[ensu] 5 announcements
- From: matt.niedzielski@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: ensu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:59:35 -0500
1) IES seminar
2) environmental education
3) Greening the Ivory Towers project
4) Sustainable campuses conference - APPLY TODAY
5) Call for papers
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1)
Institute for Environmental Studies
RESEARCH DAY
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FRIDAY APRIL 16, 2004
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon followed by lunch
Room 113, Koffler Inst. for Pharmacy Management
569 Spadina Ave. (at Bancroft Ave.)
(west door is locked; please use east door)
See the web for a map (abstracts to be added):
http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/2004ResearchDay.htm
Join us for a look at some of the research conducted by members of IES.
The event features presentations by faculty and graduate students and a
presentation of graduate students' awards.
No registration required; all are welcome.
For more information, please contact Mona El-Haddad
(416-978-6526; m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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SCHEDULE (subject to change):
9:00 Introduction and welcome by Rodney White, Director, IES
9:10
JING CHEN, Professor, Department of Geography
"Carbon sequestration in reforested areas in China"
(IES/Geography/Forestry project)
9:30
BRIAN MILANI, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Adult Education, Community
Development and Counselling Psychology/IES Environmental Studies
Program
"Building materials in a green economy: community-based strategies for
dematerialization"
9:50
SHEHRINA TABASSUM, M.Sc. Candidate, Institute of Medical Science/IES
Environment & Health Program
"Symptomatic responses in studies of controlled human exposures to
concentrated ambient fine particles (CAP) and/or ozone (O3)"
10:10
ERNEST OPOKU-BOATENG, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography/IES
Environmental Studies Program
"Urban environmental finance in Canada: an analysis of opportunities
and
barriers to action"
10:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:50
ANTHONY LIU, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics/IES Environmental
Studies Program
"Impact of excessive rainfall on waterborne diseases in Southern
Ontario: the Walkerton case"
11:10
DAVID SIDER, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography/IES Environmental
Studies Program
Community-based urban environmental management: case study of
low-income
settlements in Delhi, India
11:30
LUCIANA SIVERTSON, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology/IES
Environmental Studies Program
"Multi level watershed management in the Sibun River Bio-Region,
Belize,
Central America: collaboration and challenges"
11:50 PRESENTATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS' AWARDS
12:00 LUNCH
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2)
Hello ENSU folks,
I am forwarding you this email in the hopes that you can send it out on
the ENSU mailing list, as I am not able to post to that list.
Sincerely,
Alison Neilson, OISE/UT PhD Candidate
Ontario Rep, Steering Committee
The Canadian Network of Environmental Education and Communication,
EECOM
Forwarded message:
Bonjour/Greetings all! We've learned from Ann Jarnet in the last few
> days that Environment Canada's tiny environmental education program
will
> be eliminated as of March 31st. The decision has apparently been
made by
> 3 senior EC officials - ALL of whom hold temporary "acting" positions
> within the department.
>
>
> Grant Gardner emailed an excellent letter this weekend on behalf of
> EECOM, and apparently his letter has already stirred things up within
the
> bureaucracy. Ann believes that if many more of us send our own emails
in
> the next few days, we will be reinforcing Grant's message, and most
> important, we could reverse this ill-considered decision.
>
> If you can take 20 minutes this week to send a note - on behalf of
your
> own organization (not EECOM), or failing that, on your own behalf -
> please email it to:
>
Acting Assistant Deputy minister, Garth Bangay at
garth.bangay@xxxxxxxx
> Secondly, can you ask 3 colleagues to also email Garth Bangay this
> week?
>
I've appended a few letter-writing suggestions below, that you might be
helpful.
> Sincerely yours,
> Tim Grant
>
> ---------------------------
> There are many reasons why Environment Canada needs to reconsider its
> decision. Feel free to use any of the following:
>
> 1) Canada may soon be the only industrialized country without an
> environmental education program. Even the EPA in the U.S. under
George
> Bush still makes a significant commitment (both in staff and money)
to
> environmental education.
>
> 2) Canada was a signatory for the UN Decade for Education for
Sustainable
> Development, which begins in 2005. How will Canada participate
without
> an environmental education department?
