2018
February 2018
Thursday 8 February 2018
Thu 8 Feb. The 24th annual Public Interest Environmental Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The conference will address the challenges, concerns, and future of law, policy, and science related to climate change.
The conference will address the challenges, concerns, and future of law, policy, and science related to climate change. Keynotes, plenaries, and panels will cover climate justice, public health, economics, media, food, adaptation, and climate leaders. Levin College of Law, University of Florida Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. Florida Climate Institute - [ufpiec][email][events]
2017
December 2017
Friday 1 December 2017
Fri 1 Dec to Sun 3 Dec 2017. Over the next several decades, economic expansion and urbanization will continue along our worlds’ coasts. Coastal populations and billions of dollars of assets are at risk from intensifying and more frequent storms. Changing coastlines due to sea level rise will impact settlement patterns around the globe. The 6th iNTA2017 conference “Tropical Storms as a Setting for Adaptive Development and Architecture” will provide a platform for research projects pertaining to tropical and subtropical regions that address the most pressing social and environmental problems associated with an increasingly dense world facing climate variability, sea level rise and flooding risks in a moment when these issues are understood as critical in cities across the world. The conference organizers solicit participants working on these issues in the areas of architecture, construction, planning, historic preservation, land use and policy, engineering, real esta ... Emerson Alumni Hall, UF Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [more][floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]
November 2017
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Wed 15 Nov 2017, 2 pm. Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell, who writes on climate change for the magazine including the controversial cover story Goodbye, Miami, will visit UF to talk about his latest book, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Little, Brown Oct. 24th 2017). Sponsored by the Florida Climate Institute and CJC’s Department of Journalism. Emerson Alumni Hall, UF Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]
Thursday 9 November 2017
Thu 9 Nov 2017, 3 pm. The FCI at UF will be hosting Shaun Martin, Senior Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience at World Wildlife Fund, and Mac Stone, Conservation photographer, author and educator. The event will explore conservation efforts both in the US and abroad. Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Tue 7 Nov 2017, 6 pm. Western park ranger turned environmental journalist Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial and the Fight Over Controlling Nature, who also works in film and magazines, will lecture on how we share scientific knowledge in an era of alternative facts, when even park rangers are constrained in their campfire circle talks (making environmental communication that much more important).
Sponsored by UF’s departments of History and Journalism, with additional support from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere and the George A. Smathers Libraries. Smathers 100, UF Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]