Past CSPO Events
- April 22, 2015Co-sponsored, Energy and Society: Communities of Energy in Transition
Building the Electricity System of the Future:
Energy Communities Shaping Regional Transmission Organizations
This talk will explore how stakeholders negotiate market rules and access and oversee electric system operations and planning.
Brown bag talk – bring your lunch.
Elizabeth Wilson
- April 08, 2015CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch
EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Susan Spierre Clark
Climate Change, Games, and Resilience: A Sampling of Research by an Interdisciplinary Scholar
This seminar will begin with a brief discussing of Dr. Clark’s dissertation work, which investigated the relationship between carbon emissions and human development among many countries as well as its implications for climate change policy and sustainable development. She will also describe her work in the area of sustainability education, where she has co-created a series of learning games that aim to experientially teach science and engineering students about ethics related to sustainability challenges, such as the Tragedy of the Commons and environmental externalities. If time allows, Dr. Clark will end with a general overview of her current work on socio-technical resilience.
Pizza served, RSVP to [email protected] by noon on Tuesday, March 24
Susan Spierre Clark
- April 07, 2015Co-sponsored, Energy and Society: Communities of Energy in Transition
Rationality vs. Imagination – Decision-making Skills for Shaping Climate Futures
Numerous political, economic and social decisions require imagination: revolutions feed on imaginations of alternative political systems; new energy technologies demand imaginations of different governance and infrastructure systems; climate change requires imaginations of radically altered, social-ecological futures.
Manjana Milkoreit
- April 02, 2015CSPO Faculty Participation
Climate Fiction – Science, Stories or Seeds of Transformation?
(CSPO faculty participants.)
The Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative invites you to a panel discussion on Cli-Fi that will discuss the nature and roots of the genre and its impact or influence beyond simply telling stories. Can a story trigger a social movement? Does it offer science lessons? Could a book change politics or societies?
How?Manjana Milkoreit, Clark A. Miller
- March 25, 2015CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch
Enlightening Lunch
Imagining community solar electricity in Treviso, Italy
The ways in which communities catalyze and respond to large scale social and technological shifts can have lasting impacts on people’s daily lives. My research follows the two cities of Flagstaff, AZ and Treviso, Italy as they navigate a transition to a higher mix of solar electricity from 2006 through 2014. In this presentation, I look at how (inter)national policies and imaginaries of renewable energy intermix with city-wide initiatives in Treviso to form a complex cultural landscape of ideas about energy that can’t quite shake the identity as an ancient water city.
Pizza served
RSVP to [email protected] by noon on Tuesday, March 24.Jen Fuller
- March 24, 2015Co-sponsored, Energy and Society: Communities of Energy in Transition
What Would It Take To Materialize Energy? The Role of Responsible Innovation
Brown bag talk – bring your lunch.
Sujatha Raman
- March 19, 2015CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy
Bridging the Democracy Gap
World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
Who is missing in international climate change negotiations? Who will be affected by decisions made or not made at the UNFCC meeting in Paris (COP21) in December? Who is heard, who isn’t? Who participates in public hearings and online forums? What percentage of scientists believe that climate change is occurring mostly because of human activity? What percentage of the US public believe otherwise? How do we bridge the gaps between experts, citizens and policymakers? How do we engage the disengaged and uninformed public?
Richard Worthington, Mahmud Farooque, David Tomblin, Gretchen L. Gano
- March 03, 2015CSPO DC
Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
From Botox to bionic limbs, the human body is more “upgradeable” than ever. But how much of it can we alter and still be human? What do we gain or lose in the process? Haunting and humorous, poignant and political, Fixed rethinks “disability” and “normalcy” by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and minds forever. Since its release a little over one year ago, Fixed has screened in film festivals around the world and as a keynote at 7 academic and professional conferences. Most recently the United Nations licensed the film for their work on the Convention for the Rights of People with Disabilities.