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SUMMARY:Iowa Flood Center: Tools & Resources for Enhancing Flood Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Following the devastating floods in 2008 deemed as “Iowa’s Katrina\,” state legislators created the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) in 2009 based at the University of Iowa. IFC is the nation’s only academic research center devoted solely to flooding that puts science-based information in the hands of Iowa’s decision-makers\, lawmakers\, state and federal agencies\, emergency responders\, and the public.\n\n \nThe IFC has transformed flood resilience in Iowa focused on advancing flood monitoring and prediction\, flood inundation mapping\, flood mitigation\, and education and outreach. The center communicates reliable\, real-time flood information through its popular publicly accessible Iowa Flood Information System online web application.\n\n \nThe IFC has helped bring more than $100M in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the state of Iowa to advance watershed-based flood management efforts. The presentation will introduce some of IFC’s major initiatives and activities that have the potential to be replicated to support flood resilience efforts across the country.\n\n\n\n\n \nYou can RSVP here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/iowa-flood-center-tools-resources-for-enhancing-flood-resilience/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium returns Feb. 24 to Feb. 27\, 2025. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, the symposium will explore diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience. Presenters from multiple universities representing more than 20 academic disciplines will be joined by practitioners and community-based leaders from Austin and beyond. We welcome anyone with an interest in resilience and sustainability to join us for the event. \nKeynote Speaker – Dr. Jonathan Gilligan (they/them) is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences\, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. They are director of Vanderbilt’s interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Initiative on Climate and Society. \nYou can look through the full schedule and speaker lineup here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium-2/2025-02-27/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T090000
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DTSTAMP:20250114T200937Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium returns Feb. 24 to Feb. 27\, 2025. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, the symposium will explore diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience. Presenters from multiple universities representing more than 20 academic disciplines will be joined by practitioners and community-based leaders from Austin and beyond. We welcome anyone with an interest in resilience and sustainability to join us for the event. \nKeynote Speaker – Dr. Jonathan Gilligan (they/them) is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences\, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. They are director of Vanderbilt’s interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Initiative on Climate and Society. \nYou can look through the full schedule and speaker lineup here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium-2/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250225T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250225T170000
DTSTAMP:20250114T200937Z
CREATED:20250114T200937Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium returns Feb. 24 to Feb. 27\, 2025. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, the symposium will explore diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience. Presenters from multiple universities representing more than 20 academic disciplines will be joined by practitioners and community-based leaders from Austin and beyond. We welcome anyone with an interest in resilience and sustainability to join us for the event. \nKeynote Speaker – Dr. Jonathan Gilligan (they/them) is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences\, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. They are director of Vanderbilt’s interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Initiative on Climate and Society. \nYou can look through the full schedule and speaker lineup here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium-2/2025-02-25/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250224T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250224T203000
DTSTAMP:20250114T200937Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium returns Feb. 24 to Feb. 27\, 2025. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, the symposium will explore diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience. Presenters from multiple universities representing more than 20 academic disciplines will be joined by practitioners and community-based leaders from Austin and beyond. We welcome anyone with an interest in resilience and sustainability to join us for the event. \nKeynote Speaker – Dr. Jonathan Gilligan (they/them) is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences\, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. They are director of Vanderbilt’s interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Initiative on Climate and Society. \nYou can look through the full schedule and speaker lineup here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium-2/2025-02-24/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T120000
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DTSTAMP:20250122T034417Z
CREATED:20250122T034323Z
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SUMMARY:Sweat Equity: An ecology of everyday life on a warming planet
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will demonstrate a means for understanding everyday challenges facing those disproportionately impacted by extreme climate-induced events\, such as heat waves\, wildfire smoke\, and pluvial flooding. Drawing on cases from Los Angeles\, Jackson\, MS\, and the Portland metropolitan region\, the presentation will exhibit the promise in an evidence-based framework that contextualizes the emerging factors that amplify extreme weather events. \nThis work is rooted in the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab at Portland State University\, which fosters collaboration\, interdisciplinary research\, and community engagement\, and stands as a model for advancing a community-centered approach to building resilience and adaptation within small and large communities. \nYou can RSVP here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/sweat-equity-an-ecology-of-everyday-life-on-a-warming-planet/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T120000
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SUMMARY:Resilience Roundtable: Collaborative Communities for Energy Justice
DESCRIPTION:This talk surveys ten collaborative communities from around the globe that form the Intersecting Energy Cultures (IEC) Working Group\, convened by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities founding director\, Dr. Bethany Wiggin\, and Dr. Rebecca Macklin at the University of Aberdeen. \nThe IEC working group brings together researchers working with community-based partners to develop deeper understanding of the varied and uneven impacts stemming from the international workings of energy industries. It considers how communities become caught in the middle of multiple and historically overlapping forms of energy production\, often amplifying existing social and economic vulnerabilities. \nDeveloped through the experimental rubric of environmental humanities\, the working group explores the ways that arts-driven and humanistic methods of inquiry enable us to carry out meaningful community-based\, participatory research around historic\, contemporary and future relations with sites of energy production. Drawing on the project’s preliminary findings\, we will consider questions fundamental to fostering and maintaining research partnerships beyond university settings:  How can these partnerships be mutually beneficial?  What methods facilitate cross-sector\, transdisciplinary inquiry? What kinds of project outcomes are possible and desirable? \nPart of the Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable series\,\nAcademic-Community Partnerships for Adaptation and Resilience. 
