Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network Newsflash

December 12, 2022

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News from CLEAN

CLEAN at AGU’s 2022 Fall Meeting

CLEAN Sessions

• All CLEAN sessions can be found by searching the agenda for the term “Climate Empowerment”. All CLEAN sponsored sessions are indexed together by including that term in the title. For a full list of these sessions and other climate & energy education sessions, please click here.

Networking with CLEAN at AGU

• If you are attending in person, please join us for a social hour at Hyatt Regency McCormick Place’s Arc Bar at 6 pm CST on Monday (12/12).
• If you are attending virtually (or in person!), please join us for networking time during Tuesday’s weekly CLEAN call at 1 pm EST/12 pm CST/10 am PST (12/13).

Opportunities

CLEAN is looking for teachers to provide feedback on the usability of new webpages about climate mental health and/or who may be interested in testing out some short activities designed to support student emotions associated with climate change. Teachers will receive a $100 stipend for webpage review and a $50 stipend for every 2 activities they test out in the classroom and provide feedback on. If interested or for more information, please reach out to alicia.christensen@colorado.edu.

Battelle Memorial Institute has partnered with Future Engineers to host a free / online climate resiliency challenge for 9^th to 12^th grade students across the United States. The Battelle Climate Challenge asks students to share their ideas for mitigating the effects of human-made climate change in their communities. Learn more here! 

The Save Our Winter juried exhibition is created in partnership with the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Adirondack Experience, Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center, and The Wild Center, to be presented with FISU World University Games. We want to hear from you the artist: What do you love about winter and hope never to lose to climate change? Online applications will open on November 27th, 2022. Find more information in the prospectus, here.

A full-time Education and Outreach Specialist is being sought to develop and lead a series of virtual climate communication courses for the Earth to Sky Partnership (ETS). Learn more about this job opening and apply here!

Events from the CLEAN Network

On Call with CLEAN

Attend CLEAN's Weekly Teleconference

For Network Members each Tuesday, 1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

This Month's CLEAN Calls are featuring:

• December 13th: AGU Virtual Networking informal discussion
• December 20th & 27th: NO CALL - enjoy the holiday season! 

Featured CLEAN Post

Facebook: @CLEANET

#ICYMI: Along with collaborators National Science Teaching Association, NCSE: The National Center for Science Education, and NOAA Climate.Gov, the efforts of CLEAN and the climate education community were highlighted in the The New York Times:

"The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network, an organization that provides free climate education materials, found that only 700 of the 30,000 free online materials they reviewed were accurate and suitable for use in schools."

Read more about leading teachers who go above and beyond to teach climate in their classrooms here!

Posted: December 7, 2022