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itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Climate Futures: This Changes Everything<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are\u00a0engaging\u00a0the UCSB and wider Santa Barbara community in an exciting, year-long program to critically consider the ways in which climate change has irrevocably and dangerously altered the world we live in, arguing that we cannot shrink from the challenge it presents.\u00a0The series features compelling public lectures, campus-wide talks, panels and workshops, a film series, creative projects, and reading groups, culminating in a conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div 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Humanities Center\u2019s 2014-2015 public events series\u00a0explores this time of significant biospheric human influence, with the aim of bringing into focus the challenges that now confront the planet and its inhabitants through the unique, critical perspectives afforded by the humanities and fine arts (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7053\">more<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5463\">videos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=9307\">podcasts<\/a> of the talks).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carbon Counter<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='color:#b2b2b2; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/co2unting.com\/co2unter.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><span id=\"current_co2\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 2em;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Shakespeare&#8217;s era,\u00a0there were roughly 280\u00a0parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Burning\u00a0fossil fuels for over three centuries caused that number to rise\u00a0to 350 by 1988. However, the past four decades have seen a dramatic rise in atmospheric\u00a0CO2. The counter above shows, in realtime, the current amount of CO2 in our\u00a0atmosphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_cell no_margin av_three_fourth   \"  style='vertical-align:top; padding:0px 30px 30px 30px ; ' ><div class='flex_cell_inner' ><p><div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><div  style='height:30px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12687\">2016 Conference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imagine an international academic conference attended by more than 50 speakers from 8 different countries, who would have had to collectively fly over 310,00 miles (dumping the equivalent of\u00a0100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere in the process) to get to the UCSB campus,\u00a0yet with a\u00a0nearly nonexistent carbon footprint. Sound impossible? Not only can\u00a0it be done, it is being done for the 2016 EHI conference on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12687\">Climate Change: Views from the Humanities<\/a><\/em>. Countdown to the conference:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">[soon name=&#8221;counter4&#8243;][\/soon]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:30px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5514\">Faculty<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UC Santa Barbara is home to more than\u00a070 faculty members who\u00a0teach courses that address issues in the environmental humanities. Over 90% of these are tenured or tenure-track professors. Our faculty also does groundbreaking research, having collectively published dozens of books and hundreds of articles in\u00a0the environmental humanities. Books include\u00a0<em>After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California,\u00a0Balancing on a Planet: The Future of Food and Agriculture, Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader,\u00a0Humans in the Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Studies,\u00a0Environmental Criticism for the 21st Century,\u00a0The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Milton and Ecology<\/em>, &amp;\u00a0<em>Wilderness and the American Mind<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5514\">more<\/a>\u00a0on EH faculty; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1877\">more<\/a>\u00a0on faculty\u00a0books; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=8376\">faculty interviews<\/a>)<em>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1165\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Courses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With over 200 unique courses addressing issues in the\u00a0environmental humanities, and still more on the way, UC Santa Barbara is\u00a0deeply committed to EH education. Because quite a few\u00a0of these courses are taught\u00a0annually, in recent\u00a0years thousands of\u00a0students have enrolled in over 400 classes (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1169\">video interviews with undergraduate<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">s<\/span>; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=8373\">interviews with Ph.D. candidates<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Undergraduates\u00a0can take courses as diverse as\u00a0<em>Race &amp;\u00a0Environmental Justice,\u00a0The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene &amp;\u00a0Climate Change, Introduction to Environmental Media,\u00a0Global Cities &amp;\u00a0Transnational Urbanism, Environmental Ethics,\u00a0Religion &amp;\u00a0Ecology in the Americas,\u00a0Green Movements &amp;\u00a0Green Parties, <\/em>and<em>\u00a0Writing About Sustainability<\/em> &#8211; to name just a few (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1165\">view all undergrad courses<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=3823\">featured courses<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graduate\u00a0courses include\u00a0<em>Environmental Law and Policy;\u00a0Utopia and the Environment;\u00a0Science Studies and the Cultures of Environmentalism;\u00a0Environmental Perception and Cognition; Environmental Institutions; Ecological Imperialism; Nature, and Conquest in Latin America; Population, Development, and the Environment;<em>\u00a0<em>Nature and Value in Eighteenth Century British Culture;<\/em><\/em><\/em><em><em><em><em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>and<em><em><em><em>\u00a0<em>Animal Theory <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=4193\">full grad course list<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11154\">2015-16 EHI Theme: Climate Futures: This Changes Everything<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Climate Futures<\/em>\u00a0is the 2015-2016 theme for\u00a0both our Environmental\u00a0Humanities Initiative and UCSB\u2019s\u00a0Critical Issues in America series.