{"id":9325,"date":"2019-09-30T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2019-09-30T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:12:33","slug":"hope-in-a-time-of-change-a-conversation-about-our-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/09\/30\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-a-conversation-about-our-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in a Time of Change: A conversation about our climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, September 25th the Chilliwack Cultural Centre hosted a community conversation on climate change. <strong>Dr. Carin Bondar<\/strong>, UFV&#8217;s Faculty of Science Communicator, \u2018Biologist with a Twist,\u2019 writer, filmmaker, and host of <em>Outrageous Acts of Science<\/em> on the Discovery Channel emceed the event. The panel featured local experts who shared their knowledge about how climate is affecting the Fraser Valley and made suggestions for actions individuals can take to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9349 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_3399.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UFV Physic&#8217;s Professor, <strong>Dr. Tim Cooper<\/strong>, joined outdoor recreation specialist David Urban from the FVRD and natural food farmer Natalie Forstbauer on the panel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-event-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9345 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-event-banner-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-event-banner-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/09\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-event-banner.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The panelists each gave a presentation followed by a question and answer period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, September 25th the Chilliwack Cultural Centre hosted a community conversation on climate change. Dr. Carin Bondar, UFV&#8217;s Faculty of Science Communicator, \u2018Biologist with a Twist,\u2019 writer, filmmaker, and host of Outrageous Acts of Science on the Discovery Channel emceed the event. The panel featured local experts who shared their knowledge about how climate &#8230; <a title=\"Hope in a Time of Change: A conversation about our climate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/09\/30\/hope-in-a-time-of-change-a-conversation-about-our-climate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":9346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,66,10,58,1],"tags":[278,173],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-centre-for-environmental-sustainability","category-departments","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions\/9356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}