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		<title>Climate Change Education: The Challenges of Teaching Science in America [VIDEO]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celina Plaza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey by National Science Teacher Association found many science teachers are facing skepticism about climate science &#8212; 82% from children, 54% from adults. To enable teachers to keep science in the classroom and controversial social commentary out, Cires, a cooperative environmental science research institute, has developed teacher workshops, curriculum, and lesson plans that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4403&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Declining American (or just Republican?) Support on Green Energy Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study released by Stanford shows that although a majority of Americans (63%) still support economic policies that support greener energy, that number has fallen almost 10 percentage points since 2010. Theories for this downward trend include: a decline of media coverage on climate change, growing economic concerns that monopolize priorities of Americans, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4393&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability Education and Economic Development Initiative: Program Review 2012 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by ecoAmerica Program Director Claire Carlin&#160; Program brings clean economy opportunities to community colleges and millions of students nationwide.&#160; In October 2010, ecoAmerica with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) launched SEED to advance sustainability and green workforce development at community colleges nationwide. To accomplish this mission, SEED functions as a leadership initiative, free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4379&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Framing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celina Plaza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If climate change was positioned as a human rights issue, would it have more support and demand to be addressed? This article proposes this as an framing angle, theorizing that if climate change is shown to violate humans rights such as food, water, sanitation, and development, the public and government would be more likely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4364&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Care for Personal Health = Care for Global Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celina Plaza</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecoaffect.org/?p=4357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this article, psychologists, global health organizations, and communications experts weigh in on how to effectively use climate change&#8217;s affect on public health to generate support for climate as a relevant and urgent priority of the general public. The article also discusses how climate and health experts should tailor messages according to their audience&#8217;s relation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4357&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Know Audience&#8217;s Ideology for Audience to Know Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to look into the conservative-liberal divide on climate, this article reviews communications and psychology research that has found politically-driven ideological predispositions have great influence on one&#8217;s level of receptiveness to climate change communication and provides examples of how this knowledge can help inform more effective climate communication positioning.&#160; How climate change gets lost in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4349&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Hold a Conversation with Climate Change Deniers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK climate activist George Marshall has made a video on how to talk to climate change deniers. This is just one tactic of many, but it&#8217;s an interesting method worth testing. When approaching the conversation, Marshall recommends finding commonalities to establish you as a peer and then think about how changing their views will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4343&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Climate Pragmatist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celina Plaza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are motivated by bold messages that push new boundaries, but then there are some that just want to do what makes sense. When it comes to climate change communication, pragmatism could be the angle that resonates with a new audience, and in particular, a conservative audience. In this article, Jonathan Foley, who directs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecoaffect.org&#038;blog=19441134&#038;post=4327&#038;subd=cecann&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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