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Climate misinformation causes damage in a number of ways – not just confusing people about the reality of climate change, but even reducing trust in science and civic engagement, which compromises our ability to deal with the existential threat of climate change.

In this presentation, Dr. John Cook delves into the research on countering misinformation using critical thinking and how it can be practically implemented in fact-checking as well as other applications such as misinformation games.

Dr. John Cook, who holds a PhD in Cognitive Science, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the Univ. of Melbourne is a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason Univ. He founded Skeptical Science, and published a landmark paper that proved a 97 percent scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

Bill McKibben speaks about the mass deployment of solar power around the globe and what the climate fight looks like now in the US under the second Trump administration.

Bill is Founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org and is the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the 'alternative Nobel' and is a founding fellow of the Sanders Institute. Bill has written a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published 25 years ago, and his most recent, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

This special webinar event was co-sponsored by 350 Wisconsin, 350 Triangle (North Carolina), 350 Colorado, 350 Marin and 350 Chicago on the promise of regenerative agriculture to be a major stake in the heart of climate change.

Featuring farmer and author Gabe Brown from the documentary Kiss the Ground, Dr. Anya Knecht of the University of IL & co-founder of I-REGEN and Erin Meyers, founder & Exec. Dir. of Basil’s Harvest.

Linda Larsen is the Associate Director of Research at the Climate Jobs Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She joined us to discuss how the new Illinois climate law could help build a green workforce in our state!

Presented by 350 Chicago as part of our Speaker Series.

Climate specialists Jenny Cassel and Pam Richart present a fascinating and important look at one of the most popular climate solutions.

This talk highlights the hazards and risks of carbon capture, sequestration and the transport of CO2 by pipeline, discusses what is causing the mad dash to build these projects, and shares key protections for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) that have been included in Illinois' proposed legislation and why they are essential for protecting our health, safety, land, and water.

Jenny Cassel is a senior attorney with Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program. https://earthjustice.org/office/clean...

Pam Richart is a land use and environmental planner by training and Co-Director of Eco-Justice Collaborative (EJC), a non-profit based in Champaign Illinois. https://ecojusticecollaborative.org/

University of Illinois Climatologist and spokesperson on Climate science for the State of Illinois Dr. Trent Ford gives a quick, comprehensible primer on the state of the climate crisis generally and how it's effecting us locally.

Drs. Oziewicz and Kleese share a vision of transforming public education into a force to transition us to an ecologically sustainable civilization.

Drawing on the work of the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota, they introduce climate literacy as a broad narrative competence (rather than a narrow scientific one), available to all from a very early age.

This presentation was recorded December 4th, 2023 - courtesy of 350 Chicago and The University of Minnesota.

Dr. Seth Darling (Chief Science & Technology Officer for the Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate) presents an exciting and urgent look at what needs to happen in the energy sector to mitigate the climate crisis.

Thank you to our sponsors at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

The need for climate action on a personal and societal level is obvious to more people than you might think. But how do we make that action stick?

Jordana Composto is a Psychology PhD student at Princeton University studying the effectiveness of behavioral changes in different spheres of life. In this talk, she provides a data-driven analysis of how to make a difference at home, at work, and beyond.

See more of her work at https://jordanacomposto.com

350 Chicago and 350 Colorado present "The Future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems in the United States," by Lauren Boyd, Senior Advisor at the Geothermal Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy.

This talk was recorded September 28, 2023.

Marilee Feldman, LCPC, CADC, is a licensed counselor and owner of Life Counseling Institute. She is the Illinois Regional Coordinator for Climate Psychology Alliance, a nonprofit organization of climate-aware therapists that informs the public about the mental health impacts of the climate emergency.

This presentation, titled "The Climate Crisis and Mental Health: How Psychology Can Help with Climate Anxiety, Grief, and Despair," was recorded in association with 350 Chicago in August of 2023.

Conservative Bob Inglis, former US Republican Congressman from South Carolina and winner of the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage award joins 350 Chicago to speak on the need to act to end climate change, and how conservatives can do so while sticking to their principles.

Visit Bob Inglis' organization: http://republicen.org