\u00a0\u00a0Although many climate futures are possible \u2013 and, as we are so often told, many of them are indeed pretty glum \u2013 we are imagining a future in which individuals, groups, and institutions across the globe have worked to help make it a better one \u2013 ecologically sustainable, more egalitarian, deeply democratic, and joyful\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11154\">more<\/a>, including videos &amp;\u00a0podcasts).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7053\">2014-15 EHI Theme: The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Anthropocene<\/em> is the 2014-15 theme for\u00a0both UCSB\u2019s Environmental\u00a0Humanities Initiative (EHI) and our\u00a0Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC). Videos of talks from the\u00a0IHC\u2019s\u00a0public events series, <em>The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities,\u00a0<\/em>can be viewed directly from this website, along with introductory videos and talks given outside of UCSB\u00a0on the<em>\u00a0<\/em>the Anthropocene from the perspective of the humanities (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7053\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2342\">Departments &amp; Programs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UC Santa Barbara has\u00a024 Departments, Programs, &amp;\u00a0Schools that offer courses addressing issues in the environmental humanities. These include Anthropology,\u00a0Art, Black Studies, Bren School of Environmental Science &amp; Management,\u00a0Chican@ Studies,\u00a0Classics, Creative Studies, East Asian Studies, Economics,\u00a0English,\u00a0Environmental Studies,\u00a0Feminist Studies,\u00a0Film &amp;\u00a0Media Studies, Germanic Studies, Geography,\u00a0Global Studies,\u00a0History,\u00a0History of Art &amp;\u00a0Architecture, Interdisciplinary Studies,\u00a0Political Science,\u00a0Religious Studies,\u00a0Sociology,\u00a0Theater &amp;\u00a0Dance, and Writing Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2342\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfa.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts and Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">At UC Santa Barbara, the arts and humanities matter a great deal &#8211; and not just environmentally. Our Division of Humanities and Fine Arts includes areas that have been at the heart of a liberal arts education for centuries (history, literature, languages, philosophy, religion, culture, and the visual and performing arts) and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches that are remapping the university in the 21st century, such as film and media studies, environmental humanities, and socio-cultural linguistics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfa.ucsb.edu\/students\/explore\/environmental-humanities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explore your interests<\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7838\">Campus Environmental Groups<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interested in getting involved? UCSB has nearly 50 campus environmental groups, including\u00a0the\u00a0Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board (the largest environmental group on campus), the\u00a0Sustainability Internship Program (which offers a wide array of opportunities for current undergraduate and graduate students to participate in campus and community based programs and initiatives), the\u00a0Excursion Club (an outdoor adventure club offering hiking, kayaking, climbing, and a variety of other activities and trips), and many more (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7838\">complete list with links<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5514\">Research<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among other issues, our faculty\u00a0works on climate change, the emergence of environmental thinking,\u00a0the cultural\/environmental implications of urbanization, histories of land use, natural resource management, environmental politics, non-human\/human relations, environmental and social justice within a global rather than national context, and the political impact of institutions, networks, and regimes on the biosphere (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=8351\">view faculty research interests<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=6214\">Collaborative Research<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learning and discovery rarely take place in a vacuum. UC Santa Barbara is\u00a0home to a number of deeply collaborative projects that network students and faculty\u00a0from across\u00a0the arts, humanities, and sciences. For example, a recent project brought together\u00a0faculty from\u00a0Film and Media Studies; Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; Sociology; History and Anthropology; English; and\u00a0East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies in order to consider\u00a0the issue of impending\u00a0sea level rise (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=6214\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5463\">Talks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each year, speakers from across the country (and globe) come to UC Santa Barbara\u00a0to give talks on issues related to the Environmental Humanities. One of the goals of the EHI is, whenever possible, to film\u00a0these events and archive them on this website, Vimeo, and, Youtube. In 2014-15, many of these talks are\u00a0part of the IHC&#8217;s\u00a0public events series, <em>The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=5463\">view videos of talks<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.es.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Studies Program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UC Santa Barbara&#8217;s\u00a0institutional commitment to environmental studies dates from 1969. After one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, which came from a drilling platform off the Santa Barbara coast, a group of twenty-one UC Santa Barbara faculty members calling themselves the \u201cFriends of the Human Habitat\u201d came together and soon established what has become one of the oldest, largest, and most respected environmental studies programs in the country (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.es.