CLEAN Network Teleconferences

Each Tuesday at 1:00pm Eastern Time (12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) CLEAN Network members meet on a teleconference call to update each other about their climate literacy projects, upcoming events, and funding opportunities and share information about best practices, key teaching/learning resources, and the development of collaborative activities. Often these teleconferences include special presentations by members and guests.
To participate in these teleconferences, you need to be a member of the CLEAN Network. To join the Network, sign up here Join CLEAN Network.

Members receive an email alert from the CLEAN Network listserv with information about each week's teleconference.

Upcoming 2022 Teleconference

January 24th: Informal Conversation (Topic: Creating a climate workforce for implementing climate solutions)

January 31st: Patrick Freeland: BuildingAFire.org

February 7th: Informal Conversation (Topic: Climate Stories and Storytelling)

Recent Teleconferences

January 17th: Mike Hoffman: Using the foods we love and need to tell the climate change story

Show notes

Presentation: 1/17/23 Telecon (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 13.8MB Jan20 23)

Bio: Mike Hoffmann is dedicating his life to confronting the grand challenge of climate change and helping people understand and appreciate what is happening through the foods we all love and need. He has published climate change articles in the popular press - The Hill, Fortune, Medium, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and USA Today and is lead author of Our changing menu: Climate change and the foods we love and need (Cornell Press 2021). Mike's life's experiences include growing up on a one-cow dairy farm, serving in the Marines during the Vietnam War, and being a father and someone's partner for 51 years. He held multiple leadership roles in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences including Executive Director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Change Solutions, Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, and director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. He received his BS Degree from the University Wisconsin, MS from the University of Arizona, and PhD from the University of California, Davis. He now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. He will tell the climate change story, until he no longer can.

Abstract: We published Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Food we Love and Need (Cornell Press) and created a companion website in 2021 and have received nothing but positive feedback on how we tell the climate change story using food. We encounter food daily; it is imbedded in family histories and cultures, and it is emotive. At the same time, just about everything on the menu is changing. This gives us unlimited ways to educate others about climate change through food as well as share the many ways we can confront the grand challenge we face to keep the menu stocked. This webinar will cover the progress being made with the Our changing menu initiative and results of our national survey that showed that people are concerned about climate change impacts on their food choices and that they want to learn more about how climate change is effecting their food. It will also cover a food and climate change experiential learning activity we plan to do in a Cornell Dining hall. And since we all eat, including those in grades K-12, can food be used to enhance climate literacy more widely? Feedback will be sought as well as interest in collaboration.

January 10th: Informal Conversation (Topic: Strategies for Increasing Teacher Engagement)

January 3rd: Informal Conversation (Topic: Goals for 2023)

Past Teleconferences

Past teleconference call recordings call be accessed in the 'Recorded Teleconference' section. To access previous informal calls please email clean@colorado.edu.

2009 and 2008 Teleconferences
If anyone has material from the 2009 and 2008 teleconference calls, please contact Tamara Ledley. We would like to preserve our historic record. Thanks.

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