AU Center for Environment, Community, & Equity

Applications for the DataCorps Fellowship are now open. Through this Fellowship, from May to June, students will gain practical experience in data collection and assessment of disaster relief efforts across the U.S. Apply here: cece.american.edu/datacorps-gr...

#DataCorps #DisasterRelief

Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) Applications Now Open - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) The Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) equips students with knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental…

Applications for the SIS Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, and Equity are now open! This certificate supplements SIS MA degrees and builds skills to tackle environmental challenges in sustainable, just, and community-driven ways.

Apply by March 2! 👇️

🎙️ Episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast is LIVE! In it, I speak with @katharinehayhoe.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social about their paths to becoming climate communicators and the significance of the outcome of the COP30 round of the climate negotiations. cece.american.edu/cece-launche...

While COP30 winds down, I recorded episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast with the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com today. The whole episode airs on Monday, but here's a little preview of the amazing conversation:

CECE Launches the COP-Out Podcast for Apocalyptically Optimistic Climate Conversations - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) During each episode, CECE Director Dana R. Fisher will host a panel of guest experts who will share their unique perspectives on the state of climate action, the path towards more effective climate so...

it's been an amazing two weeks (and I never even left DC). All the episodes are archived here at @au-cece.bsky.social so you can listen again and again. Happy Friday to all! 🍶🍹🥃🍺🥂🧃 cece.american.edu/cece-launche...

🎙️ The #COPOut Podcast Episode 3 on the Future of Carbon Governance is LIVE! Tune in to hear from @pammcelwee.bsky.social & @laurengifford.bsky.social as they discuss how the use science to inform climate policymaking and why the regime continues to miss the mark. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...

Some valuable thoughts about the role the media plays in climate communication and the challenges of echo chambers by Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social Tune in to #COPOut to watch the entire episode also with @magnoliae.bsky.social and Jamie Minden
cece.american.edu/cop-out-epis...

Check out how the UNFCCC is policing the language of civil society at #COP30 along with limiting their access from Zero Hour ED. Tune in to #COPOut to watch the entire episode also with Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social & @magnoliae.bsky.social cece.american.edu/cop-out-epis...

The #COPOut Podcast Episode 1 on Platforming Activism is LIVE! Tune in hear from Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social Jamie Minden from This Is Zero Hour and @magnoliae.bsky.social from Party Crashers to learn about their histories and their current work cece.american.edu/cop-out-epis...

Thanks to the whole amazing team at @au-cece.bsky.social for making this possible, @chrisjayko.bsky.social Kyra Jones and especially @michaelculbert.bsky.social who has proven himself to be quite the producer 🤩

Here's a short teaser for Episode 1 about Platforming Activism where I give my 2 cents on #COP30. The conversation with @magnoliae.bsky.social Jamie Minden from This Is Zero Hour, and Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social was 🔥🔥so check out the whole episode, when it goes Live SUNDAY!

We have an amazing lineup of guests scheduled for the next 2 weeks, including @laurengifford.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @davidho.bsky.social @magnoliae.bsky.social @pammcelwee.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @lisaschipper.bsky.social @rodschoonover.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social

📢Announcing the #COPOut Podcast (our first episode goes live on Sunday)!! Here's info about how to listen and why I'm doing this podcast instead of wasting all that carbon to travel to COP30:
danarfisher.com/2025/11/08/i...

CECE Director talks activism and social movements on Factually! - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Dr. Dana Fisher, CECE Director, returned to Factually! to talk with Adam Conover about how to resist in the current moment and build the kind of movements that we need to protect our democracy. Click ...

CECE Director @fisherdanar.bsky.social talks activism and social movements on Factually! Check it out here: cece.american.edu/cece-directo...

At @au-cece.bsky.social at American University, we continue to ask questions about #climate and #energy #justice.

Join us on MONDAY for our colloquium on Energy Justice with Abeer Aleryani and Maya Livio

Details at: cece.american.edu/cece-colloqu...

In honor of the Inauguration today, I'm going to share some toplines from our survey of participants at the People's March in DC (I did this after the big marches during Trump 1.0 to document the Resistance), so here goes: People came from all over the US to participate--81% lived outside DC.

Here we go again! I’ll be fielding a team of 8 researchers at the People’s March in DC tomorrow. If someone asks you to take our survey, please say yes 🙌 Remember it will help us understand who’s joining the Resistance 2.0 and why.

Some thoughts on the radicalization and repression of climate activists (and why it's not necessarily a bad thing) with @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social in The Hill today.
There is no question that the repression of climate activists (and others) will continue.
thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Happy New Year from CECE - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) CECE would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2025. We are excited to continue growing our research and look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead! If you are interested in supporting CEC...

Happy 2025 from the whole CECE team! cece.american.edu/happy-new-ye...

I'm super-excited to be able to announce our new DataCorps Fellowship Program at @au-cece.bsky.social , which begins this spring!

For details, see cece.american.edu/cece-annouce...

[Recap] Steven Donziger: From Climate Lawyer to Corporate Political Prisoner - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) On Wednesday, November 20th CECE and WCL’s Program on Environmental and Energy Law hosted Steven Donziger for a conversation of his life as a human rights lawyer turned corporate political prisoner. T...

So great hosting Steven Donziger at AU last week! For anyone who missed it, here’s a summary: cece.american.edu/recap-steven...

Check-out the new starter pack for CECE and follow along!

TOMORROW!!

CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, gives a TED talk - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) In October 2024, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, gave a TED talk on how to be an “Apocalytic Optimist”, which presents her findings about what it will really take to get us to the other side of the climate crisis...

Our director, @fisherdanar.bsky.social's TED Talk just went live! Check it out here: cece.american.edu/cece-directo...

The CECE Bluesky Starter Pack is LIVE—see all the amazing scholars of environment, community, & equity at American University and follow us here 👇

go.bsky.app/F1Swn83

About Us - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Our Team Dana R. Fisher Director Kyra Jones Operations Manager Abeer Y Al-Eryani Postdoctoral Fellow Magnolia Mead CECE Research Assistant W. Chris Jayko CECE Lab Program Manager Rachel Weiss Multisca...

Yes, thank you Mat! If you want to include research institutes on my side of the pond, check out our Center for Environment, Community, & Equity, which does a lot of work on climate: @au-cece.bsky.social cece.american.edu/about-us/

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More perspectives on what to expect at #COP29 from CECE Experts. For details, see: cece.american.edu/american-uni...

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

Of the 750 extreme weather events and trends recorded in the map, nearly three-quarters were made more likely or more severe due to climate change

A #design and #dataviz thread 🧵

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