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2023 Update Mtg Jan 25: Climate Change Update, Hilary A. Sandler Jan 2023

2023 Update Mtg Jan 25: Climate Change Update, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: New Issues-Climate Change In Cranberry, Christopher Neill, Martha Sylvia Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: New Issues-Climate Change In Cranberry, Christopher Neill, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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Understanding Food And Climate Change: A Systems Perspective, Megan Brockelbank Jan 2021

Understanding Food And Climate Change: A Systems Perspective, Megan Brockelbank

Sustainability Education Resources

Climate change will profoundly affect our lives in many ways, even down to the very food we eat. Food is essential for survival and our complex food system, and all that depends on it, face a big threat with climate change. Throughout the semester we will explore the links between the food system and our changing climate with an emphasis on systems thinking. In science we tend to segregate, looking at just one part of a system, while systems thinking looks at the whole picture. Using this approach, we will think critically about how to build a more resilient food …


2020 Update Mtg: Climate Change Trends And Their Effects On Ecosystems Of Cape Cod National Seashore, Stephen Smith Jan 2020

2020 Update Mtg: Climate Change Trends And Their Effects On Ecosystems Of Cape Cod National Seashore, Stephen Smith

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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Syllabus: Sustainable Living: Solutions For The 21st Century, Laurie Simmons Jan 2015

Syllabus: Sustainable Living: Solutions For The 21st Century, Laurie Simmons

Sustainability Education Resources

Your generation has been handed an opportunity: the opportunity to change the story of our culture from one of blind consumption to one of conscious ecological living. As individuals, as a society and as a species, we are facing challenges related to sustainability including economic stability, social justice, resource depletion and waste management, biodiversity preservation, climate adaptation and food and agricultural resilience. In this interdisciplinary course you will learn how to seize this opportunity by working with your peers to research and understand how sustainability in different contexts presents solutions to many of these challenges facing modern society. “Sustainable Living” …