Focus the Nation Committee Seeks Help From
Campus on 2008 Global Warming Teach-in

A Focus the Nation Committee, led by Tim Dondero and a group of geography climatology students, is organizing a campus-wide teach-in as part of a 1000-college national day of education on sustainability and global warming on February 7, 2008.

Focus the Nation is working to coordinate teams of faculty, students, and staff to discuss the theme "Global Warming Solutions for America." The committee is looking for faculty to integrate the global warming topic into their schedules, syllabi, and lesson plans that day. The effort has drawn more than 50 students so far.

The goal of the teach-in is to focus University students nation-wide around an effort to jump-start government and community responses to global warming, and to help them take an active role in working to mitigate the effects of global warming.

The entire Recreation Center has been reserved to serve as the main faculty for the teach in. The intent is to host three parallel presentations/ panel discussions/ speaker addresses/roundtable discussions per hour. Currently being proposed are:
- Three morning 50-minute sessions from 9 a.m.-noon
- Break for a Sustainability Fair and lunch in the Everest Gymnasium from noon-1 p.m.
- Three afternoon sessions from 1-4 p.m.

Lectures and discussions as well as the Sustainability Fair address such topics as "Climate and Social Justice,""Apocalypse or Opportunity,""Saving For The Future," "Ecological Tipping Points" and many more. President Ruben Arminana will speak and a Regional Summit roundtable meeting follows his comments.

Schedulers are Catherine Fabiano for the morning sessions (9 a.m.-noon),
fabionoc@sonoma.edu, or Timothy Dondero for afternoon sessions (1-4 p.m.),
donderot@sonoma.edu . For a list of possible ideas to consider, download Idea List.