NTI 2010 — Let's Talk

Over spring 2010 The National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions is providing two opportunities to keep students, faculty and staff engaged in the critical policy debates that, this year, will shape the future:

• Statewide Conference Calls with Your US Senate Office
• The National Climate Seminar

Campus to Congress: Statewide Senate Conference Calls

In partnership with the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the National Teach-In is setting up a series of conference calls between Senate and environmental staffers and faculty/student/staff audiences in their states to discuss climate and clean energy policy. For example, on behalf of a group of educators in TN, our staff will work to book the environmental liaisons in Alexander and Corker's offices onto a statewide conference call.

The calls will start off with a "briefing" by a student from the state talking about interest and engagement in climate issues, and then the audience will hear from the staffers about the senator's position and concerns. We will take questions in advance via e‐mail, and the student team would ask those questions. This will not be lobbying calls, but rather educational dialogues.

Our staff will do all the logistical work—contact Senate staff to set up the calls, solicit the questions, provide your student with the question list, manage the call. We need your help in volunteering to convene a call in your state, so we can issue the invitations on your behalf. If you are interested in staying informed about these efforts, or being the convener on the call, please contact me at climate@bard.edu, or 845-758-7067.

Help us get hundreds of students, faculty and staff in dozens of states engaged and tuned into the critical decisions being made in Washington the next few months.

National Climate Seminar: Spring 2010

	Jan 27	: William Schlesinger/Cary Institute	—  Ecology of a Hot Planet
	Feb 3	: Joe Romm/Climate Progress	—  The US Senate and Getting to 450
	Feb 17	: Kristen Sheeran/E3 Network	—  Equity and Global Warming
	Mar 3	: Larry Schweiger/NWF	—  Facing Mass Extinction
	Apr 7	: The Yes Men	—  Pranksterism for a Dead Serious Message
	May 5	: Elysa Hammond/Clif Bar	—  Transforming Corporations Around Climate
	May 19	: Ross Gelbspan/Journalist	—  Democracy and Climate Solutions

Clif Bar, a national leader in corporate sustainability, joins the National Teach-in as a partner. Forty Percent of Car Trips are within two miles of your home: Take Clif Bar´s Two-Mile Challenge and ride or walk instead! Check it out.

Fighting For Love In The Century of Extinction: Emerging from Eban Goodstein´s work as both an economist and a leader in the clean energy movement, this passionate book sets a new frame for helping Americans understand global warming as the challenge of our generation.

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems: With inspiring vision and a timely focus on the economic crisis, Van Jones new book is a critical resource for global warming educators.

Other recent books of note: Gary Braasch´s Earth Under Fire; and Gary and Lynne Cherry´s How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, Laurie David´s Down to Earth Guide; Rev. Sally Bingham Love God, Heal Earth and Ignition from Isham and Waage.

Global Warming Organizing Films: Everything´s Cool (Dan Gold and Judith Helfand); Revolution Green (Stephen Stout and Jessica Kelly)