Covid & Climate: Free Webinar

Join Leap Chapter UofT and UCLit Sustainability – UofT for a broad, multi-disciplinary discussion on the intersections of the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis. Our expert panelists will discuss the parallels between the covid and climate crises, the variety of scientific and media narratives that surround them, and the ways in which these two crises continue to disparately affect people across racial and socioeconomic lines. (and more!)
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PANELISTS
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin: Elizabeth Sawin is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality, and she is the originator of the term ‘multisolving’ to describe such win-win-win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership based on systems thinking to local, national, and international audiences. A biologist with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth trained in system dynamics and sustainability with Donella Meadows and worked at Sustainability Institute, the research institute founded by Meadows, for 13 years.

Terri Chu: After spending years as a consultant in an engineering firm and seeing firsthand the challenges of building renewable energy projects, Terri is now pursuing a PhD in communication and culture with the hope of being a more effective voice in the battle against climate change. Terri is founder of “Why Should I Care?”, a group dedicated to fostering civic engagement and raising the bar on political discourse. At the moment, she is working on a research project studying the impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese community in Toronto.

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Please reserve your FREE ticket through the Eventbrite link!
The webinar will be hosted online via Zoom. A link will be sent via email through your Eventbrite registration, and will also be posted on our page the day of the event.

Contact our page or [email protected] with questions!