11:03:27 From Deb Morrison : Everyone please mute if you are not frank 11:05:49 From Deb Morrison : Who is Frank? You likely know but here is his official site - pull down on Education to see him. https://cpo.noaa.gov/Meet-the-Divisions/Communications-Education-and-Engagement 11:07:14 From Katie Boyd : FYI I muted everyone except Frank and those on the phone to reduce excess noise so please unmute yourself if you need to talk 11:07:20 From Deb Morrison : ACE at UN https://unfccc.int/topics/education-and-outreach/resources/ace-guidelines 11:08:16 From Vanessa Carter : Will this slideshow be available? Thanks! 11:08:35 From Youth Climate Program : yes - the call is also being recorded 11:10:22 From Deb Morrison : Non-presenters feel free to introduce on chat 11:11:16 From Deb Morrison : I’m Deb Morrison - University of Washington…work in climate justice efforts eg. climetime.org 11:14:07 From Wendy Abshire : Hi. I’m Wendy Abshire, a meteorologist, and leader of education programs. I am currently the Director of the Education Program for the American Meteorological Society. 11:14:24 From Katie Boyd : I’m Katie Boyd - I work at CIRES Education & Outreach at the University of Colorado and am the CLEAN program manager 11:15:23 From Anne Gold : I am Anne Gold - I am a scientist by training and am now the Director of the CIRES Education & Outreach group at CU Boulder and co-coordinator of the CLEAN Network. 11:15:36 From Devarati Bhattacharya : Hi I’ Devarati Bhattacharya, K-16 STEM Education Fellow at the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 11:15:54 From Youth Climate Program : Hi - I'm Jen Kretser, I work at The Wild Center as the Director of Climate Initiatives and I am on the CLEAN board. Great to meet everyone and thank you very much for being on the call today 11:16:04 From Deb Morrison : https://acespace.org/ 11:16:20 From beanj : Hi everyone! I’m Jessica Bean, the leader of the Understanding Global Change Project at UC Berkeley. I’m also currently working at HHMI with Maryland public school districts. 11:16:25 From Colleen Fisk : Hi, I’m Colleen Fisk, the Energy Education Director at Renewable Energy Alaska Project in Anchorage. Thanks for the intros in the chat as I’m still new to CLEAN! 11:16:29 From Deb Morrison : https://www.wildcenter.org/ 11:16:41 From Patrick David Chandler : Hello, I'm Patrick Chandler. I'm a PhD student at CU, Boulder focused on integrating science and art to create community action on environmental issues. I'm also the coordinator for the CLEAN network. 11:16:49 From Deb Morrison : https://www.wildcenter.org/our-work/youth-climate-program/ 11:17:13 From Vanessa Carter : Max! I don’t think Max can see this chat bc she’s on the phone. Could someone connect us? I am the Env Literacy Content Specialist in SFUSD and would love to connect with her. We’re doing some amazing Climate Justice organizing. With gratitude! 11:17:33 From Steph Courtney : Hi! I'm Steph Courtney, a grad student at Auburn University studying climate change communication and getting a certificate in program evaluation, and hoping to move into informal ed after I'm done with all of that! 11:18:38 From Reb : Hi Vanessa, I can connect you and Max. Can you email me? reb@acespace.org 11:19:00 From Anne Gold : You can raise your hadn 11:19:42 From Deb Morrison : If you want to raise your hand you can do it within the participant button and “raise your hand” 11:19:44 From sarahgoodspeed : Hi all and special thanks to students joining today! I’m Sarah Goodspeed (she/her) Youth & Policy Manager at Climate Generation based in Minnesota 11:21:53 From Katie Boyd : Hi everyone - please join the email list for this ACE strategy project if you’re interested here: https://serc.carleton.edu/mailman/listinfo/clean_ace 11:24:47 From Deb Morrison : I’m all for youth inclusion for all the reasons stated. My worry in putting too much responsibility is that (1) we will lift responsibility from other adults and (2) we need to ensure that ideas that are suggested are rooted in known and emerging science….I love what Birch said about how we engage youth as mentoring roles while still ensuring that voices are heard in authentic ways. 11:25:26 From James Callahan : Jim callahan here. Mobile Climate Science Labs /ClimateChangeEducation.org. I'll be reporting on what takes place in this call to various teams of students. The teams are in Washington DC, the San Francisco Bay Area, Utah and Berlin Germany. The students' climate action work takes several forms, including: sharing climate science and action with literally 100,000's of students and teachers at science festivals and youth conferences. They also are involved at the city/community level in such areas as energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions... and workforce development. Glad to connect with any of the great programs represented in this call. 11:25:45 From Birch : was it just me or was silas’ audio skipping? 11:27:04 From Deb Morrison : Also a little worried at times that youth are being used as capacity expansion in a way that is “using” them instead of “developing” their capacities. 11:28:18 From Deb Morrison : Absolutely…how do we support youth to grow not only about what they can do for movement. 11:28:42 From Katie Boyd : I agree, Deb - I think those are important points to bring up 11:28:59 From Patrick David Chandler to Birch(Privately) : Hi Birch, I heard Silas pretty clearly, but when you spoke it was a little choppy (though I think all your comments came through). So, wondering if Silas' audio is choppy because your connection is a little slow? Please let me know if it keeps happening and I'll check with others. 