Until May 30th, the Spring Creek Project is presenting the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change. This weekly, online lecture series aims to deepen our understanding of what is happening around the world and help imagine how we can build better communities and lives as environmental crises are recognized as human rights crises. Lectures feature leading writers, scientists, attorneys, community leaders, activists, and artists. 
Some lectures will focus on locations – fracking in Utah’s canyons, the real cost of the Bakkan on native communities. Others will explain the current state of affairs in regards to human rights and climate change. Some will be forward-looking, thinking about a future where we have made great strides for climate justice.
A new Bedrock Lecture is released each Wednesday on The Spring Creek Project’s website and Facebook page. In-person screenings of the lectures are set each Wednesday at noon in Bexell Hall 415 during winter term (January 31-March 21). All the screenings are free and open to the public.
A number of lectures have already been posted, but others are still to come:
- March 2: Debra Marquart, director, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment, Iowa State University; author, Small Buried Things: Poems
- March 7: Bill McKibben, author and founder, 350.org
- March 14: Stephen Trimble, writer and photographer, Red Rock Stories
- March 28: Don Anton, director, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
- April 4: Anthony Ingraffea, hydraulic fracturing researcher, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Cornell University
- April 11: Jacqueline Keeler, activist and author, Edge of Morning
- April 18: Kyle Powys Whyte, associate professor of philosophy and community sustainability, Michigan State University
- April 25: Josh Fox, documentary filmmaker, Gasland
- May 2: Winona LaDuke, executive director, Honor the Earth
- May 9: David James Duncan, author, Heart of the Monster
- May 16: Mary Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon
- May 23: John Knox, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University; special rapporteur, United Nations Human Rights Council
- May 30: Anna Grear, founder and co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment; founder, Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment
The Bedrock Lectures will help set the stage for the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change, which Spring Creek Project is co-organizing. From May 14-18, 2018, the Tribunal will focus on human rights, fracking and climate change. And, for the first time ever, the Tribunal will be conducted virtually so judges, attorneys, and witnesses from around the world can participate. Learn more in Spring Creek Project’s article on the upcoming Tribunal session. The article includes six ways you can get involved with the Tribunal, including submitting testimony, hosting a pre-Tribunal, and hosting a community viewing of the live-streamed proceedings.
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