HSU Workshop to be Held During Spring Break Brings Intensive Focus on Climate Change
Press release from Humboldt State University:
This spring, HSU students enrolled in an intensive workshop hosted by the Program of Environmental Studies will spend their spring break vacations applying knowledge to action in the name of climate resilience.Gate to Humboldt State University [image from calstate.edu]
The program welcomes students from any major to enroll in HSU’s first alternative spring break with a specific focus on climate change. The Student Leadership Institute for Climate Resilience (SLICR) workshop will be a three-day intensive, March 16-18, followed by a service-learning project.
Offered as an upper-division course, the curriculum is designed for HSU students striving to become agents of social change for community resilience and climate justice. During spring break, students will engage in exercises like mapping their spheres of influence, developing their own vision of leadership, and examining case studies of regenerative economies.
“Students across many departments develop strong values about environmental justice during their time at HSU,” explains Sarah Ray, Environmental Studies program leader and professor. “We want to give them the opportunity to put those values into action through service-based learning projects that support climate resilience and HSU’s legacy for social change.”
Ray brought the alternative spring break program to HSU after participating in the UC-CSU Knowledge Action Network over the 2016-2017 school year. Named as the CSU leader for the statewide program, Ray worked with academics and policy leaders across California who are developing transformative climate and sustainability education like SLICR in institutions of higher education. Along with HSU’s Climate Action Analyst, Morgan King, and Geography Professor Rosemary Sherriff, Ray traveled to UC Santa Cruz to train in the SLICR curriculum in 2018.
Ray says she’s excited for HSU students to get their hands dirty—literally—by engaging in projects involving permaculture, building solidarity economies, and disaster preparedness in the community.
In addition to the SLICR curriculum, enrolled students will also work with Cooperation Humboldt to complete the service-learning component of the course. A nonprofit organization, Cooperation Humboldt works to build community capacity by supporting projects like food pantries, eco-villages, public banking, and food not lawns. By the end of spring break, students will choose from Cooperation Humboldt’s “menu” of projects by signing up for an area of personal interest.
The pilot of the SLICR alternative spring break will be funded by a $10,000 grant from the ‘Campus as a Living Lab’ (CALL) program, developed by the 2014 CSU Sustainability Policy with funding from the National Science Foundation.
“This program is so in line with HSU’s overall mission,” says Ray. “The idea of the SLICR curriculum is to learn how to engage in actions in ways that help ourselves and our communities thrive. It moves students beyond just learning about problems to taking actionable steps towards a world they would prefer to live in. We want to help students figure out how to become agents of social change and translate their idealism into genuine skills by becoming leaders in climate resilience.”
For more information, visit SLICR at UC Irvine, Cooperation Humboldt, HSU’s Climate Action Plan, and the Environmental Studies Program at HSU.
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soooooo. Too many humans are the cause of climate change yet liberals want to save more humans? How about we all just get along and feed the world. No more war. No more famine. Everyone will get the same amount and we can breed ourselves into extinction in under 100 years!
Education and birth control both do wonders to reduce birth rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
Nihalism and apathy never solved any problem.
….. neither has sarcasm or socialism
Are you kidding? Sarcasm has solved my need to resort to violence…
And socialism’s many successes include:
Interstate highways
Internet
Social security (albeit capitalists keep borrowing from it)
Unemployment insurance
Minor correction Kym. The internet was developed by computer scientists working funded in part by DARPA grants. Think of it as defense spending that had civilian spinoffs down the line.
Military context aside, the internet’s underpinning developmemt was paid for with all our tax money.
Btw kym, you forgot fire departments.
Whether they’re paid for by taxes or donations, every house gets protected despite income levels.
True.
Well kym. I must agree with you! Don’t forget volunteer fire stations! Is there such thing as Republican Federalist Sate of Socialism? Maybe I should start my own party?
