Loyola University Chicago’s Second Annual Climate Change Conference
To Tend the Earth: Responding to the Global Climate Change Crisis
March 19-20, 2015!

In collaboration with:
Creighton University, John Carroll University, Marquette University,
University of Detroit Mercy, and Xavier University

This conference moves beyond the sterile debate of whether global climate change exists to the theme of
tending the earth. “To tend” means to pay attention to; to act as the caretaker of; to serve. This conference
will unfold the implications of “To Tend the Earth” through reflection upon those ethical principles,
policies, and actions needed to combat the crisis of global climate change. Such reflection by necessity
will be interdisciplinary. Three areas will receive special attention: justice–what normative framework
should guide our debates on policymaking; motivation–what influences human motivation to act with
regards to climate change; policy–what actions could result in significant policy and economic change.

New this year, the six Upper Midwest Province universities are cohosting the conference at the Loyola
University Chicago campus in the hopes of leveraging our knowledge and resources across the region.
The conference will consist of three days of both general- and AJCU-oriented programming in the hopes
of promoting climate justice, motivation, and climate change action throughout the Midwest region and
beyond.

For conference information please visit: http://www.luc.edu/sustainability/initiatives/climatechangeconference/

Main Location: 1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago IL 60660

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