[00:00:05] >> All right good morning everybody I'm Jennifer Hershey and very excited to be with all of you today spending the day thinking about global collaboration's and global studies particularly as it pertains to sustainable development in our track and what it means to really work together as multi-stakeholder networks in particular places connected to other networks I have a very brief introduction 1st I have to I'm supposed to tell you some things about the day. [00:00:38] One is since there's no opening session for everybody that it's my job to welcome you to the inaugural annual global studies symposium which is organized by the Atlanta Global Studies Center consortium a partnership of Georgia Tech Georgia State and funded by a U.S. Department of Education title 6 Grant. [00:00:58] We are working very closely in the center that I direct which is called Circle and sustain and this regional center of expertise on education for sustainable development that we have helped to found here in Atlanta with a number of other universities and partners with the new Atlanta global studies center so we're really excited to be part of this symposium. [00:01:22] I want to say thank you the sponsors at Georgia State and Georgia Tech as well as the Georgia Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education title 6 program for their support and there is in the program itself there's a full list of sponsors if you want to take a look at that I'm supposed to share the wife I info and hashtags for the symposium which is also in the print program for why fire supposed to select a visitor and click outlaw get under free access and the hashtags are A.G. S C symposium and Atlanta Global Studies Center. [00:01:56] And then I'm supposed to remind you that during lunch at 1 pm We will have remarks by President Bud Peterson from Georgia Tech and Vanessa Ybarra who's the director of the Mayor's Office of International Affairs for the city of Atlanta in President Suite be on the 1st floor and you are encouraged to join us at 1 pm for the remarks and that's also when lunch will be served so with that said I want to give you before I turn it over to our primary speaker Kim Smith from Portland a very brief introduction to our C.E.O. greater Atlanta who's the host of this track today so Ken is going to talk to you about the U.N. sustainable development goals there are 17 of them different R.C.S. prioritize different goals these are the goals that we are prioritizing through our stakeholder engagement process in the application process to become an R C E We identified these goals as key to drawing on the strengths that we have in the region to address the challenges that we have in the region and we can talk more about them later theoretically this should move but he it is not. [00:03:06] And. This is going to be our day of technological. Use those of this there we go now it's working it needed to wake up OK. So I've just broken down the statement that kind of explains what we do and the key things we do so our overall goal it's educational So it's about offering broad based multi-stakeholder educational and training programs it does not have to be formal education we're supporting other regional sustainable development goals in this effort and really key to us being in Atlanta which has a long history of civil rights activism and also is always fighting for the 1st or 2nd spot is the most unequal city in the country we focus on equity and justice as absolutely key to sustainable development you can see that we had our huge launch party with about 200 people at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and that's a picture of it featuring our very own Isabella Stubbs who's right here in the audience. [00:04:21] That's where we had the party. We're trying to create a new regional model for collective impact we are one of the cities with the most higher ed institutions in the in the country and we need to do more together among us and with our partners off campus and the goal is to improve the region but also very importantly to prepare our students to be sustainable development change makers and especially to understand as college was saying the importance of collaboration and what it really means to collaborate in authentic ways with us as equal partners and with our off campus partners as equal partners who possess very important expertise so that's what we're trying to do in Atlanta and we'll talk a lot more about that especially in the 3rd session today so with that I would like to introduce our speaker Kim Smith You can read her bio in the program I'm not going to read her bio for you she was a she's been in the our C.E.O. and the education for sustainable development world for over a decade at this point and she was our mentor I 1st heard about our C.E.O.. [00:05:30] Yes through a web in her that she did through the professional association on campus sustainability that we're both part of and I was looking for a network in Atlanta and it turned out that we had to create it ourselves and this was a really exciting way to do it and so there were about 2 years where we talked quite a lot and we checked out the idea with people all over Atlanta and everybody was excited about it and finally Kim did a weapon are for a whole bunch of us and so she has been there with us holding our hand the entire time and she and I then traveled to China last year together and did some presentations there as part of the conference she really is she comes to us from Portland Community College but to me what's more important for the purposes of this particular session is that she is the founder of the Greater Portland R C E And equally important she's been very very involved at the U.N. and global level in education for sustainable development so she represented the Association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education at the U.N. a real plus Earth Summit in 2012 she was she also is an international fellow with the U.S. partnership for education for sustainable development and she led the U.S. delegation to UNESCO World Conference on education for sustainable development in 2014 and so we've asked her to come here and really share some of her knowledge with us about this global educational field that we are now all part of to set aside for a day of thinking about what kind of difference we can make here in Atlanta so Kim thank you so much for coming to the side of the country with us today so well thank you for hosting this amazing event and it's exciting to talk about global studies and think about who we are locally regionally and how we connect into work happening around the globe but again as regional centers it is about thinking about who are we on a regional level what are local challenges so I'm going to be sharing some of the Portland story giving examples of other our cities around the world but as Jenny kind he said I have had a chance to get to represent us and be a part. [00:07:40] You know ASCO efforts and so I'm going to give a little context in history as well so if you are ready you know some of this I apologize cause I'm sure there are plenty of experts in the room and I don't want to offend your intelligence but to give a little context right so we should start with the obvious what is sustainable development so just a little bit of history just understanding that our own mentors who crept create the R.C. helped write this language and so sustainable development. [00:08:08] This is the official in 1907 with meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs I always get those words around like it's interesting it's like I can jumble compromising all of that so I want to introduce If you haven't heard this before it's African proverb and so a tribal chief spoke to our friend and mentor Charles Hopkins and said you know what we've been doing this for millennia we get that concept right but just thinking about enough for all forever captures this as well right so for each of us it's important to ask what's enough. [00:08:46] That's that's very individual conversation right or on a regional level what's enough for Atlanta or all the folks that are living here together for all who would you include in that all of humanity anyone else anything else. Animals OK Is nature have rights for the environmental lawyers out there whole other question. [00:09:13] Anything else or anyone else it's kind of a kind of a clue up in the top when the unborn future generations so part of this is it recognise that we have a voice and in terms of the Empowerment Process is. Giving voice to those who aren't empowered either nature you know who speaks for the tree we're going to be the Lorax here and and who speaks for future generations so giving respect for that of course is a tougher conversation for all of us to continue to think about who are the stakeholders who's not at the table how do we speak for those folks together and then forever's obvious we hope. [00:09:56] Fingers crossed. OK So Rio plus. 20 is just going to attended was building on the original UN conference in Rio which was the source of Agenda 21 some of you maybe you know folks who are like. Jenna $21.00 U.N. government one world title telling us what to do right there's been this movement this and movement and it was never meant to be some top down policy it was about what do we need to do at the local level in dress these issues that are dining us and say what do we need for the 21st century how are we going to live moving forward and from those emerge the millennium development goals so I'm not going to get into those there's great history on that that was referenced last night how many of you were at the talk last May just a few of you OK which was very fascinating about innovative finance but she referenced briefly the Millennium Development Goals those generally while they were relevant to all of us mere issues of poverty and health and in former Taliban education they were perceived as relevant more to less industrialized countries or developing countries and the most industrialized countries were like we should help. [00:11:15] Versus taking ownership of what we also need to do so. Because that's just something to recognize that when we're talking about Rio plus 20 let's place it in the earth summit itself in $1902.00 and so in 2012 this was the document that all the countries signed actually the theme was the future we want let's really think once again Jenna 21 OK didn't achieve all the things we wanted but we made progress the M D G's thank goodness we had aspirational goals we worked towards those and then now it's like what kind of world we want I love that folks can take that idea and bring it against the national of the local level then Lynn created an amazing national survey that was called the Finland we won and all these folks just everybody in the country or is it just invited What what do you want it's not again top down defining who we are what we need so the word they came up with for sustainable development that doesn't always land well with everyone as well being what does well being mean right same thing reflecting on what that might be other regions it might be resilience different words that mean more to us so it. [00:12:30] Really is acronym land you know it's quite hard to say let's just be prepared for that so the journey to E.S.D. and you can tell that the Japanese have been influenced All right can you tell that's a Japanese image is it so cute it's OK. Little bonnet up a little leaf so. [00:12:52] The journey. So 225-2014 if you were any of you a part of the decade previous to you do any of you by chance shaped that So it's amazing that coming out of Agenda 21 only 2. 2 even goals were identified for whole decades so education got a decade and biodiversity so it's amazing to get to really intentionally focus on a theme and then in 2014 when the decade ended and this is what Jenny reference so yes it was an honor and humbling to get to bring a delegate represent the don't have authority that we're representing the State Department that doesn't mean I have a voice or vote at least had a team representing different sectors getting to go to the US Go World Summit in Japan and identifying what have we achieved what can we do more effectively through education and so all of the different countries signed on to this declaration saying we're going to commit to this we're not giving up it's not like it's over OK you did what you could let's focus on something else saying let's continue on let's make sure that yes he has a plan so I'm going to identify the global action program on the as you know it's been doing this year so again context where are we what's coming next. [00:14:16] Have any of you use the gap as a guiding principle in your work so all of the countries again we're asked to please create a plan to help utilize the best practices that is due to help move us forward when I got back from Japan called the State Department anybody writing this in their hood you want to come on I'm going to sociology important can you do you call it you might have been sure let's write a plan to save the world for the U.S. no pressure. [00:14:46] And we did and it was another master's thesis and it's you know that's awesome probably just you sitting on a shelf somewhere but it still was. So we're going to share what that gap is and educational whole other team focusing on quality education K. 12 so if you're going to those sessions tomorrow want to recognize that there is a whole other team not just in higher ed doing this work also signed a declaration. [00:15:14] Which brings us up to today and what are the sustainable development goals and you know how did Jenny and all of you identify what your priorities are for your region so 2015 and the shift in the new plan taking to the $2012.00 efforts at Rio plus 20 Agenda $21.00 became Agenda $23.00 so that's the new language if you don't use that and the sustainable development goals sometimes are called the global goals so getting into those we really want to recognize that agenda 2030 is so exciting especially for wonks but in the sense it's very wonky and it's written in you know very great detail but it's exciting when you say wow I this is a vision for a world that we don't want to live in this is a future that I'm excited about that says this we could survive and we can thrive. [00:16:17] Not just sustain but thrive. And it's unprecedented in scope really thinking about how all of these issues are interconnected They're not separate they're obviously complex systems the U.S. did sign on 17 goals as Jenny said and these targets are key for how you can actually measure them so drill down into them it's invitation to go check this out. [00:16:42] Specifically the targets and if you just Google S.