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bren.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bren School<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bren School of Environmental Science &amp; Management at UC Santa Barbara\u00a0is\u00a0one of the most respected\u00a0schools of its kind in the nation. Offering both master&#8217;s and doctorate degrees, it is among a handful of schools in the United States &#8211; and the only one in the West &#8211; that integrate science, management, law, economics, and policy as part of an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problem-solving (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bren.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.es.ucsb.edu\/phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhD Emphasis\u00a0in Environment &amp; Society<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Interdepartmental PhD Emphasis in Environment and Society (IEES) at UCSB provides doctoral students from a range of departments an opportunity to receive training and mentorship in interdisciplinary environmental studies beyond the scope of their normal degree programs. Students that join the emphasis and complete all of the requirements receive a certificate analogous to an undergraduate minor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.es.ucsb.edu\/phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Media Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB&#8217;s Environmental Media Initiative (EMI),\u00a0part of the Carsey-Wolf Center,\u00a0brings together environmental scientists with film and media scholars\u2014drawn from the humanities, arts, and social sciences\u2014to collaborate on teaching, research, and public programming. The EMI explores all of the ways media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit each other: the environment in media, media in the environment (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7018\">Literature and Environment Center<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB&#8217;s Literature and the Environment Center is a\u00a0national leader in the study of \u00a0ecocriticism. What makes us unique is that, with a range of\u00a0faculty members doing diverse though often\u00a0interconnected research, we have seamless, strong coverage in ecocritical coursework from the early Renaissance through the 21st century.\u00a0 Moreover, we explore environmental issues from British, American, and Global perspectives (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=7018\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthistory.ucsb.edu\/undergraduate\/environtment_emphasis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Architecture &amp; Environment Emphasis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Architecture &amp; Environment emphasis allows students\u00a0to explore how human beings have positioned themselves spatially in relation to the environment at various cultural and historical moments. UCSB has six architectural historians on\u00a0its faculty, one of the largest concentrations in any university on the West Coast, with\u00a0expertise\u00a0from ancient to contemporary periods (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthistory.ucsb.edu\/undergraduate\/environtment_emphasis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interdisciplinary Humanities Center<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) is deeply committed to environmental issues. The IHC has\u00a0recently coordinated\u00a0yearlong series on <em>Food Matters<\/em> (2008-09),\u00a0<em>Oil + Water<\/em> (2009-10), <em>Geographies of Place<\/em> (2010-11), and <em>The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities<\/em>\u00a0(2014-15), which together contained over\u00a0100 unique talks and events (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihc.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\/blue-horizons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Horizons Summer Program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB&#8217;s\u00a0Blue Horizons summer program, a project of our\u00a0Environmental Media Initiative, teaches students how to produce\u00a0documentary films \u2013 from developing a film\u2019s core idea and story, to thinking about its impact on its audiences, to the nuts-and-bolts of video production. After examining critical issues of our region\u2019s oceans and seashores, students produce their own documentaries (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\/blue-horizons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>, including sample videos).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\/greenscreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenscreen Program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB&#8217;s GreenScreen is a hands-on, project-based environmental media production program where students work in teams to leverage their collective production skills and environmental knowledge. The\u00a0program not only increases awareness about the environment, it\u00a0expands on the ways that these issues are represented and communicated (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu\/emi\/greenscreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>, including sample videos).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thoreau.library.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thoreau&#8217;s\u00a0Writings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB\u2019s Davidson Library is the editorial headquarters for The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project that is publishing definitive editions of the complete works of the writer and naturalist, including his works\u00a0for publication, his Journal, his correspondence, and other uncollected papers. Much of the material has never been published before. To date, seventeen volumes of a projected twenty-eight have been published\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/thoreau.library.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceas.