Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability
- Michael Svoboda
- 2 days ago
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Colleagues in Climate Action and Sustainability,
Below please find this week’s lists of events, reports, peer-reviewed studies, news and commentary, and podcasts
Advance notices—for events at Catholic and at GW—once again lead the line-up.
American, Catholic, and GW are represented in the lists that follow.
The climate impacts and fossil fuel consequences (and causes?) of Trump’s attack on Iran already figure in some of this week’s events, commentaries, and podcasts. For respite if not hope, one might give a listen to NYT’s The Interview with Rebecca Solnit: I’ve included her newest release, The Beginning Comes After the End, in the list of books and reports.
Forecasts suggest we could hit 80 in the coming days. Make of that what you will.
Michael
P.S. If you would like to offer advance notice of an upcoming event at your institution, just include the necessary details and links in a reply to this email.
The Climate, Politics & Sustainability Weekly – Sun., March 8th – Sat., March 13th
Advance Notices for Upcoming Events
March 17, All-Day – St. Patrick’s Day Sustainability Celebration – GW & Queens Univ.,Belfast
March 21, Half-Day – Student Sustainability Leadership Summit – Catholic University
March 21, Half-Day – Healthy Homes Fair – Catholic University / Electrify DC / Mitsubishi
April 17–18, Multi-Day – 2026 Planet Forward Summit: Take the Mic, Shape the Story – GW
Multi-Day Event Coming This Week
March 10–11, Multi-Day – Transforming Transportation: Powering Jobs & Growth – WBG/WRI
DC Events – In-Person and/or Online
– Mon., March 9 @ 10:00 AM – Let’s Talk Data: Data for Food Security Preparedness – WBG
– Tues., March 10 @ 11:00 AM – Exploring Opportunities/Practices for Energy Parks – NASEM
– Tues., March 10 @ 12:00 PM – Violent Saviors: West’s Conquest of Rest w W. Easterly – Quincy
– Tues., March 10 @ 01:00 PM – AI + Work: Understanding AI’s Impact on Labor – Brookings
– Tues., March 10 @ 06:00 PM – “Among Neighbors”: A Reel Progress Screening – CAP & BF
– Tues., March 10 @ 06:45 PM – Making Journalism Matter in a Brave New World – Pulitzer Cntr
– Tues., March 10 @ 07:00 PM – Ancestors: Those Who Bless Us, Curse Us, Hold Us – P&P
– Wed., March 11 @ 08:30 AM – Rethinking Power & Women’s Leadership – Rights & Res./ IIED
– Wed., March 11 @ 09:00 AM – The New Age of Western Industrial Policy: A Playbook? – PIIE
– Wed., March 11 @ 09:30 AM – The Remaking of Int’l Security: Arms Transfer Trends – Stimson
– Wed., March 11 @ 10:00 AM – AI, Workers & Natl Security with Senator Mark Kelly – Brookings
– Wed., March 11 @ 10:00 AM – The UN Without the United States: UN Peacekeeping – CEIP
– Wed., March 11 @ 11:00 AM – Basel III & Bank Capital Rules w/ Fed’s VC for Supervision – Cato
– Wed., March 11 @ 01:00 PM – 1/2 Day – America’s Workforce: Blueprint for Natl Talent Strat. – BPC
– Wed., March 11 @ 01:00 PM – A Faithful Response to Billionaires, w/ Sojourners Magazine – IPS
– Wed., March 11 @ 02:00 PM – HT Reboot America’s Industrial Based & Stop WW III – Hudson
– Wed., March 11 @ 07:00 PM – Black Power, Inc: Corp. America & Empowerment Politics – P&P
– Wed., March 11 @ 07:00 PM – Days of Love & Rage: Forging Revolution in Syria – P&P Wharf
– Thrs., March 12 @ 08:00 AM – Mission 300 Civil Society: Virtual Energy Dialogue – WBG
– Thrs., March 12 @ 08:30 AM – 1/2 Day – 4th Ann. Paratransit / Pop. Transportation Day – WBG/WRI
– Thrs., March 12 @ 09:00 AM – The Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement – Peterson IIE
– Thrs., March 12 @ 09:00 AM – Scaling Green Infrastructure for a Resilient Rwanda – WRI
– Thrs., March 12 @ 11:00 AM – Mali’s Strategic Outlook, w Ambassador Sekou Berthe – Stimson
– Thrs., March 12 @ 02:00 PM – Cities Investing in Playful Learning Landscapes – Brookings
– Thrs., March 12 @ 03:00 PM – Strategies to Lower Utility Bills for Households/Businesses – EESI
– Thrs., March 12 @ 05:00 PM - Intersection of Entrepreneurship & Sustainability – Georgetown EI
– Frid., March 13 @ 09:00 AM – Countering AI Disinformation in ROK-US Alliance – Stimson
– Frid., March 13 @ 09:00 AM – All Day - Annual WB Conference on Transport Economics – WBG
– Frid., March 13 @ 11:00 AM – Using Impact Evaluation to Improve Returns in Transport – WBG
– Frid., March 13 @ 03:00 PM – Climate Policies for Global Supply Chains, w T. Bartley – GU ECo
– Frid., March 13 @ 07:00 PM – Native Americans & the Making of Race in the United States – P&P
– Satr., March 14 @ 12:00 PM – 1/2 Day – Financing Planned Relocation in Context of CC – CGD
– Satr., March 14 @ 03:00 PM – Sep. of Powers: Preserving Lib, in Troubled Times w Sunstein – P&P
Note: If any part of the title for an event has been italicized, then it’s focused on an author interview or book discussion.
