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Originally created in 2004, Prometheus is a project of University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Prometheus is designed to create an informal outlet for news, information, and opinion on science and technology policy.-
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- Ogmius #55 – The Final Issue is Now Out
- Victory is Won Through Many Advisers: Rad Byerly and the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award
- Why Climate Communicators Are Turning Talking Points into Punchlines
- The Environment After the Pandemic
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ITG Comedy and Climate Change Short Video Competition
Standing Up for Climate: An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy (co-sponsored by The Center of the American West) 1st place: $400 prize 2nd place: $250 3rd place: $100 Competition Details Humor is a tool underutilized in the area of climate … Continue reading
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More Than Scientists: The First Step is Building Stronger Communities
Against a backdrop of accelerating climate effects, some deep changes are taking place culturally as well as operationally in our communities. As someone who’s very worried about the world we’re leaving our kids, Alan Townsend believes our first focus needs … Continue reading
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Post-US Election & International Climate Talks: Climate Change Media Coverage Levels Off
Post-US Election & International Climate Talks: Climate Change Media Coverage Levels Off – Stay tuned for 2017 trends Updated through December 2016 The Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) monitors fifty sources across twenty-five countries in seven different regions around … Continue reading
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Boulder Faculty Assembly Pass Resolution Calling for CU Engagement on Climate Change
In the December meeting of the Boulder Faculty Assembly at the University of Colorado, an overwhelming majority (29-1 w one abstention) passed a resolution calling on the University of Colorado to address climate change. In the contemporary environmental, political, social, … Continue reading
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Ogmius, Newsletter of CSTPR, Issue 45 is Now Out
Ogmius Issue #45, Fall 2016 This issue of Ogmius describes several new and ongoing initiatives at CSTPR including our recently created Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy. It features articles by our two new writing interns, Abigail … Continue reading
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Inside the Greenhouse Newsletter, Issue #6
Issue 6 | December 2016 Subscribe to ITG Newsletters Already in the Anthropocene, and entering into the Trumpocene on planet Earth, we find it more important than ever to work to meet people where they are and ‘re-tell climate change … Continue reading
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More Than Scientists: Nature’s Support Systems and Us
As an ecosystem biogeochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder, Eve Hinckley of CU Boulder studies the Earth’s life support systems, how they cycle naturally and how they’re affected by human development. Listen in as she tells us about her … Continue reading
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Max Boykoff on Global Climate Talks: Moving Ahead
KGNU Science Show, How on Earth November 15, 2016 Max Boykoff – Global Climate Talks – Moving Ahead With or Without US Listen to Podcast While the world has held climate talks for 22 years (This is COP – Conference … Continue reading
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More Than Scientists: Optimism, family, helping others …
With a big focus on family and helping others, Phil Talyor of INSTAAR shares his philosophy of life and optimism! [video] In this Inside the Greenhouse project, Fall semester ‘Climate and Film’ (ATLS 3519/EBIO 4460) students and Spring semester ‘Creative … Continue reading
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2017 Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy
In 2002, testifying before the Committee on Science in the US House of Representatives in a hearing on ‘New Directions for Climate Research and Technology Initiatives’, Rad Byerly quipped “Politics is not a dirty word. In a democracy it is … Continue reading
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