A graduate-level, seminar-style class on climate change structured around the IPCC's AR5.
At Berkeley, Torn teaches a class on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, and a seminar on food systems.
This spring I took a class about Climate Change and Food Systems and learned about flooding and the problems it might cause our farmers.
Bera listed middle-class interests, climate change, jobs and affordable college education as key issues, adding he believed "people recognized that I worked on trying to be as bipartisan as possible, reaching across the aisle...whenever I could".
Much of the global political class has put climate change into a file marked 'too difficult'.
And I wish I hadn't written it because now that my bluff's been called, I'm doubting that even Sandy, the largest storm ever, will be enough to make our political class serious about climate change.
In addition, William Dalrymple will give a talk about the First Afghan War; Rupert Everett will divulge secrets from his memoir, and Orange Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver will discuss class, poverty and climate change in relation to her new novel Flight Behaviour.
Some recent movies have got slightly better at exploring this tension between class, race and climate change.
But I'm convinced that faster growth makes every problem easier to solve: middle-class living standards, climate change, health issues and certainly the deficit.
Clinton is a mainstream liberal, and these days mainstream liberals tend to want the same things that Sanders does -- a stronger welfare state, more regulation of business, higher wages for the lower and middle classes, action on climate change.