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/resilience-roundtable-collaborative-communities-for-energy-justice/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241024
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Sustainability Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Mitchell Sustainability Symposium will continue its focus on the intersection of sustainability and student education on UT Austin’s campus and beyond. We’ll look into the state of sustainability at UT Austin through a series of panel discussions\, lectures\, and student presentations. Dr. Shalanda Baker\, Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action at the University of Michigan\, will provide the lunchtime keynote address. \nThe 2024 Mitchell Sustainability Symposium is co-sponsored by the Office of Sustainability\, UT Energy Institute\, and Planet Texas 2050. \nMore details to come! \nKeynote Speaker – Shalanda H. Baker – Inaugural Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action\, The University of Michigan \nBefore joining the University of Michigan\, Shalanda served as the Senate-confirmed Director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity\, Secretarial Advisor on Equity\, and Chief Diversity Officer at the United States Department of Energy. At the Department\, she served as the architect of the agency’s equity and justice policy framework. She also developed and led the implementation of the agency’s groundbreaking strategies for the Justice40 Initiative; equity; and diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and accessibility. Prior to that\, she served in the Biden-Harris Administration as the nation’s first Deputy Director for Energy Justice.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/mitchell-sustainability-symposium-2024/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T130000
DTSTAMP:20240918T214956Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience Roundtable: Community-Engaged Research Rules of Thumb
DESCRIPTION:Since 2014\, Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University (TAMU) has worked alongside the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services\, a non-profit in Houston\, to jointly investigate and document persistent vulnerabilities stemming from chronic pollution\, natural hazards\, as well as chemical and non-chemical stressors. Engaging local high school students and teachers\, the partnership has collected data on a range of complex environmental issues\, educated residents on risks\, and developed solutions to reduce exposure and contamination. \nThe project\, which was initially sponsored by university start-up funds\, allowed TAMU and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services to build trust\, engage the community\, and explore community needs before developing proposals for additional funding. This work\, along with over 30 partnerships with community partners\, led to the book Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change and our rules of thumb to authentically engage communities. \nPart of the Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable series\, Academic-Community Partnerships for Adaptation and Resilience. \nSpeakers:\nJaimie Hicks Masterson – Jaimie Hicks Masterson is director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University\, a high impact service-learning and engaged research program that works alongside low-capacity communities to plan for resilience. She is author of Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters and Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change. She is the engagement coordinator Institute for Sustainable Communities and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard project funded by the Department of Homeland Security and a part of the Center for Coastal Resilience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nJohn T. Cooper – Dr. John T. Cooper\, Jr. has also served as Assistant Vice President for the Division of Academic and Strategic Collaborations at Texas A&M University. Dr. Cooper’s areas of interest include principles of inclusive planning and plan quality. He has a deep commitment to working with emergency planners to increase the extent to which socially vulnerable populations are able to prepare for\, survive and recover from disasters. From 2005-2010\, he directed the FEMA-funded Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Program\, a $2.5 million effort to understand barriers to increased disaster awareness and preparedness in marginalized communities. He has also served on the Advisory Board for the Coastal Resilience Center at the University of North Carolina\, and the boards of directors for the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the Bill Anderson Fund (BAF).
