The Environmental Resilience Institute and the Integrated Program in the Environment have teamed up to present a series of lunch-hour talks centering on environmental and climate resilience issues.
The Fall 2021 speaker series is sponsored by Themester 2021: Resilience, an initiative of the IU College of Arts and Sciences.
Brendan Shane is climate director at The Trust for Public Land. This talk will explore how investing in green infrastructure builds climate resilience while promoting health, equity, and economic opportunity.
O'Neal is vice president and executive director of Audubon Delta, which works to protect birds and their habitat across the Mississippi Delta. This talk will provide a bird’s-eye view of how wildlife conservation connects to resilience for both people and birds.
This talk is sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited.
Alcantara's research focuses on foodways as tools of empowerment. Her talk will draw attention to the ways in which the past contains solutions to questions of resilience in the present.
