Globally, members of the public are increasingly concerned about climate change and other threats to our planet’s health, including biodiversity loss and air, soil, and water pollution. Science centers and museums provide unique opportunities for visitors and their broader communities to learn more about the issues that concern them and how we can address them, …
ASTC members offer diverse programming on planetary health Read More »
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is set to begin this Sunday, October 31, in Glasgow, Scotland. This seminal meeting will bring together representatives from the nearly 200 nations that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to advance global action on climate. COP26 provides an ideal opportunity …
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By Pat Hamilton From Dimensions November/December 2018 Something momentous happened on December 12, 2015. After years of negotiations, 197 nations came together in Paris and agreed by voice acclamation to the world’s first binding commitments to fighting climate change. Then something alarming happened on June 1, 2017. President Trump announced that he was withdrawing the …
Science Museum of Minnesota Is Still In Read More »
ASTC is proud to be part of the ever-growing We Are Still In coalition supporting climate action, an alliance of U.S. cultural institutions, businesses and investors, cities and counties, colleges and universities, faith groups, health care organizations, states, tribes, and other non-federal actors. We Are Still In, at nearly 3,600 signatories, demonstrates America’s enduring commitment …
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Interviewed by Andrea Appleton This interview appeared in the May/June 2017 issue of Dimensions magazine. The evidence is conclusive: the planet is warming and humans are to blame. But there are still those, some in powerful positions, who don’t believe in climate change. Yet Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, …
Q&A with Anthony Leiserowitz: Climate Change and the Current Political Climate Read More »
ASTC is organizing all science center networks to participate in the COP21 meeting later this year. COP21 events will be interactive and streamed live online (viewing details to be announced at a later date). ASTC has been looking for an opportunity to allow all members to actively participate in the event, as well, which led …
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Another edition of ASTC On Air was streamed live online on Thursday, June 25. This time, we spoke with Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Professor of Climatology and Environmental Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. ASTC On Air is a new series in …
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A shared model for implementation by science centers ASTC and The Wild Center have teamed up to share a successful program format designed to target your region’s high school and college students. This effort is based on a successful model developed by The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, New York over the last six years …
How can we build greener cities? What impacts do our everyday actions have on the global climate? ASTC is inviting science centers around the world to play Clim’City, an online game that allows players to measure how energy and development choices impact society over a 50-year period. The game encourages players to explore what works and what does …
Fun and games at COP15 Read More »
Science centers around the world will celebrate the third annual Earth Hour on March 28. Launched by the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) in 2007, Earth Hour is an hour-long lights-out event that raises awareness and encourages action on energy and climate issues. To help the WWF reach its goal of one billion participants, ASTC members …
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