Community Climate Awareness Week
October 6 to 11, 2022
Featured Speakers:
Deke Arndt, Chief, Climate Science and Services Division | NOAA
Ali Khan, Dean, College of Public Health | UNMC
Martha Durr, Nebraska State Climatologist | UNL
Events:
Thursday, October 6
• 11 - 12:15 pm at Knoll 257 at 440 North 17th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508
• Deke Arndt, lecture to a UNL Honors Class on Economic, Environmental and Social Costs of Extreme Weather and Climate Events.
• Public welcome, registration required: http://go.unl.edu/hpArndt
• 3 - 5 pm at 107 South Hardin Hall, 3310 Holdrege St, Lincoln, NE 68583
• Deke Arndt, Seminar, Climate, Climate Change and Big Weather: How are they related and how do we know?
• Open to the public or via Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/92646980472
Friday, October 7
• 9:00 am - 5:00 pm – Nebraska Youth Climate Summit for high school and college students, at Nebraska Innovation Campus, 2021 Transformation Dr, Lincoln, NE 68508
• Registration required: http://www.nebraskaipl.org/nebraska_youth_climate
• 2022 Youth Climate Summit Agenda
• 9:00 - 10:00 am – Deke Arndt, Keynote Address, Climate change/extreme events.
• 10:10 - 10:50 am – Martha Durr, Climate change in Nebraska: Implications and Actions.
• 11:00 - 11:50 am – Environmental Justice panel: Jesse Bell, UNMC and Kevin Abourezk, Indigenous Leader
• Afternoon panels include: Addressing Eco-Anxiety, and How Young People Can Make a Difference on Climate Issues.
• 4:30 pm - Climate March to State Capitol from UNL Student Union. Please join us.
Saturday, October 8
• 11 am - 12:30 pm at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 8320 South St, Lincoln, NE 68506
• Deke Arndt, presentation and meeting with Lincoln Citizen’s Climate Lobby, Pulse of the Planet: Monitoring, Understanding and Working within our Changing Climate
• Public welcome.
Tuesday, October 11
• 7:00 pm at Lied Center for the Performing Arts, 301 N 12th St, Lincoln, NE 68508
• Ali Kahn, Putting the Public Back in Public Health: A Global Perspective, E.N.Thompson Forum on Global Issues, Creativity to Solve Global Challenges
• Free and open to the public, get tickets at: http://www.liedcenter.org/event/dr-ali-s-khan-putting-public-back-public-health-global-perspective
Community Climate Awareness Week Sponsors: Cooper Foundation, Daugherty Water for Food Institute, Nebraska IPL, UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and others.
More details at: https://www.nebraskaipl.org/climateweek