Welcome to Hart Hagan’s Free Webinars
Telling the Untold Story about how
Plants, Trees, Forests & Ecosystems
Govern our Climate and Cool our Surroundings
How Plants Cool & Regulate Our Climate
With Dr. Poulomi Chakravarty
Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time, US)
Our plants, trees and forests have tremendous power to cool their surroundings, bring rain, regulate temperatures and prevent weather extremes. But how does it all work? That is the focus of Dr. Poulomi Chakravarty’s work as an Environmental Scientist and Climate Educator, your presenter in this Free Webinar.
RSVP: How Plants Cool & Regulate Our Climate, Wednesday, Sept 3 at 7:00 PM
Forests Are Not Just Carbon
Trees and Forests are so much more than storehouses of carbon. We will study an astonishing report from the World Resources Institute describing the dozens of ways trees and forests bring us a livable climate. For example: “Not only do growing trees pull significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere, but by encouraging cloud formation … they ensure that more energy from sunlight is reflected back into space.”
This is just one of the ways that forests cool their environment, and this is why some of us assert that plants, trees and forests offer the quickest, cleanest, safest way to cool our climate.
Forest are Not Just Carbon. Friday, September 5 at 3:00 (Eastern Time)
Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Monday, September 8 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Come see the latest pictures from my 2/8 of an acre in urban Louisville. You will see lush green plants, colorful blooms, insect visitors, rich soil and invisible water cycles. This is highly relevant to climate change, biodiversity and social justice.
RSVP: Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Monday, September 8 @ 7:00 PM - Google Forms
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The Status of Vertebrate Populations. Friday, September 12 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)
We will look at the 2024 Living Planet Report, which revealed a precipitous decline in 35,000 vertebrate populations worldwide. This is a major study that deserves our attention. Why are vertebrate populations declining? And what can we do about it? Is this story not at least as big as climate change?
RSVP: The Status of Vertebrate Populations. Friday, September 12 @ 3:00 P (Eastern Time) - Google Forms
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The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture. Monday, September 15 @ 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)
2,623 gigatonnes of water is an unimaginable amount of water. A gigatonne is one billion tonnes, or a cubic kilometer of water. The soils of the earth are running dry, the soil organisms are dying of thirst. The soils are sloughing off rainfall as they become compacted. And yet, “nobody” is talking about this. Let’s change the conversation!
RSVP: The Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture: Monday, September 15 @ 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) - Google Forms
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Balancing Our Climate Quickly, Naturally and Affordably. Monday, September 18 at 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Presented by Dr. Katie Ross
What if we can balance our climate quickly, naturally, affordably? (And benefit biodiversity, water flows, forest health, food nutrition, and human well-being at the same time?)
Come along to this session to learn about - and be awed by - how the living skin of our landscapes and oceans create our climate from the ground up. Spoiler alert: it’s through the profoundly fascinating intelligence of nature, and how water flows from soil to branch to leaf to cloud and back again, powered entirely by the sun and life. This session will also be interactive. You’ll have time to look at your own patch of Earth to develop questions and insights of what actions could have an immediate climate-restoring effect in your community.
RSVP to Sept 18 workshop: What if we can balance our climate quickly, naturally, affordably?
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Prevailing Wildfire Myths. Monday, September 22 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Our forests are falling victim to a suite of lies about what does and does not suppress wildfires. The mythology is that forest protection is bad because when we don’t actively manage our forests. We need to practice logging and thinning to remove the excess fuel. But the opposite is true. Protected forests do not burn hotter. They tend to cast shade and absorb rainfall, such that they fare better when wildfires do occur.
Join us for this revealing discussion of a comprehensive study of forest fires which reveals the folly of a Trump administration proposal to roll back the “roadless rule,” which has bipartisan support in Congress and in the chattering class.
RSVP: Prevailing Wildfire Myths. Monday, September 22 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) - Google Forms
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Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Friday, September 26 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Come see the latest pictures from my 2/8 of an acre in urban Louisville. You will see lush green plants, colorful blooms, insect visitors, rich soil and invisible water cycles. This is highly relevant to climate change, biodiversity and social justice.
RSVP: Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Friday, September 26 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern Time) - Google Forms
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Insect Decline: Problems & Solutions. Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time)
How are insects doing these days? If they are in decline, how big of a problem is it? And what are the solutions?
“As human activities rapidly transform the planet, the global insect population is declining at an unprecedented rate of up to 2% per year. Amid deforestation, pesticide use, artificial light pollution and climate change, these critters are struggling — along with the crops, flowers and other animals that rely on them to survive.” (Reuters, 2022)
I hope to see you via Zoom.
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Kindest Regards,
Hart
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