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/resilience-roundtable-community-engaged-research-rules-of-thumb/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240508T120000
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SUMMARY:Artists and Scientists in Dialogue: Reflections on the Way of Water
DESCRIPTION:How can artists and scientists work together to engage deeply with residents and improve community resilience? What do they learn from each other in the process and what is needed to further develop and support these collaborations?\n \n\nIn this special edition of Planet Texas 2050’s Resilience Roundtable Series\, Environmental and Water Resource Engineering Professors Paola Passalacqua and Matt Bartos will reflect on their experience witnessing the Way of Water: Onion Creek with Artistic Director Allison Orr and Producer Lisa Byrd of Forklift Danceworks. The Way of Water is a global arts-based project bringing people together around water challenges. In Austin\, Forklift is partnering with the Watershed Protection Department and residents of the Onion Creek watershed to present The Way of Water: Onion Creek.\n \n\nTo learn more at the project website.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/artists-and-scientists-in-dialog-reflections-on-the-way-of-water-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T120000
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SUMMARY:Humanizing Pedagogies: Learning In and Through Water Across Educational Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Water is more than just a life-sustaining material resource. It provides metaphors\, stories\, and images that can connect ideas\, practices\, and lifeways across time and space. As such\, water serves as a humanizing pedagogical tool in the classroom. Its familiarity provides an entry point for learners and its fluidity allows for discussions to link the interconnectedness of our environments\, our histories\, and our bodies together.\n \n\nJoin us for this conversation with educators that operate in diverse pedagogical sites\, ranging from using the sacred waters of Texas to understand Indigenous lifeways\, theater-based embodied practice for learners to connect with their own bodies\, and learning about water management from past societies to link to our current context.\n \n\nYou can RSVP here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/humanizing-pedagogies-learning-in-and-through-water-across-educational-contexts/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240425T120000
DTSTAMP:20240411T134103Z
CREATED:20240411T134103Z
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SUMMARY:Artists and Scientists in Dialog:  Reflections on the Way of Water
DESCRIPTION:How can artists and scientists work together to engage deeply with residents and improve community resilience? What do they learn from each other in the process and what is needed to further develop and support these collaborations?\n \n\nIn this special edition of Planet Texas 2050’s Resilience Roundtable Series\, Environmental and Water Resource Engineering Professors Paola Passalacqua and Matt Bartos will reflect on their experience witnessing the Way of Water: Onion Creek with Artistic Director Allison Orr and Producer Lisa Byrd of Forklift Danceworks. The Way of Water is a global arts-based project bringing people together around water challenges. In Austin\, Forklift is partnering with the Watershed Protection Department and residents of the Onion Creek watershed to present The Way of Water: Onion Creek.\n \n\nYou can RSVP for the Planet Texas 2050 Roundtable here.\n \n\nPS – To learn more about the project and reserve FREE tickets to the performances on April 12 + 13\, please visit the project website.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/artists-and-scientists-in-dialog-reflections-on-the-way-of-water/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240417T120000
DTSTAMP:20240411T133245Z
CREATED:20240411T133155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T133245Z
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SUMMARY:In the Lab and the Bay: Navigating Water Contaminants Along the Texas Coastal Bend
DESCRIPTION:As water travels through its watershed\, it picks up and absorbs much of what it encounters. This can include an array of water contaminants such as microplastics\, pharmaceuticals\, and “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. These contaminants can impact aquatic systems and the creatures that live within them. For instance\, fish can absorb these chemicals and pass them back into the people who eat them.\n \n\nThe issue can be particularly acute in the Texas Coastal Bend region where so much water collects and so many source points of contamination reside.\n \n\nIn this panel\, we will discuss how researchers and managers at the Marine Science Institute and the City of Corpus Christi are working to shed light on the interplay between contaminants and aquatic ecosystems. The panel will also discuss techniques to trace contaminants’ presence\, their impacts on human and environmental health\, and strategies for their mitigation.\n \n\nYou can RSVP here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/in-the-lab-and-the-bay-navigating-water-contaminants-along-the-texas-coastal-bend/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240227T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240227T170000
DTSTAMP:20240125T152531Z
