SDARI: San Diego Association of Rational Inquiry Monthly Meetup

Program announcements are posted at sdari.org

Speaker: Lisa Shaffer Topic: What is climate change and why does it matter?.

Dr. Lisa Shaffer is a lecturer at the UCSD Rady School of Management. She spent the first 25 years of her career in Washington, D.C. in a variety of positions focusing on international cooperation in studying the earth from space. In 1998, she joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she was responsible for international relations and program development. She left Scripps in 2007, to build a sustainability program across the UC San Diego campus (now called the Sustainability Solutions Institute), and in 2009 joined the Rady School of Management after completing the executive MBA program there. She earned her B.A. in political science and international relations from the University of Michigan, a Ph.D. in public policy from the George Washington University. In addition to her teaching, Lisa is running for a seat on the city council of Encinitas, California in the November 2012 election.

The Climate Project: A program of The Climate Reality Project, The Climate Project (TCP) represents a global force consisting of specially trained climate activists who are dedicated to educating people about the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis at a grassroots level worldwide. With nine official branches and a reach in more than 50 countries, TCP supports more than 3,000 diverse and dedicated volunteers, all personally trained by TCP's founder, Al Gore, to present an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy Award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Since TCP first began in 2006, TCP "Presenters" have delivered more than 70,000 presentations reaching a combined global audience of more than 7.3 million people, sharing our message that the climate crisis is real and the time to act is now.