/news-archive/tag/al-gore/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:14:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2017/11/15/climate-change-reality-corps/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:14:57 +0000 /news/?p=68579 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees complete Climate Reality Leadership Corps]]> Two employees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have recently become two of only five people in the state of Arkansas to complete the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore.聽 The Climate Reality Leadership Corps provides training in climate science and communications to better tell the story of climate change. The training is provided by the. Dr. Jessica Scott, assistant director of the Donaghey Scholars honors program and instructor in the Anthropology Department, and Dr. Rene Shroat-Lewis, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, attended the training with 1,300 other participants Oct. 17-19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 鈥淏eing in this group of 1,300 people who were all dedicated to the same thing was powerful,鈥� Shroat-Lewis said. 鈥淭here are a lot of people working to solve climate change. There is strength in knowing that this many people all came together.鈥� Over the summer, Scott and Shroat-Lewis were looking for inspiration for the class they will be teaching in the spring semester, Science and Society II, to a group of 25 Donaghey Scholars. The course is inspired by the paper 鈥淭ragedy of the Commons,鈥� by noted ecologist Garrett Hardin. Environmentalism and sustainability are a recurring theme throughout the course. When Scott and Shroat-Lewis went to the movies this summer, they thought the Climate Reality Leadership Corps shown in the film, 鈥淎n Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,鈥� would provide great educational materials for their upcoming class. 鈥淥ne of the things we love about our course is that it is not strictly academic,鈥� Scott said. 鈥淭here is public policy and political advocacy as well. Students work in small teams to write environmental grant proposals. The Environmental Protection Agency has a fund for undergraduate students for sustainability projects on campus. We encourage our students to submit those proposals.鈥� Scott and Shroat-Lewis are available to give public presentations on climate change and plan to work with the additional three Arkansans who have taken the training. 鈥淲e saw this as an opportunity to get our involvement in this issue outside the academic realm and to engage with the wider community,鈥� Scott said. 鈥淲e want to help bring this issue to a statewide level. We are the Natural State, after all, so we should be on the forefront of this issue.鈥�]]> /news-archive/2017/11/09/earthtalk-climate-change/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:35:14 +0000 /news/?p=68514 ... EARTHtalk! lecture to explore climate change 聽]]> Dr. Jessica Scott, assistant director of the Donaghey Scholars honors program and anthropology instructor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will discuss climate change during the next EARTHtalk lecture Wednesday, Nov. 15.聽 Scott鈥檚 presentation, 鈥淭he Climate Reality Project: The Need for Change and the Reasons for Hope,鈥� is targeted for non-scientists. She will present evidence of climate change and give an overview of what is known about its impact, including extreme weather events, sea level rise, decrease in crop yield and risk to global health. She also will discuss renewable energies and what policy and industry experts predict over the next few years. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Scott participated in the Climate Reality Project Corps Leadership Training, led by former Vice President Al Gore, and teaches courses in dental anthropology, Egyptology, and human evolution. For more information, contact the Department of Earth Sciences at 501-569-3546 or visit the EARTHtalk! website.]]>