CANIE Climate Dialogues

In this episode, co-host Amy Marcus speaks with an administrator and three students about Temple University’s Global Green Grants program, which funds student climate action and research projects while studying abroad.

Sarah Short Hutyra, the Assistant Director for Institutional Relations at Temple University Education Abroad & Overseas Campuses, explains how the program is managed. After her conversation with Sarah, Amy speaks with the following students who participated in the program:

Katie, Julie, and Ezekiel share about their experiences with the program while studying in Italy and Japan. Their projects explored topics including sustainable food systems, single-use plastics education, and sports equipment waste and access.

In these interviews, you’ll learn more about the program, how it works, some challenges faced along the way, and even advice for both staff looking to run similar programs and students looking to take climate action while studying abroad.

Additional Resources:

Seicho School

In this episode, Co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Mark Kendall, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CoolCoolCool Productions, about the power of comedy in facilitating learning, engagement, and collective action.

Paige Curtis substack Bad Environmentalist: https://badenvironmentalist.substack.com/about

In this episode, co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Mark Blakemore of Big Pond Education about the value of carbon literacy, climate education and microcredentials on international programs.

Resources:

Zeroverse: https://zeroverse.org/index.html

In this episode, you’ll get to know a few of our very own CANIE members and how they built their own, mini climate learning community through books. In 2023, six CANIE members (including today’s host, Amy) came together to read a single climate-focused book together over 10 weeks. The result was such an engaging, enjoyable, learning-friendly space that we decided to make it an ongoing, climate-focused book club we’ve lovingly nicknamed the “Book Nook.” Join us for a discussion on how the Book Nook came to be, what we’ve learned along the way, and how to start your own climate-focused book club.

Passion Planner: https://passionplanner.com/

The CANIE co-hosts are back to discuss an article written by a group of early-career academics about where the culture and system of academia contradict progress towards sustainability. The article is critical, and so are the co-hosts!

Article for discussion:

Wassénius, E. et al. (2023): Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values.

Agenda:

CANIE co-host Antonio Gutiérrez speaks with guest Meenakshi Sahni about climate action and climate justice in the context of education in India.

Co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Christina “Chris” Thompson, interculturalist, DEI consultant, and executive coach, about inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in international education and climate justice.

Resources created by the Diversity and Inclusion in Education Abroad Subcommittee, part of NAFSA’s Education Abroad Knowledge Community: https://www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/browse-by-interest/resources-supporting-diversity-and-inclusion-education-abroad

Listen to our end-of-the-year thoughts in this (very belated) episode!

@ ~ 8 minutes: Race to Zero Progress Report (University World News)

@ ~ 23 minutes: PIE News Sustainability and International Ed Conferences, article 1 (CBIE) and article 2 (CAIE)

@ ~ 36 minutes: on students refusing to work with BNP Paribas... but the article page NO LONGER EXISTS! Now why would that be? (UPDATE: Amy found a link to a different article: https://www.nouvelobs.com/ecol...)

Join our CANIE co-host, Amy Marcus, for a conversation with Kate Whitfield, Director of Zeroverse and an Accredited Carbon Literacy Trainer. Kate shares with us all about her work with the Carbon Literacy Project, adapting and delivering trainings for international and higher education professionals as well as study abroad students. She shares some great insights from her experience adapting these trainings to different audiences, some “a-ha” moments she’s witnessed with workshop participants, and some practical advice for us in taking climate action as international educators in our workplaces.

Zeroverse: https://zeroverse.org/index.html

Carbon Literacy Project: https://carbonliteracy.com/

Climate Launchpad: https://climatelaunchpad.org/

Big Pond Education: https://www.bigpondeducation.org/

CANIE Climate Action Week recordings (Nov-Dec 2022): https://canie.org/participate/canie-climate-action-week-2022

CANIE Climate Action Week recordings (April 2023): https://canie.org/participate/canie-climate-action-week-april-2023

UN Race to Zero: https://www.educationracetozero.org/

Welcome BACK to the new monthly episodes where your CANIE co-hosts dig into news at the intersection of international education and climate ACTION! Today's co-hosts include: CJ Tremblay, Antonio Gutiérrez, Amy Marcus, and Kelly Davis. (Episode recorded: October 25th, 2023)

Timeline:

1:16 Hello from hosts

2:50 CANIE updates

6:20 BBC article: The 'climate quitters' ditching corporate roles

21:10 The PIE Review 36

38:14 University World News: Charting the local challenges of implementing global goals

Cricket sound effects from Pixabay