Climate Change Conference
Climate Smart Southwest: Ready or Hot?
Have you ever wondered how climate change will affect us here in the Southwest or if climate change will affect you and members of your family personally?
Here's an opportunity to find out. You can attend this conference focused on public health and climate adaptation coming up Friday and Saturday September 20th and 21st, sponsored by the AZ Physicians for Social Responsibility and 38 other local and national co-sponsors.
Friday, September 20:
There will be a free public talk by Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of the best-selling book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, about the 1995 week long heat wave that took over 700 lives.
His talk is from 7pm to 8pm at the TEP Unisource Building Conference Room, 88 E. Broadway in Tucson. Please RSVP, as space is limited, at the conference website www.psr.org/azclimate.
Saturday, September 21:
The conference is from 7:30am to 5:30pm at the Tucson Convention Center. The cost is $35 ($15 for students) which includes a buffet lunch and parking at the TCC.
In the morning nationally and internationally known speakers will address predicted public health risks and climate change in the Southwest, climate adaptation strategies, and cross border issues related to changing climates.
In the afternoon attendees will participate in workshops on health systems preparedness, food security, mental and spiritual health, educating our children, building neighborhood resilience, and addressing cross border and cultural issues as we adapt to climate change.
To register for Saturday's events and for more information about these events, go to www.psr.org/azclimate.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a Nobel prize winning national organization that addresses the health impacts of those events that pose the greatest threats to health and survival of people on our planet. The PSR Arizona chapter, active since 1985, focuses on education and action around potential health impacts of climate change as well as nuclear technologies and other environmental threats.
Physicians for Social Responsibility was recently featured on Local Matters. Dr. Gregg Garfin, Assistant Professor and Assistant Specialist in Climate, Natural Resources and Policy, at the University of Arizona's School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Dr. Ivy Schwartz, an advocate for conservation and healthy communities for underserved populations discussed the conference and the expectations for our changing climate in the Southwest.
Local Matters: Physicians for Social Responsibility (15min)
Saturday 9/14 at 10:45am
Thursday 9/19 at 6:45pm
Channel 20 (Cox) / 74 (Comcast)
On-Demand: http://www.accesstucson.org/programming/program/68326/
Please contact Vicki Evans at [email protected] or 520-624-9833 x 232 for more information about the benefits available to organizational members.
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