11:29:28 From Ginger Wireman : Can others hear? Frank dropped out. 11:29:35 From Katie Boyd : I can hear Frank 11:29:47 From Deb Morrison : The “youth centered” language brings up my primary concern - (1) we will lift responsibility from other adults…youth involved…youth included…yes not sure about youth centered. 11:29:55 From Abby Ruskey : Hi All, this is Abby Ruskey. I co-lead an intergenerational group in my community of Olympia, Washington called YECO Youth-Education-Communications-Outreach. We have elementary-college students, parents, educators and community based leaders in our group. We are practicing and evaluating intergenerational collaboration. I'm also a climate literacy and policy specialist and a Principle at The Athena Group and part of the UNFCCC ECOS core team. 11:30:23 From Deb Morrison : I like what Abby is saying and thinking about youth co-facilitated. 11:31:03 From Aryaana : @Deb, perhaps the solution to that is to actually allow youth into leadership positions instead of gatekeeping & solely using them as capacity expansions. I think power dynamics make this issue a lot more nuanced & complicated than we're used to, which definitely prompts further conversations. 11:31:17 From Youth Climate Program : agreed Deb on both your points. Also how adults can be better allies and partners. There is some really good work, done by youth, that outlines being an Adult Ally and partner for example: the Climate Strike toolkit that was release last September also Climate Reality and Youth Service America (YSA) all have great resources on working with youth in partnership 11:31:56 From Deb Morrison : Love that idea of youth led through lots of mentorship and collaborative intergenerational activity. 11:32:44 From Art Sussman : Hi. I'm Art Sussman, a scientist whose work over decades has focused on science and environmental literacy. Recently retired from WestEd but still very engaged with helping people of all ages understand global environmental issues, especially climate change and loss of biodiversity. I am very excited and inspired by the escalating involvement of youth in these issues. 11:33:28 From Deb Morrison : Love that idea Birch…how do we ask our communities what is needed to engage in a variety of ways in the work. 11:34:31 From EmilyCoren : Hi, I’m Emily, a science communicator. My colleague, Arvind Singhal has interests in community structures and how to organize and shared this yesterday (https://medium.com/@keithmccandless/liberating-structures-change-methods-for-everybody-every-day-648e9c0d04a7). I haven’t tried it personally yet, but it’s got suggestions for alternate community organizing models that might be applicable to the structure ideas that I’m hearing. 11:34:42 From Deb Morrison : Youth work in the world has really helped me push many educational and political leaders as it shows an engaged community in a clear way so all these ideas are really great about how to mentor youth into all areas. 11:35:18 From Steph Courtney : Aryaana, I think that's a great point. Part of the involvement of youth needs to involve asking what they value and want to get out of it -- this could be payment, or engagement on their own terms, or formal training and development, or any other way they see fit, so it's definitely a negotiation to be made project-by-project and relationship-by relationship 11:36:38 From Deb Morrison : I agree with several of the speakers so far in how more youth today have a much better understanding of intersectional diversity and feel a deeper responsibility to justice than many of those in other types of leadership roles today. 11:38:27 From Deb Morrison : Aryaana….funding streams!!! Absolutely. I think this is an enormous equity issue for which youth can be involved and how deeply. Youth need resources to live and engage in this work too….how are we working in our own programs to ensure we have resources to provide mentorship funded positions for youth in our work? 11:38:35 From Abby Ruskey : Would be cool to have a CLEAN session that features examples of cross-generation, cross-culture collaboration for climate learning and action and community resilience. YECO could bring a mix to that conversation if you want to host it. With YECO we are practicing co-facilitation of meetings, but having our focus be to get behind youth leadership such as the April middle and high school climate summit in April (modeled on the WILD Center's work) and College Climate Symposium in May and the parents and families activities which were started by a 6-year old in our community named Gus and his mom Mary. 11:40:51 From Deb Morrison : I like to think about epistemic (knowledge building), axiological (values), and ontological (being in the world) diversity as important. Such diversity is often found in different bodies and lived experiences (often the way we reduce diversity) but it is the end form of diversity that we seek to solve our global and local challenges around climate justice. 11:42:04 From James Callahan : Hakim: Agreed! Examples of US cities that are very receptive to work with young people: Washington DC, San Francisco, and Berkeley. That you aall know many more is fantastic. Happily, there are many options: youth initiated, where all members are young. Others are of as more multi-generational nature. I think all are important, and people should find the organizations that work best for them. Not in conflict. 11:42:21 From Abby Ruskey : Agree Deb. Loving the points about being very cognizant of language and learning from the ways different communities frames of reference. 11:42:35 From Ginger Wireman : Max's point is very important. We have a 'Smart Growth' FB group that by default many of our issues intersect with climate resiliency, but it's an informal group. 