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I am often asked what we mean by “Security” in the Security and Sustainability Forum’s name. The term is used with different meanings. By “security” we mean the social instability caused by climate disruptions and other impacts to natural systems.

Those are the precise issues addressed by environmental mediators, like Lucy Moore author of Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country, which was the recipient of the “Willa Award for Best Memoir 2005″ from Women Writing the West and her new book, Common Ground on Hostile Turf.

I invite you to join Lucy and me in a live 45 minute online webinar to discuss her insights from 30 years of experience helping diverse and often hostile groups find common ground.

Register for free.

A Conversation with Author, Mediator and Story Teller, Lucy Moore
June 12, 2013
1:15 PM to 2:00 PM EDT

In practice since 1985, Lucy Moore brings deep experience and wisdom in the field of natural resource and public policy dispute resolution based on years of experience addressing conflict. Her clients include Federal, State, Local and Tribal governments and agencies, addressing a wide range of environmental and public policy issues including water, air quality, hazardous waste disposal, management of noise, endangered species, Indian education and other tribal issues.

“For three decades, Lucy Moore has opened my heart and mind with her stories. She brings to life those times when trust and respect among adversaries are possible and offers us a path forward critical to our future. Regardless of the troubles people find themselves in, a way opens when we can tell our stories to one another – and when we listen,”
Gail Bingham, President Emeritus, RESOLVE

I read Lucy’s new book in preparation for this event and learned the value of stories to help cool intense hostility and lead the way toward understanding and consensus.

Please join me in A Conversation with Lucy Moore on June 12th that will include a question and answer period.

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SSF is pleased to announce that we have made arrangements for the Security and Sustainability community to receive a 20% discount on Island Press books and publications related to our webinars.  We’ve launched an Island Press Offerings page on the SSF Website with the current  listings.

Supporting the SSF webinar series on the National Climate Assessment, Island Press is offering discounts on three of the publications it has organized with all of the background, case studies, climate trend and vulnerability data developed to inform the NCA. The state of the art information in each report comes from a broad range of experts and NCA authors and contributors in academia, private industry, state and local governments, NGOs, professional societies, and impacted communities. These publications are the only place to get the complete information.

For the SSF discount code, go to www.securityandsustainabilityforum.org/islandpressofferings

Island Press is the leading publisher of books on the environment and the impacts on society. Its authors are leading experts in the field and Island Press publications are often used as references in higher education classes.

A nonprofit, the organization also hosts educational events and develops programs to fill information gaps on important issues impacting society. Current programs are focusing on climate change adaptation, conservation finance, and creating communication networks such as The Conservation Finance Network (CFN), made up of partner organizations that work to advance cutting edge conservation finance ideas.

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The Long-Term Vision: Developing a “Sustained Climate Assessment”

Aired on April 24, 2013 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT

In the third session of the National Climate Assessment series, co produced by Second Nature, authors from the National Climate Assessment looked at how the assessment could be transitioned from a periodic review of climate change to an ”ongoing process of working to understand and evaluate the nation’s vulnerabilities to climate variability and change and its capacity to respond.”

The moderator was Jim Buizer, Director of the Climate Adaptation and International Development Institute for the Environment, University of Arizona, is a National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) member and Lead Author of Chapter 30, the Sustained Assessment.   

The panel members were

Paul Fleming, Paul Fleming, Climate Resiliency Group for the Seattle Public Utilities, is a Member of the National Climate Assessment Development Advisory Committee, Convening Lead Author of the Draft Report’s Water Resources Chapter and the Special Report on a Sustained Assessment, and a Lead Author on the Draft Report’s Adaptation Chapter.

Anne Waple: Holds appointments jointly with the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), helping to manage the Global Change Information System, and for Second Nature developing adaptation-focused activities

Dr. T. M. Bull Bennett, President and CEO, Kiksapa Consulting, LLC; is a Member of the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee and Convening Lead Author of the Draft Report’s Chapter on Impacts of Climate Change on Tribal, Indigenous, and Native Lands and Resources

Access the full report or individual chapters here.  The USGCRP accepted public comments on the draft report up to April 12.

In February, SSF hosted the NCA Director and advisory committee members discussing the findings of the NCA, and in March, we hosted a panel of Lead Convening Authors of chapters on regional assessments, energy, and adaptation for a conversationa about the implications of the NCA.  If you missed them, the recorded sessions are available with a free membership.  In September SSF and Second Nature will host a follow up webinar about revisions to the draft report.

Members have access to this webinar video. If you are a member please make sure you are logged in to see the video.

If you are not a member, register for FREE access to this session and all of SSF’s archives!

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