CREATED:20240125T152328Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The annual symposium brings together university faculty\, researchers\, staff\, students\, practitioners\, artists\, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience\, adaptation\, and environmental justice.\n \n\nThrough multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, Resilience Research in Action highlights the work of PT2050 project teams and partners\, as well as that of other researchers and students exploring diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience. The event is part of our broader efforts to build a community of collaborators through the sharing of ideas\, research\, tools\, and strategies aimed at shaping more resilient communities throughout Texas and beyond.\n \n\nThe symposium will take place from February 27th to February 29th. You can RSVP for the entire symposium or just sign up to attend individual sessions. You can look through a complete schedule of events here.\n \nKeynote Speakers: \n\nDr. Jonathan Foley –  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR\, PROJECT DRAWDOWN\n \n\nOur opening keynote speaker is world-renowned environmental scientist\, sustainability expert\, author\, and public speaker Dr. Jonathan Foley will give a keynote lecture discussing the potential for climate solutions and their co-benefits to nature and people.\n \n\nPooja Tilvawala – FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR\, YOUTH CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE\n \n\nOur closing keynote speaker is an award-winning global climate justice leader who founded Youth Climate Collaborative in 2020. YCC strives to make the climate movement more just\, inclusive\, intergenerational\, and one that activates and sustains youth. Pooja will be closing with her talk\, “Why Youth are Active in the International Climate Space”.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium/2024-02-27/
LOCATION:University of Texas – William C. Powers Student Activity Center\, 2201 Speedway\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240117T130000
DTSTAMP:20240103T163556Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience Roundtable: Histories of Urban Water Management
DESCRIPTION:Today\, urban dwellers tend to think about where their water comes from only when it stops flowing\, or when it flows too much. This water usually makes it to residential consumers through an extensive and technologically sophisticated infrastructure that remains largely invisible outside times of crisis.\n \n\nAcross much of human history (and in many parts of the world today)\, by contrast\, the question of where to get water for daily needs was much more immediate. This is especially true of places where large numbers of people gathered together in dense settlements\, posing challenges for both the supply of fresh water and the disposal of wastewater and excess precipitation.\n \n\nWhile the technologies used to gather and distribute water in the past may have been less complex than those now in use\, the basic principles are the same: water is pulled downhill by gravity\, soaks into the soil\, evaporates into the air\, and can be retained and directed by barriers and conduits. The investigation of water management in urban contexts in the past can help us to understand the challenges those societies dealt with and the solutions they developed. Not only are these solutions sometimes relevant to modern challenges in water management in densely-settled areas\, but they also help us understand the evolution of the systems we now have.\n \n\nThis panel brings together scholars who study human interactions with water resources in urban environments of the past\, from the Romans to the Maya to the modern US Southwest. They will explain how their research illuminates past water management practices\, and discuss the connection of those practices with social and historical developments in both the Old and the New Worlds.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/resilience-roundtable-histories-of-urban-water-management/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231101T120000
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DTSTAMP:20231026T170650Z
CREATED:20231026T170603Z
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SUMMARY:Before\, During & After the Flood: Multiple Perspectives on Planning\, Response\, and Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Floods usually happen suddenly. The sky rips open\, the rivers and streams quickly fill\, followed by the fields and streets. Before long it can become a life-threatening emergency with people trapped in their homes or cars. However\, there is a long ‘before’ and a long ‘after’ when it comes to flooding. The complex way in which water moves and fills up the land is shaped both by geologic processes and the political economy of building housing and infrastructure. Decisions made decades ago affect the landscape of hazard and risk in the present and near future.\n \n\nThere is a long ‘after’ too\, as flooded communities take months and years to recover physically\, financially\, and emotionally. With rain events predicted to be more intense it is imperative to develop networks of collaboration between scientists\, planners\, community advocates\, first responders\, and neighbors to better understand and limit risk\, more effectively respond during times of crisis\, and recover from events in ways that are just and equitable.\n \n\nJoin us for this panel discussion that brings these different perspectives together in hopes of diminishing the impacts of some of our most deadly and costly climate-related hazards.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/before-during-after-the-flood-multiple-perspectives-on-planning-response-and-recovery/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231004T120000
DTSTAMP:20230927T020145Z
CREATED:20230927T020106Z
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UID:50573-1696420800-1696420800@theaustincommon.com
SUMMARY:Water as Muse and Collaborator in Community-Based Arts Practice
DESCRIPTION:Water has always existed as a paradox. It creates and destroys; it heals as well as harms. Water shapes the land both by carrying away and leaving behind\, telling the stories of the earth over and over again. Artists are among many who ask us to continually listen to these stories while remembering that we ourselves are bodies of water.\n \n\nIn this panel\, multidisciplinary artists will share how their work engages water as creator and collaborator. Their discussion will explore the ways in which artistic practices\, particularly those rooted in community and an ethic of care\, can help strengthen our bonds and commitments to each other and to the natural resources on which we all depend.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/water-as-muse-and-collaborator-in-community-based-arts-practice/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230906T120000
