The Office of Faculty Development and the Campus Sustainability Curriculum Subcommittee are proud to sponsor a new Teaching Climate Change and Resilience Series (TCCR), consisting of monthly workshops designed to advance our teaching practices. This series is in response to the President’s Strategic Priority for Resilient and Sustainable Systems. The workshops are intended to highlight courses that address climate change and resilience and inspire the development of new course content needed to continue this work. This series is the first step in the larger goal of creating a faculty learning community (FLC) around climate change and resilience beginning in Fall 2021. In this initial exploratory phase, we want to expose faculty to the latest digital resources created by peers in the CSU and UC to give our colleagues some examples on how others have approached the subject.
TCCR Zoom Link(opens in new window) FDEV Podcast on TCCR(opens in new window)
Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to attend the workshops, network with peers, and be inspired to integrate climate change and resilience into their course materials. The workshops will be facilitated by Dr. Richard Widick (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Dr. Mark Stemen (California State University, Chico) and will be held via Zoom on the following days and times:
Wednesday, February 10 - 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Video Recording(opens in new window)
Friday, February 26 - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Video Recording(opens in new window)
Tuesday, March 9 - 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Video Recording(opens in new window)
Friday, March 26 at This Way To Sustainability Conference(opens in new window)
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety(opens in new window)
Drawing on a decade of experience leading and teaching in college environmental studies programs, Sarah Jaquette Ray has created an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety is the essential guidebook for the climate generation—and perhaps the rest of us—as we confront the greatest environmental threat of our time.
Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators(opens in new window)
Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, Armstrong, Krasny, and Schuldt synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming(opens in new window)
Facing the Climate Emergency(opens in new window)
Drawing on facts about the climate, tenets of psychological theory, information about the climate emergency movement and elements of memoir, Facing the Climate Emergency includes:
Making Climate Change History(opens in new window)
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities(opens in new window)
This book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate climate change into the classes and topics they are already teaching as well as engage with interdisciplinary methods and techniques. Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities constitutes a map and toolkit for anyone who wishes to draw upon the strengths of literary and cultural studies to teach valuable lessons that engage with climate change.
Teaching Climate Change in the United States(opens in new window)
This book highlights best practices in climate change education through the analysis of a rich collection of case studies that showcase educational programs across the United States. Framed against the political backdrop of a country in which climate change denial presents a significant threat to global action for mitigation and adaptation, each case study examines the various strategies employed by those working in this increasingly challenging sociopolitical environment.
Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents(opens in new window)
The book illustrates climate change fitting into existing courses using already available materials and gives teachers tools and teaching ideas to support building this into their own classrooms. A variety of teacher and student voices makes for an appealing, fast-paced, and inspiring read. Visit the website for this book for additional information and links.
The Climate Change Playbook(opens in new window)
The simple, interactive exercises in The Climate Change Playbook can help citizens better understand climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change. Adapted from The Systems Thinking Playbook, the twenty-two games are now specifically relevant to climate-change communications and crafted for use by experts, advocates, and educators. Illustrated guidelines walk leaders through setting each game up, facilitating it, and debriefing participants. Users will find games that are suitable for a variety of audiences―whether large and seated, as in a conference room, or smaller and mobile, as in a workshop, seminar, or meeting.
The Community Resilience Reader(opens in new window)
The Community Resilience Reader offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science, policy, community building, and urban design. The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels(opens in new window)
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We’re taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives—their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. And the moral significance of cheap, reliable energy, Epstein argues, is woefully underrated. Energy is our ability to improve every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental.
What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming(opens in new window)
In What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming, Stoknes not only masterfully identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action, but addresses them with five strategies for how to talk about global warming in a way that creates action and solutions, not further inaction and despair.
