<div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>From what I've heard about last year, this is an amazing opportunity to learn from leaders in climate outside of academia. Highly recommended! </div><div><br></div><div>-Miriam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">CoEnv Assoc Dean Acad Affairs via Advisers</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:advisers@u.washington.edu">advisers@u.washington.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:48 AM<br>Subject: [Advisers] C ENV 590: Imagining a post-carbon future: Discussions with climate Leaders (WIN 2025)<br>To: <a href="mailto:advisers@uw.edu">advisers@uw.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:advisers@uw.edu">advisers@uw.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-2842792121562412496">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please forward this course advertisement to your students. Great interdisciplinary seminar class on climate impacts/solutions. Well-received last year across the campus.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Imagining a post-carbon future: discussions with climate leaders</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1 credit graduate seminar<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 2:30-4:50pm in FISH 213<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Led by Brady Walkinshaw, College of the Environment Affiliate Professor, and CEO of Earth Alliance.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Access granted by instructor from an <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/dgwTc5D8evPBqGZD9__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jDt1yzNRWRlSvQ_zqtmSUAL9Y-pqbkAwnlNdyZxe2lJLXnf3yetyKFRHZ6bIgNbgKXWAR-OXgA$" target="_blank">
application link</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a graduate level survey course that brings senior leaders, policymakers, activists, investors, and thinkers across disciplines in the environmental and climate field into conversations with graduate students. The course focuses
on a solutions-based lens and explores perspectives and pathways on how to rapidly decarbonize our global economy to reach targets for GHG reductions and biodiversity loss. The course also aims to provide opportunities for students to expand their networks
and engage formally and informally with leading thinkers and involves optional evening events through the quarter to dig deeper into the topics and themes covered in the course.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers will include political figures and policymakers, academics from other institutions, investors at leading funds, corporate sustainability leaders from Fortune 100 companies, and more. The course will also bring a media, storytelling,
and cultural lens to our discussions and will be grounded in an audience framework developed by Harmony Labs and their work on a
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Narrative Observatory</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The course is application-only, and we will cap the course size at 25. Students will be assigned weekly readings and will be responsible for completing short 2-3 paragraph reflections on the readings prior to each seminar. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brady Walkinshaw is founding CEO of a new global climate initiative, Earth Alliance, co-founded by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs and actor Leonardo DiCaprio to accelerate progress on solving the climate crisis. Before taking the helm
at Earth Alliance, Brady was CEO at Grist, the nation's leading environment media nonprofit. He has also served as a Washington State senator (43rd District) where he chaired the Latino Caucus.<u></u><u></u></p>
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