Climate Calling 2025
Student and Community Responses to Climate Change
April 2025
Climate Calling is a conference dedicated to exploring climate change, its consequences, and our moral calling to respond to growing concerns about the future of our planet. The conference is led by a group of Pepperdine faculty members from diverse disciplines.
The gathering draws students, faculty, and community members together in a mutual effort to address the subject of climate change and to foster a more sustainable future. Attendees learn about topics such as species extinction, drought, flooding, marine impacts, sustainable food practices, and environmental justice and activism through a keynote lecture, student presentations, and on-campus activities.
Climate Calling is sponsored by the Malibu Library Speaker Series, the W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Center for Sustainability.
Events Schedule
2025 Keynote Address
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5PM, Elkins Auditorium
Joint event with Climate Calling 2025 and W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series
Climate Calling is sponsored by the Malibu Library Speaker Series, the W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Center for Sustainability.
Life as We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
About the Speaker
Bill Weir is a veteran anchor, writer, producer, and host who came to CNN in 2013 after a decade of award-winning journalism at ABC News. In 2019, he was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent, drawing on his experience creating and hosting the primetime CNN Original Series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” now streaming on Max. With his distinctive storytelling style, lush photography and a focus on our connected planet, Weir and his team produced four seasons of the show across 28 countries, highlighting wondrous people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of seismic change. In 2022, Weir earned a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for his CNN Special Report: Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food, and Columbia Journalism Review called his 2020 CNN Special Report: The Road to Change “one of the very best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US news organization.” His first book, Life As We Know It (Can Be) will be published by Chronicle Prism in April 2024.
Student Research Presentations
Friday, April 4, 2025 from 2pm to 4pm
Biggers Family Courtyard (next to Elkins Auditorium)
Student researchers will present their research topics during an academic poster session. Their presentations are part of a spring semester course that includes a climate change component.
Earth Day FairTuesday, April 1, 2025 from 11AM - 2PM The Center for Sustainability is hosting its annual Earth Day event in the heart of the Malibu Campus, where students, faculty, and staff come together to celebrate our beautiful planet with informational booths from environmental organizations inside and outside of Pepperdine.
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eWaste Drive
Monday, March 31, 2025 from 7:30 AM to 3 PM
Pepperdine University, all campusesThe Center for Sustainability and Environmental Health and Safety are partnering with Homeboy Industries to collect and recycle, or appropriately dispose of, your eWaste items. There will be two drop-off locations: the lawn of the HAWC and a drive-and-drop location on Benton Way, just north of Drescher Campus. Accepted eWaste items include computers, laptops, televisions, cell phones, CDs, DVDs, printers, batteries, cords, and gaming systems. We will have donuts available for everyone who participates.
*Please note that all Pepperdine-owned devices must be disposed of through Tech Central and cannot be dropped off at this event.
Malibu Campus
There will be two drop-off locations: the lawn of the HAWC and a drive-and-drop location on Benton Way, just north of Drescher Campus.
Graduate Campuses
At all graduate campuses, eWaste can be brought to the front reception desks.