Resiliency and Adaptation: The New Focus in Climate Change

Climate change is certainly not a new topic — but the conversation has shifted from “how did this happen?” to “what do we do now?” The health of our environment is one of the greatest challenges we currently face and the actions we do or don’t take now will have a profound impact on the health and stability of future generations of global citizens. In Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, the Jesuit leader of the Catholic faith called for an inclusive conversation about the care of our planet and its most vulnerable people who are disproportionately affected by climate change. The response to climate change is much more than reduce, reuse, recycle — it’s our behavior and actions that will help create climate resilience and adaptation.

In this Unlimited Learning webinar, Clint Springer, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Environmental Stewardship and associate professor, and Judy Ward ’07 (EMBA), CEO of Advanced Enviro Systems, will discuss the ways we can all make an impact on the health of our world. They will discuss how decisions as small as your purchase to larger policy decisions in your county, state and country can impact the health of our community, especially the most marginalized groups in societies who will be most impacted by the effects of climate change. The conversation will be moderated by Christina Lampert ’16, director of sales at HowGood.