Welcome to the 2024 Teach-In on Sustainability Resource Guide! Use the navigation on the left to find books, ebooks, DVDs, and streaming video related to each of this semesters' panels and presentations. Visit the official Teach-In on Sustainability website for more information on the goals of the Teach-In as well as the sessions.
November 20-22, 2024
In 2015, the United Nations introduced 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a blueprint for a better, more sustainable future for all.
Here at Emerson, we’re on it. Across the College and around the world, Emersonians are contributing to a better future in many ways, big and small, because we all have a stake in what’s ahead. The Teach-In on Sustainability at Emerson College is designed to showcase the work, experiences, and ideas of our faculty, students, and alumni.
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
This session focuses on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST | Keynote: Why Communication and the Arts are Crucial to Sustainability | Boaz Paldi is a campaigns, partnership , advocacy and communications expert, experienced in leading major international organizations in all outreach campaigns and public relations needs. As the Chief Creative Officer at UNDP, he recently launched both the #DontChooseExtinction and the #WeatherKids campaigns.
In this session, Boaz will discuss the work he does at UNDP—one of the main UN bodies to oversee the SDGs—the importance of communication to the global sustainability effort, and why Emerson is a perfect spot for a major in Sustainability Communication. He will tell us why everything we teach and do here—film making, marketing, journalism, performing arts, everything—is crucial to the global sustainability effort. In Boaz’s words, communication is the missing link in moving us toward a just transition. Emerson can make that happen.
This session focuses on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST | Ecocinema Screening and Discussion: Deep Rising | Join the MFA students of the Environmental Media Studies graduate seminar for a screening and discussion of the Deep Rising (2023), a documentary feature about the race to mine the deep sea floor for the rare metals necessary to many 21st-century technologies, including renewable energy storage. Capturing the conflict between oceanic ecosystem stability and green energy futures, the film (narrated by Jason Mamoa) offers visual representation to the complex splendor of a rarely seen biome, casts light on the struggles between corporate power and the UN's International Seabed Authority, and illuminates crucial contradictions in current climate crisis solutions.
Sustainable Development Goal 7: Ensure access to clean and affordable energy
Sustainable Development Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources.
Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST | Compost Concert | Join Emerson Green Collective and the sustainability team for our annual Compost Concert. The event will feature musicians, dancers, and a puppet show. Student organizations will also be present to share information about how their work intersections with sustainability. Lunch provided.
Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST | Workshop: Sustain Your Brain! Care for Your Creativity | The challenges of today’s global and climate challenges call for profoundly different ways of thinking, living and working. At the heart of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals is the need for creative thinking; allowing for us to reflect, adapt, address and develop new solutions, as well as be creative in how we communicate, reflect, and tell our stories in ways that inspire others towards sustained positive change. Creativity is core to our shared future. It also requires personal care so that it too can be a sustained resource for us to tap into rather than become burned out or blocked. In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore ways to refill, refuel, and boost their thinking through creative practices and time-tested tools, allowing them to remain inspired, discover opportunities, and foster adaptive and flexible thinking.
Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
This session focuses on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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