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CSTPR Welcomes Max Boykoff as Director

The CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) is pleased to announce Max Boykoff as its new Director.  Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., who served as the Center’s founding director from 2001-2007, and again as director from 2013 until … Continue reading

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Updated Monitoring of Climate Change Media Coverage

Updated through March 2016 The Media and Climate Change Observatory (MECCO) monitors fifty sources across twenty-five countries in seven different regions around the world. MECCO assembles the data by accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva databases via … Continue reading

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Webcast Now Available for Power Dialog Discussion

Power Dialog: Discussing Colorado’s engagement for a clean energy economy in the 21st century View Webcast The Power Dialog will support 10,000 students to participate in face-to-face dialog with state-level leaders in all fifty states about what is needed to … Continue reading

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New CSTPR Visiting Scholar: Bonnie Rusk

Bonnie Rusk will be joining CSTPR beginning this April as a visiting scholar. Bonnie is a Conservation Biologist with 25 years of experience in the West Indies focusing on biodiversity, terrestrial ecosystems and protected areas, and more recently on climate … Continue reading

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Addressing Climate Change Through Theatre

Inside the Greenhouse Blog March 30, 2016 Some years ago, as I was becoming acutely aware of the challenges posed by climate change, I asked myself what, if anything, a playwright could do to address this issue. The most obvious … Continue reading

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YOAB Boulder Climate Commitment

A short film about climate change impacts & opportunities for action in the Boulder community A collaborative project with the CSTPR’s Inside the Greenhouse and City of Boulder and local high school students who are members of the Youth Opportunities … Continue reading

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Winners Announced for Inside the Greenhouse Comedy & Climate Change Video Competition

Humor is a tool underutilized in the area of climate change; yet comedy has power to effectively connect people, information, ideas, and new ways of thinking/acting. Inside the Greenhouse held a competition to harness the powers of climate comedy through … Continue reading

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New CSTPR Visiting Scholar: Scott Gwozdz

Scott Gwozdz joins CSTPR beginning this week as a visiting scholar. Scott has more than 20 years of experience in Consumer Insight and Brand Development for Local Companies, Non Profits and Fortune 1000 Corporations. Since 2009, Scott has taught at … Continue reading

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2016 Winners Announced: AAAS “CASE” Workshop Student Competition

The Graduate Certificate Program in Science and Technology Policy of the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research organized a competition to select two CU students to attend the AAAS “Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering” workshop in Washington, … Continue reading

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Webcast Now Available for CSTPR Seminar on Media Coverage of Climate Change

Media Coverage of Climate Change in a Comparative Perspective by Reiner Grundmann Science and Technology Studies, University of Nottingham Watch the webcast Climate change is a global process which is addressed by international institutions but receives different responses in different … Continue reading

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