Please spread the word and share with your networks: Dates: June 15-19, 2015 Time: 9:00am-5:00pm Location: UVM Campus, plus site visits Registration Options: Five day intensive non-credit professional certificate program. About the Program: We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history; a time when humanity faces significant challenges and opportunities to redirect our course […]
Continue readingThe following is a message from Chris Kubik, Associate Professor, Business Administration Department, Colby Sawyer College: Greetings Fair Trader! Do you have any interest in traveling to Nepal and experiencing Fair Trade in in action? Read on!! I’m writing today from Colby-Sawyer College – a fair trade college – where I am a business professor and faculty […]
Continue readingRe-post from Metta Earth: Are you passionate about social change, movement-building, sustainability, and social justice? Interested in building hands-on skills in permaculture, homesteading, ecovillage planning, ororganic farming? Want to explore your inner strength and leadership through yoga and mindfulness meditation? Looking for an opportunity to get outside and reconnect with nature on a much deeper level than ever before? Interested in ecopsychology and learning primitive wilderness survival […]
Continue readingCoutesy of Audrey: A student-led Sustainable Oceans Summit is taking place April 25th. Great opportunity for students to engage with global ocean policy issues. Speakers will be participating from the US State Department, NOAA, the World Bank, Nature Conservancy, Palauan Ambassador to the UN Stuart Beck, the White House National Oceans Council, National Geographic […]
Continue readingAASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]
Continue readingAASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]
Continue reading“Sure, I’d use my bikes for errands, to go shopping, or to go to work, it wasn’t for _____________.” We all have our reasons. The fact is, many of us would like to bike more often. Whatever is getting in your way, you can find help from Local Motion’s Everyday Bicycling Project. What IS Everyday […]
Continue readingCourtesy of University of Vermont Food Systems Initiative: University of Vermont and Vermont Law School present 4th annual UVM Food Systems Summit All people deserve access to adequate, nutritious food. The complicated and provocative question for the fourth annual UVM Food Systems Summit on June 16-17 is how to provide this basic human right. Globally and in […]
Continue readingRe-post Courtesy of UVM Farmer Training Team: If this never-ending winter has you plotting your next moves in sustainable farming, you are in luck. The UVM Farmer Training Program has a few spots left for 2015! And some amazing new staff members for you to learn from. Apply now to join an incredible group of […]
Continue readingRe-post from Peter Sargent, Campaigns Director, the Climate Reality Project: We’re saying it loudly and without apologies: 2015 is a pretty big year for the climate. Later this year, world leaders are gathering at the UN’s COP21 meeting in Paris, and their main goal is a global agreement to meaningfully limit greenhouse gas emissions. But success […]
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