DTSTAMP:20230831T211256Z
CREATED:20230831T211200Z
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SUMMARY:Key Issues on Texas Water Planning and Conservation
DESCRIPTION:One would be hard-pressed to find someone to disagree with the precept that water is essential to all facets of life. However\, beyond that generality\, things tend to get fuzzy. How water is procured and delivered to our homes\, fields\, and businesses feels obscure and often fades into the background when things are functioning normally. The regulatory and legal regimes that manage groundwater and surface water are a complicated tangle. Antiquated and inadequate water infrastructure is the norm in many places.\n \n\nWithin this set of wicked problems some key questions remain ever present: How do we make sure there is sufficient water for all human and non-human communities in the present and the future? How do we ensure equitable access to quality drinking water for all?\n \n\nIn Texas\, where communities are frequently dealing with either too much or too little water and our growing urban centers place added strain on water resources\, these questions become more important and urgent.\n \n\nThis year we will gather various folks across academic\, non-profit\, government\, advocacy\, and artistic sectors to discuss the way water shapes our lives. For this first iteration\, join us as our panel of experts lays out some of the key issues and questions surrounding the groundwater and surface water resources of Texas as well as the key scientific\, technological\, and social contours of water conservation and planning.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/key-issues-on-texas-water-planning-and-conservation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T120000
DTSTAMP:20230417T134847Z
CREATED:20230417T134753Z
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SUMMARY:TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER:  A conversation on climate\, land\, and language
DESCRIPTION:Just as the impacts of climate change vary geographically\, so do our conversations and the language we choose to use around climate disasters. This event encourages us to consider how we discuss land\, water\, nonhuman life\, colonialism\, the changes impacting each of us\, and how language is expressed through our position and location.\n \n\nFacilitated through the screening of the short film\, Weather Isn’t Small Talk\, by Planet Texas 2050 Artist-in-Residence mónica teresa ortiz\, our panelists’ conversation will engage issues of landscape\, language\, borders\, and film.\n \n\nYou can RSVP here.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/talking-about-the-weather-a-conversation-on-climate-land-and-language/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Film-Screening,Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T183000
DTSTAMP:20230222T004330Z
CREATED:20230222T004220Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Symposium: Resilience Research In Action
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium brings together university faculty\, researchers\, staff\, students\, practitioners\, artists\, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience\, adaptation\, and equitable and just transition strategies.\n \nThrough multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange\, Resilience Research in Action highlights the work of PT2050 project teams and partners\, as well as that of other researchers and students exploring diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience.\n \nThe event is part of our broader efforts to build a community of collaborators through the sharing of ideas\, research\, tools\, and strategies aimed at shaping more resilient communities throughout Texas and beyond.\n \nClick here for a full schedule of each day’s events (and to RSVP).
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-symposium-resilience-research-in-action/2023-02-28/
LOCATION:Glickman Conference Center\, 305 E 23rd St\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T203000
DTSTAMP:20221103T234225Z
CREATED:20221103T234016Z
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SUMMARY:Cryptocurrency Mining in Texas
DESCRIPTION:There is approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) of cryptocurrency load capacity within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). As of mid-2022\, ERCOT had 33 GW of cryptocurrency mining in its interconnection queue. The potential increase in power demand was so high that ERCOT established a new interim process and a special task force for determining new rules for interconnecting large loads\, such as cryptocurrency mining operations.\n  \nThe question for the debate is the following: Should policymakers encourage cryptocurrency mining in Texas?\n \nThis question will be the subject of an Oxford-style public debate hosted by three groups at the University of Texas at Austin – the Energy Institute\, KBH Energy Center for Business\, Law and Policy\, and Planet Texas 2050.\n \nWe’ll hear from experts both for and against expanding cryptocurrency mining in Texas\, considering factors related to the environment\, economy\, equity\, and accountability. The audience will vote on their position before and after the debate\, and the winner will be the team that changes their numbers the most between votes.\n \nLight bites and refreshments will be served.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/cryptocurrency-mining-in-texas/
LOCATION:Austin Central Library\, 710 W. César Chávez St.\, Austin\, TX\, 78701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T130000
DTSTAMP:20221103T233526Z
CREATED:20221103T233433Z
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SUMMARY:Making Art As A Community
