Curriculum Development Committee: Coordinate the development of existing and new climate-based curricular materials; Investigate the restructuring of traditional Extension programming around new areas more relevant to today's issues and populations; Work with partners like Federal level employees, USDA Climate Hubs, etc. to develop and promote new materials (ex. national youth climate stewards curriculum); Work to develop community programs on energy literacy, green workforce development,...

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee: Investigate strategies to engage with marginalized populations to address meaningful and impactful change; Work with other committees on developing resources to educate about and empower allyship in Extension climate justice work; Investigate strategies for shifting away from information exchange and harness knowledge of different world views to build relationships engaging diverse knowledge forms as the foundation for driving action

Extension Policy Committee: Identify, strengthen, and develop new relationships, partnerships, and pathways to leverage and grow current work on climate change; Facilitate compensation of expertise; Encourage land grant universities/administration to support climate programming by identifying or designating state-level Extension specialists/faculty points of contact; Improve willingness to act throughout the system .

We can add the recordings of our Nov. meetings here.

We had our kickoff meeting for the NECI Beta Test this afternoon. For those who were not able to attend I am putting the link to the recording here: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/sh...Hwf.qlQ2LmpffXXs-Z3I Passcode:us3=Y=*$ I tried it just now by copying the link above without the passcode and pasting it into my browser. It brought up the recording just fine. Some people had asked for a copy of the PowerPoint slides I had today and I am attaching them here as well.

Does your climate extension program include citizen or community science? If so, you may want to attend this webinar series hosted by NASA on federal funding for community science, starting 2/2/23 with a discussion about budgetting for community science - https://nasacitsci.gmri.org/#miniseries Note: registration is required. Each event will begin promptly at 3:00 pm Eastern / 2:00 pm Central / 1:00 pm Mountain / 12:00 pm Pacific / 11:00 am Alaskan time zone. Line will open 15 minutes before...

The University of Wyoming Extension is excited to share a collaboration with the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub to hir e an Extension Educator to work on climate resilience of rural, agricultural communities in Wyoming – specifically focused on cropland and rangeland systems. This 3-year position, with statewide responsibilities , is funded through a USDA grant designed to foster collaboration and cooperation between cooperative extension services and USDA Climate Hubs. Click here to view...

In this Curriculum Jams process , a group of UW-Madison Extension colleagues focused on materials that adults can use to facilitate lessons about climate . Their was to identify resources that could support youth in developing greater understanding and agency around the topic of climate. Thought I would share in this space! https://youthdevelopment.exten...iculum-jams/climate/