CSU Climate Hub at Spur

Colorado Climate Week brought so much energy, inspiration, and connection and we don't want that to stop.    If you're still buzzing from a week of rich discussions about sustainability and climate work in Colorado and beyond, here's another way to stay engaged and share your work with a wider audience.   The Call for Contributions deadline for the annual National Sustainability Society conference in August has been extended to April 12th!    Whether you're ready to present, share a poster, or lead a workshop, there's a format for you. You do not have to be an existing member to submit.  ✦ Oral Presentations (independent or to an accepted symposium) ✦ Ignite Talks (independent or to an accepted symposium) ✦ Posters ✦ Session Symposia (curated set of speakers and topic) ✦ Session Roundtables (this could be a panel discussion, collaborative session, sprints, etc.) ✦ Workshops   🔗 Call for Contributions: https://lnkd.in/gp3diR5c 📋 Guidelines: https://lnkd.in/g78tra4W

Colorado Climate Week events held at CSU Spur has been nothing short of extraordinary — brilliant professionals, thought-provoking panels, and speakers driving real change. The energy after just 1 day has been electric. The week isn't over yet, and neither is your chance to be part of it. There Is No Planet B was created by Grace Gallagher and is hosted by the CSU Climate Hub at Spur in partnership with The Sharon Prize. It is a professional dance performance fusing movement, art, and environmental activism. It takes the stage tonight at CSU Spur in Denver. CSU Spur has never hosted a dance performance before, and we couldn't be more thrilled to make history with this one. This is what climate literacy looks like when it moves you. 🎭 There Is No Planet B Dance Performance & Panel Discussion 📍CSU Spur, 4777 National Western Drive, Denver 🕡 Doors open 6:15 PM | Performance at 6:30 PM | Panel discussion follows 🎟️ Tickets just $15 — open to everyone: https://lnkd.in/gNYt9xQz Art and climate action belong together. Don't sit this one out. Photo captured by the incredible @kimberly.mayorgamedia ✨

Colorado Climate Week is finally here! Check out more details about one of the amazing FREE events we are hosting this week. This is a conversation you won't want to miss. What does the cutting edge of climate innovation actually look like? Next week, we're bringing together 7 leading scientists, thinkers and innovators in this FREE event to find out. 🌱   Our New Frontiers panel will dig into solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide and methane removal, and glacier stabilization — with perspectives from: 🔹 Kenneth Shockley – Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University (Moderator) 🔹 James Hurrell– Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University 🔹 Lisa Dilling – Associate Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund 🔹 Brent Minchew – Chief Scientist & Co-founder, Arête Glacier Initiative & Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology 🔹 Richard Conant– Interim Dean, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University 🔹 Megan L. Melamed, Ph.d – Program Director, Methane Removal, Spark Climate Solutions 🔹 Sasha Post – Director, Outlier Projects    📅 Wednesday, April 1 | 3:30–5pm MT 📍 CSU Spur Campus & Virtual 🔗 Register here: https://luma.com/hbup61bx  🎟️ Free Colorado Climate Week

What do you notice about the world around you? 🌤️   When you visit us at CSU Spur next week, you'll also have the chance to explore Resilient Earth, Resilient Communities — a traveling exhibit about Earth system science and local responses to hazards and severe weather.   Collaboratively designed by NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research and UCAR - The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the exhibit explores how careful observation helps us gather vital information to prepare for the future and build stronger, more resilient communities. Come discover how communities and scientists alike contribute to our collective understanding of the Earth.   📍 Hydro Building Lobby, CSU Spur 📅 March 30 – April 3 💚 Free and open to the public — all are welcome!   Whether you're a student, researcher, educator, or simply curious about the world around you, this is a wonderful chance to engage with the science that shapes our communities.

There's still time to grab your free ticket!   Auden Schendler — climate activist, author, and former SVP of Sustainability at Aspen One — is coming to speak at Colorado Climate Week for a fireside chat about his book, *Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul*.   This conversation will spur you into action, because, as Auden writes, "those of us alive today have a chance to save civilization from untold suffering and calamity. And such an opportunity is hard to turn down." We just need the right tools — and Auden has thoughts on which ones actually work.    CSU Climate Hub's very own Veera Mitzner will host the fireside chat. (There may even be some very special chairs involved. You'll have to come to find out🪑)   📅 Wednesday, April 1 | 6–7pm MT 📍 CSU Climate Hub at Spur & Virtual 🔗 Register: https://luma.com/ncvunly1 🎟️ FREE   This is part of Colorado Climate Week — don't miss it.

