What is Planetary Health? | World Café Event
2025-09-25 15:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University – Glass Pavilion, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Join the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and the JHU Common Question for a dynamic World Café event exploring a question that impacts us all: What is Planetary Health?
As part of the 2025–26 JHU Common Question—”What is health?”—this event invites you to dive deep into how the health of our planet and our communities are interconnected. Through small-group conversations and reflection, you’ll explore how Planetary Health intersects with your own life, interests, and health.
This is more than a discussion—it’s a chance to connect, collaborate, and help chart a path to a healthier, more just future.
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.
Food will be provided. Space is limited—save your seat!
🗓️ Event Details
Date: Wednesday, September 25
Time: 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Glass Pavilion, Levering Hall
We hope to see you there!

Adaptation, Resilience, and Transformation: How can education contribute to thriving in a changing climate?
2025-02-28 12:00 - 13:30
Please join us for Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s annual Jeffrey A. Grigg Memorial Lecture on February 28 (in person at the Glass Pavilion or online). This year, Noah Weeth-Feinstein will present: Adaptation, Resilience, and Transformation: How can education contribute to thriving in a changing climate? with discussion to follow.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeffrey-a-grigg-memorial-lecture-tickets-1118105336159?aff=eemailordconf&ref=eemailordconf&utm_campaign=order_confirm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_term=viewevent
Climate change is already shaping the lives of young people around the globe. How should education respond to climate change as a lived reality rather than a possible future? This talk outlines the practical, moral, and pedagogical reasons why it makes sense to focus on adaptation, resilience, and transformation (ART). It clarifies the challenges posed by political controversy and examines the resources and support systems that would be needed to involve young people in climate change ART work at scale.
Noah Weeth Feinstein is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies how people make sense of science in their personal, social, and political lives, and how educational platform such as schools and museums can help. Professor Weeth Feinstein is best known for his work on the competent outsider approach to science literacy, which has appeared in venues such as Science, Science Education, and Public Understanding of Science, as well as the U.S. National Academies consensus report on science literacy. Professor Weeth Feinstein also writes and teaches about environmental and sustainability education and has become increasingly interested in the role of education in climate change adaptation, resilience, and transformation.
