Wild Contagious Hope
On World Ocean's Day, June 8 2014, Elin co-launched a twitter tag called #OceanOptimism. To her surprise, it went viral, engaging more than 90 million users with marine conservation successes to date. #Ocean Optimism is a harbinger of a collective hunger for hope. Drawing on inspiring examples from the Salish Sea and beyond, Elin chronicles the spectacular rise of this turn toward hope and why it is so unlikely - and so important - to an increasingly fractured world drowning in doom and gloom.
There will be a RECEPTION (w/Activism) immediately following Elin's talk in the Academic West Skybridge (4th floor AW).
RELATED EVENTS WITH ELIN KELSEY:
Thursday 1/24:
- Teaching with Hope - Faculty/Staff Workshop
- Noon - 12:50 pm (light lunches provided)
- Miller Hall Collaboration Space MH-102
- Reception and Activism following the Huxley Speaker Series talk
- 5:30 - 7:00 pm
- Academic West Skybridge AW-425
Friday 1/25:
- Coffee, Tea and Snacks with Elin Kelsey
- 8:30 - 9:30 am
- Arntzen Hall AH-225
- From Problem Identification to Solutions Orientation: Journalism for Hope Student WORKSHOP (Everyone Welcome)
- Noon - 1:50 pm (light lunches provided)
- Viking Union VU-565
- Students have been discussing the grief they feel about the state of the planet; their lack of awareness of environmental solutions that are working; and, their lack of knowledge about how to reorient their own research beyond problem analysis towards solutions generation and amplification. This workshop will be an exercise in solutions journalism which will workshop a pedagogical approach as a means to explore how to engage university students from a hope and solutions orientation when talking about our relations to Earth.
These events are co-sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, the Sustainability, Equity & Justice Fund, the Red Fish School of Change, the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance and the Associated Students.
The Winter, 2019 Huxley Speaker Series is co-sponsored by College of the Environment and WWU's Salish Sea Institute, presenting a 10-week series on issues facing the Salish Sea.
About the Speaker
Dr. Elin Kelsey is a leading spokesperson for hope and the environment. An award-winning author and environmental consultant, she currently serves as a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and has been awarded prestigious fellowships, including a Rockefeller fellowship and a Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society fellowship, to explore intersections of hope and the environment in interdisciplinary think tanks devoted to world changing ideas. See Elin Kelsey & Co.
Environmental Speaker Series
The Environmental Speaker Series is hosted by the College of the Environment at Western Washington University.
The Series is free and open to the public. Talks are held each Thursday at 4:30 pm in Academic Instructional Center West room 204 - AW-204. Talks will also be streamed via zoom. Register with the Alumni Association for the zoom link. Paid parking is available in lot C.
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