In the midst of the growing dread of summer here in Australia, Sydney Environment Institute's @DanyCelermajer lays out the need for collective community action.
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📢 D e a d l i n e for applying to our postdoc positions is 16 July

Are you interested in critically analysing #SDGs & global sustainability governance - consider joining us at the GlobalGoals_ERC project in Utrecht! ⬇️

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📢We are hiring 📢 (pls RT)

Full Professor in “Sustainable Food Systems”.

A great new position at the centre of one of our exciting interdisciplinary research foci!

Join us at Utrecht University Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

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Values are clearly shifting on human/more-than-human relations (thanks, Gen Z). Political and economic institutions need to follow. Sydney Environment Institute theguardian.com/environment/20…

Forty positions now open University of Sydney for early career researchers in climate change, health, and sustainability! Continuing/tenure track, focused support, and lots of potential for collaboration.

This is a big deal for Sydney: FoodLab Sydney has a new kitchen and teaching space to continue work to diversify Sydney's food system and support good food businesses. If you can, please donate to the crowdfunding effort to fit out the kitchen.

ICYMI. Many thanks to Prof. Farhana Sultana for the generosity of her time and thoughtful responses to some key questions from Sydney Environment Institute researchers.

A long time coming, and worth the wait. Huge congrats to my colleagues @DanyCelermajer and SophieMHChao and all involved. Sydney Environment Institute

Absolutely brilliant project on community engagement, democracy, and transition from Sydney Policy Lab Amanda Tattersall: To get to net zero, policymakers need to listen to communities. Here's what they can learn from places like Geelong theconversation.com/to-get-to-net-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

How can communities build resilience in the face of climate anxiety?

Explore the findings in our latest paper by members of Sydney Environment Institute and members of the University of Sydney's Rural Clinical Schools. 🧵

bit.ly/3nmEfiG

ICYMI in person, our discussion about adaptation, justice, and social capital is now available online. Thanks again to Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich and Jo Longman for their crucial insights.

In this opinion piece in New York Times, I call on African governments to join efforts to strengthen the de facto moratorium (under the United Nations CBD) on the development and deployment of risky geoengineering technologies.
nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opi…

So, what KINDS of action are the antidote to climate despair?

Our new paper reports on what communities think: collective, democratic, community-led, inclusive climate action builds community resilience to climate distress.

short 🧵 below

full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please join me and Sydney Environment Institute Director David Schlosberg this Tuesday for a conversation about the role of #social #capital and #climatechange Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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💭 In the face of the climate crisis, we are experiencing a cluelessness that Amitav Ghosh calls ‘The Great Derangement’.

📺 In response, the #GroundedImaginaries team produced a short film to explore the power of stories to reimagine our future. 🌏 ⤵️ ow.ly/jiMu50NqT8h

🚨 New podcast alert!

In episode 1 of Reimagined Futures, SEI Deputy Director @DanyCelermajer Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences discusses the barriers we need to overcome to achieve transformative climate action. 🗺️ #GroundedImaginaries

🎧 Listen at ow.ly/l7nJ50N5tQw

Very nice to get some University recognition for the incredible work and impact of the FoodLab Sydney program and team. Thanks Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences!

💭 Is air conditioning a form of 'implicatory' climate denial?

📢 In the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand, SEI researcher Hannah Della Bosca (@ArtSS_Sydney) explores how wealth can insulate us from discomfort and change in the face of climate crisis. 🌡️⤵️ Sydney Uni Media
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Readvertised: G.S. Caird Scholarship in Climate Change Mitigation sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b…

📖 Are you an Honours student this year? Applications for the SEI Honours Fellowship Program are now open!

🏫 Open to University of Sydney students of all disciplines. Know someone that might be interested? Please share.

➡️ Applications due 15 February. Apply at ow.ly/w3Lf50Ms8vw