DESCRIPTION:In 2016\, the City of New Orleans received $141 million from the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s National Disaster Resilience Competition Grant for the Gentilly Resilience District – a combination of investments and infrastructure projects in the Gentilly neighborhood designed to reduce flood risk\, slow land subsidence\, improve energy reliability\, and encourage economic development.\n \nAs part of this project\, local nonprofits Arts New Orleans and the Water Leaders Institute partnered to design a cohort-based professional development program to equip local artists and neighborhood residents with knowledge about critical civic issues to prepare them to co-create public art projects. The program was founded on two core beliefs: (1) public art can be a powerful medium to engage neighbors\, build awareness\, and motivate action in response to critical civic issues and (2) Multiple skill sets and ways of knowing are necessary to confront collective challenges: residents’ lived experiences\, artists’ creative practices\, and experts’ technical knowledge are needed and valued.\n \nJoin us for a panel discussion with organizers and participants in the Civic Arts Fellowship: Gentilly Resilience District to learn more about this innovative and integrative approach to building neighborhood resilience.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/making-art-as-a-community/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221005T190000
DTSTAMP:20220929T205029Z
CREATED:20220929T204923Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050  Podcast Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Planet Texas 2050 and The Drag Audio Production House to celebrate the release of “Planet Texas\,” a five-episode podcast series exploring climate change solutions in Texas. Everything’s bigger in Texas…including the natural disasters. Texans face fires\, floods\, hurricanes\, droughts\, freezes\, tornadoes and more – and the thing making these big Texas disasters even bigger? Climate change. Produced and hosted by University of Texas journalism senior Aurora Berry\, this series tells stories of how major disasters affect all of us…but there is still hope for the future.\n \nFood and drinks will be provided. \n**The “Planet Texas” podcast feed is now live! Start listening here.** \n \nPlanet Texas 2050 is a research grand challenge at UT Austin focused on making Texas more resilient in the face of climate change\, population growth\, and rapid urbanization.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-podcast-launch-party/
LOCATION:Cactus Cafe\, 2247 Guadalupe Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker,Party With a Purpose
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T190000
DTSTAMP:20220317T021124Z
CREATED:20220317T021025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T021124Z
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SUMMARY:Making In Systems
DESCRIPTION:How do artists and scientists think about systems\, interconnectedness\, and networks in similar and different ways? How can artists and scientists collaborate to increase the visibility of ecological systems?\n \n\nThe panelists in Making in Systems visualize\, translate\, and study systems and networks through living sculpture\, recycled materials\, coded environments\, and hydrology mapping. They materially and conceptually engage with systems of water\, historical exploitation of people and landscape\, and recycling\, as well as the collapse of systems.\n \n\nVisualizing river networks and systems allows Paola Passalacqua to understand the development and evolution of these landscapes. In Christopher Lin’s Earth to Earth (Dust to Dust)\, earthworms reconstitute decaying organic material such as currency and symbolic flowers into fertile soil. As the currency is consumed\, seeds germinating from this composted material sprout webbed networks of roots hinting at regeneration and regrowth in this visualized future. Everest Pipkin’s Worm Room is a first-person greenhouse exploration game. As you wander through an endless series of glasshouses populated by generative plants sourced from public-domain botanical illustrations\, one is faced with the idea that in the future this web-based plant room might be the only way to interact with various species. In Hannah Chalew’s Embodied Emissions\, paper made of plastic and sugarcane\, with ink made from oak galls and shells\, creates a complex image examining the legacies of exploitation of people and landscape from the time of colonization and plantations into our current petrochemical age.\n \n\nResearch\, art\, knowledge\, understanding\, and change are all nodes in a complex system.\n \n\nIn this age of environmental collapse\, artists and scientists are uniquely capable of harnessing anxiety into data and imagery. Science analyzes systems at their source\, disseminating information that artists can filter and reprocess. Data can be remixed\, visualized\, and translated into sculpture/code/painting to change our awareness of the interconnectedness of systems. Networks theory\, for example\, is an interdisciplinary tool that can be used to consider a wide range of systems: ecological\, biological\, coastal\, social\, and internet. Visualizing patterns helps us understand them.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/making-in-systems/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220216T130000
DTSTAMP:20220209T223007Z
CREATED:20220209T222716Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience Hubs: Designing Critical and Equitable Community Infrastructure in Response to Climate Disasters
