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Tuesday, May 15 2007, 08:00 - 21:00 |
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UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference JUNE 24-27th, 2007 hosted at UCSB
http://geog.ucsb.edu/sustainability/conference2007
Less than 2 weeks left to register!!! Early bird discounts no longer available after May 15th!
Learn from staff, students, and faculty who have championed sustainability on their campuses about changes you can take back and implement immediately in your work. All presenters will be from and sharing best practice directly relevant to California campuses and in the context of both meeting and moving us beyond our current policies. As an example, for all of the goals set forth in the new UC policy on Sustainable Practices, we will be highlighting a campus who has already successfully implemented this change. We have also integrated Community College and CSU best practices in
to all tracks!
This conference brings together well over 150 students many of which experienced with working with staff on their campuses to see change happen, staff from UC, CSU, and Community Colleges, and faculty from across the state for an expected attendance of 800 people!
Topics will include:
Curriculum and Research
Energy
Food Systems
Green Building: LEED NC, EB, and CI
Institutionalizing Sustainability
Procurement
Recycling and Waste Management
Student Affairs
Transportation
Water and Landscape
This year we will also have:
A Climate Plenary highlighting a UC Chancellor taking action towards Climate Neutrality and Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of the Focus the Nation Project http://www.lclark.edu/~eban/FocusNation.pdf and a professor at Lewis & Clark College;
Michael McGonigle, Co-Founder of Greenpeace International and Author of "Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University",
There will be pre- and post-conference trainings by the US Green Buildings Council and the UC Project Management Institute, A Curriculum Development Workshop, and a Pre-Conference training on Sustainable Food Systems!
And more!
Register soon as early bird discounts are only good through MAY 15th 2007 http://geog.ucsb.edu/sustainability/conference2007/
Scholarships also available via our website for anyone with financial need
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