Starting Climate Conversations From rural communities to urban centers, there are many places across the United States and beyond where it’s a challenge to even bring up the topic of climate change, let alone build public support for climate action plans. What can be done in such places to get climate conversations started? What are the best ways to motivate constituencies to get behind climate and other sustainability policies? Find out what Gwen Griffith, Nichole Hefty, Ben Champion and Cara Pike have to say by signing up for a live Climate Access roundtable discussion on Wednesday, August 14 from 1-2 pm EDT (10-11 am PDT) “Readying the Ground: Starting Climate Conversations in Difficult Places.” Produced in partnership with Climate Nexus, the conversation is exclusive to Climate Access members (Not a member yet? Apply here) and will explore efforts happening in several regions of the country to engage the public in productive discourse. The roundtable will be moderated by Cara Pike, Climate Access founder and director of TRIG’s Social Capital Project, and will feature panelists: Nichole Hefty is manager of Miami-Dade County’s Office of Sustainability, and is on the steering committee of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact. The Compact is a groundbreaking regional collaboration of four Southeast Florida counties (Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, & Palm Beach) on climate change issues, policies, and strategies for the SE Florida region. Gwen Griffith is program director for the Cumberland River Compact (in Tennessee) and curriculum director for Climate Solutions University. A project of the Model Forestry Policy Program, the University works with select communities across the country to develop and implement adaptation plans regarding forest and water strategies. Ben Champion is the director of sustainability at Kansas State University and the principal investigator of the Central Great Plains Climate Education Partnership. Targeting farmers, ranchers, and rural science teachers, the Partnership aims to develop effective programs to enhance climate literacy in agricultural and rural communities in Kansas and Nebraska. Please consider becoming a Climate Access member and registering for the roundtable. We hope you can join us! - The Climate Access team
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