{"id":114736,"date":"2020-03-31T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114736"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:47:23","slug":"climate-change-teachers-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/31\/climate-change-teachers-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide webinar for teachers on climate policy and change in the &lsquo;age of COVID&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_70719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70719\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manoa-soest-waikiki-high-tide-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manoa-soest-waikiki-high-tide-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/manoa-soest-waikiki-high-tide-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High sea level in Waik\u012bk\u012b. Credit: <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sea Grant King Tides Project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With schools across the country shuttering classes due to the coronavirus, one climate education project is moving full-speed ahead.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, April 7 at 3:30 p.m., <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College will host a statewide webinar focused on equitable local solutions that can be implemented in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> to help respond to anticipated climate disruptions. The project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solveclimateby2030.org\/\">Solve Climate By 2030<\/a>, features simultaneous, university-led webinars in almost all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bard.edu\/cep\/solardominance\/powerdialog\/\">50 states plus Washington D.C.,  Puerto Rico<\/a> and 10 other countries.<\/p>\n<p>For college and high school teachers adapting to remote learning, &ldquo;Climate Policy, Resilience, and Change in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in the age of COVID&rdquo; provides a ready-made lesson plan. Teachers can participate in the webinar, and then do related class activities online the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We in these islands cannot shape a hopeful, beautiful and rewarding future for the next generations, by ourselves. We will need the 50 other states, Pasifika territories and nations, and the other 180 sovereign nations to work together to find solutions fast,&rdquo; said Bob Franco, director of <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>\u2019s Office for Institutional Effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>This event will bring together climate experts in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> who have been asked to identify three ambitious, but feasible things that could happen in the state over the next couple of years\u2014reforms that would really move the needle on solving climate change.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> panel, entitled &ldquo;Climate Policy, Resilience, and Change in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&rdquo; will be moderated by Krista Hiser, director of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> System Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum and will feature the following panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chip Fletcher<\/strong>, Professor and Associate Dean of the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Makena Coffman<\/strong>, Professor and Director of the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laurien &ldquo;Lala&rdquo; Nuss<\/strong>, Climate Resilience and Equity Manager of the Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Online breakout discussions will engage participants in how to move on climate action, especially in this time of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The webinar focused on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> solutions is not just for environmental studies teachers. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism and the arts.<\/p>\n<h2>Registration for webinar<\/h2>\n<p>To learn more and pre-register for the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> climate solutions webinar, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solveclimateby2030.org\">www.solveclimateby2030.org<\/a>, or contact <a href=\"mailto:hiser@hawaii.edu\">hiser@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-registration is recommended, as space is limited to 100 participants: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/6NUNsCfxjj7HQFG1A\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/6NUNsCfxjj7HQFG1A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom link for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> webinar: <a href=\"https:\/\/kapiolani.zoom.us\/j\/612350129\">https:\/\/kapiolani.zoom.us\/j\/612350129<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>About Solve Climate by 2030<\/h2>\n<p>The Solve Climate project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bard.edu\/cep\/solardominance\/resources\/\">has developed discussion guides<\/a> to help teachers from all these disciplines lead a one-hour follow-on class. Across the country, college, high school and even middle school teachers are taking advantage of this opportunity. The conversations from each state will be archived at <a href=\"http:\/\/solveclimateby2030.org\/\">solveclimateby2030.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> is hosting a statewide webinar on climate change for teachers that includes online lesson plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[93,1411,1419,63,71],"class_list":["post-114736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-climate-change","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-online-instruction","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114736"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114738,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114736\/revisions\/114738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}