-T. G.'s it will bring you to the page that has the vision the targets and and also indicators they actually get narrow it down even further so notice here again all of the issues. Integrated that it really is a call for the developed countries to step up OK So it really is an encouragement but also a call for accountability how do you do you guys use like the 3 E's do you think environment Nirman equity economics now it's the 5 piece so I have these over here too so we Few wish at the end I have some posters and then a hand out that has the 5 P.C. S.T.G. is written out so if you want to save your hands and writing time. [00:17:35] But the 5 piece I'm just going to identify that you'll see that the M.T.G. is transferred over into the S.T.G. S. and then we're expanded so people being the social or the equity peace plan it for the environment prosperity is really interesting because it used to be profit does that anyone find that intriguing. [00:17:59] What is that even introduced to us right that there are other economic systems which was part of yesterday's conversation. How do we measure wellbeing how do we will measure prosperity beyond profit OK And then these 2 are the mechanisms we really want sustainable development we're going to need to have a peaceful world so peace building another theme from yesterday and we need to do it together so the S.T.G. is across the top those are mainly the M.T.G. So they've come back they said these are aspirational goals let's see what we can do I mean you know poverty that's again the aspiration but at least we can reduce poverty right reduce inequalities perhaps a little bit more pushback in the US but still something to talk about what cannot look like so but these are social or the people ones Here's your prosperity right and you guys are health I mean Georgia Tech you guys or do you not you guys are doing all this innovation right so this is not again a plan out there it's about it's all of us saying yeah I'm doing these things it's really helpful to do a mapping exercise in any class in any non profit with governments and check and see what you're already doing like recognise and tell your story that we're already doing these things and they should be measured and if not then find out where your gaps are or research opportunities that some of your faculty or colleagues might be interested in so again that's going to be a year prosperity piece and then here is Planet climate action you know obviously have to focus on life below water oceans can depend on. [00:19:46] And like to do a quick little. Exercise if you please take 2 deep breaths really to. Her side and one more. Going forward on that 1st frost I want you to please thank trees and plants for your oxygen and on that 2nd breath think 10. Plankton creates 50 percent of our oxygen we don't think about our dependency on these little microorganisms right but we're all connected so life below outer we often forget it let's not Sylvia Earle is like. [00:20:31] That it's not just think Green also think blue so life on land that's an obvious one of biodiversity and again there are other peace peace partnership so a little way to remember the days. So these are universal These are designed for all stakeholders for all so multi-sector right so the question was is this design for government or is this designed for business is no it's designed for all of us so that's why in Portland we spend a lot of time doing mapping exercises with different groups so we can see that we're actual in this together. [00:21:22] So specifically A.S.D. and I'm going to also connect this in to where we are headed but. Underneath goal force or right 17 goals 169 targets you can see this is obviously really broad thinking about you know how do we deal with primary education and lifelong learning I'll be quiet for a moment can you read them in the back can you see it. [00:21:52] So those who are streaming hopefully you can read it as well. So we are responsible for sustainable lifestyles human rights gender equality peace nonviolence global citizenship cultural diversity. Yes. No pressure. Another quick exercise go like this. Do that to your neighbor or I'm going to do that too and me and reiki healing all over again and. [00:22:25] What did we just do. Take the weight off your shoulders you are not responsible for the whole world. However take your piece do some piece right and again we can't do it alone so we're talking about collective impact collaborating understanding that education for sustainability element was even the prep ization was negotiated everything is in a good. [00:22:54] Portland we don't like that word development right so other places don't like the word ability some people are like I don't like for. Like what you. Were environmental educators we're an environment in our you know like education in the environment or education about like. It's all it's all of the but for us. [00:23:19] It's for it's purposeful it's intentional it's education for a sustainable future reorienting education towards a sustainable future not yes let's get a job yes let's have a lovely environment so you can have a nice vacation but it's also what does a student will future look like so here's a road map so you know identified with a whole bunch of experts again not top down lots of folks in their bathrobes in a hotel room right just typing away editing at midnight saying this is what we will leave our best practices so these are 5 priority action areas and again is this design for government no but. [00:24:07] Probably a good idea to will align with government to collaborate so we're not recreating the will right so we're looking for efficiencies how can we advance policy how do we change our whole institution design you guys are all here right now number 3 check right cheating we're building capacity of our trainers we have some youth here. [00:24:32] In the U.S. go World Youth is 35 years and or how many of your under 35. You're still you. Rest of us not so much but still we can empower and mobile issues and then what can we do with the local level so just to show some imagery in on or who is doing this work and hopefully have you be able to see that you are doing this too so just recognizing what are our mission statements how are we doing strategic plans and understanding there's some value in marketing too so here we are in Atlanta. [00:25:08] Famous famous line Martin Luther King said in his speech I Have A Dream right that's actually inspirational his speech maybe wouldn't have landed in such a wonderful way if he'd said I have a strategic plan. Maybe some of us would like a cool let me read it. So. [00:25:36] So. You know all of us you know we know we have that we have to at least look at it and say yeah we can help go in and talk to different groups and say hey how's your education piece going how are you moving forward your public relations campaigns what are you doing with workforce training right and how can we may be aligned that So the U.S. partnership for us you helped with the decade they still exist now stars as a rating system through she. [00:26:03] Jenny kindly. Identified that my work is she's on the board of the Association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education so you have an incredible advocate champion at the national international level through Jenny. So yeah climate action plans these are groups around the world that are similar to really doing great work Korea and Japan Australia the U.K. is international but particularly with universities focused on research we are still and I'll just mention this if you haven't heard this term yet how many of you have heard this term we are still in we are still in so some not a lot so good example not to be subversive. [00:26:53] It's a little subversive So when