UNA-SA School Education Program
To read about UNA-SA,our goals,services,and
classrooms requirements, click here:
UNA-SA Curriculum
Global Climate Change Curriculum
We offer Climate Change Curriculum to
high school classrooms of students who are
studying or completed earth science.
Click below to read about our curriculum
activtities, timeframe, and performance
standards.
To see sample pages of the global climate change
curriculum click one of these components:
To receive the full curriculum documents, contact
us at: untucson@gmail.com with "GCC Curriculum"
in the subject line or call us at 1 (520) 881-7060.
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Archive of Community Events
and Collaborations
UNA-SA was Co-sponsor of the following
Collaborative Community Events in the Tucson
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35th Annual UNA-SA
Membership Meeting
Saturday July 10, 2010
Featured Speaker: David Schaller, Former staff for EPA's Denver Regional Office and the City of Tucson's Office of Conservation
and Sustainable Development, and Current International Energy Planning Consultant will speak on:
40 Years after Earth Day, Now What?
New Approaches for Healing a Damaged Planet
for a copy of this lecture click: Keynote Address
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RefugeeFEST, June 19, 2010
Celebrating the New American Tapestry!
Event schedule: www.TucsonRefugeeFEST.com
RefugeeFEST 2010 is a free family celebration held in downtown Tucson at El Presidio Park on Saturday, June 19th from 5-9 pm featuring Bhutanese song and celebration, Iraqi call to action and freedom, Eritrean drumming and dance and Cuban food and entertainment! UNA-SA endorses this local celebration of United Nations Refugee Day in 2010. Please join UNA-SA in celebrating Tucson's diversity!
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May 27th UN Lecture Series -
Women in Development
Micro-lending for Urban Livelihoods –
Lessons for International Refugees in
Arizona, Jasmine Badri, Director of Micro-Finance
in the Arizona Region for the International Rescue
Committee.
The State of Women’s Health in the US-Mexico Border Zone,
Dr.Cecilia Rosales, M.D., Associate Professor in Public Health, University
of Arizona & Comissioner of the US/ Mexico Border Health Commisson.
The Women in Development Lectures were held in recognition of the on- going efforts for the Passage of CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. UNA-SA Urges the Arizona Delegation to the US Senate to sign CEDAW. Please download a petition and collect signatures of Arizona residents, then return it to us by August 1st, 2010. Our Goal: 200 signatures to send to each Arizona Senator by August 1st. Stand up for Women's Rights! Click to open CEDAW petitions: Senator Kyl , Senator McCain
UNA-SA recognizes the 31st anniversary of CEDAW. CEDAW is akin to a bill of rights for women worldwide, seeking to bring about gender equality socially, economically, and politically. The treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. As of March , 2010, 186 countries have ratified CEDAW, with only seven countries still to go: Iran, Nauru, Palau, Sudan, Somalia,Tonga,and the United States. For CEDAW background see: www.womenstreaty.org
Questions on CEDAW? Contact: untucson@gmail.com
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March 26-28, 2010
Celebration of UN Water Day 2010
Water Festival Events:
Friday, 26 March: Film Festival,12 pm-10pm
Venue: The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St.
Saturday, 27 March:
Performance and Enviro-Vendor
Fair Extravaganza, 1:00 PM -7:30 PM
Venue: El Presidio Park, 160 W. Alameda St.
Sunday, 28 March: Water Ritual
9:15 am-12 pm. Venue: Sabino Canyon Visitor's Center
Water Issues and Panel Discussions:
2:30 pm -4:30 pm. Panel of five water resource and policy experts moderated by Blake Gentry of UNA-SA.
Venue: Armory Park Center, 220 S. 5th Ave.
For more detailed information, see
www.WaterProjectFestival.org > schedule
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Arizona, Israeli, and Palestinian Water Management and Policy Workshop: Economic, Environmental, and Community Implications of Expanding Reuse and Desalination for Future Water Supplies
August 31 – September 2, 2009 Westward Look Resort, 245 East Ina Road Tucson, Arizona,
United States
The three day workshop and evening community program brought together researchers and policy experts representing the three regions to identify solutions to water management challenges in arid and semi-arid lands.