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050 invites you to a semester-long Resilience Roundtable panel discussion series featuring leaders across the academic\, non-profit\, government\, advocacy\, and commercial sectors. Roundtables will include 2-3 speakers and a moderator from the Planet Texas 2050 leadership team and will be organized around topic areas drawn from the City of Austin’s climate equity plan as well other topics that intersect with the issues of resilience\, climate justice\, disaster response\, biodiversity\, environmental humanities\, and more. Each panel discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A session and collective brainstorming towards continued action.\n \n\n Resilience Hubs: Designing Critical and Equitable Community Infrastructure in Response to Climate Disasters\n \n\n \nWhen Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021\, it exposed the vulnerabilities in our water and energy systems\, but also the unequal vulnerabilities in our communities along the lines of income\, housing status\, immigration status\, race\, age\, and disability. In the aftermath of the storm\, an idea that gained traction among a suite of solutions is the development of “Resilience Hubs.” As community-serving facilities designed to support residents and coordinate resource distribution and services before\, during\, or after a disruption\, resilience hubs\, if designed well\, can equitably enhance community resilience while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving local quality of life. The City of Austin is currently planning the design and implementation of resilience hubs in different parts of the city. It is imperative to center equity in the process of developing community infrastructure in order to best prepare and respond to future climate disasters such as heat\, flooding\, wildfires\, and cold.\n \nJoin us in a conversation between researchers\, community groups\, and city officials that seeks to bridge community-articulated needs to research and action.\n  \nSpeakers  \nMarc Coudert is the Environmental Program Manager at the City of Austin Office of Sustainability. Marc works with city departments to embed climate adaptation strategies into long term operation and asset management planning. In this role\, he also supports community organizers to increase climate adaptation in the Eastern Crescent. Marc received a Certificate in Climate Change and Health from the Yale School of Public Health\, a Master of Science in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning from Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He is a member of the NACCHO Global Climate Change Workgroup.\n \nFrances Acuña is the Climate Resilience Lead Organizer for Go Austin/Vamos Austin (GAVA). She has lived in southeast Austin for 25 years. She began advocating for the Dove Springs community in 2010 and in 2012\, she became a Texas Certified Community Healthworker and started getting involved with GAVA as a community leader. She also worked with fellow community members serving as first responders during the October 2013 and 2015 floods in Dove Springs. In 2017\, Frances joined GAVA as a Community Organizer where she worked to increase access to healthy food and physical activity. Later\, with continued floods and residents being displaced due to flooding and infrastructure issues\, she became the Climate Resilience Lead Organizer where she concentrates her efforts bridging the communication gap between residents and stakeholders\, emphasizing response and responsibility where equity and public safety is a mutual priority. When she is not spending her time in the community organizing or meeting with stakeholders\, you can find her in her garden or spending time with her family.\n \nKatherine Lieberknecht is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. She researches urban water resources planning\, metropolitan-scaled green infrastructure planning\, and urban climate planning. Dr. Lieberknecht teaches courses on sustainable land use planning\, water resources planning\, and urban ecology. Prior to joining the faculty\, she worked in regional land conservation. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the College of William and Mary\, a Master in Environmental Management from Yale University\, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. Dr. Lieberknecht was the inaugural chair of Planet Texas 2050\, The University of Texas at Austin’s first grand challenge research program. She is the faculty lead for the Texas Metro Observatory\, a Planet Texas 2050 research project and co-lead for the Planet Texas 2050 Flagship Project Equitable and Regenerative Cities in a Post-Carbon Future.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/resilience-hubs-designing-critical-and-equitable-community-infrastructure-in-response-to-climate-disasters/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220119T140000
DTSTAMP:20220113T164810Z
CREATED:20220113T164309Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience Roundtable: Linking Equity\, Research\, and Implementation - Climate Planning in Austin
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050 invites you to a semester-long Resilience Roundtable panel discussion series featuring leaders across the academic\, non-profit\, government\, advocacy\, and commercial sectors. Roundtables will include 2-3 speakers and a moderator from the Planet Texas 2050 leadership team and will be organized around topic areas drawn from the City of Austin’s climate equity plan as well other topics that intersect with the issues of resilience\, climate justice\, disaster response\, biodiversity\, environmental humanities\, and more. Each panel discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A session and collective brainstorming towards continued action.\n  \n\nPanel Discussion One: Linking Equity\, Research\, and Implementation: Climate Planning in Austin\n \n\n  \n\nIn this first edition of our Resilience Roundtable series\, our panelists will provide the backstory for how Austin’s climate equity plan came together and ways in which researchers and local communities can be involved to help ensure equity throughout the plan’s implementation process. The format includes time for Q&A and a generative discussion towards brainstorming ideas for action. You can register here.  \n\n  \n\nZach Baumer is the Climate Program Manager at the City of Austin’s Office of Sustainability. There he leads the City of Austin’s Climate Program\, providing strategic direction to meet the city’s goal of net-zero community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Zach has been with the City of Austin since 2011\, with prior experience working in the environmental consulting industry\, primarily assisting large industrial clients with environmental data management\, greenhouse gas inventories\, and sustainability planning.  