Eugene Chislenko
October 20, 2025
Smathers Library Room 100
4 PM
We all have climate skills… listening, connecting, organizing, creating, and caring. This talk explores why focusing on these skills can be more effective than focusing on danger or failure and how using them in our everyday lives can spark meaningful action and institutional change.
About the Speaker
Eugene Chislenko is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, specializing in ethics and moral philosophy. He learned climate organizing with the youth organization The Sunrise Movement and is co-founder and steering committee chair of Philosophers for Sustainability, an international organization dedicated to shifting educational institutions and the world toward sustainable practices. He has written on moral motivation, blame, and the role of academics in climate change.
This event is free and open to the public.
“Climate Skills” is sponsored by Sustainability Studies, Ethics in the Public Sphere, the Department of Philosophy, the George A. Smathers Libraries, and Imagining Climate Change.