Planning Committee: Sharon Megdal, Water Resources Research Center Robert Varady, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Anne Betteridge, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Ed Wright, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Itay Fischhendler, Hebrew University
Co-sponsors and Funding Partners Major funding from: U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation; University of Arizona Foundation; University of Arizona Water Sustainability Program Co-sponsors: International Arid Lands Consortium; International Water History Association; Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization; Sol Resnick Water Resources Research Endowment; UNESCO International Hydrological Programme; United Nations Association of Southern Arizona; Tucson Water; Elaine Minow Resnick University of Arizona Co-sponsors: Arizona Center for Judaic Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy; and Water Resources Research Center.
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Nov. 14 and 15, 2008
Health Effects of Climate Change Conference
Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona.
Events Financial Co-sponsors: Financial Support: Access Tucson; Arizona Academy of Family Physicians; Arizona Public Health Association; Pima County Medical Foundation; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Sustainable Tucson; Tucson City Council members Rodney Glassman and Nina Trasoff; the University of Arizona: College of Medicine, Office of Outreach and Multicultural Affairs; College of Nursing; and Mel and Enid Zuckerman Collegeof Public Health, Public Health Students for Global Health, United Nations Association of Southern Arizona.
Event Coordinator: Barbara Warren, MD, MPH. Event
Moderated by: Dr. Ana Marie Lopez, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Outreach and Multicultural Affairs, College of Medicine (Univeristy of Arizona).
November 14, 2008
Addressing the Health Effects of Climate Change, Dr. Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH, Consultant, National Center for Environmental Health (CDC)& Panel Dsicussion, Moderated by Blake Gentry, MPPM, Education Coordinator, UNA-SA.
Nov.15th, 2008
Keynote Speakers: Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH, Consultant, National Center for Environmental Health (CDC), Andrew Comrie, Professor of Geogrpahy and Climatology, (Univeristy of Arizona)
The Public Health and Medical Responses to Climate Crises Panel; Discussants: Isela Luna, RN, PHD, Public Health PSHD; Michelle McDonald, MD, Public Health,PSHC; Eve Shapriuo, MD, Pediatrics; San Keim, MD, Emergency Medicine,Lew Hamburger, PHD Social Work.
The Challenge of Preventing Climate Related Health Crises- A Call To Action from U.S. Representative Gabriel Giffords and U.S. Represetnative Raul Grijalva
Workshops: Saturday, Nov. 15th, 2008
1. Climate Crisis Responses with Confidence and Hope, Lew Hamburger, Phd, Social Work.
2. Emergency Preparedness in the Community
Public Health Response - Isela Luna,RN, PHD Public Health. Medical Care Response - Michelle McDonald, MD, Public Health Cheif Medical Officer, Pima County Health Dept.; Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH, Pediatrics Physician; Sam Kiem, MD Emergency Physician. Emergency Management - Rural Metro Emergency Services, Les Caid. Social and Behavioral Health Response- Lew Hamburger, PhD, Community Mental Health.
3. Prevention of Climate Change Related Health Effects in Communities Through Sustainability and PReparedness, David Schaller and Nicole Urban Lopez, City of Tucson, Office of Conservation and Sustainable Development.
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July 2, 2008
Hope and Healing,
UN Day in Observance of Survivors of Torture
Program: Poetry by Owl and Panther Project youth members; Rachel Wilson, JD, PhD, Lead Attorney for Lutheran Social Services o the Southwest's Asylum Program. Legal Challenges in Protecting Torture Survivors; Lucy Wilson, Clinical Psychologist, CPRV, Hope and Healing: Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez – A Policy Perspective on Torture; Leonardo Maturana, Life In Prison.
Sponsors: Amnesty Int'l, UNA-SA, Tucson Human Relations Commission, Torture on Trial, Center for the Prevention and Resoluaiton of Violence, Owl and Panther, International Rescue Committee, Luthern Social Services'Asylum Program of Arizona.
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May 27, 2010
