Climate Futures Initiative
The Climate Futures Initiative (CFI) is a collaborative process to map out a vision for climate scholarship and engagement at Dartmouth. Directed by Professor Laura Ogden, the Special Advisor to the Provost on Climate and Sustainability, CFI will identify Dartmouth's distinct strengths in climate research and teaching and make recommendations to help amplify those strengths.
A cornerstone of this effort is to explore the campus as lab model. The term "lab" is used in its most capacious sense here, understanding that a lab is not a space that easily fits everyone's intellectual culture. Instead, "campus as lab" can become a model that encourages integrative and creative thinking, spanning the humanities, arts, sciences, and applied fields, to help us become and train scholars for a world facing the challenges of a changing climate.
