Sedona AZ (October 18, 2019) – NAZCCA and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) are sponsoring three installments of a continuing presentation and discussion on the impacts of the climate crisis. All presentations take place at Yavapai College – Sedona Center, 4215 Arts Village Drive, Room #34, Sedona, AZ, 86336, and are free and open to the public.
Please join us for “Climate Refugees and Arizona’s Future” by Stefan Sommer. Dr. Stefan Sommer is Director of Education at the Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research at Northern Arizona University. His doctoral work is in ecological sustainability and he has studied effective communication across cultural boundaries in many contexts including PBS film production.
10/22/2019: Climate Refugees and Arizona’s Future
URL: https://www.nazcca.org/sedona-
Tuesday, October 22, 2019- 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- Yavapai College – Sedona Center
- 4215 Arts Village Drive, Room #34, Sedona, AZ, 86336
- Free admission
Tuesday, October 22, 2019NAZCCA and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) are sponsoring an installment of a continuing presentation and discussion on the impacts of the climate crisis. Please join us for “Climate Refugees and Arizona’s Future” by Stefan Sommer.
Climate Change is already affecting human well-being in almost all parts of the Earth and certainly here in Arizona as well. Smaller climate pressures like rising temperatures have already lead to large numbers of climate migrants and larger climate pressures are now also leading to more and more climate refugees in our region. Current pressures and future projections will be discussed.
10/29/2019: Climate Change: Building a Path Forward
URL: https://www.nazcca.org/sedona-
- Tuesday, October 29, 2019
- 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
- Yavapai College – Sedona Center
- 4215 Arts Village Drive, Room #34, Sedona, AZ, 86336
- Free admission
NAZCCA and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will feature a presentation and discussion on a path toward solutions to the climate crisis. Please join us for “Climate Change: Building a Path Forward” by Dr. Stefan Sommer.
This presentation will explore the solutions that have been put forward by research teams at university and government agencies and by many private groups and individuals looking to reduce their own carbon footprints. Global and regional plans to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 will be discussed.
11/19/19: Praxis Waste Solutions: A Systems Approach for Waste Diversion
URL: https://www.nazcca.org/sedona-
- Tuesday, November 19, 2019
- 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (note that this presentation begins at 2…instead of 3)
- Yavapai College – Sedona Center
- 4215 Arts Village Drive, Room #34, Sedona, AZ, 86336
- Free admission
Statistics has shown that recycling, as a whole has failed and the amount of waste in the eco-system continues to grow every year. Some studies have shown that by the year 2040, there will be more waste objects in the ocean than there are fish.
While most organizations focused on recycling are designed to find waste already in the eco-system, this presentation will explain the importance of positioning the plastic waste diversion process at the entry point of waste in the eco-system. By inserting waste diversion at point of entry, we are able to track the waste and remove it from the eco-system whenever it is appropriate. This enables Praxis to focus all its efforts into diversion, instead of expending efforts into finding it once it has already been introduced.
Presenter, Tyler Linner, Founder of Praxis Waste Solutions, entered the Sustainable Communities program at NAU in 2017 and has centered his Master's thesis on sustainability through plastic recycling and diversion using the Precious Plastic machines. This became a turn-key solution for Linner and his team for staging and hosting zero-waste systems at community events.
Northern AZ Climate Change Alliance mission: to educate and empower people to take action now against the negative impact the climate crisis is having on our planet. NAZCCA is a grass roots, non-partisan, non-profit 501c3 organization. For more information, contact our Cottonwood area event coordinator Beverly Hedden: beverlyhedden@gmail.