Social programs (common good or public benefit) are not “socialism”… unless you’re operating under a very loose definition.
so·cial·ism
/ˈsōSHəˌlizəm/
noun
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-good/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good
Who do you think is supposed to administer the commons under socialism? “The Community” is represented by a government by the people, for the people, ect.
Socialism and capitalism are supposed to function together, side by side, keeping each other in check. One without the other, and you wind up with some form of totalitarianism.
No.
Socialism is a top down controlled economy. Period. The utopian vision is that it is controlled by the people, but in fact needs an administrator. Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Maduro, Chavez all happily stepped in administer socialism to the people.
“The goal of socialism is communism.” – Vladimir Lenin
Capitalism (not to be confused with corporatism) is individual autonomy in exchanging value for value… Laissez-faire, in its purest form.
Here’s a discussion:
https://medium.com/@thedailydao/capitalism-vs-corporatism-vs-socialism-e2d6c5f2246c
Stalin and Lenin both broke from traditional Marxism.
But then Stalin broke from Lenin.
Stalinism has also been called red-fascism:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism
“Traditional” Marxism? What the heck is that?
The kind Marx wrote about. The kind that comes from an educated, industrialized middle-class, something Russia never had.
What do you know about Marxism anyway? A few days ago you were calling FDR a Marxist.
I called FDR a “neo-Marxist”.
The only attempts at implementing Marxism as a political practice have been abject failures. And there have been many and many deaths as a result. That is “traditional” Marxism. It is a delusion to believe there is a “right” way to implement Marxism on a national scale without it failing completely.
I agree. But calling everyone you disagree with a Communist or a Marxist is a great way to learn nothing and palliate none of capitalism’s problems (monopoly, tragedy of the commons, wildly-uneven wealth distribution, ect…)
Also, socialism predates communism. Socialism is not just some intermediate-stage version of communism, it is a family of different political theories, From which Marx cribbed most of his best critiques of Capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_socialism
I don’t, nor have I ever, called people I disagree with Marxist. I call people who overtly, covertly or out of ignorance espouse Marxist ideologies, “Marxist.”
On a national level socialist economics require a strong arm administer to control, for the “greater good”, the economy. Socialism inevitably devolves into communism when applied on a large scale.
Small scale socialism works when the people entering into such a system enter voluntarily and can leave wen it no longer suits. Communes, for example.
That’s funny, New Deal “nEo-mArXiSm” never devolved into communism. Neither have any of the Scandanavian countries. In fact, the only countries I can think of that succumbed to communist rule were failed capitalist states and failed monarchies.
Scandinavian countries aren’t socialist and the US didn’t devolve into communism because FDR was ousted, and we have a constitution structured to keep that from ever happening… until enough of the gatekeepers forgo their oaths.
“The myth of Nordic socialism is partially created by a confusion between socialism, meaning government exerting control or ownership of businesses, and the welfare state in the form of government-provided social safety net programs. However, the left’s embrace of socialism is not merely a case of redefining a word. Simply look at the long-running affinity of leftists with socialist dictators in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for proof many on the left long for real socialism.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/amp/
FDR wasn’t outsted. He died. Truman and Eisenhower continued New Deal programs, speaking out against those who would reverse them. Eisenhower said he believed in keeping his policies “down the middle of the road between the unfettered power of concentrated wealth . . . and the unbridled power of statism or partisan interests.”
New Deal programs remained extremely popular until the 70’s, when neolibetalism began taking over both political parties.
The Scandanavian countries are mixed economies, leaning more heavily towards socialism that the US and western Europe. There is no such thing as a purely socialist or capitalist state. Forbes, as a neoliberal economics journal, has a vested interest in downplaying the importance of the public sector (except for where it benefits the finance class, of course.)
The only thing “socialist” about Venesuela is the fact they tried to nationalise their oil industry. Cuba, like I said, is a communist state in the Soviet model that came out of a fascist/capitalist dictatorship. Creeping socialism had nothing to do with it.
