Engaging Students in Climate Action Through Microcredentials, with Mark Blakemore of Big Pond Education

In this episode, co-host Amy Marcus speaks with an administrator and three students about Temple University’s Global Green Grants program, which funds student climate action and research projects while studying abroad. Sarah Short Hutyra, the Assistant Director for Institutional Relations at Temple University Education Abroad & Overseas Campuses, explains how the program is managed. After her conversation with Sarah, Amy speaks with the following students who participated in the program: Katie Chin, student at Thomas Jefferson University Julie Kleaver, FAO Schwarz Fellow with Audubon Mid-Atlantic Ezekiel Cartwright, student at Temple University Katie, Julie, and Ezekiel share about their experiences with the program while studying in Italy and Japan. Their projects explored topics including sustainable food systems, single-use plastics education, and sports equipment waste and access. In these interviews, you’ll learn more about the program, how it works, some challenges faced along the way, and even advice for both staff looking to run similar programs and students looking to take climate action while studying abroad. Additional Resources: Temple Global Green Temple Education Abroad & Overseas Campuses Temple Office of Sustainability Katie’s blog post Julie’s blog post Ezekiel’s blog post Kim Association, Rome Fondazione Campagna Amica, Rome Showa Women’s University Seicho School

In this episode, Co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Mark Kendall, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CoolCoolCool Productions, about the power of comedy in facilitating learning, engagement, and collective action. CoolCoolCool Productions: https://coolcoolcoolpro.com/  For a taste of Mark’s live show, “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness”, check out Mark’s Instagram: @markkendallcomedy Generation 180 on Instagram: @generation.180 Climate Comedy Cohort: https://generation180.org/climate-comedy/comedy-cohort/  Center for Artistic Activism (website, free resources & book): https://c4aa.org/  Paige Curtis substack Bad Environmentalist: https://badenvironmentalist.substack.com/about

In this episode, co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Mark Blakemore of Big Pond Education about the value of carbon literacy, climate education and microcredentials on international programs. Resources: Big Pond Education: https://www.bigpondeducation.org/  Big Zero Microcredential: https://www.big-zero.org/   The Forum on Education Abroad’s Advancing the SDGS award: https://www.forumea.org/award-for-advancing-the-sdgs-through-education-abroad.html EUASA’s Climate Conscious Study Abroad: An Operational Guide (co-authored by today’s guest, Mark Blakemore): https://studyabroadclimate.guide/ Hillary Clinton on “The Weaponization of Loneliness”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/  Zeroverse: https://zeroverse.org/index.html

In this episode, you’ll get to know a few of our very own CANIE members and how they built their own, mini climate learning community through books. In 2023, six CANIE members (including today’s host, Amy) came together to read a single climate-focused book together over 10 weeks. The result was such an engaging, enjoyable, learning-friendly space that we decided to make it an ongoing, climate-focused book club we’ve lovingly nicknamed the “Book Nook.” Join us for a discussion on how the Book Nook came to be, what we’ve learned along the way, and how to start your own climate-focused book club. All We Can Save Project: https://www.allwecansave.earth/  How to Save a Planet podcast: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet A Matter of Degrees podcast: https://www.degreespod.com/ Find a podcast based in your geographic area for local topics and updates (e.g. Tapped podcast, about water in the Southwest US: https://originals.azpm.org/tapped/)  Project Drawdown, Climate Solutions 101: https://drawdown.org/climate-solutions-101  Carbon Literacy Project & Trainings: https://carbonliteracy.com/  Carbon Reality Leadership Corps: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training  Climate Ambassadors for Environmental Justice (San Diego): https://www.sdusc.org/climate-ambassadors-for-environmental-justice.html  Passion Planner: https://passionplanner.com/

The CANIE co-hosts are back to discuss an article written by a group of early-career academics about where the culture and system of academia contradict progress towards sustainability. The article is critical, and so are the co-hosts! Article for discussion: Wassénius, E. et al. (2023): Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Agenda: CANIE News: 3:40 Update on youth and lawsuits pertaining to climate change: 430 Discussion: 6:30

CANIE co-host Antonio Gutiérrez speaks with guest Meenakshi Sahni about climate action and climate justice in the context of education in India.

Co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Christina “Chris” Thompson, interculturalist, DEI consultant, and executive coach, about inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in international education and climate justice. Compear Global Education Network: ​​https://compear.org/ Global Respectful Disruption Summit: https://globalrdsummit.com/  CANIE Accord: https://canie.org/the-canie-accord  Diversity Abroad:  Resources created by the Diversity and Inclusion in Education Abroad Subcommittee, part of NAFSA’s Education Abroad Knowledge Community: https://www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/browse-by-interest/resources-supporting-diversity-and-inclusion-education-abroad

Listen to our end-of-the-year thoughts in this (very belated) episode! @ ~ 8 minutes: Race to Zero Progress Report (University World News) @ ~ 23 minutes: PIE News Sustainability and International Ed Conferences, article 1 (CBIE) and article 2 (CAIE) @ ~ 36 minutes: on students refusing to work with BNP Paribas... but the article page NO LONGER EXISTS! Now why would that be? (UPDATE: Amy found a link to a different article: https://www.nouvelobs.com/ecol...)

Join our CANIE co-host, Amy Marcus, for a conversation with Kate Whitfield, Director of Zeroverse and an Accredited Carbon Literacy Trainer. Kate shares with us all about her work with the Carbon Literacy Project, adapting and delivering trainings for international and higher education professionals as well as study abroad students. She shares some great insights from her experience adapting these trainings to different audiences, some “a-ha” moments she’s witnessed with workshop participants, and some practical advice for us in taking climate action as international educators in our workplaces. Zeroverse: https://zeroverse.org/index.html Carbon Literacy Project: https://carbonliteracy.com/ Climate Launchpad: https://climatelaunchpad.org/ Big Pond Education: https://www.bigpondeducation.org/ CANIE Climate Action Week recordings (Nov-Dec 2022): https://canie.org/participate/canie-climate-action-week-2022 CANIE Climate Action Week recordings (April 2023): https://canie.org/participate/canie-climate-action-week-april-2023 UN Race to Zero: https://www.educationracetozero.org/

Welcome BACK to the new monthly episodes where your CANIE co-hosts dig into news at the intersection of international education and climate ACTION! Today's co-hosts include: CJ Tremblay, Antonio Gutiérrez, Amy Marcus, and Kelly Davis. (Episode recorded: October 25th, 2023) Timeline: 1:16 Hello from hosts 2:50 CANIE updates 6:20 BBC article: The 'climate quitters' ditching corporate roles 21:10 The PIE Review 36 38:14 University World News: Charting the local challenges of implementing global goals Cricket sound effects from Pixabay