Climate Change Education Solutions Network Videos
CCESS2025 October 15, "Empowering K-12 Students for Climate Action and Critical Thinking"
"Empowering K-12 Students for Climate Action and Critical Thinking" by Eileen Boekestein, Education Manager, Michigan EGLE, Lansing, USA
CCESS2025 Day 1 Opening Remarks in Grand Rapids October 14, 2025
Welcoming Remarks by Elena Lioubimtseva, CCESS/GCCW Planning Committee, Donovan Anderson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ed Aboufadel, Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, GVSU
CCESS2025 Day 2 Opening Remarks in Muskegon October 15, 2025
Welcome by Eric Carballido, Life Sciences Faculty and GLISA ELF Co-Investigator
Remarks by Tucker Brown, Provost and Chief Student Services Officer (MCC)
CCESS2025 October 15,"Elevating Youth Leadership and Peer-Learning for Climate Adaptation"
"Elevating Youth Leadership and Peer-Learning to Support Climate Adaptation" by Rylie Dietz, GVSU Student and GLISA ELF Research Scientist, Allendale, MI, USA
CCESS2025 October 15, "Planting for the Changing Climate"
"Telling Our Climate Story: Education, Global Lessons, and Local Action" panel: "Planting for the Changing Climate" by Julia Chambers, AFFEW, Ludington, MI, USA
CCESS2025 October 15," Global Climate Change and Local Implications: Lessons from Antarctica"
"Telling Our Climate Story: Education, Global Lessons, and Local Action" panel: "Global Climate Change and Local Implications: Lessons from Antarctica" by Jim Lax, Climate for Tomorrow, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
CCESS2025 October 14, "The Truth About America’s Water and How We Can Fix It"
"The Truth About America’s Water and How We Can Fix It" by Rich "Raz" Razgaitis, Founder and CEO of FloWater, Denver, CO, USA
CCESS2025 October 14, "Change From Within: Rethinking Education During a Climate Crisis"
"Change From Within: Rethinking Education During a Climate Crisis" by Jes Thompson, Assistant Vice-President for Sustainability, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, USA
CCESS2025 October 15, "The Power to Make a Difference: Starting Small, Carrying On, Creating Change"
"The Power to Make a Difference: Starting Small, Carrying On, Creating Change" by Tanya Cabala, West Michigan Environmental Council, Muskegon, MI, USA
CCESS2025-GCCW October 16, "Climate Adaptation, Sustainability, Ethics, and Well-Being"
CCESS2025-GCCW October 14, "A Call for Transformative Hope in Climate Change Education"
"A Call for Transformative Hope in Climate Change Education" by Eileen Boekestein, Michigan EGLE, USA
CCESS2025 October 14, "Local Power, Global Impact: Climate Action from a City Leader’s Perspective"
"Local Power, Global Impact: Climate Action from a City Leader’s Perspective" by Marshall Kilgore, Third Ward City Commissioner, City of Grand Rapids, MI, USA
CCESS2025 - GCCW October 16, " Climate Literacy at Scale"
“Climate Literacy at Scale: Insights from the UTAS Climate Action MOOC”, by Corey Peterson, CSO, University of Tasmania, Australia
CCESS2025-GCCW October 16, "GLISA Tools and Resources"
"GLISA Tools and Resources", by Rachel Kelly, GLISA Climatologist, University of Michigan, USA
CCESS2025-GCCW October 16, "How We Integrated the Climate Emergency into all Programs?"
