The Sustainability Education Research Institute

Climate Generation's Teach Climate Network Workshop: Personal Connection and Storytelling is happening on December 17. The session will "Develop the skills to help your students uncover their climate stories and learn how writing, art, and climate fiction engages and inspires people to take climate action." For more information: https://naaee.org//wor/climate-generations-teach-climate-0

Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) is offering a free webinar this Wednesday night at 7pm EST, for secondary teachers. The focus is climate change across the secondary curriculum. Register here:

The new Liberating Sustainability podcast is "an intersectional take on the climate emergency. In each episode, field-leaders from student liberation movements and academia deconstruct the exclusivity of sustainability activism and education" It was commissioned by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) and the National Union of Students (NUS). https://anchor.fm//Liberating-Sustainability---Gender-elfi

"In Batesville, Arkansas, just 17 miles west of the state’s largest coal-fired power plant, a solar array at the local high school is having an unconventional impact: boosting teachers’ pay. In 2017, energy efficiency company Entegrity conducted an energy audit of the Batesville School District, which currently comprises Batesville High School and five other schools that serve roughly 3,200 students. The Little Rock, Arkansas-based company found that the district’s annual uti...lity bills surpassed $600,000, a steep sum for a school system that for years was strapped for cash and struggled to retain teachers as a result. But there was some good news. The audit also revealed that the school district could save at least $2.4 million over 20 years if it outfitted Batesville High School with more than 1,400 solar panels and updated all of the district’s facilities with new lights, heating and cooling systems, and windows." https://energynews.us//this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-/

The Student Action for a Sustainable Future (SASF) program is now accepting applications from grade 5-8 teachers in Saskatoon for the 2020-21 school year! SASF is an action and inquiry based project where students create projects on the themes of waste, water, energy, food, transportation, and biodiversity, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Saskatoon and around Saskatchewan. https://www.saskatoon.ca//our-environment/community-enviro

Seth Klein is hosting a book launch this week of his new book, "A good war: Mobilizing Canada for the climate emergency." The book "examines how we can align our politics and economy with what the science says we must do to address the climate crisis through exploring Canada’s response to another significant international crisis the Second World War" There will be music, a reading, Q&A, and a panel discussion with local climate emergency activists! https://climatejusticesaskatoon.ca//a-good-war-book-laun/

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is hosting a series of webinars to enhance knowledge and teaching about climate and energy education! The first one starts October 5. For more information: https://cleanet.org/clean/community/webinars/webinars.html

Scholar Strike Canada is happening September 9th and 10th. For this event, thousands of higher education academics will participate "in a labour action known as Scholar Strike to protest anti-Black, racist and colonial police brutality in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere." More information about the event is on their website: https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/

Starting September 22, Climate Justice Saskatoon is hosting a free webinar series about "how to discuss climate change with your family and friends." "Rather than focusing on climate change facts, this webinar will be about story-telling: how to relate instead of educate, and connect instead of convince." For more information: https://climatejusticesaskatoon.ca//how-to-change-the-con/

The trailer is up for Season One of Let's Talk Outdoors: our new podcast about environmental enjoyment and education in Saskatchewan. Check out the trailer to g...et a feel for your hosts and the laid-back conversations that we are going to be having this Fall in Season One of the podcast. Episode One drops this Thursday! Stay tuned!

"Now, as educators and administrators are forced to reinvent education on the fly, Indigenous leaders and outdoor education advocates are hopeful post-pandemic schooling will leave more room for learning on the land." https://www.cbc.ca//on-the-land-education-covid-19-1.55716

Upcoming webinar by the Cleo Institute discusses climate change and systemic racism: https://us02web.zoom.us//regist/WN_hIMUtTVgSYufw1WJQB-uVQ

A new 9-week CBC radio series on climate change launched July 5! "We hope to talk about melting ice, fire and floods and the staggering effects on people who have lived in these conditions. We also intend to go in unexpected directions. We'll look at climate change through the lens of the arts music, literature, photography as well as business and race. Each week, we also want to highlight potential solutions, scrutinizing them to determine if they offer real hope or if ...they really only exist as a mirage in the desert." https://www.cbc.ca//what-on-earth-a-new-cbc-radio-series-a

"Climate change is racist because the system that caused it is racist. No, rainstorms don’t care about skin colour, but worsening weather worldwide aggravates the divisions in society that already exist because it hits people of colour living in poverty the hardest. Simply put: the reason the world hasn’t been fighting climate change as hard as it should is because powerful people don’t want to stop exploiting people of colour. The urgency of climate change is also an urgency for racial justice...The good news is that each one of us have the power to insist on changing racist laws and institutions. As climate advocates, it’s all the more important." https://www.sierraclub.org//climate-crisis-racist-answer-a

The resources included in the link below "were designed specifically as anti-racist educational resources for nature-connected, outdoor families." https://docs.google.com//18-D6-ZZA5rmgiapiokAF/mobilebasic

https://www.cbc.ca//the-pandemic-has-forced-youth-climate-

https://www.weforum.org//covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-na/

You can certify your habitat with the National Wildlife Federation! "Wildlife habitat gardens are a haven for local birds, butterflies, and other wildlife. Tell [them] how your yard or garden provides habitat and the National Wildlife Federation will recognize it as a Certified Wildlife Habitat."