CRED will offer a new course called the “Psychology of Environmental Decision-Making & Sustainable Behavior” this spring. The course will begin on February 25th as part of the Certificate Program in Conservation and Environmental Sustainability sponsored by the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability. Distance learning is available for the course. For more information and… read more

CRED will be represented at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco December 9-13. We hope you can join the conversation at these presentations! Monday December 9th 8:15-8:30: Courtney St. John, Making better decisions in uncertain times ED11E. ED11E. Climate Literacy: Beyond Climate Literacy — Toward Effective Responses to Global Change I (Virtual Option)… read more

Join the Columbia Center for Climate Change Law and the Earth Institute for a panel discussion on Wednesday December 4th titled “Soaring flood insurance rates: should Congress step in?” The panel will featured Howard Kunreuther, CRED Principle Investigator and Co-Director, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. We hope… read more

    Columbia University: Earth Institute PositiveFeedback presents Art/Science Speed-Dating   Rauschenberg Gallery 455 West 19th Street, between 9th & 10th Aves.   Wednesday, November 6th at 6:30pm   Witness first “dates” between our featured scientists and artists and then have your turn at meeting potential collaborators of the opposite discipline.   Featuring: Annea Lockwood, Jennifer Monson, Shahid… read more

  Join CRED Sabine Marx, CRED Managing Director, as she partners with artist Jan Mun for City as a Living Laboratory Walks, part of  Broadway 1000 Steps and Marfa Dialogues / New York.   Sunday October 27    1:15 – 2:30   Start Location: Battery Park at the north entrance to the Battery Gardens restaurant   Jan… read more

    CRED, through its initiative PositiveFeedback, will host two events as part of Marfa Dialogues / NY this November!   The first event is a double-bill of two original, multi-disciplinary, family-friendly plays made in collaboration with climate scientists from Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Filled with original music, movement and unforgettable characters.   ACT… read more

An Ethics of Vulnerability: How Bioethics and Ecology Challenge Political Philosophy and Humanism CRED and the Center for the Study of Science and Religion are pleased to announce a guest lecture provided by Corine Pelluchon on October 8th, 2013 at the Davis Auditorium, Columbia University. The lecture will take place from 6:00-7:30 PM and is… read more

Ezra Markowitz, CRED postdoctoral research scientist and Earth Institute Fellow, will co-host a workshop titled “Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Climate Ethics” in Lake Como Italy on September 26-27. Organizers will publish a special issue with the same title in the journal Climatic Change. More information about the conference can be found here.

CRED Post-doctoral research scientists Ezra Markowitz will co-chair a session at the upcoming American Psychological Association Convention. The session is titled “”Communicating climate science: Psychological challenges and opportunities” and will include the following presenters: Irina Feygina – “The challenge of system justification for acknowledging and responding to climate change” Edward Maibach – “Audience research as… read more

On July 17, CRED postdoctoral researcher Adrian Camilleri will speak at the World Marketing Congress in Melbourne, Australia. Adrian will speak on the panel “The Choice Architecture of Translated Attributes.” For more information about the World Marketing Congress please click here: http://www.2013wmc.org/.