the U.S. pulled out when the federal government pulled out of the Paris Agreement lots of right. Lots of cities institution. Said we're still in we're still going to do it at the local in the state level so that started with Hawaii and then became this ripple effect so the whole West Coast I go to a college that we are still in I'm in Portland I mean I'm a county in Oregon State you know like actually all the way up all sign the document that we're still going to do it. [00:27:27] So what can you do in your operations little bit of glare coming off the football stadium. This is a group of amazing if you get a chance to go to Korea I highly encourage you to do so R.C. tongue is one of the original R C E is a gorgeous ability center that you can go stay and they invite researchers you're welcome to say for weeks months it's wonderful but the whole thing is cutting edge design this is something I just want to mention as a systems thinking our students at P.C.C. your students at Georgia Tech and beyond it whichever universities or colleges are here they want to do meaningful projects so we had this whole commitment to create a circular program at P.C.C. where the 1st. [00:28:16] Net 0 at least once you're ready community college in the nation and one of the things is to make sure that our compost is going into our worm bins so they are educating about composting this is a beautiful villa It's called a warm Villa. It has a rose window made out of wine bottles. [00:28:40] And then the fish so the compost then the food and all the food goes back into our. We have actually I don't know if you guys have this but we have food pantries at our college because students are hungry talking about equity issues right so and obviously transportation so all of the types of things we can do to transform our environments again we're doing this now conferences trainings reorienting courses we also want to highlight 3 here I think I think the weapon or you were 1st talked about was but there's also many many webinars and these are free through the sustainability curriculum Consortium an amazing group that's really focusing on academics and a business faculty out here. [00:29:24] Well at least you know some business folks open the one planet education network focuses on using his 2 G.'s for a one planet M.B.A. instead of 7 planet M.B.A.'s great interesting real nice reorientation like Portland State many of their programs are connected in with initiatives that are happening within the city itself and so these are so they're saying how can we use knowledge to serve the city again applied research but also partnerships college networks youth networks we're already partnering with Atlanta which has been wonderful with your use your virtual youth conference and lots of service learning so this is one of our colleagues in Korea some obviously empowering youth and they've done a lot in Japan these folks are out serving my students or my students out serving the homeless and another student here teaching children how to build raised beds community based learning or service learning what can we do at the local level I do want to encourage you to keep an eye out for that Eco Challenge it's an international opportunity online happens all around the year but particularly in the fall you can create a team to do lifestyle changes again our students out cleaning up habitat other set of students painting schools one might be like where students having to paint schools that some social problem it's a question because we don't have enough staff to actually maintain the schools but still they learned already recognising time is moving quickly and I had to turn right this is a OK So that's the gap you said it's ending in 21000 I want to also recognize that you know some that horizontal thing we're talking about collaborating across regions let's look at at least where the R.C.S. live so United Nations you know us go. [00:31:29] If you don't know the acronyms education science culture right you probably know UNESCO Heritage sites but maybe you're not always thinking right you know who is actually helping with education. Anybody actually work with the U.N. here very quickly other less and I love knowing this if one of the agencies ends with a P. or an F They have money. [00:32:00] If they end it then. It's a think tank and we don't have money. At especially since the U.S. pulled out which took 25 percent of their budget. So we are still in it with you now SCO as well because they are still recognizing the regions and because United Nations University is the one that acknowledged all the R.C. we are been invited even if the federal government is not playing well with you know SCO we all are still there saying please work at the civil society level please tell the stories please send in your reports so we know that it's good stuff happening in the U.S. So again you went to UNESCO UN you is underneath that and they're saying how can we use education to address pressing problems as a social experiment during the decade. [00:32:54] They came up man that's going to be hard to see in the back. Well you can tell us the world map right. If you have if you are color blind I'm sorry there's an accessibility issue here with the orange in the green So let's recognize that but anyway regional centers of. [00:33:11] Propositions. Education and expertise on Excellence does not mean you have to have a Ph D. or you have to be perfect so again releasing perfection. For our Ph D. students. And education for so our C.E.O.'s are organizing regional groups so here the Americas we have 7 in the United States now North Texas was just approved a couple months ago so we're really proud of them we have 3 more applying for recognition lots in Europe lots in Africa lots and Asia we need more in the Americas please come visit us in Portland. [00:33:56] Maybe that's attractive to you you're coming to Portland you can enjoy all of this so the world we want the future we want I love Portland I'm so happy to be living there and I want to stay healthy and need to address some serious regional pressing issues we have a lot of poverty the cost of living is insane I have students who cannot afford apartments let alone a book OK I'm glad I'm at a community college it's pretty heartbreaking at times to help open doors to folks but it is beautiful and we certainly want to it in our region create a greater Portland so we are known as Greater Portland internationally but we chose a local name and. [00:34:45] Part of that is because acronyms are so long but we could in the long acronym Jepson and but if you say that even back where is it explains our mission so we're a network using sustainability education to create a greater Portland and greater is the aspiration again but it's also our geography so we're 4 counties around the greater Portland region which is defined by our metro region which is partially the data that our government collects so we can make comparisons so it was you have to choose a region that's reasonable enough so you can know each other so you can work together. [00:35:23] On what's happening in University of Oregon and Eugene's too far away from the region that we were able to manage so just as you guys just as Jenny identified were collaborative network our motto is educate empowering gauge we do want to educate the hard issues but we want we do not want to destroy people's sense of faith or hope for the future so it's also about empowerment it's possible to make a difference and engagement this is how are