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April 2, 2026: <\/strong>Petro-Cultures and Energy Transitions (Zoom)<\/h3>\n

Join us for a conversation with Anna Bettini on Petro-Cultures and Energy Transitions. Drawing on her work in the anthropology of energy, environmental history, deindustrialization, and social and environmental justice, Dr. Bettini examines how communities experience and navigate the shifting landscapes of fossil\u2011fuel dependence and transition. This session offers a grounded look at the cultural, historical, and human dimensions of moving beyond petro\u2011economies.<\/h4>\n\n
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The Carleton Climate Commons invites you to participate in a new initiative: Teach-In\u2019s for climate action called \u201cNoons for Now.\u201d As the name suggests, we\u2019re taking our lead from the model of the school strike introduced by Greta Thunberg. Starting in September 2018, Thunberg sat on the steps of Swedish parliament each Friday at noon to strike for climate action. Sometimes she was alone. Sometimes one or two classmates were with her. But slowly this small action created a movement. We take heart from this action and the possibility we all have to effect change in response to the climate crisis. The Teach-In action we\u2019ve chosen speaks to our role as faculty and students at a university. Every other week we will bring together one to three speakers, in addition to a moderator, to discuss some facet of the climate crisis. Sometimes it might be just this small group. Sometimes more people might attend. Whatever the case, we invite you to join us anytime, to participate in the conversation or only to listen, to come for part of the hour or the entire thing, to come with friends or on your own. At first this event will likely be somewhat improvisational but we always welcome suggestions, feedback, and participation. The goal is to hold space for climate conversation, ideas, and action on a biweekly basis until our country\u2014and, we hope, others too\u2014meets the climate crisis with policy and action commensurate to its urgency.<\/p>\n

“In order to set our institutions firmly on the path of future knowledges, we need to reinvent\u00a0a classroom without walls\u00a0<\/i>in which we are all\u00a0co-learners<\/i>; a university that is capable of convening various publics in new forms of assemblies that becomes points of convergence of and platforms for the redistribution of different forms of knowledges.\u201d – Achille Mbembe<\/p>\n

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