response, Greenpeace USA, and International Rivers.
Corin Slown (CSU) Monterey Bay
Corin Slown is an Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at CSUMB. She teaches Organic Chemistry for Biologists, the Environmental Science Capstone Seminar and Physics.
4. HUMBOLDT AREA TEAM (visit panel)
Helene Margolis (UC) Davis
Helen Margolis is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UC Davis. Dr. Margolis has extensive research and public policy experience and expertise related to the health impacts of climate change and environmental factors, most notably heat and air pollution, on vulnerable populations, especially children and older adults. Her 20 years of experience as a California state scientist and program lead, and academic training in epidemiology (PhD), immunology (MA), and marine sciences (oceanography)/ biology (B.A.) gives her a unique knowledge-base and perspective on issues related to climate change.
Sahar Nouredini (CSU) East Bay
Sahar Nouredini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing and Health Sciences at California State University – East Bay. She is a clinical nurse specialist with over 10 years of experience in clinical and public health nursing and education, and a strong background in occupational/environmental health, outreach, education and research.
Sarah Ray (CSU) Humboldt [coordinator]
Dr. Ray works on environmental justice theory, intersections of identity, power, and place, and the environmental humanities. She has published on disability, immigration, motherhood, transnational environmental justice, and teaching environmental justice literature. Her most recent book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, explores the ways in which the dominant US environmental movement, despite being progressive in many ways, often reinforces social hierarchies along lines of gender, class, race, and, particularly, bodily “ability.” She leads the Environmental Studies BA program at HSU.
George Roderick (UC) Berkeley
George Roderick serves as Department Chair for the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. He is interested in biological invasions and the history and structure of populations, both especially related to biodiversity science and global change. His work addresses basic and applied questions, taking advantage of the opportunities associated with the geography of Pacific Basin, Pacific Islands, and Pacific Rim, including California. Research in his lab includes studies of the origins of endemic, indigenous and non-indigenous organisms, processes associated with colonization and invasion, species interactions, and population structure.
Enrique Salmón (CSU) East Bay
Salmón (pronounced sahl-móhn), is a Rarámuri (Tarahumara). He feels indigenous; cultural concepts of the natural world are only part of a complex and sophisticated understanding of landscapes and biocultural diversity, and he has dedicated his studies to Ethnobiology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in order to better understand his own and other cultural perceptions of culture, landscapes, and place. Dr. Salmon’s recent studies have led him to seriously consider the connections between Climate Change and Indigenous traditional food ways. Dr. Salmon is currently completing a book focused on small-scale Native farmer of the Greater Southwest and their role in maintaining biocultural diversity.
Mark Stemen (CSU) Chico
Mark Stemen is a Professor at CSU, Chico in the Department of Geography and Planning. His expertise is environmental studies, applied geography, and sustainability. Mark is recognized on the campus for his inspiring work with students and the community on issues of sustainability. He has overseen greenhouse gas inventories for Chico State, Butte College and the City of Chico. He is currently working on climate change adaptation plans for the City of Chico and Butte County. Mark has served on the Board of Directors for the Butte Environmental Council since 2010, and has been board president since 2011. Mark is also Chair of the City of Chico’s Sustainability Task Force.
Project Team Members
John Foran (UC) Santa Barbara
John Foran is a Professor of Sociology with affiliation in Environmental Studies, Global Studies, the BREN School, and Latin American and Iberian Studies at UCSB. He teaches classes on Climate Justice, Earth in Crisis, The World in 2050: Sustainable Development and Its Alternatives, Activism, and Radical Social Change. His research and activism are centered on the global climate justice movement. He is also involved with Santa Barbara 350, the Green Party of California, and System Change not Climate Change. He co-founded and is active in the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory [www.iicat.org] and the Climate Justice Project [www.climatejusticeproject.org].
Theo LeQuesne (UC) Santa Barbara
Theo LeQuesne is a PhD student in the Global Studies department. He studies the Climate Justice Movement’s tactics and strategies, and the growing campaign to keep fossil fuels in the ground in the US. He is also a member of the Fossil Free UC campaign and the Climate Justice Project. He is working with the KAN project team and will be bottom-lining the documentation of these workshops.
Sarah Ray (CSU) Humboldt
Dr. Ray works on environmental justice theory, intersections of identity, power, and place, and the environmental humanities. She has published on disability, immigration, motherhood, transnational environmental justice, and teaching environmental justice literature. Her most recent book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, explores the ways in which the dominant US environmental movement, despite being progressive in many ways, often reinforces social hierarchies along lines of gender, class, race, and, particularly, bodily “ability.” She leads the Environmental Studies BA program at HSU.
Abby Reyes (UC) Irvine
Abby Reyes directs community resilience projects in the Office of Sustainability at UC Irvine & co-chairs the board of EarthRights International. At Irvine, Reyes oversees the Global Sustainability Resource Center & the Regional Climate Resilience Project, & co-chairs Faculty Engagement and Education in the UC Global Climate Leadership Council. Reyes received UC Irvine’s 2015 Excellence in Leadership Award & a 2016 California Higher Education Sustainability Best Practices Award. She has a TEDx talk on How to Come Home.
Kimberly Serrano (UC) Irvine
Kim Serrano is an academic coordinator with the UC Irvine Sustainability Initiative specializing in data analysis, visual communication, and community engagement. She currently serves as the Project Manager and Newport Beach Site Coordinator for FloodRISE (Flood Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Environments), an NSF-funded study of flood risk and community resilience.