Climate Solutions Summit (promotional video)

This is the promotional video for the Central Michigan Climate Solutions Summit, which will take place from 8:50 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16.

The Climate Solutions Summit will highlight what is being done at the university and in the local community to combat climate change and its effects.

The summit will feature Dr. Andrew Hoffman as the keynote speaker, who will discuss the role of universities in mitigating climate change and the solutions present in our culture and market. Hoffman is an author, research and professor at the University of Michigan, with a focus in environmental issues and sustainable enterprise.

The event will also include two panel discussions, featuring: CMU faculty, staff and students; and Mount Pleasant businesses, government officials and local citizens.


Interviews and video by Teresa Homsi, Central Sustainability.
CMCSS graphic made by CMU student designer, Michaela Drumm.

This event was organized by interested faculty and students in collaboration with the Mt. Pleasant chapter of Citizens’ Climate Education, sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Science and Engineering, and the Institute for Great Lakes Research.

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Featured people (in order of appearance):

-Will Joseph, Mount Pleasant Mayor
-Laura Coffee, Marketing & Owner Services Manager, GreenTree Cooperative Grocery
-Harmony Knowlin, Regional Community Affairs Manager, Consumers’ Energy
-Chloe Majeske, CMU meteorology student
-Peter Sinclair, Videography, author for Yale Climate Connections
-Katie Couture, CMU public relations student
-Nancy Ridley, Mount Pleasant City Manager
-Leanna Cloutier, CMU marketing, women and gender studies student
-Jeannie Snyder, SCTC graduate & CMU environmental science student
-Marie Koper, President of Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Climate Lobby
-Laura Cochrane, CMU anthropology faculty
-Cedric Taylor, Filmmaker, CMU sociology faculty
-Goksel Demirer, CMU environmental engineering faculty
-Jay Kahn, CMU Director of Facilities Management
-Elizabeth Bradshaw, CMU sociology faculty
-Mimi Gonzalez-Barillas, Communications Specialist, Office for Institutional Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

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