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The Week: The New Playbook for Climate Mobilization
- The Week
The Week is a climate mobilization tool that anyone can pick up and use, for free, to create courageous conversations about climate breakdown, and what we as a society can ...
- Posted May 10, 2023
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Enhancing Student Learning of Global Warming Through Reflective Writing
- Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TX)
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
The National Academy of Science has published studies showing strong scientific evidence that global warming is caused by human consumption of fossil fuels,1 yet recent surveys have shown young ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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"Worry and Hope: What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do About Climate Change"
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
There is an urgent need for a comprehensive assessment of climate literacy across higher education institutions in the United States. In addition, there is a need for both research and ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Curriculum gaps for adult climate literacy
- Smith College (MA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Delta Stewardship Council (CA)
Conservation scientists need to advance climate literacy so that people understand how climate affects all of life, acquire the skills to communicate about climate change, and become aware of ways ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Preaching to the choir or composing new verses? Toward a writerly climate literacy in introductory undergraduate biology
- Cornell University (NY)
- University of Michigan (MI)
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing society today, yet a wide range of misconceptions exist in society about whether or why climate change is happening, what ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Founder, Students on Sustainability
- University of Calgary (AB)
I founded Students on Sustainability, a student society at the University of Calgary that educates grade school students on sustainability topics linked to climate change, and supports student action projects ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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The influence of instruction, prior knowledge, and values on climate change risk perception among undergraduates
- Auburn University (AL)
- Michigan State University (MI)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of British Columbia (BC)
We evaluated influences on the climate change risk perceptions of undergraduate students in an introductory Earth Science course. For this sample, domain‐specific content knowledge about climate change was a ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2018
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Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of a Climate Change Curriculum on Undergraduate Student Learning: Initial Results
- Stonehill College (MA)
The present study assesses the efficacy of a semester-long undergraduate sustainability curriculum designed from a systems approach. The three-course curriculum, which incorporated environmental science and ethics courses along with an ...
- Posted June 29, 2018
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