Unit 4: Radical Change: Achieving Hopeful Scenarios

Melissa Ramirez, Ph.D. and Jason Flores, Ph.D. provide an introduction to the topic of Radical Change: Achieving Hopeful Scenarios.

Kathryn Stevenson, Ph.D. discusses her decade of research trying to learn more about how young people think and learn about climate change and how youth-led conversations may have something important to offer.

In this video, Frank Harmon shares the “inherent wisdom” he learned from North Carolina barns, why he thinks building sustainably is really just “common sense,” and how building sustainably can help one feel more “at home” in their houses.

Deaja Sanders and Mara Cuebas-Irizarry discuss the microbes in our clothes and how we might use these and various other microbes to help combat clothing and plastic waste pollution.

Fred Gould, Ph.D. challenges students to think more deeply about genetic engineering and discusses opportunities for students at NC State to delve into the social and biological aspects of this methodology.

Jessica Yinka Thomas introduces a growing business model movement called B Corp, which supports businesses that want to focus on sustainability as well as profits.

Roger von Haefen, Ph.D. discusses how investments in game-changing technologies can transform our energy sector, reduce the energy intensity of our cars, phones, homes and food, and make our economy more resilient to climate change.

Sonja Salmon, Ph.D. explores how a super-fast enzyme called carbonic anhydrase could help pick CO2 molecules out of thin air and what the implications may be.