Abstract:

A WorldWide Teach-In workshop was organized and hosted on March 22, 2023, at Deree-The American College of Greece (ACG), where students from different courses of the Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, and the International Honors Programs presented the work they have undertaken related to biodiversity, climate change/crisis and climate justice. Within the framework of this project, students conducted field and lab work, and used the Deree-ACG forest as a living laboratory. The three authors, who are Deree-ACG Professors, and their students supported the worldwide effort initiated by Bard College in USA-Graduate programs in sustainability. A climate teach-in is a bottom-up hands-on educational event, focusing on just solutions to the climate crisis in local communities and globally, aiming to bring the WorldWide Teach-In on climate and justice to hundreds of Universities, Colleges, Schools, and various Communities in more than fifty countries. The specific Deree-ACG workshop was based on three Learning Objects (to be published in a LO repository), developed by the three authors. In this paper, the overall outcomes of the workshop (both individual and student group work of students) are presented, as well as the various ways in which the work of the students was communicated locally and globally. Future recommendations are made.

Keywords:

Climate change/crisis, biodiversity loss, climate justice.