Interesting interpretations- when it fails, it was not real “socialism.” Until it fails, it’s a good thing. One trouble with socialism is that it always “creeps.” Always there are more problems it promises to fix which leads to the need for a strong leader to take charge. And, as the “strong leader” takes over , it becomes a – gasp- kleptocracy. Oh the evils done in the name of being good for you. It is just innate in humans that they aren’t so stupid as to be idealist with their own goods- just other people’s.
Well I think the examples thus far aren’t purely socialist governments.
When Chavez was elected he nationalized the oil.
He doubled the GDP of Venezuela from that.
Those profits were socialized to the citizens.
Is that a socialism success?
The US did not like Chavez, or his act of taking US profits through oil company nationalization.
The US has never let democratically elected socialists live well in South America for various reasons. Salvador Allende in Chile being a prime example.
The story of Venezuelas current state is far more long and intricate than “socialism failed”.
Tyrants
Or corruption can fail any system.
Fighting the US in a political proxy war has broken many countries.
Anyone can use the name of a party as propaganda while not employing the parties practices or philosophies.Hitler is a prime example.
Is there a purely capitalist government right now?
Do we think capitalism is a failure during every market crash?
Dude. While marxism falls under socialism, Socialism isnt marxism.
If you want us to think you are so well edumicated, you gotta use your words gooder please.
“The Marxist definition of socialism is an economic transition. In this transiton, the sole criterion for production is use-value (i.e. direct satisfaction of human needs, or economic demands). Therefore, the law of value no longer directs economic activity.”
Thats not what progressive dems want at all. They want to add healthcare and education to the list of costs we all bear across society.
And they also want the rich to pay their share of the taxes so we can all get a break.
I want that too.
Some nitwits want more, but theres nitwits in every group. Neo cons got Trump for example.
Since when are pro lifers liberals.
Actually it’s fossil fuel emissions, not people.
An interesting debate between a Capitalist and Socialist. I kinda think the capitalist wins this one.. but both bring up some good points..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE711kjGnrg
Oh please, call it what it is: The annual grant-grabber seminar.
They should have held this BEFORE the county supes voted on the wind project. And made the supes attend it!
Yep. 2 million dollars is a lot of money. Pays for a lot of danged roads people always crying about.
everyone that spends time on the water knows there is more of it. whether it is more of it and/or it is expanding due to increase in temp, it doesn’t matter because at the end of the day there is more of it and it is going to be a huge problem. take a look around the bay rocked banks that have been the same for decades are destroyed.
That’s pretty funny there, local. Nothing affected by wind and wave action, and the tides, remains the same for decades. Even the dolosse shift. Rock banks that aren’t repaired for decades are naturally destroyed, and the only way they could be, “the same for decades,” is if they hadn’t been repaired.
Yeppers, they’re going to be destroyed.
Sea level rising… well, a little bit right now, but most of the major changes we see are due to something else.
The earth is actually going up and down in relation to major earthquakes on the Cascadia and Gorda Fault.
Watch this video… https://youtu.be/UJ7Qc3bsxjI It is a long video, but well worth it if you live here.
It shows the long – term relation between coastal uplift and downfall to the movement of the offshore faults.
If you go around the north bay, you can see old mudflats and tree stumps exposed along the edges. These are left-overs from the big Cascadia quake about 300 years ago.
Aftermath of the last quake in 1977 lowered the region around Buhne point (Quake was Richter 7.1).
It sunk a couple islands out in the bay and knocked down the overpass by College of the Redwoods.
Interesting stuff.
yes, lots of variation in sea level rise due to the underlying geology and tectonics. at a global scale, it’s rising and the rate is accelerating.
Well, humboldt bay is sinking as fast as the water is rising. Gonna be a problem for sure.
And humans can only potentially impact one half of that. I dont see us stopping geo tectonics anytime soon.