these are ways to step into the knowledge you have in a meaningful way so this is very similar list. [00:36:02] And we work to. Are shaped partially by Portland's work to we definitely want to be vibrant We want to be cross sector not just higher ed right how do you collaborate across educational sectors also how do you think how do we think about workforce training recognising we spend more money on workforce training than we do on education we also spend more money on prisons than we do at education that's a whole other issue. [00:36:30] We need to sustain ourselves that's its own issue right for all organisations How can you create a program that works and can last lifelong learning all ages when I mention that thing about expertise that 3 year old is an expert. That's 3 year old is an expert on their life right and 90 year old whether they're educated and with whatever degree they have so much life expertise so again not excellence but expertise trying to get their public awareness out there and notice again. [00:37:03] I know citizenship is a charged word these days but global citizens we're in this together we're working on a book Darcy's in Shenandoah. In Virginia they have they're creating a book called The Global self and like how working with a lot of psychologists how do we create an identity around that and Oxford universities printing publishing it so that it's exciting already so wrapping up how can these tools help us number one let's move beyond that sense of scarcity and recognize there's abundance there's a lot of programs going on lot of good people right so if we can get outside of our silos connect with each other. [00:37:51] Lab rate instead of compete. Which right we found that we actually are able to get grants because we write we co-write a grant together with the different universities rather than computing. What resources exist let's be efficient with those again not carrying the weight of the world if you can share the workload we need more leaders we need more capacity we do not have enough students trained to meet the demand. [00:38:20] Well we don't have enough teachers trained to meet the demand of students in industry so we need to scale up speed up our trainings so we can again have collective impact if you have not done research or read the research on collective impact or network analysis really cutting edge stuff coming out of Stanford it's really where it's out in the foundations the philanthropy foundations are looking at the money that's coming out of the new money maybe not the old money but new money it's all about collective impact so where are we now that gap is coming to an end Lobel goals continue till 2030 education has been invited to step up again we're getting a new decade we're positioned so well now so they are seasoned Atlanta you are they are seeing the land you guys are you've got the foundations now with this new decade coming in 2020 so education 2030 you want to create change makers. [00:39:25] They're going to need the knowledge and knowledge and skill sets to achieve these goals to address some big scary week of problems right so there are learning objectives if you just look at education 2030 is a bigger book that has some learning objectives that I want to share they're also saying let's see what yes you can do so if you like to write learning objectives set outcomes and assess those These are the ones again that experts around the world stakeholders partners have come up with some are obvious some are not. [00:40:02] If these come problems are complex and we need systems thinkers they're not these issues are not in isolation so how can you see the framework give those kids the red pill OK that's the matrix goes let them see that all of us we need to see the Matrix systems thinkers. [00:40:20] Yeah. How can we think about the future we need to anticipate what those consequences might be that risks prevention lives and that too what about values what about civil dialogue that might be worthwhile skill set for some of us I can hardly talk with my father and teach the because these talks but I can talk to my dad. [00:40:51] So strategic competency obviously here innovation big part of your work there is a collaboration critical thinking you've got we're just going to have to look at the systems we're going to question the systems what are the root causes and we have to look at ourselves so in this work hopefully these competencies will help us achieve have education help us achieve this esteemable development goals so we can solve the problem. [00:41:21] No pressure but still Let's try let's at least try I mean your agenda me see any joining me see fans out there great book called active hope she spends a lot of time working with grief you know grief over endangered species or you know species extinction lots of issues and she's like you had 3 choices you have 3 teams you can either do business as usual which we know is going to cause the system to fail you can choose fatalism whiskey might help. [00:41:53] Living in Portland maybe it's marijuana and something whatever there you whatever they're using to numb themselves. That's not going to get us anywhere and also bitching over craft brew by the way doesn't also help but just just complaining or a. 3rd choice act of hope have a vision for the future think about what we can do as solutions and and at least try to get there and on top of it you get to hang out with people who are generally good work. [00:42:19] So if you can this is the 2 weeks ago you know SCO approved this this is FRESH you guys the 1st and you see just got approved Here's your plan the new acronym new plan yesterday for 2030 or so education perceivable development stays the same but it's now saying hey great 17 goals wonderful you're not going to achieve any of them without education and so we have to have formal non-formal informal education oriented towards whatever those goals are whatever your discipline is so you know us go find all reflections said let's be real we're going to need to be transformative How can you move us forward we need to be transformative that might be disruptive and it's going to require courage E.S.D. is active right so this is citizenship in action we are going to have to talk about structure can't spend all the time do in person blame you've got 2 systems blame most Oseola the professor we look at structures we look at systems we're going to talk about economics perhaps talk about poverty I mean if you believe that that's a future you want to live in where people's needs are met. [00:43:44] Maybe not their greed but their needs right gone to you said there's enough on this planet to meet our needs not our greed and then yes a church check you guys got included UNESCO's in her home here the tech cull of us who are doing technological work things are changing how can we shift and recognize tipping points and how can we partner with technology shareholders I didn't write this recognizing I was coming to speak with you this is what was included in the you know SCO document so I want to just to see they look familiar the priority auction areas in the new plan where those. [00:44:27] Now I'm doing teacher moment what are those called. As they get those they all came back again they said you know what this works here's your plan you want to plan you want to checklist your plan so everybody said them but same thing they brought in you need your youth because they're creative we need to talk about synergies and transformation but taking it to the