Turning Things Around at Sustainable Tucson meetng
December 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
| Turning Things Around: Harnessing the Power of Science and Communication for a Sustainable Future |
| Tuesday, December 9, 6:00-7:15 pmZoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87001542338?pwd=0aECcfcLeRHT5a1nHnriuihNs9sKgw.1 |
| “Join us at our December Sustainability Spotlight for a warm-up discussion on Sustainable Tucson’s emerging plans for a City-County “Infrastructure Investment Summit” in March 2026. Our guest is Dr. Edward Maibach, Distinguished Emeritus Professor at George Mason University (GMU) and the Founding Director of GMU’s Center for Climate Change Communication—a “think-and-do tank” focused on illuminating public engagement in climate change and strategies for enhancing it. This evening is the first in a series of community conversations on investing in people and infrastructure – a creative initiative to rethink our economy by putting people and sustainability first. Ed’s opening comments will be followed by brief remarks from Matt McDonnell, Julie Hendricks, and Jessica Janecek, who will offer futher insights, leading into further discussion with each other and the audience as a whole. |
 Ed is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the Global Climate and Health Alliance board of directors. In 2024, he and his center were honored by the National Center for Science Education with a Friend of the Planet Award. For a preview of Ed’s thinking, see a chapter he co-authored in the 2023 Annual Review of Earth: “Harnessing the Power of Science and Communication and Behavior Science to Enhance Society’s Response to Climate Change.” |
| “There is nothing that physically and technologically limits us from doing it all with renewables. There are only cynical or specious arguments that say we can’t. The biggest barriers remaining have the same origin: inertia or the stubborn insistence on the current way of doing things.” Dr. Saul Griffith, Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (October 2021) |