July is Climate Justice and Environmental Justice July!

From the placement of landfills to the impacts of extreme weather events, it is apparent that climate change and other environmental issues disproportionately and unjustly affect communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, worsening existing health disparities and overall wellness and wealth-building. We challenge our sustainability network to educate ourselves on the importance of climate justice and environmental justice and how we can all further these movements.

Let Your Voice Be Heard: How, When, and Why To Vote

Join GeorgiaForward and Georgia Municipal Association on September 15 at 6pm for Let Your Voice Be Heard: How, When, and Why To Vote featuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Carter Center Chair Jason Carter, and Professor Andra Gillespie of Emory University with a U.S. Census reminder from Janet Lee. Register to join here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6061540943127355919

The Emory University Center for Ethics presents Ibram X. Kendi

The Emory University Center for Ethics is pleased to present the inaugural James W. Fowler Ethics Lecture, featuring New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi on How To Be An Antiracist. Please join us on Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 4pm as Dr. Kendi addresses our individual responsibility to create a more just and equitable society. Register today at www.engage.emory.edu/Kendi and see … Continue Reading →

ENVS Fall Seminar Series

"Preventing Pandemics and Saving Species: Disease Ecology is Where Biodiversity Conservation and Global Health Collide " Tom Gillespie,Associate Professor, ENVS Zoom link/password: 476502

Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice Series

Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice is a series of online conversations, featuring guest speakers on a range of topics, and launched by a short play. Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice will take place one Sunday a month from 5 to 7:00pm through September. Please join us September 20, as we talk frankly about race equity … Continue Reading →

Emory Explores: Life After COVID: What will our economy look like?

Digital Conversation via Zoom

Hear from an esteemed panel of experts as we prepare for life after the eventual peak of Covid-19 outbreaks. Learn what our new priorities will likely look like, what strategies are needed to meet new demands and how to prepare for emerging markets. 

Just Energy Summit

Please join the Partnership for Southern Equity to build “Power for the People” at the virtual 2020 Just Energy Summit from September 28 - October 2! Partnership for Southern Equity, Just Energy Circle members and regional partners have worked hard to create a dynamic, inclusive event that builds power between communities, organizers, and advocates mobilizing against environmental injustices … Continue Reading →

UN RCE Greater Atlanta Marvelous Monday with Suzanne Burnes

Are you tired of hearing bad news? Do you want some good news about what is happening across the region and in the RCE? Join the RCE Greater Atlanta Monday, September 28th, at 3pm! Our special guest, Ms. Suzanne Burnes, will use the UN Sustainable Development goals as a framework to highlight exciting work that … Continue Reading →

Jeannette: A New Musical

Zoom

Join the most produced U.S. playwright Lauren Gunderson 03C and Broadway star Ari Afsar for a 20-minute virtual performance of their musical JEANNETTE on Tuesday, September 29 at 7 p.m. EST and a post-show discussion, moderated by Chair and Senior Lecturer Theater Studies Lisa Paulsen. Viewers will experience the true story of Jeannette Rankin, women’s … Continue Reading →