next level right those 5 goals which are in the green sheet over here whole institution approach is not just let's. [00:44:57] Change our light bulbs let's partner knowing community partnerships curriculum facilities governance are all interconnected sorry that one's hard to read but there's a picture that's what they used in their document. And then how can you get involved in which is when and the microphone back to Jenny when she was and all of rest of those afternoon what can you do learn about these issues understand these sustainable policies are happening and they are opportunities please consider how you might be able to integrate some ideas into your current Killam course in our own lives right not just academics engage where you can know that you're It's not Alan you so see what you can do to increase your collective impact and join networks all of us here in this together we're all in this together and this isn't one of our lovely friends do you recognise it from China you know it's the. [00:45:55] Moment. So take a moment look at chans actually looks feet. And I glance at your feet how many times do we measure what we do wrong. Footprints your carbon footprint your water for print everything's your footprint right a 9 year old in India said we always talk about our feet so I have hands one year old right expertise she said how can we measure what we do right so they're now our hand print. [00:46:25] Exercises and check him out they're really cool and you can also say in it's good it's encouraging and gives people hope so we're going to have time for comments and questions but not maybe right right now and then we'll do that then you're going to. I just hold your slide OK comments questions ideas noticed that the earth has many hands many beautiful shades What can I and your questions or ideas offers us in the back. [00:46:59] Time her. Life. Here. The people the place may seem to you some to be community that we had 12 years to see style should be changed to look because we can have all those goals but if you didn't plan it we don't. Have to be a C.E.O. This is a mistake therefore always like we have to face climate change we can't keep their climate change we have to still beat him in bed and I'll probably use it every freaking week and he's not just me don't don't trust me just being in this on T.V. community standards we have 12 years like us to sponsor to change the whole country I don't know if you but I'd like to keep the conversation the way because I truly believe this could come to thank you the people. [00:48:33] It feels like they have 11 years now or 20 going to it is a short amount of time. And it's right there yet the innings out of the fire out there and it's not I'm not hearing that through Let's get that climate change I mean that's in fact United Nations University they chose their like education climate change biodiversity and I think production and consumption were like These are top priorities now in our communities why are we not listening to scientists and academics and like me like how did we all like I've dedicated my whole life to trying to lie Wow Well thank you for that yes so much so shifting somehow that that's why education through public awareness in formal education matters because we never expected to have such a counter movement organized against us right to be able to share crisis and hopefully identify again part of it is framing we need to figure out how to message doom and gloom doesn't necessarily sell well even though it's real so we're thinking about active hope so there is a framing of it a this is a better world people want a better world so and the environment movement something very successful It brings me right where like everything sucks or shame shame shame generally it's about do you want a better world you want your needs met Let's go for this so there's a just that's the might biggest suggestion and that sociology social and hat is how do we frame that narrative because they took the narrative from us they being the anti-environmentalist or the climate deniers and it's them crazy as Iraq it's just irrational. [00:50:13] To have done that even to themselves because they know we know that this is going to hurt everyone so that's what I would invite you to do take a social media class marketing class I mean we've got to get scientists out there learning how to we need to claim the narrative and I'm going to say active hope one of the better ones but again global goals the future we want. [00:50:34] Good question Christ critical question really important I hope I answered your question but I know that I can tell you in the least that we're in the communities I'm in you know us go there like absolute education for the S.T.G. that's E.S.D. Climate Action goal 13 everything focus and goal 13 next yes. [00:51:03] Hi I'm the I work at the Center for survivors staying. And. Have. That promoting the R.C. this week particularly a group of high school teachers one of whom was talking about the struggle to. Get really elite high school in Atlanta and one of whom raise the issue of the struggle to persuade perfectly well meeting individuals that. [00:51:34] Climate change is pressing even if it doesn't feel pressing for for them right like if you live in a beautiful enclave that is leafy and green. And you don't feel the end of the world approaching in any meaningful way then what what is. You know what is a rich framework that isn't shame based around like well why do you care about anyone else why do you care about climate migrants right why do you have such a narrow view so what are what are some of the frameworks because I think what you're saying about messaging it about reframing in there it even reclaiming it that isn't about shame and guilt is so interesting and important I just wonder what tactics you know about that might be might help us all equip ourselves well we've all heard the story about the the frog in the pot right like Eco psychology this really important to work with the social sciences. [00:52:28] OK this is not it's not just a technical fix it's a cultural fix and so we've been working with not to seek a therapists we've when I had to train the trainer workshop up there I don't know if you saw that was in one of the bullet points where we are college network. [00:52:43] We Charles Hopkins actually he said you know got a lot of scientists we do not have enough social scientists focusing on specifically psychology focusing on what's the impact on our wellbeing and our psyches and so we ended up hiring to a good therapist to create a workshop on hope and resilience and because again you better have that you're going to create fatalism and be careful with the use because they're really excited and creative and like middle school but we can learn I'm not saying don't sugarcoat the truth but if you don't frame it through the empowerment. [00:53:19] You'll see the lights go out you've seen students you've got you know what I'm talking about that heaviness or you see that they're like and then they become fatalistic percent of all then you won't even get them to vote let alone try to change the world so working through that lens. [00:53:34] It's possible the impossible will take a little while we've seen social change never doubt that a small group of and dedicate committed individuals can change the world the only thing that ever House Margaret Mead social movements all things social change we have this thing because some people have cared a lot so part of it comes from that. [00:53:56] So