VIRTUAL: Green Tuesdays in the Village: The Climate Exemplar Next Door

Green Tuesdays in the Village is an annual public educational series on current environmentally sustainable topics and issues specifically relevant to the Village of Oak Park and environs. This year’s theme, trajectory, is based on the dynamic course of sustainability through time, expressed as a function of village policy and individual choices. Our trajectory tells us how accurately we should move along an intended path, as well as what time we should be at what point along the path.

About session 3
Book author and climate researcher, Susan Subak, will be talking about her recent explorations of low carbon culture in Oak Park and surrounding suburbs. Data-driven, her findings and approach delve into the historical and cultural roots of lower emissions households and communities. In this talk, she will also discuss her recent work finding model households and institutions in Oak Park.

About Susan Subak
An Oak Park native, Susan has worked in the climate field since the late 1980s.  She has a Ph.D. from the School of Environmental Science of the University of East Anglia and has worked for UEA, the Stockholm Environment Institute, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the US EPA.  She has worked as a contract researcher for government agencies in the USA, UK, EU Commission, and the Netherlands on the subject of national greenhouse gas inventory methodologies. Her recent, award-winning book, The Five-Ton Life: Carbon, America and the Culture that May Save Us was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2018.