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Canceled – 2020 Sustainability Professionals Retreat: Accelerating your Impact
Canceled – 2020 Sustainability Professionals Retreat: Accelerating your Impact
Attend this Sustainability Professionals Retreat to advance your vision, energy, capabilities and support system as a sustainability change agent.
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Emergency Aid During the Pandemic
Emergency Aid During the Pandemic
The Hope Center is embarking on a new project to advance understanding and evidence for effective and equitable distribution of emergency aid. This new effort, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will engage at least 100 colleges and universities, assisting them in codifying processes so they can more equitably, and more efficiently administer […]
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Plastic Free Ecochallenge
Plastic Free Ecochallenge
The Plastic Free Ecochallenge is a 31-day challenge to practice bettering your habits to help conserve wildlife and natural habitats. Reduce your plastic use for the health of the natural world, our bodies, our communities, and those who suffer the greatest from pollution and this climate crisis. Plastic Free Ecochallenge is presented by Ecochallenge.org and […]
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Plastic Free Ecochallenge
California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC)
California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC)
The California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC), hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, is offering our first virtual conference this summer with live interactions as well as on demand sessions available for a year post event, networking activities, an awards ceremony, a full virtual exhibit hall and poster show, and entertainment to bring […]
Sustainability in the Hemisphere
Sustainability in the Hemisphere
One of the few universities in Mexico to have participated actively in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System is the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). Alfredo Cesar Nanni, UDEM's Coordinator of Sustainable Projects will tell us more about those achievements and the bridges his institution created with other universities in the hemisphere. The presentation will […]
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Racial Equity & DEI in the Investment Industry Webinar
Racial Equity & DEI in the Investment Industry Webinar
In this conversation, we will explore racial equity in the context of DEI in the investment industry and how endowments can leverage their influence for positive, systemic change. Topics may include DEI training for investment teams; selecting diverse asset managers, integrating DEI principles into the investment process, and shareholder engagement to advance racial equity. We […]
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Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Annual Meeting
Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Annual Meeting
The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) in an open partnership between United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNESCO, United Nations Environment, UN Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, United Nations University (UNU), UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD and UNITAR.Through its strong association with the United Nations, HESI provides higher education institutions with a […]
Webinar: A Holistic Approach and Model for a Sustainable Food System
Webinar: A Holistic Approach and Model for a Sustainable Food System
This webinar will cover Harvard's experience creating Sustainable Healthful food standards - lessons learned, replicable models, and key partnerships.
eopening Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Keeping Students and Communities Healthy
eopening Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Keeping Students and Communities Healthy
This COVID-19 Conversations webinar will discuss the variety of considerations being weighed before reopening colleges and universities in fall 2020, including the role of testing and contact tracing, responding to outbreaks, if sports can safely resume, and other strategies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while allowing education to continue.
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Beyond Divestment: Climate Change Strategies for Endowments
Beyond Divestment: Climate Change Strategies for Endowments
This joint PRI and IEN webinar will explore the investment implications of climate change and highlight tools and resources endowments can leverage to develop a thoughtful climate strategy.
Urban Forestry Carbon Offset Protocol: Developing Projects Through the Offset Network
Urban Forestry Carbon Offset Protocol: Developing Projects Through the Offset Network
The Offset Network, now hosted by Second Nature, presents a new pathway for colleges and universities to develop carbon offset methodologies. New methodologies can undergo a technical expert review process to obtain approval for use through the Offset Network. Learn about this new pathway, and the first protocol to complete the technical review process- Duke […]
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Plastic Free Ecochallenge
A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Your Diversity and Inclusion Training Initiatives
A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Your Diversity and Inclusion Training Initiatives
Overview Diversity and Inclusion professionals often lead the charge to develop comprehensive diversity training initiatives. Since most campuses have transitioned to remote or e-learning environments, now is the time for professionals to convene and share ideas, best practices, and strategies to prioritize these efforts and execute a thoughtful strategy once classes are back in session, […]
Earth Educators’ Rendezvous 2020
Earth Educators’ Rendezvous 2020
The Rendezvous combines a workshop program with a meeting format of multi-day workshops, contributed talks and posters, round table discussions, teaching demonstrations, plenary sessions, and working groups. Drawing across the work currently taking place in geoscience, environmental, and sustainability education, meeting attendees have the opportunity to learn broadly, focus on a particular issue or challenge, discover new pedagogical tools, and network with old and new colleagues.
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Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences 2020 Conference
Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences 2020 Conference
The Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences (AESS) 2020 Conference brings an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues in an academic setting. Taking a collegial approach, ideas are shared in small, informal sessions that are panel, paper, and presentation-based and include roundtable discussions at meals. Students, professors, and government and industry professionals alike participate in lively […]
International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Conference
International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Conference
The conference will aim at identifying the most important trends in today's societies happening either as a result or parallel to the environmental and social crises we face in both developing and developed countries. The conference will explore the sustainability implications of these large scale changes, including, but not limited to shifts in demographics and […]
Webinar: On-Campus Composting: How to Start, Evolve, and Overcome Challenges
Webinar: On-Campus Composting: How to Start, Evolve, and Overcome Challenges
This webinar features best practices and resources for institutions wanting to start, improve, or scale an on-site composting program to meet zero waste goals.
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COVID-19, Climate and Higher Ed: A Panel Discussion
COVID-19, Climate and Higher Ed: A Panel Discussion
COVID-19, climate and higher ed: Defining the sector’s responsibility in solving global challenges The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and the response to it offers lessons for addressing other global problems, particularly climate change -- and solutions must take into account the kinds of racial disparities that were brought into bold relief by the killing of George […]
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Plastic Free Ecochallenge
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Stay-In-Stitute for Climate Change Education
Stay-In-Stitute for Climate Change Education
This three-day experience will take you beyond your computer screen, and into your backyard and neighborhood to do authentic scientific and social data collection, move your body, and make observations of the world around you.
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Coping with Climate Anxiety in the Classroom and for Yourself: a Workshop for College & University Faculty
Coping with Climate Anxiety in the Classroom and for Yourself: a Workshop for College & University Faculty
This 2-hour online workshop is for faculty to address their own emotions so that we can create and hold space in our classrooms for students to integrate and process hard realities about climate change impacts.
IEN Community Conversation – Racial Justice
IEN Community Conversation – Racial Justice
This webinar is designed to be an open dialogue to explore how community impact investing might help address racial inequity; how endowments can support equitable economic development by investing in their own communities and communities of color around the country and the world; how endowment investing fits with higher education’s role as anchor institutions in […]
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Plastic Free Ecochallenge
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Webinar: Reframing the Climate Conversation: Telling the Story to Bring About Productive Climate Action
Webinar: Reframing the Climate Conversation: Telling the Story to Bring About Productive Climate Action
Join this presentation about how the American public thinks about climate change and how your communications influence thinking as well as with concrete tools to facilitate productive conversations about the climate.
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Tough Conversations: Race and the Environment
Tough Conversations: Race and the Environment
Join Vermont Law School students who were brought together by Audubon Vermont to discuss how fighting for racial justice and the environment can be harmonized. This webinar is the first in a series of youth-led conversations.
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