the eco therapist at the end they also defacing climate change so it's the water goes up slowly in the frog get spoiled in the pot Your says it's hot animal brain reptilian brain fight or flight will jump out of the pot. My partner lives in Hawaii he works with U.S. Fish and Wildlife you want to talk about yeah you're beautiful home you might lose your home Waikiki on in like 12 years I mean if the the tie ins are rising so quickly so it does need to be place based it does need to be about things you love it also helps to have moral shock so shaming maybe as an individual it does work in religions some religions right guilt let's not dismiss that guilt works but not that not just that moral shock is that what happens I think so there is an element within human is want to be good people so framing in like you can These are ways to be a good person and create a better world it really is motivating again I have a dream much more motivating you and create a social movement we need to create a social event because the other side is organized. [00:55:16] So my name is Cindy CARNEY I'm actually an independent consultant in the sustainable packaging and another follow up to that is even though people may not believe but. I guess have been made about climate change they do know that there is issues with like a little in the ocean there's all this pollution So we that's a good starting point because I think more and more you and I getting better the fact that not all Shien's are in trouble and set in trouble so using that as a maybe a segue to do it climate change could be a way to let me put that across Great suggestion do you know which there is little teacher test moment which S.T.G. as he's focusing on did you catch that well yes but he's focusing on packaging 12 production consumption. [00:56:04] Very very important again one of the researchers that you knew this was the focus there saying this is really essential is we need to slow down there is the footprint slow down the impact increase or handprint. Yeah the we were thinking plankton for oxygen right really important to recognize that on average and this is the lowest number that we have 6 parts plastic to one plane 10 in the ocean now we are consuming as it goes up cycle in that in the Pacific Garbage Patch you know we've got these gyres they're up to $80.00 to $120.00 parts plastic plankton so hence you're seeing the whales dying here in the turtles eating all the plastic and that's its own moral shock you know when I was visiting my partner these boys were swimming right there in Waikiki and he's with us fish and wildlife in Honolulu so we're there in the urban area with his kids were swimming and I I heard him screaming and he's like god somebody is hurt and these boys came running out with a turtle and it had fishing wire all wrapped around this sorry sad story but it got some truth right and it was it was still very it was just in his like little last breath and we brought it up and got the fishing wire often somebody even took a snorkel like a snorkel now don't kiss a turtle ever OK don't touch an artist they have herpes they don't they have an issue that you don't want anyway they. [00:57:35] Maybe it's a specific turtle type but don't kiss them so anyway he took he took the mouthpiece and actually doing mouth to mouth with this turtle and we called know and everybody was rushing and and right when Noah got there he took a saucepan. And these boys I mean these are you know boys that are and they were crying they're like I'm taking my life you know I'm going to become a that I'm going to get. [00:58:00] All of this and he had this relationship with an animal and had this recognition you know I can't believe you are fishing in this whole reserve so talking about production consumption what we're putting into the environment what are the. True cost accounting Yeah thank you. Yes My name is Chuck Barlow Joe you're I'm the executive director of Sosie saving our sons and sisters international and I had an opportunity to participate in the Climate Reality leadership Corps training and I had a chance to meet Levi I don't know if you know I met Levi Levi is one of the 21 young people who are the federal government for not leaving them a world to grow up here I think when you talk about the civil rights movement even people didn't listen to the young people got involved I think that to your point is a in a generational conversation that we have to have and in Houston and all of these areas in Atlanta in the U.S. that have had these. [00:59:13] 1000 years storms you notice that they don't discriminate a lot of the people who may not care about having that conversation beforehand are now in the same boat same buses same shelters as a very people they did not stand up for so I think how do we frame that how do we be more inclusive in the conversations because many of the communities of color have been put in communities that had environmental issues from the start so a lot of these issues. [00:59:49] Are of much concern especially with R H B C U's because how do we stand Obama graduate Morris Brown College everybody in the room has heard of all the issues but we're still around we're still here right how do we become a part of that conversation about sustainability and say that if we have to she can last that long how can we support him in being able to reframe how all of us have to kind of do things a little bit different Thank you to pull it in so essential several early core issues there one of the big things really really careful when we talk about sustainability that people aren't just saying yeah I recycle it's not about you know yes do good things with the environment yes OK then you have talk social justice you have to talk equity and we need to you know rising sea levels what are the rights of the Marshall Islands you know like what does it mean to have won a lot too and all of these folks you said climate migrants plant refugees right truly like what's going on in any region and this is going to climate again global citizenship we're all in this together thank goodness for those youth we have so our Children's Trust is the organization Giuliana. [01:01:00] Is the lawsuit is did start in Eugene but now we have used around I think almost every state has somebody now speaking so Levi is very inspiring as a speaker. But if this lawsuit truly Here is a. Life liberty pursuit of happiness you the government and this started under Obama's administration now under the trumpet ministration they are suing for their rights to life liberty and pursuit of happiness and it's now I think it's coming back to Portland now and it's been going on for a while they're making progress Bretta thundered number. [01:01:38] Tipping Point social movement all the youth who are going out on strikes speaking on behalf not just of themselves but for the future thank you one more. And one more on Michael Black from Georgia State University had a little of both going back to. I want to ask what. [01:01:59] I like concrete peace and so this is a follow up you're the sting there are you then you're making it sound as I could be right I think the Virgin Yes it did you have your NASCAR account. Unfortunately mines of panther. Sounds better. So I wanted to ask we talked a lot about like big picture types of things which I think are super important but I tend to be what's act and make things go. [01:02:29] So I was wondering to follow up on his question What kinds of things is gypsum doing to empower youth voices at the