Zach is a LEED Accredited Professional with an MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. Zach is a native of Indianapolis and holds undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. \n\n  \n\nCeline Rendon is passionate about sustainability education and racial equity. She is the Texas Project Specialist at EcoRise where she supports the utilization of GIS mapping and data visualization to build coalitions at the local\, state and national level and identify strategies for effectively serving marginalized communities. Prior to joining EcoRise\, Celine was the Community Engagement Specialist with the Office of Sustainability\, supporting the development and community involvement of Austin’s 2021 Climate Equity Plan. Celine has a BS in Environmental Science and a Bridging Disciplines certificate in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin. In her spare time\, Celine enjoys film photography\, gardening\, and DIY projects. \n\n  \n\nMiriam Solis\, PhD\, MCP\, is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on infrastructure planning and design. She is on the leadership team of Planet Texas 2050\, UT’s campus-wide grand challenge research initiative. In 2020\, she served on the City of Austin Climate Equity Plan Sustainable Building’s committee. Raised in California’s Central Valley\, Dr. Solis is a first generation college graduate and the proud daughter of working-class Mexican immigrants. She received her doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. Prior to her faculty appointment\, Dr. Solis was a Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellow\, and worked for the cities of San Francisco\, New York\, and Richmond\, CA. \n\n  \n\nShane Johnson is the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter’s Clean Energy Distributed Organizer\, primarily supporting community pressure to transition cities in Texas to be powered by clean\, renewable energy\, as well as leading organizing at the state-level to fix the Texas grid. Shane was the lead organizer for the #FixTheGrid People’s Hearing that provided a platform for Texans to tell Texas’s so-called leaders what they lived through during the February black outs\, and he subsequently led a Town Hall and a rally to pressure the Public Utility Commission to start listening to the public to actually “fix” the Texas grid. Recently\, Shane served as a co-chair of the Steering Committee of the City of Austin’s ambitious Climate Equity Plan\, propelling a shift in city planning to center racial equity to begin addressing climate change’s root causes like systemic racism. Outside of his day-job\, Shane served as a volunteer on Austin Justice Coalition’s policy team that helped win crucial and unprecedented victories in Austin to fight against police brutality and for systemic criminal justice reform—experience that is actually crucial to fight the climate crisis and fix the Texas grid. Shane grew up in North Austin and Pflugerville\, trying to practice the ideal of working in your own communities first. \n\n 
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/resilience-roundtable-linking-equity-research-and-implementation-climate-planning-in-austin/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201209T130000
DTSTAMP:20201204T034609Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Fall Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050 invites you to a semester-long showcase series taking place fall 2020. These presentations will highlight the Planet Texas 2050 research projects funded from 2019-2020 and point to future directions and collaborations within and beyond the Planet Texas 2050 community. \n  \nDecember 9\, 2020\n12 -1 p.m. \n“Texas Water Stories” [Team: Heather Houser (project lead – English)\, Paul Adams (Geography)\, C.J. Alvarez (Mexican American & Latina/o Studies)\, Tia Madkins (Education)\, and Fikile Nxumalo (Univ of Toronto)] \n  \nOver the past two years\, Texas Water Stories has assessed wide-ranging narratives about one of the most valuable resources in Texas: water. Hear historical narratives about the Rio Grande along the US-Mexico border\, discover Coahuiltecan ceremonies honoring the natural springs of Central Texas and learn about farmers struggling with the declining Ogallala aquifer and their subsequent shift to dry-land farming on the Southern High Plains.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-fall-research-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201208T130000
DTSTAMP:20201204T034708Z
CREATED:20201203T190832Z
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SUMMARY:Planet Texas 2050 Fall Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Planet Texas 2050 invites you to a semester-long showcase series taking place fall 2020. These presentations will highlight the Planet Texas 2050 research projects funded from 2019-2020 and point to future directions and collaborations within and beyond the Planet Texas 2050 community. \nDecember 8th \n“Towards and Equitable Knowledge-Action Network: A Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental NGOs” [Team: Jayme Walenta (project lead – Geography)\, Patrick Bixler (LBJ)\, Caroline Faria (Geography)\, Ji Ma (LBJ)\, Jonathan Lowell (Planet Texas 2050)\, and Michael Shensky (Libraries)] \n“Urban Planning for an Uncertain Future” [Team: Robert Paterson (Architecture)\, Miriam Solis (Architecture)\, Pavithra Vasudevan (Women’s & Gender Studies and Africa & African Diaspora Studies)\, and Deidre Zoll (Architecture)] \n“Transportation-Related Air Pollution (TRAP)” [Team: Natalia Ruiz Juri (project lead – CAEE CTR)\, Josh Apte (CAEE)\, Alex Karner (Architecture)\, Elizabeth Matsui (Dell Med)\, Lourdes Rodriguez (Pop Health)\, and Corwin Zigler (Statistics and Data Science)] \nLearn more about how air pollution from transit in Austin affects public health\, as well as what the cities of Houston and San Antonio have been doing to address social inequality in their climate-planning efforts. Researchers also will present on an analysis of environmental nonprofits across the state.  \n(There’s also a research showcase on December 9th. You can learn more about that here.)
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/planet-texas-2050-fall-research-showcase/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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