Global Change & Sustainability Center

295 FASB. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-uspzkqEtA6qwJGEBKfVAJMU0q6o2qZ Human–environment relationships are fundamental to environmental and energy justice, and in many contexts, Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) is integral to such relationships. For example, Diné elders and community members identify firewood harvested from local woodlands as central to cultural and physical survival as, for Diné people, […]

295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-ChrjwtH9HV1i0OVtv9wFre8iTer4vF Abstract: Grappling with hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses circulating around the spotted lanternfly, a species of planthopper accidentally introduced to the U.S. around 2014, in this presentation I argue that “rhetorical disturbances” unsettle the “violent rhetorical ecologies” in which many of us […]

"What is “Inclusive Sustainable Resilience”, and how does my iso-bio-geo-chemistry skillset move us towards these ideals? Stories from a groundwater-reliant scientist" 295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcu2upjsqHNWo65Y280BXsYZ_pfr6qWkJ Abstract: I first review what resilience and diversity means in the intersecting diversity/equity/inclusion and sustainability/environmental spaces. I illustrate how my […]

295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdOitqjIpGNb1fz3N7H6hHaMM8dSXvFGN Abstract: Climate change threatens to reverse gains in global child health made over the past 50 years. Greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution that result from the burning of fossil fuels pose the greatest public health threat of our generation. Climate […]