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Issue 5 | September 2016
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The hot summer of 2016 has been productive for us Inside the Greenhouse. Highlights included the successful continuation of our summer internship programs, collaboration with ‘Lens on Climate Change’ and the posting and tagging (for database searching) of our Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 class compositions on the website. Thank you all for your ongoing support of our work. Stay tuned for much more to come in the Fall 2016 semester.
Up with hope,
Rebecca Safran, Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff
(Inside the Greenhouse co-directors)
Internship Spotlight
One of our summer 2016 Inside the Greenhouse interns, Sean Race, headed out to the deserts of California to study and document a project focused on how quail adapt to climate change. Sean was a student in the Film and Climate Change class during the Fall term in 2015. Check out his first of two films posted here. Stay tuned into our website for more. In the meantime, Sean describes his internship experience in this way: “My internship took place within the beautiful backdrop of the Santa Rosa-San Jacinto National Monument of Southern California. The thrust of the summer was dedicated to assisting David Zonana, a PhD candidate from University of Colorado Boulder, with his quail research in the field; time was also dedicated to filming, blogging, and hammering out concepts as the season progressed.” Read more …
Event Highlight
This summer, Inside the Greenhouse took part in the ‘Lens on Climate Change’ project at the University of Colorado and supported workshops Boulder and Trinidad, Colorado. This project is led by Anna Gold, Sarah Wise and Lesley Smith, and works with middle and high school students in Colorado in film creation and production. Dick Alweis (Filmmaker and Faculty Member at Colorado Film School) and David Oonk (CU Boulder PhD student) led students in work to develop story content about their roles and those of their communities in climate and environmental change. Read more …
Alum Spotlight
Rebecca True
“I’ve spent some time reflecting on how much I’ve changed since graduating last year and the career path I’m heading down”. These are the words of Inside the Greenhouse alum, Rebecca True, who is currently completing a service year with CivicSpark, a Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program dedicated to building capacity for local governments to address climate change and water management issues in California.
Annie Smith
Now working for the Colorado Ocean Coalition in Boulder, Colorado, Annie Smith had this to say upon reflection on her work in the two-course series of Inside the Greenhouse. “Looking back at how I spent my time in college, I can honestly say that the experiences I gained through the Inside the Greenhouse classes inspired me to pursue a creative job in the environmental sciences. I graduated with an open mind about science, communications, and the environment around me. Today, I work as the Operations Manager for the local non-profit, Colorado Ocean Coalition, a project of the Ocean Foundation. In the organization, I do a little bit of everything: volunteer coordination, event planning, website design, grant writing, marketing, program development, board participation, fundraising, creek-clean ups and presentations.”
Announcements
Shine shines
The year-long Tour of Participatory Climate Musical Comes to a Close. The Inside the Greenhouse mini-musical named Shine – created by co-Director Beth Osnes – has toured to cities across the world to engage youth voices in city planning for climate, energy and resilience issues. Most recently, Beth and Inside the Greenhouse collaborators coordinated with youth in New Orleans, Connecticut, and Limpopo, the northernmost province in South Africa. Earlier in the year this show was performed by youth in Boulder, New York City, and London. At each location young people brought the performance to life to dramatize 300 million years of geological time to tell the story of humanity’s relationship with energy and how that has impacted our climate.