Might be important to take action on the co2 then, because we did that, so hopefully we can undo it.
the ground on the east coast doesn’t move at all. the same king tides are submerging docks on the east coast monthly. again if you spend time on the water you wouldn’t be arguing this. I am bi-coastal, I have noticed it over the past 10 years on both coasts, its a fact, it has been measured. we are currently measuring them. most of our docks here are floating so it is not as in your face as on the east coast where most docks are fixed and they go underwater a few inches on a monthly basis requiring you to wear boots.
🕯🌳Hate to say to it Thanos had it right unless we fine another way of slowing now the use of natural resources. 🌳🌳🌳☄
https://earther.gizmodo.com/scotland-is-on-track-to-hit-100-percent-renewable-energ-1841202818
A proto-post-scarcity economy is within reach.
And just who do you demand sacrifices themselves? More to the point, who doesn’t have to?
College kids will be told it’s very good that they and their children and all of their descendants forever after will live in micro-apartments, like those already stacked and packed in New York. They will be successfully encouraged to sacrifice their freedom to travel, so as to relieve the world from the burden of everybody’s transportation. Yes! Those are indeed more chemicals you smell and taste in your water. The chemicals in our water keep us safe, and that’s how it will be forever. Your children won’t notice, it will be normal to them.
Fortunately nobody in college is dumb enough to believe you.
Tell all the people living in 150sq ft. apartments, who can’t afford to travel outside their own city more than a couple times per year, that it isn’t happening to them.
It there a jaw dropping emoji?
Unfortunately… a lot of what he describes is probably going to be true.
Compartment living, no travel… and ‘doing nothing’ are going to be the new ‘norms’.
Excerpted from web. https://www.lifeinnorway.net/what-exactly-is-janteloven/
The origins of Janteloven. Which may be the new ‘normal’.
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The term janteloven can be traced back to Aksel Sandemose, a Danish-turned-Norwegian author, whose works of fiction included references to these “laws” in the context of small-town Denmark (taken from an English translation on Wikipedia):
You’re not to think you are anything special
You’re not to think you are as good as we are
You’re not to think you are smarter than we are
You’re not to convince yourself that you are better than we are
You’re not to think you know more than we do
You’re not to think you are more important than we are
You’re not to think you are good at anything
You’re not to laugh at us
You’re not to think anyone cares about you
You’re not to think you can teach us anything
Those “INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS” are focus group scams. You should be payed to divulge the written, verbal and behavioral information they will con you into enthusiastically providing them.
It’s not that i don’t believe humans are impacting natural systems and functions in major ways..
Its that I don’t trust the motivation behind messengers.
When climate change activists refer to “social change”, i understand that they include within “social change” all the other gibberish of the left that I will oppose at every turn.
However, if the issue was framed in a bioregional nationalist light, I’d be much more likely to consider the message and the messengers.
As it stands, they’re globalists with a social agenda counter to my own.
That’s all I need to know.
You’d rather wait for the minds that created the problem to solve it for you… Good luck with that. Bioregional nationalism cannot possibly solve any kind of global problem.
Don’t trust activists from either side to inform you about science. For that you need to read the science. NOAA.gov is a good start.
What you’re saying here is important!
There are shifts in life coming that are beyond big. However, if we work together toward a quick solution, the change will be slow enough no one gets force marched into cities or compounds. That wont be better, but its possible.
Cities are less pleasant, but they are more energy efficient. Dont start crying at us about your off grid whatever system. Stfu about that.
All our supplies are coming from all over the globe, but yours are also gojng one at a time out a 30 minute dirt road.
That power you produce mostly goes to waste because you dont use it all and you’re too far from your neighbor to share resources.
So theres more lithium mined, more wire mined, bla bla bla
Kim is right on all counts but what is needed is debt forgiveness so that everyone can focus resources on healing ourselves and legitimate denouncing racism, sexism and militarism! These diseases have to go! We are all infected with them and denouncing them is the cure! Just say it with me: “I denounce racism, sexism and militarism, now!”