Volume 3, Issue 8 | October 2026
On the eve of Hallowe’en, greetings to all. Here’s a little climate and equity news.
Deadline for our Next Newsletter is Nov. 24th: Send news large and small, queries, resources and reviews!
Next call-back: Nov 30th, 7 pm Eastern Abe Cohen (2022) will share the presentation that he and his students are about to make to the Geological Society of America on their long-running field research. Not to be missed! “We Out Here: Detrital Zircon Geochronology as a Tool for Student Engagement in Understudied Communities”
News from Climate and Equity Fellows
Melissa Goretskie (2026) “I want to share that my student and I got to share our project about burning fields with the Farmer’s Union at their annual convention. We are trying to help farmers reduce the need to burn their fields before planting.”
Benjamin Little (2026) writes: “I’ve had a busy month. I presented on game based learning at the Full Scale Symposium in Indianapolis at the beginning of the month, where I featured my climate and energy game Mission: Clean Energy. It was very well attended and received! I organized a litter pickup for the day after Halloween with the Environmental Club at my school. I also created and am pitching an Ethical AI Use Framework for my school that centers sustainability, humanity, and student voices.
On smaller notes, I’m enjoying teaching my ecosystems class this cycle. My plants are growing in the school garden. I’m looking forward to introducing the ReHuman project’s idea of humans as keystone species when we do food webs this week.
Doing the work, big and small, all day every day.”
Resource
The Climate trunk. A fascinating website that provides informational graphics on a wide range of climate change science, education, and policy, drawing from current research and reporting. From the website: “Understanding climate change and the global energy system is hard. New claims arrive faster than we can make sense of them. Hot takes crowd out credible context. And without a solid foundation, knowledge can fall away – like a tree without a trunk.”
That’s the idea behind Climate Trunk. A growing library of visual explainers that holds the big picture together – from science and history to impacts and justice, and from societal net zero to our spheres of influence. Each ring adds coherence and context.
Now’s your chance!
Send us your ideas, your news items, or resource reviews by November 24th for next month’s newsletter.
Call-backs: Feel free to suggest topics for future call back sessions
Contact Brian at climateandequity@terc.edu with ideas and proposals!
The Climate and Equity project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.