"How We Integrated the Climate emergency into all Programs at the College?", by Jessica Burpee, John Abbott College, Canada
Virtual Climate Change Student Symposium 2025
CCESS 2024 International Student Forum
CCESS Opening Session, October 15, 2024
"Escape From Overshoot" by Peter A. Victor
GVSU CCESS October 17, 2023
Virtual Climate Change Student Symposium 2024
GVSU Community Presentations 2023
Racial Capitalism, Climate Change, COVID-19, and Public Health
"Climate Sisu" (2023)
Virtual Climate Change Student Symposium at Student Scholar Day 2023
Introduction to Climate Sisu
Collaboration Toward Climate Action on Michigan Campuses 2023
Inland Seas | Trisha Smrecak
April Lindala | Climate Sisu
Leah Anderson |Climate Sisu
Tyler Penrod | Climate Sisu
John Forsen | Climate Sisu
Jes Thompson | Climate Sisu
Carolyn Ulstad | Climate Sisu
Ashley Rudzinski | Climate Sisu
Emily Leach | Climate Sisu
Trisha Smrecak | Climate Sisu
John Fletcher | Climate Sisu
Ryan Tompke | Climate Sisu
The Annis Water Resources Institute | Christina Catanese & Amanda Syers
Indigenous Obligations | April Lindala
Air Quality and Climate Change | Janet Vail
Welcome to the CCESS 2022 | Remarks by GVSU Provost Dr. Fatma Mili
CCESS 2022 | Dr. Azizur Molla
CCESS 2022 | Kindra Weid & Darren Riley
CCESS 2022 | Denise Keele
CCESS 2022 | Lisa Del Buono
CCESS | CCL with Jan Strait, Dennis Icabone, and Peter Boogaart
Sam Bonser | MiRCLE Science Education Specialist
Elena Lioubimtseva | The global Climate Crisis
Janet Vail | MiRCLE Climate Conversation
Elena Lioubimtseva | Understanding human vulnerability to climate impacts
Janet Vail | Lesson: Discovering Climate Vulnerability
Paul Clements | Climate Justice
Donele Wilkins | Environmental Justice
SolutionForward | Eileen Boekenstein
Storytelling & Climate Change | Matt Scott
Global Express | ELENA LIOUBIMTSEVA
CCESN | Jim Penn and Elena Lioubimtseva, GVSU Geography and Sustainable Planning Department
CCESS 2022 | Presenting Climate Sisu
Erik Nordman | Collaborative Climate Action: Scaling up from local to global commons
Jothsna Harris | The power of story telling. Interactive workshop
Community Action for Climate Justice Panel Discussion
Alison Sutter | Equity and Justice in Climate Adaptation Planning
Jothsna Harris | The power of story telling
GVSU, NMU, WMU, UVSQ faculty | Education for Climate Action Panel Discussion
Eileen Boekestein | Trees and Afforestation
Jesse Bernal and George Heartwell | Welcome to GVSU
Geoffrey Henebry | Land Use and Land Cover Change
Jessica Thompson | Talking About Climate Solutions
David Karowe | Climate Change Impacts in Michigan
Elena Lioubimtseva | Understanding Global Climate Models and Scenarios
Alison Sutter | Sustainability and Equity in 2020 and Beyond: Grand Rapids' Strategic Plan
Sean Woznicki | Changing Ecosystems EnviroAtlas
Allen Webb | Teaching Climate Crisis: Questions of Urgency, Justice, & Action
Bob Hollister | Climate Change in the Arctic: Terrestrial Ecosystem Change
Jos Eussen | OPEDUCA Approach to Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development
Liz Kirkwood | Securing a Brighter Future without Line 5 or an Oil Tunnel
Erin Koren | GRPM Resources for Climate Change Education
George Heartwell | CCESS Honorary Chair
Trajectories in Climate Change Education | Panel Discussion
Shaily Menon | Liberal Education and Climate Change: A Call to Action
Climate Change Education and Climate Action | Panel Discussion
Jaiguo Qi | Climate Change & Water-Energy-Food Nexus
CCESS 2019 Highlights
Jessica Thompson | Changing the Climate Conversation
Jeffery Andersen | Climate Variability and Change in Michigan: Historical Trends and Future Projections
Ellen Bacca | Climate vs. Weather (Full Presentation)
HSCCS 2020 Highlights
Andrew Hoffman | Who do people reject the science of climate change, and what to do about it?
George Heartwell | The Paris Climate Agreement
Ellen Bacca | Climate vs. Weather (Highlights)
Sarah Duffer | A Call to Action: Teach Climate Solutions
