Environmental Education Center hosts environmental webinar, brown bag lunch Tuesday

Environmental Education Center hosts environmental webinar, brown bag lunch Tuesday Join the Office of Sustainability in the Environmental Education Center for a webinar from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, on the successes of the Climate Leadership Network (our greenhouse gas reporting organization). Titled “Higher Education's Leading Role in Cross-sector Climate Action” you will learn how for more than a decade, institutions in the Climate Leadership Network have been pursuing carbon neutrality in campus operations, creating new climate solutions through innovative research and preparing students to solve the urgent climate challenges of the 21st century. This webinar will focus on how the higher education sector has been engaging with government, businesses and the community to lead on climate. Topics discussed include the “America’s Pledge” and “We Are Still In” movement one year later, the University Climate Change Coalition’s mission and method of using its place-based institutional strengths to drive climate solutions. This webinar will feature guest speakers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Washington University in St. Louis. The Environmental Education Center is in Guthrie Hall, Room 109H - enter the west wing under the breezeway. Brown bag lunch if you desire. For more information contact joni newcomer at newcomer@nmsu.edu or 575-646-7563.