K. through 12 level and to reach out to minority communities that typically don't get heard from that we might learn from in Atlanta thank you. So really really important and so when I was going through the gap the 5 priority action areas I was trying to show those were mainly samples from what Portland's doing OK so I don't know if you caught some of those pictures but it's like what's going on we have. [01:03:11] Now some of this more environment and social justice but the state has just funded outdoor school again they were pulling the funding like one of those foundational things for 6th graders to actually learn about the environment the holes in them. I mean not that you want to support lotteries but lottery money they said OK let's actually find out or school again. [01:03:30] The chips and that we work with the eco school networks we work with again we're a network of networks basically So really partnering with folks who are either as teachers doing training or if they are doing. Sometimes there are America who are working in the schools I don't even have children I'll say that so I don't actually know as much about the K. 12 sector as I do higher ed so we work with partners who are who are already doing that work not trying to recreate the wheel so lots of folks who are either they have might have programs just within their schools or they have some of the non-profits faith community as well really important whether it's after school programs or in. [01:04:18] Whatever faith community groups that you have checking in having them know that they that this is happening and trying not is very this is I would say one of the biggest risks with our cities is having it seem to hire at. And having it seemed like a program of one institution. [01:04:40] Lots of other countries around the world mainly K. 12 focused mainly focusing on youth in Japan beautiful when the those little boys are they were waving they were right we were at a coming con which the user community centers where the elderly educate the youth and the youth do projects together they're wonderful centers how can we build those inner you said intergenerational about intergenerational relationships just be where one thing to be careful that it doesn't get perceived as yeah that's what the colleges and universities are doing very purposeful to reach out to existing use programs when you say Youth Network I know it's even that is so more college heavy right yeah so just and again do you have Children's Museum this would have a children's museum here right work with your music super work with your children's music and work with your zoos work with your parks they all have youth programs bring this into those programs. [01:05:49] Go back to something. So on that note a quick closing remark is I think as important as it is to work with K. 12 another huge goal of R.C. eases to transform our own higher ed institutions and so I think a huge part of. What we are trying to do it in Atlanta is really and we do we have 10 higher education institutions that are part of the R.C. including all of the H.B.C. is and I want to recognize my cofounder and co-leader in the back Dr Phil to my Shafi raise your hand to Tina have from Spelman who has been a partner in crime since the very beginning. [01:06:42] But I think. If if we are not successful in transforming the way we teach that we will fail. So one of the things I want to just challenge you to think about today during the next 2 sessions and especially one of the goals of today is to think about what our agenda should be for our greater Atlanta higher ed working group. [01:07:11] Which creating collaboration across 10 colleges and universities and figuring out what that's going to look like in terms of teaching outreach and research is a big task and I think I just wanted it to and Kim's presentation by looking again once more at this slide and well and challenging all of us to think about how many of you in this room teach students at the higher level that's most of our audience today how are we teaching these competencies and I would challenge us to say I can only speak for Georgia Tech. [01:07:53] We're only teaching some of them and we're in some of them even that we are teaching we are only teaching a small amount so I think you know really thinking about beyond the technical or discipline specific education that we're giving our students how are we preparing them to take on leadership or followership roles in the world. [01:08:15] Where these are the key competencies that we think they're going to need and how can we do a better job at that so I thought we might end on that and then. If you have any questions in the future you want to learn more about tips and we have a a few gypsum cards over here and again the S.T.G. side but feel free to e-mail me as well and I think Goodness you all are you know leaders I'm doing the good work that you are merely glad we have a strong higher education obviously this was our audience I just wanted to say on that K. 12 moment I was trying to answer that. [01:08:58] One of the things in a global level only 3 percent of the population of the world goes to higher prices of privilege for a lot of people that they became 80 they become 80 percent of the leaders so we really have to write inspire and build the capacity of our leaders and I'm really grateful that you invited me here today and I'm looking for the rest of the day which Jenny will now introduce might actually like to ask. [01:09:22] Colleen to come up from modern languages and she's one of our server and sustain S.T.G. fellows and active in the our C.E.O. and in modern languages which is hosting today. All right so yeah thank you I'm excited that there are so many of us here in this room together and I hope we'll have a continued conversation today I am excited over it cames talk was really great thank you for putting it. [01:09:48] Into a big framework for us and as you know you know in Germany we've had a lot of my Koreans refugees you know coming to to Europe and it's not just in Germany it's in other European countries as well but all these things I think are important part when you talk about sustainability and sustainability Development Goal is that we kind of think of racism on the environmental racism you know feminism and how can we be inclusive and I think the R.-C. E. great Atlanta does a great job so I would like you to become involved talk to you can also you know come to the quarterly meetings and exchange ideas he's encourage your students or your colleagues or friends or relatives to become part of it so this becomes you know and we need your help so this becomes you know goes outside of higher at who is out there and we can include the youth and Isabella was in my class which was great so I did her to talk to my capstone Corps which was an intercultural communication and it was also on S.T.G. So you know how can we include you this idea young ideas because we really need that i those ideas from the next generation so I'm excited about the rest of the day we do have the session to successes and challenges and promoting a sustainable future then we have the posters session there really exciting posters and they also have the lunch and the presidents talk at one we have the last session bringing a tall mess and next steps are building partnerships that are secret or Atlanta and then a potluck at 1010 nice one Saturday night if there is interest on your side but let's continue the dialogue and thank you for this wonderful session for shit.