11:42:41 From Deb Morrison : Max…that is a type of capital…eg. Who has knowledge to get into different areas…Yosso 2005 talks about that as navigational capital. She also names things as aspirational, linguistic, cultural and a few other forms of capital that diverse people bring to collaborative work. 11:44:16 From Deb Morrison : Birch…I agree the way in how we build relationships in community across cultural backgrounds is a critical skill I think we all need more now. 11:44:35 From Deb Morrison : Probably have always needed …now it is about survival. 11:46:00 From sarahgoodspeed : We provide support for a lot of barriers youth experience especially highschoolers - navigating systems and power dynamics, access meetings around school hours, transportation, and funding https://www.climategen.org/our-core-programs/minnesota-youth-network/youth-action-fund/ 11:46:15 From Deb Morrison : Aryaana…I think the language boundary challenges are a bit about what Birch is talking about as well. We need to work in community across our differences through lots of time in action together. This helps us unpack differences in words that are critical to worldview differences we need to share. 11:46:27 From Amy Frame : Hi. This is Amy Frame from https://tenstrands.org/. In California, within the last 6 months there has been a huge increase in interest in implementing the environmental and climate change literacy embedded in our curriculum frameworks and standards. After asking around a LOT, most adults attribute the urgency to youth involvement. There is a lot of work to do on every level, but the movement so far HAS been effective, so THANK YOU! 11:48:44 From Ginger Wireman : If you've never seen it there is some interesting research on The Language of Conservation that resonates with people https://www.conservationgateway.org/Files/Pages/language-conservation-mem.aspx 11:49:00 From Deb Morrison : Andrew, as have others, raises the issue of access again. We - as adults in power positions in institutions - need to think about how we are opening and mentoring in significant ways not only for youth but for ourselves and our collective goals. How are we bringing folks to meetings with us, how are we supporting them in the work - eg. $$, how are we asking others in these roles to do this as well. 11:51:24 From Deb Morrison : The idea of flexible funding for emerging needs is a necessary change in our method of structuring funding. 11:53:58 From Katie Boyd to Patrick David Chandler(Privately) : I think the chat automatically records with the video recording - in the same folder after I record the CLEAN webinars I can access the chats from the webinar in a text file. Would you mind checking for that after this call? It would be good to save the chat for these calls because it seems there is rich discussion happening there 11:54:04 From Deb Morrison : What might a menu of possible needs look like that could be identified and help lift barriers to participation. 11:54:20 From EmilyCoren : Yes to funding barriers. Salaries for organizers, so folks don’t burn out and we can build and maintain these projects for long enough to be successful. 11:54:34 From Deb Morrison : What learning needs to youth have? 11:54:35 From Patrick David Chandler to Frank Niepold(Privately) : Hi Frank. If possible, I'd like to raise one logistical note with the group before we break- you can voice it or I am glad to. I'd like to include the full chat along with the recorded call. Can we just ask that anyone who would rather their chat notes are not included email me so that I can erase those before I post? This has been a great conversation! Want to make sure we capture it both through the writing and discussion that happened. 11:54:37 From Birch : i think that’s a part of the relationship building piece? b nbc ecause when you’re more comfortable it might be easier to answer those questions 11:55:26 From Deb Morrison : I like the idea of supports…how might we best identify a list of types of supports that could be written into our work? 11:56:28 From Ginger Wireman : Raising Hand 11:56:47 From Youth Climate Program : I also copied the entire chat into google 11:56:49 From Birch : I have got to get back to work but i am excited to continue this conversation! 11:56:55 From Birch : Talk later :) 11:57:00 From Youth Climate Program : Thank you so much Birch! 11:58:02 From Deb Morrison : Ginger…I’m in Washington too! 11:58:04 From Abby Ruskey : Such wisdom and inspiration - thank you youth speakers, Frank and CLEAN network organizers for a great session! 11:59:19 From Devarati Bhattacharya : Thanks Frank and CLEAN, this was a great informative session 12:00:25 From Youth Climate Program : thank you Hakim 12:00:31 From Deb Morrison : Sounds like a CLEAN podcast in the making…accessible science! 12:00:38 From Hakim Evans : No problem Jen! 12:01:03 From Deb Morrison : Careers that intersect with climate science…that would be awesome CTE connection. 12:01:08 From Youth Climate Program : thanks Andrew 12:01:11 From Anne Gold : Thank you all for sharing your perspective and suggestions! What a rich discussion. 12:01:18 From EmilyCoren : Thank you everyone. 12:01:22 From Vanessa Carter : YES! Accessible science & career pathways! SFUSD is trying to do this in our Climate Justice Action Plan. Can’t wait for more support in this!! Thank you! 12:01:24 From Colleen Fisk : Thank you so much everyone! 12:01:53 From Patrick David Chandler : Thank you to all the youth for providing great perspective and insights! 12:02:14 From Deb Morrison : Thank you so much. We are definitely listening. 12:02:21 From Aryaana : Thank you for having us! You're all doing incredible & necessary work, & I hope to continue learning from you / taking this knowledge back to all my different communities. 12:02:29 From Katie Boyd : Thanks everyone! What a great kickoff listening session for this ACE strategy project. I really appreciate all the youth perspectives - thanks to the panelists for joining!