Hot Topics 2024: Transforming College Operations for Climate Justice - Video

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS.

This series is free and open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience.


Thursday June 13 – Alex Barron, Smith College, “Transforming College Operations for Climate Justice”


Dr. Barron's peer-reviewed article "Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education" was published in the journal One Earth. An opinion piece which covers some high-level findings was published in Inside Higher Ed.

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00472-3

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/10/27/five-ways-colleges-should-respond-climate-crisis-opinion