# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Climate Conversations at the Village Square
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Feb, 2017 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join The Village Square - Salt Lake City, Living Room Conversations, and The City Library for a respectful dialogue on the Earth’s climate. Attendees will hear from scientists, professors, and ecologists about the range of views on climate change, and will be able to share their own perspectives over dinner provided by the Spice Kitchen Incubator.

Registration is required. Dinner will begin promptly at 6pm and registrants are asked to arrive on time. At 6:15pm, open seats will be made available to people on a waitlist.
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MODERATOR
Michele Straube is an attorney and mediator with over 35 years’ experience in environmental and natural resource issues.  She designs and facilitates consensus-building processes, and teaches Environmental Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management at the University of Utah.  She is Director of the Environmental Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.  

PRESENTERS
Joan Blades is a co-founder of LivingRoomconversations.org, an open-source effort to rebuild respectful civil discourse across ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core shared values. She is also a co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org She is a Great Work Cultures champion and co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace—winner of a Nautilus book award in 2011—and The Motherhood Manifesto, which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007.  A mediator by training and inclination, she is a nature lover, artist, and true believer in the power of citizens and our need to rebuild respectful civil discourse while embracing our core shared values. 

George Handley is the author of the environmental autobiography, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River, and of numerous essays that explore the environmental ethics of LDS belief. He teaches Interdisciplinary Humanities at BYU and is the leader of the Environmental Ethics Initiative there, which has sponsored symposia, lecture series, and other educational events that explore environmental values as they relate to contemporary environmental issues. He serves on the boards of LDS Earth Stewardship, The Nature Conservancy of Utah, and on the Provo City Sustainability and Natural Resources Committee. In 2013 he was named Conservation Partner of the Year by the Nature Conservancy of Utah. 

Dr. Laura Nelson was appointed by Governor Gary R. Herbert as his Energy Advisor in May 2016. She also continues to serve as the executive director for the Governor’s Office of Energy Development, a position she has held since 2014. Prior, Dr. Nelson served as the vice president of government and regulatory affairs for Potash Ridge, Corp., the vice president of energy and environmental development for Red Leaf Resources, and the Energy Advisor for Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman. For two decades, Dr. Nelson has been proactive in defining and supporting balanced and sustainable energy solutions, including providing Congressional testimony, participating in regional collaborations, working with counties and cities, and coordinating across diverse stakeholders to deliver positive policy, regulatory and commercial results. Dr. Nelson holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah and resides with her family in Salt Lake City.

Derek Monson is director of public policy at Sutherland Institute, where he has worked since 2007. His work at Sutherland has focused on a myriad of policy issues, including environmental policy and how to deal with climate change, government financial transparency, tax reform, education policy, alcohol policy, immigration reform, religious freedom and Medicaid reform. He has co-authored a research study on Utah government spending in the journal Public Budgeting and Finance and was cited as a contributor in the book The Pre-K Debates—Current Controversies and Issues. Derek has also published dozens of political opinion and policy commentary articles in both national and Utah publications including Wallethub.com, The Federalist, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the Deseret News. He has bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from Brigham Young University, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in finance at the University of Utah. He lives in Farmington, Utah with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Robert Davies is a physicist and public interest communicator whose work focuses on synthesizing a broad range of sustainable systems science, including climate, energy, food, and economics. He is also co-creator of The Crossroads Project, a performance art and communication project weaving together information, imagery and music to effect more visceral communication of the challenges ahead. Dr. Davies is adjunct professor in Utah State University’ Department of Plants, Soils and Climate and a past Associate of the Utah Climate Center. He has taught on the faculty of three universities; worked as project scientist for Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory; as technical liaison for NASA’s International Space Station project; and served as an officer and meteorologist in the United States Air Force.

Allison Jones, Wild Utah Project Executive Director, received her B.A in Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz under the guidance of her mentor and advisor, Michael Soule. She then completed her M.S in Conservation Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1996. Her Masters study analyzed the effects of cattle grazing on small mammal communities in the Great Basin. She then worked as an ecological consultant in both Colorado and Utah as an endangered species specialist, where she performed habitat assessments and surveys for federally threatened birds, small mammals and plants. As staff conservation biologist for The Wild Utah Project, Allison collected and assembled biological data to be used in reserve design for Utah. Allison also provides biological analyses for Utah conservation groups that do not typically have these services in-house. Allison has also been appointed by the Director of Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to sit on two state task forces: one to rewrite Utah's black bear management plan, and another to write Utah's first wolf conservation and management plan. Allison was the recipient of the 2014 Jasper Carlton Activist in the Trenches Award.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/salt-lake-city/climate-conversations-at-the-village-square/1222667907816654
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Salt Lake City
- **state**: UT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Salt Lake City Public Library
- **lat**: 40.760233470354
- **long**: -111.88437638397
- **full address**: Salt Lake City Public Library, 200 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Climate Conversations at the Village Square being held?
  - **A:** Climate Conversations at the Village Square takes place on Thu, 23 Feb, 2017 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 23 Feb, 2017 at 06:00 pm at Salt Lake City Public Library, 200 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, United States.

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