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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
Supporting the local foodshed is more important than ever. Join Bon Appétit Management Company’s Eat Local Challenge and enjoy a meal made entirely of foods grown within 150 miles of this café.
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 →
The Emory Alumni Association and the Barkley Forum for Debate, Deliberation, and Dialogue will be hosting a series of conversations the day after each of the Presidential (and one Vice Presidential) campaign debates. The panel will be made up of Emory alumni and students with unique perspectives of the election process, and the discussion will … 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 →