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UCSB is home to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), which\u00a0is launching a new initiative \u2014 SNAP, or Science for Nature and People \u2014 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Among other issues, SNAP takes up the question of\u00a0how\u00a0nature conservation can broadly benefit human well-being while also enhancing longer-term ecological resilience and sustainability\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nceas.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bren.ucsb.edu\/academics\/secm_focus.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Program in Strategic Environmental Communication &amp; Media<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a joint initiative, UCSB&#8217;s\u00a0Carsey-Wolf Center and the Bren School of Environmental Science &amp; Management offer\u00a0a graduate program in Strategic Environmental Communication &amp;\u00a0Media. The program is a 12-unit &#8220;focus&#8221; in which students learn to use media to communicate effectively and strategically around environmental issues including developing more compelling environmental stories, targeting appropriate audiences, and monitoring and managing environmental messages (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bren.ucsb.edu\/academics\/secm_focus.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a id=\"Intro2\"><\/a>.<\/span><a id=\"a1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTRODUCTION TO THE\u00a0ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1266\">Overview<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you have not done so already,\u00a0please visit and scroll down our <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1266\">Intro Page<\/a>, which will direct\u00a0you back to this page when finished. It only takes\u00a0two or three minutes (including viewing the provided\u00a0video), but provides a quick overview of the environmental humanities and the EHI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2060\">Visual Arts Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a startling variety of ways, contemporary artists are exploring the relationship that our species has to its\u00a0planet. We have aggregated some of this very intriguing work on this website. Our online gallery\u00a0can be viewed in large <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2060\">portfolio view<\/a> or with\u00a0full descriptions in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=4861\">gallery view<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1828\">EHI Film Library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EHI\u00a0aggregates a range of video resources, most of which may be played directly from this website, introducing issues that are of interest from the perspective of the environmental humanities. These may be used as classroom resources or by anyone interested in becoming acquainted with these timely and important concerns\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666;\">(<\/span><a title=\"Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1828\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2577\">EHI Bookshelves<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Environmental Humanities Initiative maintains online bookshelves introducing a variety of books of interest from the perspective of\u00a0the environmental humanities\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666;\">(<\/span><a title=\"Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2577\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  style='height:37px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">About This Website<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-11900 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-11900 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled4.jpg' alt='' title='Untitled' height=\"1146\" width=\"2184\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">This website was entirely crafted by UCSB students and the EHI Director, without any professional assistance. This not only includes the website, but content such as video interviews. At UCSB we believe that the\u00a0<\/span>humanities<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0have a major role to play in environmental\u00a0<\/span>communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:37px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our\u00a0Online Magazines<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Our editors scour the web in search of interesting news &amp; stories. Visit our two online magazines: <a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@ucsantabarbara\/environmental-humanities-ara2hkkdy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Humanities<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@ucsantabarbara\/climate-futures-ofhkuersy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Futures<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:15px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><a href='https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@ucsantabarbara\/environmental-humanities-ara2hkkdy' class='avia_image' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class='wp-image-13789 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-13789 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled2-1.jpg' alt='' title='Untitled2'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  style='height:15px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><a href='https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@ucsantabarbara\/climate-futures-ofhkuersy' class='avia_image' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class='wp-image-11654 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-11654 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Untitled22-1080x430.jpg' alt='' title='Untitled22'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  style='height:15px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11284\">Featured Student Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video avia-video-16-9   av-lazyload-immediate  av-lazyload-video-embed  '   itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/vimeo.com\/146960959' ><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"276939671\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/146960959?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&muted=0\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.5;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While working on his Ph.D. in English at UCSB,\u00a0Zach Horton, who served for a year as the EHI Graduate Fellow, directed a number of film projects, including\u00a0the documentary <em>Whatever Happened to Solar Innovation?