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Podcast of all National Teach In Sessions at Lewis & Clark College
PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL TEACH IN ON GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
All sessions to be held in Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber.
Free and open to the general public.
Parking fee on campus until 7 p.m. weekdays.
Wednesday, February 4
Video conversation with Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Noon - 1 p.m.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer, D-OR, will slip out of congressional session to engage in a direct dialogue with Lewis & Clark students, but not in Washington, DC. The students will be in the Council Chambers on the campus of Lewis & Clark College, back in his Portland, Oregon district. Blumenauer will be joining dozens of Senators and Representatives in this historic, web-based conversation. On one day, young people across the country will be beam into congress to talk about plans to slow climate change.
The video-dialogue is part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, involving over 700 campuses across the country. Teach-In organizers worked with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, and the technology company SightSpeed ® to specially equip computers in the capitol building. Using this technology, members of congress will be able to step into a capitol conference room and face questions from a political science or economics class back home.
Web Cast, Solutions for the First 100 Days
1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Lewis & Clark Teach-In on Global Warming
Solutions for the First 100 Days
Thursday,February 5, 2009
The days of debating whether climate change is caused in part by human activity are over, and now the truly consequential debate about how we preserve a future for the planet finally begins in earnest. Because a response has become so urgent - by some accounts we have less than half a decade to make the changes necessary to avoid the worst consequences of global warming - laws passed in the state legislative sessions going on around the country now and in Washington will have overwhelming significance for the planet's long-term prospects.
A key to ensuring that laws adequate to the task are drafted and passed is citizen awareness of what is at stake and involvement with the legislative process. To engender that awareness and guarantee that involvement we will hold a day long "teach-in" at Lewis & Clark College on February 5, 2009.
The focus of the daytime sessions will zero in on the climate change package that will go before the 2009 Oregon Legislature. What is the Oregon legislation and how does it relate the Western Climate Initiative? How do the science, politics, and economics of reducing GHGs and promoting alternative energies and conservation relate to the Oregon plan? What are the inescapable impacts of warming for Oregon, and how does the legislation address these? And how can a liberal arts education prepare persons to engage the political process over the coming months and face the challenges of climate change that lie ahead?
The evening session will cap the day with a presentation by Governor Kulongoski (or his Sustainability Advisor David Van't Hof), and a panel of respondents including (former) Secretary of State and climate activist, Bill Bradbury and the legislators representing the College in the state legislature, Senator Richard Devlin and Representative Chris Garrett. The evening will close with conversation between the Governor, the panelists, and those in attendance about how Oregon moves forward to meet the challenge of global climate change.
Session 1, 9-10:15
The Western Climate Initiative and Oregon Climate Change Legislation, 2009: An Overview
• Introductory Remarks, John Kroger, Oregon Attorney General
• Keynote, Angus Duncan, Chair, Oregon Global Warming Commission
Session 2, 10:30-11:45
Current Perspectives on the Science, Politics, and Economics of Alternative Energies and Other Strategies for Reducing GHGs
Panelists
• Kristen Sheeran, member of the E3 Network and of the Network’s Climate Task Force
• Julio de Paula, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, Lewis & Clark College
• Brent Foster, Special Counsel for Environmental Enforcement and Policy, Oregon Department of Justice
• Bill Jones, Director of Climate Solutions, Earth Advantage
• Bruce Podobnik, Associate Professor of Sociology, Lewis & Clark College
* Bessie Schwarz, Repower Oregon & the Healthy Climate Partnership
Is my lunch causing global warming?
Please join Bon Appetit in Tempelton, Fields dining room to participate in the Low Carbon Diet. Go to http://www.eatlowcarbon. org and see how your food choices are contributing to climate change.
Session 3, 1:30-2:45
Current Perspectives on Climate Change and its (Inescapable) Impacts
Panelists
• Ronault Catalani, Immigrant & Refugee Program Coordinator, City of Portland
• Dave Brauer-Rieke, Bishop, Oregon Synod of the ELCA, Governor’s Commission member
• Greta Binford, Professor of Biology, Lewis & Clark College
• Andrew Shepard, Green Building Consultant with Earth Advantage
* Justin Davidson, FarmUp
International Students' Perspectives on Climate Change
Poster session, Templeton foyer, near Council Chamber, 2:30-3 p.m.
Session 4, 3-4:15
Preparing Citizens to Respond to the Challenges of Climate Change: What Can the Liberal Arts Do?
Panelists
LC faculty, including Andrew Bernstein, Rob Kugler, Rebecca Copenhaver, Tod Sloan, Greg Smith, and others
Staged readings on climate change
Fir Acres Theatre, Main Stage, 5-6:15 p.m.
Session 5, 6:30-8
Panel and Discussion with Elected Officials
David Van’t Hof, Sustainability Advisor to Governor Kulongoski;
Bill Bradbury, former Secretary of State and climate activist;
Senator Richard Devlin; Representative Chris Garrett
ECO-OLYMPICS, a month-long competition in Lewis & Clark residence halls to reduce energy use, will begin on February 5 and continue through March 5. For further information, contact Kiel Johnson, student coordinator, Sustainability Council, at kielj@lclark.edu.
For further information
Rob Kugler, professor of religious studies, kugler@lclark.edu
Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, eban@lclark.edu
Michael Ford, associate vice president for campus life, mford@lclark.edu.
503 768-7216
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