New Reports and Books
Teaching for Tomorrow: Staying Power—What It Takes to Make Teaching Affordable and Sustainable by Research Team (Gallup/Walton/BPC 2026, 20 pages, free download)
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books 2025, 160 pages, $16.95 paperback)
Safety of Remote Virtual Inspections for Residential Solar and Storage Systems by T. Callahan et al (Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) 2026, 20 pages, free download with registration)
The State of Nature in America: Draft Assessment by Report Team (The Nature Record 2026, Online Report)
Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security A National Security Assessment by Research Team (UK-DEFRA 2026, 14 pages, free download)
53% of U.S. Adults Say Americans Have Bad Morals and Ethics by J. Evans et al (Pew Research Center 2026, 31 pages, free download)
Peer-Reviewed Studies
Dialolgues on Climate Change (AdvOn) – “The Case for Ocean Iron Fertilization Field Trials”
Exchanges (Mar) – Special Issue on Sustainability Cultures: “Introduction: Pivotal Role of Culture”
Nature (AdvOn) – “Sea Level Much Higher Than Assumed in Most Coastal Hazard Assessments”
Science (03.05) – “Democratizing CC Mitigration Pathways Using Modernized Stabilization Wedges”
Popular Commentary, News and Analysis
Climate Brink (03.03) – “The War in Iran Shows Us Another Cost of Our Fossil Fuel Economy”
DeSmog (03.04) – “Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz”
Deutsche-Welle (03.06) – “How Protecting Nature Could Make the World Safer” by J. Axelrod
Mongabay (03.02) – “’An Epidemic of Suffering’: Why Are Conservationists Breaking Down?”
New Republic (03.05) – “Trump’s War with Iran Is Also a Climate War” with Mark Hertsgaard
Time (03.06) – “The Planet Is Heating Faster Than Ever Before, New Research Shows” by S. Shah
Unmanned (03.02) – “Petromasculinity: Links btw Warmongering, Anti-Feminism & FF Regimes”
Wired (02.24) – “The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved”
Ye360 (03.06) – “Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?” by Fred Pearce
Podcasts & Radio Stories
Climate One – The Podcast (03.06) – “Cities Leading the Way, w C40 & & Mayor of Phoenix”
ELI – People Places Planet (02.28) - “Centering Equity in Ocean Governance w/ R. Abate”
Heatmap – Shift Key (03.06) – “A Tale of Two Energy Shocks w/ Brigham, Meyer & Zeitlin”
ICN – Sunday Morning (03.08) – “Gobbled Up by Agriculture: Grasslands, Wetlands, Savannahs”
NYT – The Interview (03.06) – “Rebecca Solnit: The Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here”
PRX – Living on Earth (03.06) – “Justice Advances in Cancer Alley”/”Trump, Glyphosate, Cancer”
Resilience – Human Nature Odyssey (03.06) – “Joanna Macy & The Great Turning, w J. Serrante”
RFF – Resources Radio (03.03) – “New Climate Coalitions at UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties”
Volts – Podcast (03.04) – “The Fate of Fossil Fuels Systems in the ‘Midtransition’ w E. Grubert”
YPCCC – Yale Climate Connections (03.02) – “The Basics of Climate Change in 90 Seconds”
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