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Apr. 28—Gonzaga University is offering a new certificate program designed to teach students how to achieve their community's climate goals.

Certificate in Climate Action Planning will be offered this fall, according to a university news release.

Brian Henning, director of the Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment, and Kara Odegard, former Spokane City Council manager of Sustainability Initiatives and founder of the social impact consulting company Measure Meant, will co-teach the 18-week online class.

Henning said the program is perhaps the first of its kind in the nation. It will consist of one 90-minute class a week, with other work throughout the week. The program has received a great deal of interest from students, Henning said.

The course will cover working with politically diverse stakeholders, strategies for accounting for and lowering greenhouse gas emissions, how to conduct climate impact assessments, community engagement and more, according to the release. No prior knowledge or experience is required.

Henning said the program is meant to be practical and help people who might work in public works, emergency management and other fields in which they are being asked to do work related to climate action planning.

"Helping communities create concrete plans to confront the climate crisis is urgent work," Henning said in the release. "The center launched this new professional certificate as part of its mission to provide resources and opportunities to meet the unprecedented challenges facing humanity and the wider natural environment in the 21st century."

The climate emergency has already altered our lives, and it will only accelerate in the coming decades. Technical solutions now exist, so what’s getting in the way of urgently needed action? In our online courses and certificate program, you’ll gain the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to move from ideas to action. You’ll deepen your understanding of Indigenous perspectives and climate justice, and advance your climate leadership, whether you’re developing environmental solutions, building community resilience or motivating others toward action.  

The Holleran Center's Program in Community Action (PICA) deepens students' knowledge and skills as active and responsive citizens. Students integrate classroom studies in the liberal arts with experiential learning in local and global communities. Through PICA, students acquire and practice problem-solving and community-building skills, such as project designing, budgeting, grant-writing, and effective communicate and interpersonal skills. 

PICA scholars advance:

• Human rights, in the United States and abroad;
• Health care reform and improved public health programs;
• Educational equity and enhanced resources for public schools;
• Criminal justice and protection of the rights of the accused;
• Environmental ethics and sustainability;
• and many other pressing contemporary issues.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin

Taking a serious view of the marriage conducted by two advocates, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry (BCTNPY) to initiate disciplinary action against them.

Referring to an earlier High Court order, a Division Bench of Justices M. Dhandapani and R. Vijayakumar observed that the court’s decision had made it clear that the marriage performed by advocates in their office was not valid, unless it was registered under the Tamil Nadu Registration of Marriages Act, 2009, and the physical appearance of the couple before the Registrar was essential.

After the decision of the Division Bench of the court, marriages performed by advocates were not valid, it said and directed the BCTNPY to initiate disciplinary action against advocates Kanagasabai and Balamurugan.

It also directed the Bar Council to initiate disciplinary action against lawyers who were conducting this type of marriages across Tamil Nadu by issuing fake certificates, after providing an opportunity to them within three months.

The court observed that the law-enforcing agency was at liberty to proceed against them.

The court directed that while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Ilavarasan, who sought a direction to produce a 21-year-old woman, claimed to be his wife, before the court.

He said he fell in love with her when she was a minor. Her parents opposed it and married her off to another person. It was a child marriage. However, she left her home voluntarily and later married him, the petitioner said.

The marriage was conducted in the presence of advocates and office-bearers of a trade union. A self-respect marriage certificate was issued by the advocates, the petitioner said.

The State submitted that the petitioner had filed the present habeas corpus petition in order to harass the detenue and her parents.

The court observed that the marriage performed in the presence of the advocates and trade union officer-bearers was invalid.

Taking into account that there was no illegal custody of the detenue as alleged by the petitioner, the court dismissed the petition. The law-enforcing agency was at liberty to take action against the petitioner as well, it said.