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2021 Hybrid German-American Summer Academy on Coastal Biodiversity and Climate Change in Mississippi
From July 12 to 16 2021, youth from Germany and Mississippi met online and explored how to preserve coastal biodiversity and how to protect the coasts and coastal ecosystems against the impacts of climate change. They heard from scientists in Germany and Mississippi and ran their own investigative projects. POCACITO, Mississippi State University’s Coastal Conservation…
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Public Art: What is it Good For?
with Stein Wexler “if social agencies have failed, then art is obliged to step in” Nato Thompson, Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art: 1991-2011 How can we leverage public art as a tool for social change and community sustainability? In this conversation we’ll discuss not only what public art is and what public art can do,…
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POCACITO in Germany – 2018 Edition
We might start to call it a tradition if every installment of the annual POCACITO in Germany tour weren’t so einzigartig, as our German friends might say. This year’s trip of 15 emerging leaders in urban sustainability from the United States focused on rethinking systems of mobility, which took us from Frankfurt to Dresden to…