{"id":86545,"date":"2018-10-23T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86545"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:16:47","slug":"climate-change-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/climate-change-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> raises climate change awareness across campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/pacioos-maui-costal-erosion-f.jpg\" alt=\"high-tide ocean water flowing onto road\" width=\"676\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/pacioos-maui-costal-erosion-f.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/pacioos-maui-costal-erosion-f-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2018\/10\/ipcc-report-climate-change-impacts-forests-emissions\/?user.testname=none\">the world is headed for painful problems sooner than expected<\/a>, and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is responding to the global call for solutions through research, teaching and curriculum development, service and stakeholder activism on issues of sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These pressing challenges call for us all to learn what we can do to take empowered action to help our communities solve these problems,&rdquo; said <strong>Matthew K. Lynch<\/strong>, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System sustainability coordinator. &ldquo;We encourage all <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students and personnel to connect with their amazing campus sustainability committees to learn more and engage!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Events are scheduled across <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses this month to help increase awareness and educate campus communities not only on the challenges of climate change, sustainability and resilience, but about actions to contribute to its solutions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 22, 12&#8211;1:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nFree webinar: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/961229790736280\/\">Assessment of Climate Change Impact to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Crops<\/a><br \/>\nBrought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/isr\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s Institute for Sustainability and Resilience<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where: <a href=\"https:\/\/ilab.hawaii.edu\/\">iLab<\/a> (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa)<\/li>\n<li>Who: Open to public (also accessible online)<\/li>\n<li>The Climate Change Adaptation Seminar Series runs every Monday starting at noon. The next seminar on October 29 features Maxine Burkett discussing &#8220;Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Engaging Law and Positive Peace.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October 23, 1&#8211;3 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nFilm showing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=huX1bmfdkyA\"><em>An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBrought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/Committees\/Sustainability_Curriculum\/\">Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> Campus Sustainability Committee<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where: Hale <span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span> 101 and 102 (Windward Community College)<\/li>\n<li>Who: Open to public<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October 24, 6 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nFree lecture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uhseagrant\/\">Restoring to the future: Reviving <span aria-label=\"ahupuaa\">ahupua&#699;a<\/span> in the 21st century<\/a> with Kawika Winter<br \/>\nBrought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.higp.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Where:<\/strong> <abbr title=\"Hawaii Institute of Geophysics\">HIG<\/abbr> 201 (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who:<\/strong> Open to public (also accessible online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October 24, 6 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nFilm showing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ltjua10RFy4\"><em>Age of Consequences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBrought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/veterans\/\">Office of Veteran Student Services<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where: Art Auditorium (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa)<\/li>\n<li>Who: Open to public<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October 26, 1&#8211;2:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nLeeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Campus Sustainability Committee Meeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where: Kapunawai, Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Library<\/li>\n<li>Who: Open to campus community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events are scheduled across Â鶹´«Ã½campuses to help increase awareness on the challenges of climate change, sustainability and resilience and actions to contribute to its solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[170,65,1314,1038,73,71,66],"class_list":["post-86545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-institute-of-geophysics-and-planetology","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86545"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86631,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545\/revisions\/86631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}