Climate Change Education

When I was in high school, we would have a summer common read. …

Reflections on the novel, Anthem, by Noah Hawley — The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club for Sustainability in Higher Education Suicide is a sticky kind of grief. It’s like climate grief in this way: suicide and climate collapse are both things that are incomprehensible until they happen, but then once it happens close to you, you can’t un-think about it…

It starts with a strange feeling, always in my right eye. Like I can almost see something that maybe is or maybe isn’t there. This premonitory feeling is followed by the appearance of a multicolored jagged line in the shape of a fishhook that opens up in my vision. Like…

Considering the film Don’t Look Up from the perspective of higher education This actual headline caught my eye, even though it was buried in the links of my weekly campus bulletin. In a nine-paragraph press release, I learned that University of Hawaii biologist Robert Cowie, collaborating with French researchers, had…

plus an interview with artist Skip Skilling — The Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club is about how novels can help us have conversations about climate change and the constellation of crises that accompany this apocalypse. This month we discussed Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel. There are already plenty of reviews of the book, a darling of…

Why I took another look at this novel by Ian McEwan — I have friends who reread Jane Eyre every year, or turn to Siddhartha when they are feeling confused. But I’m not a re-reader. I’m not looking for solace. I am a hungry reader, and it bothers me that there are more books in one Bookstore, much less a University library…

a conversation with author Deena Metzger — I want to call you, as academics, to heartbreak for this time, and letting that be the standard by which, ultimately, you decide how you are going to be in relationship to your students. — Deena Metzger This month, the Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club met (on Zoom, of course…

a conversation with author Catherine Bush — I hold such huge regard and gratitude for scientists — especially for the 800 scientists and scholars who contributed to the 3,989 page IPCC report. They told us what we know, already, in the gut — that we are in deep planetary peril that must be addressed with both fast…