Climate Change
A Leap Year Look at Climate Change
The climate crisis symposium presented by The Sarasota Institute, a 21st Century Think Tank is now available to view at your convenience. The full symposium was live streamed to the world all day 2/29/20 and the edited down version can now be viewed here
The event, named “A Leap Year Look at Climate Change” was a great success with around 200 people in attendance. The level of expertise and new information was high and the audience was fully and interactively engaged.
You can obviously move at will through the entire five hours. The sequence was as follows:
MORNING; A 2020 LOOK AT THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Introduction by Dr. Andrew Swanson, professor at SCF
Institute Introduction by Co-Founder and Managing Director David Houle
Keynote presentation by planetary ethicist Tim Rumage
Local panel
Keynote presentation by Professor Harold Wanless global authority on sea level rise
Local panel on sea level rise [note, if you live in Florida, the Wanless presentation and panel are a must watch]
AFTERNOON: BIG IDEAS AND BIG SOLUTIONS
“Moving to a Finite Earth Economy” Futurist David Houle
“Putting a Price on Carbon” Climate Activist Mike Shatzkin
“Babcock Ranch: Building a Carbon Neutral Town from the Ground Up” Syd Kitson – via video
“Bringing Project Based Climate Education into the Classroom” Ashley Hollern
“A Planet of 3 Billion” Christopher Tucker, Chairman of the American Geographical Society
“Closing Panel on Energy” Houle/Shatzkin/Rumage/Hollern