The Northeast Summit on Climate Adaptation for Library Facilities, which is a collaboration of State Libraries and State Library Agencies from Maine to Maryland, cordially invites you to register for our third of four virtual programs for the 2024-2025 season:

Breaking Bad Conversations about Climate Change with John E. Fernandez

Tuesday, March 25

1:00-2:30 PM EST

Please join us to learn how to better communicate about challenges facing our climate with Professor John E. Fernandez, a practicing architect, a full professor in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Director of MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Fernandez will leverage his experience engaging across diverse sectors of American society – the public sector, private sector, communities, and civil society generally – to offer ways in which to engage in nonconfrontational, nonpartisan, and, most importantly, positive conversations about climate change. The aim of the talk will be to discuss cases in which conversations are likely to be derailed by current misunderstandings and explicitly confusing information and offer pathways toward, if not agreement, then purposeful enhancement of understanding and empathy. Fernandez will also offer several information and communication assets developed over the past few years by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Professor John E. Fernández is Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Environmental Solutions Initiative, enlisting the capacity of the MIT community in the transition to a net zero carbon, biodiverse and equitable future. He is a professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT, affiliated with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and a practicing architect. Fernández founded and directs the MIT Urban Metabolism Group and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Commission on BiodiverCities by 2030, the Urban Climate Change Research Network, and the Leadership Team of Oceanvisions. He has published on a wide range of subjects including sustainable buildings, infrastructure and cities, urban biodiversity, resource efficient design and more and is author of two books, numerous articles in scientific and design journals including Science, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Building and Environment, Energy Policy and others, and author of nine book chapters.

Registration link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1s_sORZwR1C8tY2Xz62bmw

This session will be recorded, and a link will be provided to registered attendees. For more information about the Northeast Summit on Climate Adaptation for Library Facilities, visit the LibGuide, hosted by New Hampshire State Library.

This webinar was planned by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Massachusetts Library System, and the Vermont Department of Libraries.