We’ve got one hell of a marquee event this week. Email braner@bwog.com if you want your event to be featured!

The Devouring of the World and the Climate Crisis

• Monday, September 27, 2021 5:30 to 7 pm
• Online event, link here
• “In this talk, the indigenous thinker and philosopher Ailton Krenak urges us to take seriously the value of the indigenous philosophies of the Americas when it comes to confronting the climate change crisis. The author of Ideas to Postpone the End of the World and A Vida Não Útil (Life is Not Useful), here Krenak offers a trenchant critique of the extent to which an understanding of the earth as a resource to be exploited has taken hold in the wake of globalization, as well as how the logic of consumption is enabled by the “cognitive abyss”—our inability to listen and to see what is happening to the world.”

Social Determinants of Mental Health

• Monday, September 27, 2021 5:30 to 7 pm
• Online event, link here
• “There is growing global awareness about the manner in which the mental health of populations is socially determined. This University Seminar will provide a conceptual framework for understanding the social determinants of mental health and their links with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Key challenges in designing and delivering interventions to address the social determinants of mental health, particularly in low and middle-income countries, will be identified, and current projects and potential future research questions will be outlined.”

[ClimateWeekNYC] Climate Change Education For All

• Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4 to 5 pm
• Online event, link here
• “Hosted by the Center for Sustainable Futures at Teachers College, Columbia University, this workshop will introduce participants to SubjectToClimate, a new website that connects educators with hundreds of FREE vetted teaching resources from over 20 different content providers. Find out how the team developed lesson plans, how to search the collection, and how teachers engage with the platform.”

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the WHO

• Editor’s note: YEAH!!!!
• Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11 am to 12 pm
• Online event, link here
• “The World Health Organization, the leader for health for the United Nations, has pushed for the pandemic response to realize equitable global access to health technologies through the pooling of knowledge, intellectual property, and data. The WHO Academy, a state-of-the-art training center, will be at the forefront of these goals. In November, a special session of the World Health Assembly will convene with the hope of developing a WHO convention to better prepare for and respond to COVID-19 and future pandemics. Please join us for a conversation between Tedros Adhanom, director-general of the WHO, and Linda Fried, the dean of Columbia’s Mailman School, as they discuss lessons from COVID-19 and how we can prepare for the next century of public health threats by translating research into action.”

Compound dry-hot extreme events – enablers and barriers to individual and community preparedness and response

• Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:15 to 7:45 am
• Online event, link here
• “This session will discuss the impacts of compound dry-hot extreme events, and individual and community preparedness and response approaches, as well as enablers and barriers to action. Considering different global contexts, it will focus on measures that can be implemented before and during an event to reduce impacts across diverse socio-economic groups. The intersectionality of individuals and communities including gender, age and socio-economic status will be considered and how this impacts capabilities to prepare and respond to extreme events. Drawing on worldwide experience, learning and best practice, panellists will discuss the development, adoption and implementation of action plans to build resilience of people and places.”

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