NNOCCI Week 2024

In this interactive, 90-minute session, we will explore ways to bring genuine, energizing lightness to the heavy topic of climate change. We will focus on zooming in and out of a situation, as well as using every day experiences, to illuminate key dynamics of important issues. And we will belly laugh.
The session is led by Belina Raffy, creator of the climate comedy course Sustainable Stand Up. The Sustainable Stand Up course has been running for over 9 years online and in 10 countries. Past alumni include a NASA climate scientist, several humanitarian workers, environmental phd students, CSR consultants, two sustainable transport experts, and many more.

Founded during the Reconstruction era in the late 1860s, Louisiana’s Freedpeople’s communities have been sites of collective resilience and inclusive development for a century and a half. Collective resources like benevolent associations, schools, and churches were community infrastructures for surviving and thriving amidst waves of post-Reconstruction racial exclusion.
These institutions notably gave rise to the grassroots environmental justice movement in the mid to late twentieth century.
Today, residents in these communities draw on these institutions and cultural traditions to articulate a vision of inclusive resilience planning for protection in the present and future.