In Georgia, our lives are largely powered by non-renewable fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas. Because of the public health and climate impacts of fossil fuel use, Emory’s 2025 Sustainability Vision focuses on energy efficiency and the increased use of renewable energy to mitigate climate change and improve air quality.
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 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 →
"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 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 →
September 22nd is National Voter Registration Day! To celebrate, join the Emory Votes Initiative, the Center for Civic & Community Engagement at Emory, the President’s Office, and members of the Emory community for a live, virtual program talking up voter registration and civic engagement, including calls to action. You’ll have a chance to hear a … Continue Reading →
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.
OSI’s Incentives Funds applications are still open for the 2020-2021 funding cycle! OSI offers funding opportunities to empower the Emory community to implement new ideas and research that supports innovation, knowledge-gathering, and positive behavior changes on the Emory University and Oxford College of Emory University campuses and in Emory Healthcare facilities. Last year, over $34,000 … Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Join Emory Climate Talks, in partnership with the Resilience & Sustainability Collaboratory, Office of Sustainability Initiatives and the Turner Environmental Law Clinic, for a special virtual event: an online screening of the film PUBLIC TRUST and follow-up conversation with Mr. Avi Garbow, J.D., Environmental Advocate with Patagonia, Inc. Mr. Garbow has decades of experience in environmental protection … Continue Reading →
