Sustainability Week 2020
Celebrate national Sustainability Week with SMC's Eco Action Club. This year the focus will be on 6 of the 17 United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Attend one or more of the sessions, answer a quick quiz and receive extra credit* (from participating professors)
Extra Credit: If your professor is offering extra credit for these SMC events you must submit a "knowledge check". The deadline to submit the knowledge check is October 29 at 11:59 p.m.
You will have to login to your online SMC account to access the knowledge check. (Same login you use for Canvas, your SMC Google account, and most of SMC’s online services). The user name would be your official SMC email: doe_john@student.smc.edu
All events are from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Monday 10/19 QUIZ Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth
(This session is not on zoom. It is self-guided. Read and watch the material below
and take the quiz)
VIDEO: Overview of SDG's presented by Thandie Newton (with an appearance by Beyonce):
ARTICLE: Issues Brief on Gender and Climate Change.
ARTICLE: What is the GREEN NEW DEAL?
Tuesday 10/20 QUIZ Recording - Goal 14: Oceans. Guest speaker, Diego Johanson - Greenpeace
Wednesday 10/21 QUIZ Recording - Goal 11: Sustainable Communities. Guest speaker, Shannon Parry, Deputy of Sustainability,
City of Santa Monica
Thursday 10/22 QUIZ Recording video clears up at 9 min mark) - Goal 14: Life on Land and Goal 13: Climate Action
We have 10 years left to reverse climate change. It's time to teach & strive for the UN's SDG's!
Previous Sustainability Week Events at SMC