Seats are filling fast — don't miss your chance to be in the room! 🌍   There Is No Planet B is a powerful dance performance and panel discussion exploring the intersection of art and climate. This is a one-of-a-kind evening you won't want to miss.   Join us for an incredible lineup of speakers:   🔹 Courtney Schultz– Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University (Moderator) 🔹 Grace Gallagher – Artistic Director and Maker of There Is No Planet B & Assistant Professor, Colorado State University 🔹 Melissa Burt – Associate Dean for Access and Success & Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University 🔹 Fiona Nelson – Owner & Photographer, Fiona Rose Photography 🔹 Claire Kendall – Community Engagement and Communications Manager, OneEnergy Renewables & Founder, Alpine Creative Collective   Art has the power to move people in ways data alone never can. Come see what happens when climate science meets creative expression.   👥 Bringing a group? We offer a group rate for parties of 5 or more — reach out to us directly to take advantage of this offer.   📅 Tuesday, March 31 | 6:30–8pm MT 🎟️ $15 🔗 Grab your tickets before they're gone: https://lnkd.in/gNYt9xQz Colorado Climate Week

Colorado Climate Week is officially one week away, and the CSU Climate Hub is bringing its best.   We're talking about a dance performance that will move you, frontier science that will challenge what you think is possible, a happy hour worth rearranging your calendar for, and a fireside chat that pulls no punches on what climate action actually takes.   March 31 & April 1 at the Hydro Building, CSU Spur in Denver.   Most events are FREE. All are open to the public. None are ones you'll want to scroll past.   Here's what's going on:   💃 There is No Planet B — Dance Performance & Panel | Mar 31, 6:30–8pm | $15 🔭 New Frontiers: Emerging Climate Innovations | Apr 1, 3:30–5pm | FREE 🥂 CSU Climate & Sustainability Happy Hour | Apr 1, 5–6pm | FREE 🎤 A View from the Sustainability Trenches with Auden Schendler | Apr 1, 6–7pm | FREE Our incredible lineup of speakers across the events: James Hurrell, Lisa Dilling, Richard Conant, Sasha Post, Megan L. Melamed, Ph.d, Brent Minchew, Kenneth Shockley, Auden Schendler, Claire Kendall, Courtney Schultz, Fiona Nelson, Grace Gallagher, Melissa Burt   🔗 Register for our events https://lnkd.in/gCtgwgu6 🔗 Full Colorado Climate Week calendar https://lnkd.in/gYVXfqDp

Emissions are still rising. Tipping points are no longer hypothetical. And mitigation alone may not be enough.   That's the uncomfortable question climate leaders are now asking, and it's one we're bringing to the forefront at CSU Climate Hub's upcoming event:   🌍 New Frontiers: Perspectives to Emerging Climate Innovations   We'll go beyond the conventional playbook and explore: → Carbon removal technologies → Solar geoengineering  → The bigger question: Is it time to expand the range of responses we're willing to consider?   This event will include short "Explainer" talks from a world-class lineup:   🎙️ Sasha Post (Outlier Projects) • James Hurrell (CSU Atmospheric Science) • Lisa Dilling (Environmental Defense Fund) • Richard Conant (Warner College of Natural Resources) • Megan L. Melamed, Ph.d (Spark Climate Solutions) • Brent Minchew (Arête Glacier Initiative/Caltech)   This isn't about abandoning mitigation. It's about being honest that the window is narrowing, and that we may need every tool available.   This is the conversation the climate community needs to have. Don't miss it.   🔗 https://luma.com/hbup61bx ⌚ Wednesday, April 1 | 3:30-5pm 📍 CSU Spur Campus & Virtual 🎟️ Free

A provocation worth sitting with:    "Corporate sustainability, as currently practiced, researched, taught and reported on, remains the best way to enable the success of the fossil fuel industry in accelerating climate catastrophe."   These are the words of Auden Schendler — named a Time magazine “climate innovator” and EPA “climate saver.” He has spent his career doing the hard work of climate action: policy, movement building, activism, and pioneering projects, including hydroelectricity, utility-scale solar, and, most recently, purchasing a coal mine to stop leaking methane.   His new book, Terrible Beauty, is an honest reckoning with where the environmental movement has fallen short and what it will take to course correct.   Join us for this candid conversation: A View from the Sustainability Trenches: False Solutions and Meaningful Answers with Auden Schendler.   🔗 https://lu.ma/ncvunly1 ⌚ Wednesday, April 1 | 6pm-7pm 📍 CSU Spur Campus & Virtual 🎟️ Free

📣 Just 2 weeks left to submit your proposals for the National Sustainability Society’s Annual Conference this August at CSU Spur! 👀 We’re looking for practitioners, researchers, students, and leaders from across the climate and sustainability space to help shape this year’s conversations. 💡 Have an idea, research, or project to share? We’d love to see it. Please reach out if you have any questions about the submission process. We’re happy to help!