Animal Climate Superheroes with Dr. Allison Pearce Stevens

ANIMAL CLIMATE HEROES! Meet Some of the Critters Combating Climate Change with Dr. Allison Pearce Stevens, moderated by Naomi Boak '74
Discouraged about the effects of climate change? Wondering how we can inspire the next generation to action and not give up before they even start? Join Alison Pearce Stevens, author of Animal Climate Heroes, a book for children, to learn how animals help stem the tide of their archnemesis-climate change. Poo-nados, armpit pockets, tree trampling, and mighty claws-oh my! This event is for parents, educators, and the young at heart.
From Animal Climate Heroes:
“Meet climate change. It’s not a living, breathing supervillain, but it acts like one just the same. Every year, the effects of climate change get worse. Record-setting natural disasters happen more often. More land burns. More rain falls-or none at all. Temperatures soar to new heights. Stronger storms kick up more damaging winds.
Sounds like it’s time to call in some superheroes! What heroes, you ask? You. Me. Anyone who cares about the planet we live on. Our voices and our actions are our superpowers. We can
change the world when we try. We also need to call on a special group of heroes. They’re already out there in the wild, working to keep our climate in check, and we need their help. Who are these climate heroes?”
Speaker Bios
Alison Pearce Stevens has a master's degree in zoology and a PhD in ecology, evolution, and behavior, both from the University of Minnesota. A former scientist, she now writes award-winning nonfiction books for the world’s most curious people to inspire them to protect the world outside their doorstep. She is the author of Junior Library Guild Gold Standard books Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds (which won the Nebraska Book Award in three categories) and Animal Climate Heroes! (March 5, 2024). She has three additional forthcoming books on topics related to conservation and has published hundreds of STEM-based magazine and online articles for kids.
To find more information from Allison, please visit:
apstevens.com/
onesimplething.substack.com/
Naomi Boak, ’74, is a Primetime Emmy Award-winning television producer, who in 2019 decided to follow her passion for Alaska brown bears and became a park ranger at Katmai National Park. Her work there includes educating people around the globe about bears and the Brooks Rover ecosystem as well as producing the annual social media event, Fat Bear Week. She serves on the board of Stanford Alumni for Climate Action.
About Stanford Alumni for Climate Action (SACA)
This event is presented by Stanford Alumni for Climate Action (SACA). SACA is a subgroup of Stanford Alumni in Sustainability (SAS). We are a non-partisan group of Stanford alumni deeply concerned about the devastating effects of climate change. Our purpose is to educate ourselves and inspire the wider community at Stanford to join us in taking action-small and large, individual and collective-to address this existential challenge to life on earth. We wish to support efforts by Stanford administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni to make the university a leader in clean energy and science-based solutions for the benefit of our planet and for future generations.