Climate Fresk event on Saturday, March 2 - Greensboro News & Record
Climate Fresk event on Saturday, March 2
A Climate Fresk event is set for 1:30 to 5 p.m. March 2 at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St. in Greensboro.
Facilitators are Allison Whitaker and Sarah Rawleigh. Whitaker began delivering these workshops in the winter of 2020 and has since helped more than 350 people understand the interconnected nature of climate change. She's one of the most experienced facilitators delivering this workshop in the U.S. and is a Climate Fresk Trainer. Rawleigh is a licensed clinical social worker with a private therapy practice. She lives in Winston-Salem and offers community workshops to help people learn climate science and to share their thoughts and feelings about climate-related issues.
The cost to attend is between $5 and $20. To register, visit tinyurl.com/yk5zrbj9.
For information about Climate Fresks, visit https://climatefresk.org/.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.