<\/em> and <em>Swerve<\/em>, a\u00a0feature film serialized into ten chapters\u00a0that imagines life in a\u00a0future post-apocalyptic California. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11284\">Watch both films<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:15px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Campus Highlights<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:15px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-5426 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5426 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/UCSB-Campus22-710x270.jpg' alt='' title='UCSB-Campus22' height=\"270\" width=\"710\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Situated on a 1,000-acre promontory that overlooks the Pacific Ocean, the UC Santa Barbara campus is one of the most beautiful in the nation. If you have not done so already, click the image on the top of this page for a short but sweeping video tour of the campus (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\/campus\/campus-intro.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-5394 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5394 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/01D_UCEN_010-3-2.jpg' alt='' title='01D_UCEN_010-3 (2)' height=\"685\" width=\"1920\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">UCSB placed third in the nation in the Princeton Review\u2019s 2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2015\/015325\/greenest-public-university-us?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Read%20more&amp;utm_campaign=April%2021%2C%202015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 50 green colleges<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and #1 among U.S. public universities,\u00a0underscoring our\u00a0unwavering commitment to sustainability. <em>U.S. News and World Report<\/em>\u00a0ranked us as one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/slideshows\/10-eco-friendly-college-campuses\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 10\u00a0eco-friendly college campuses<\/a>\u00a0in the country\u00a0and the\u00a0Sierra Club named us\u00a0as one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/2013-5-september-october\/cool-schools-2013\/complete-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top 10 greenest campuses in\u00a0America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-8270 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-8270 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/solar6.jpg' alt='' title='solar6' height=\"210\" width=\"600\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The University of California recently\u00a0made the largest solar power purchase of any higher education institution in the nation\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0a\u00a0major step toward our goal of achieving carbon neutrality (i.e.\u00a0zero-net greenhouse gas emissions from all\u00a0buildings and vehicles) by 2025.\u00a0We have already reduced\u00a0emissions to the same level as\u00a0the year 2000 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/uc-making-big-moves-toward-carbon-neutrality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-8519 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-8519 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bike_path4.jpg' alt='' title='bike_path4' height=\"162\" width=\"450\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">With\u00a010 miles of dedicated Class I bike\u00a0paths and over 10,000 bicycle parking spaces, it is hardly surprising\u00a0that half of UCSB students commute by bike. We have been called one of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcollegesonline.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/10-most-bike-friendly-campuses-across-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America&#8217;s most bike-friendly campuses<\/a>\u00a0and have been given a &#8220;gold&#8221; rating by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ia.ucsb.edu\/pa\/display.aspx?pkey=2444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League of American Bicyclists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-8650 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-8650 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ShujiNakamura3.jpg' alt='' title='ShujiNakamura3' height=\"197\" width=\"549\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">UCSB&#8217;s faculty includes six\u00a0Nobel Laureates and three more who\u00a0shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize through their work on Climate Change. Most recently, Shuji Nakamura (pictured) won a\u00a02014 Noble Prize\u00a0in physics for\u00a0an innovation that led to the creation of the white LED lightbulb, which has globally\u00a0reduced carbon emissions by millions of tons (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2015\/015346\/global-laureate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-5440 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5440 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/01D_Engineering_Sciences_Bldg010-22.jpg' alt='' title='01D_Engineering_Sciences_Bldg010-22' height=\"685\" width=\"1920\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">UCSB\u00a0is home\u00a0to a startling range of innovative research and courses. Consequently,\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp;\u00a0World Report<\/em>\u00a0ranked UCSB\u00a0among the <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-universities\/top-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top ten public universities<\/a>\u00a0in the nation in 2015.\u00a0Our faculty includes 31 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 29 members of the\u00a0National Academy of Sciences\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\/campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:35px' class='hr hr-invisible  '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-5398 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5398 avia_image' src='https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Bren_Hall_016-4-710x270.jpg' alt='' title='Bren_Hall_016-4' height=\"270\" width=\"710\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has\u00a0been\u00a0called the &#8220;greenest&#8221; laboratory facility in the United States. 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