What is climate justice? Some refer to it as the disparity between the greatest greenhouse gas emitters and those who feel the greatest impacts of climate change, usually countries that contribute the least to the climate crisis. Others define it as the way that climate impacts – severe weather events, sea-level rise, and climatic shifts – will disproportionately impact low-income and communities of color. But what are the roots of the Climate Justice Movement?

Join for live recordings of two Duke student-run podcasts: Energy Terminal and Operation Climate featuring Duke alums in climate.

Please join us for the announcement of the Duke Climate Commitment. Duke is uniting the university’s education, research, operations and public service missions to engage our entire community in the relentless pursuit of climate change solutions. Hear more from members of the Duke community already engaged in this important work and find out how you can get involved.

In this Internet of Water Coalition webinar, Scott Baldwin (Hagerty Consulting) will discuss the structure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's BRIC program and how communities are beginning to use these funds to prepare for future natural disasters, including droughts.

In this session for Climate Week NYC 2022, Rahel Deribe Bekele (Sanford School of Public Policy and James E. Rogers Energy Access Project) will join fellow global experts to explore how climate-resilient agriculture can help to scale up adaptation.

Duke students, are you interested in energy but don’t know where to start? Duke University’s Power Up series will introduce you to current issues and trends in this rapidly evolving sector.

Join the conversation at Duke University on Sept. 15 for an important public event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Warren County protests in North Carolina. The nonviolent protests in 1982 surrounded the state’s disposal of soil laced with PCBs in the predominately Black community. The protests were considered among the earliest for environmental justice in the United States.

Duke students, are you interested in energy but don’t know where to start? Duke University’s Power Up series will introduce you to current issues and trends in this rapidly evolving sector.

The 1982 Warren County protests saw people, independent of race, come together to combat systemic injustices and environmental racism. Those who joined the weeks of protest did not know a larger movement would launch from their fight for basic human rights. And yet, these now famous efforts are hailed as the launching of the Environmental Justice Movement.

Join us for a discussion of the protests, the birth of the EJ movement, and the future of the movement from the perspectives of those who participated.

Venture and private equity investors are pouring money into climate tech startups and large-scale renewable energy projects. Where capital is not flowing: emerging markets, low-income communities and projects aimed at climate adaptation and climate justice. Join ImpactAlpha and special guests to explore the new Climate Finance Tracker and effective strategies for bridging the gaps.

Join the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability for a Power Trip to Duke University's chilled water plant, which provides cooling services to campus and hospital facilities. This guided tour will provide an in-depth look at one of Duke’s most innovative energy facilities. The event is open to all Duke students.

This event brings together Social Justice and Civil Rights scholars and advocates to discuss the intersection of voting, civil disobedience, and environmental justice. As we come up on midterm elections in the U.S., this program highlights two things: the history and interconnectedness of voting rights and environmental justice in this country, and the ways in which movements have used other methods, such as protest, when the electoral processes have failed to promote equity and public wellbeing.

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Join the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability* for a networking shindig at which we welcome our community back to Duke in style... which is to say, with barbecue.

The Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability is excited to host Welcome to Energy at Duke, a quick primer on Duke's energy universe. Duke students, come learn more about energy opportunities across the university, how the Nicholas Institute supports students, and how to connect with the community.

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s family of API standards are helping make geospatial data on the web more accessible and interoperable. This presentation will introduce pygeoapi – a Python server implementation of OGC’s standards. Kyle Onda, from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Center for Geospatial Solutions, will walk you through how to set up an API endpoint and discuss several ideas for how to use this flexible, open-source API framework for water data applications.

Please join Rhodes iiD and numerous Duke partners on Fri., July 29 at 2:00 p.m. in the Energy Hub (first floor of Gross Hall) and Ahmadieh Family Atrium (third floor of Gross Hall) for the Plus Programs 2022 Poster Session!
 
Plus Programs has continued to grow, and the session will feature 49 different project posters from Data+, Code+, CS+ and the newly formed Climate+ programs.
 

As extreme weather takes an increasing toll across the country, congressional interest in making communities more resilient is on the rise. Resilience funding was a prominent area of bipartisan climate cooperation in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. And bipartisan congressional proposals to improve U.S. climate resilience are being put forward in the House and Senate. 

This two-part workshop series from the Internet of Water Coalition will feature a project-based overview of concepts and open-source tools for performing geospatial analyses with hydrologic data using web services in R and Python. Join us for practical demonstrations and guidance for all experience levels.