October is Energy Awareness Month!

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.

Emory Climate Talk

Seminar: Cool Climate Chat As a Principal Consultant at Southface Institute, Jeff works on BIT Building, a program designed for facility operators to guide them in the  implementation of performance improvements including energy efficiency; and EarthCraft, which provides training to builders, realtors and property managers that will enable the construction of properties that use 30% less energy. Zoom Link/Password: … Continue Reading →

Civics 101: How to Fight Back Against Voter Suppression

Join The Center for a discussion on voter suppression in the United States. Dr. Carol Anderson, a representative from Black Voters Matters and one of the politicians who voted against the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act will discuss the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and what steps citizens can take to ensure that … Continue Reading →

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 7:00 PM EST through September. Please join us on August 16, as we talk frankly about … Continue Reading →

Emory Climate Talk

Seminar: Risks, Resilience, Rejuvenation: The Case for Shifting Sustainability from the Margin to the Mainstream Dr. Ghosh is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia’s leading policy … Continue Reading →

Environmental Justice Now: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, Raúl M. Grijalva will lead an online forum on environmental justice and public health in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley region on August 27th at 1:30 pm Eastern time. The event is part of Grijalva’s ongoing national virtual tour to raise awareness about The Environmental Justice for All Act. You may … Continue Reading →

Environmental Justice Now: Houston

Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, Raúl M. Grijalva will lead an online forum on environmental justice and public health in Houston on September 1st at 1:00 pm Eastern time. The event is part of Grijalva’s ongoing national virtual tour to raise awareness about The Environmental Justice for All Act. You may watch it … Continue Reading →

PSE’s Keep That Same Energy Ambassador Applications Due

Any young people, ages 16- 25, living, working, or going to school in the American South are invited to apply to the KTSE Ambassadors Program. As with Partnership for Southern Equity's other organizing strategies, we are looking for leaders to create ‘equity hubs’ on their campuses and in communities where strategy and discourse can take … Continue Reading →