>
> 3) Federal officials regularly state that the federal government
should
> avoid initiatives that affect the formal education system (K-12
schools,
> colleges and universities) because the provinces have jurisdiction
and
> they want to avoid conflict. There are many problems with this
argument:
>
> (a) A large number of environmental educators work in non-formal
> settings, such as parks, summer camps, community centres and
workplaces,
> which are not under provincial jurisdiction.
>
> (b) The federal government's environmental goals cannot be met
without an
> education component, and good education requires more than the
transfer
> of information.
>
> (c) Environment Canada is the federal agency that should ensure that
> environmental education is available to all Canadians.
>
> 4. Rather than eliminate its tiny commitment to environmental
education,
> we need Environment Canada to radically increase its support. When we
> launched a letter-writing campaign in 1999 to David Anderson, the
federal
> Environment Minister, almost 160 letter-writers asked the Minister
to:
>
> * establish an EE funding program
>
> * support a Canadian EE Leadership Clinic, similar to the EPA-funded
ones
> in the US that provide training to EE membership organizations there
>
> * create an Environmental Education department within Environment
Canada
> to carry out a wider number of EE programs
>
> * establish or fund a national EE information clearinghouse, that
could
> be accessed by educators across Canada via an "800" number and a
> website
>
> * sponsor regional summer institutes for K-12 teachers, non-formal
and
> post-secondary educators in EE, or fund post-secondary institutions
to
> conduct them
>
> * provide funding for EE membership organizations for such things as
> their annual conference, and
>
> * support the crafting of a National Strategy on Environmental
Education,
> a process that other countries have already gone through.
>
>
> While we now have a "National Framework for Environmental
Learning..", we
> have made little progress since 1999 in persuading Environment Canada
> that environmental education should be one of their priorities.
> Hopefully, our emails, if sufficiently numerous in the next week,
will
> trigger some badly-needed rethinking within the department. Please
send
> an email asap, and keep your fingers crossed!!!!
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Tim Grant, Co-editor tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Green Teacher (magazine) U.S. mailing address:
>
> 95 Robert Street 2045 Niagara Falls Blvd.
Unit 7
>
> Toronto, ON M5S 2K5 Niagara Falls, NY 14304-1675
>
> (416) 960-1244, fax (416) 925-3474
>
> www.greenteacher.com
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3)
Application deadline: March 31st, 2004
Hello everyone,
The Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG), Canadian workers? cooperative
consulting company, is inviting 2-3 Canadian universities or colleges to
participate in the Greening the Ivory Towers Project. SSG will assist students
in starting or continuing a campus sustainability assessment and implementation
program that aim at making your school more socially, economically and
environmentally responsible.
In partnership with the Sierra Youth Coalition, and using the Campus
Sustainability Assessment Framework, SSG will provide consulting expertise to
our partner campuses. We will be fundraising externally for this program in
order to be able to offer our services at no charge.
I invite all of you to take a look at the attachment to find out more about the
project and SSG's work. If you have any questions, please contact:
Melissa Garcia Lemarca
phone: 514.985.2085
e-mail: melissa.garcia-lamarca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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attached file:
Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) is a Canadian workers? cooperative
consulting company, seeking to assist clients in their development dynamic and
innovative tools and strategies for ecologically, economically and socially
responsible decision-making.
SSG is excited to announce our intention to work with 2-3 Canadian universities
or colleges to provide support and training for their campus sustainability
assessment and implementation program. This program will assist campuses that
want to start this process, campuses that are well into it already, and all
those in between. In partnership with the Sierra Youth Coalition, and using
the Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework, SSG will provide consulting
expertise to our partner campuses. We will be fundraising externally for this
program in order to be able to offer our services at no charge.
SSG?s core team has a great deal of expertise in campus sustainability
efforts. Our team members are responsible for the coordination of and research
behind the Sustainable Concordia Project, the research and development of the
Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework, the University of Victoria
Sustainability Project and its? assessment efforts, among a range of other
projects and initiatives. We are excited to share our experience, knowledge,
and passion for campus sustainability work with the partner campuses who wish
to work with us.
SSG and SYC are putting this call out to all Canadian campuses interested in
either undertaking a campus sustainability assessment and developing and
implementing recommendations in partnership with our organizations, or
receiving training and support to reinvigorate a project already in process.
This will be a two-year partnership with the first year focusing on the
successful research and writing of a campus sustainability assessment and the
second year focusing on feasibility study development and implementation of
recommendations. SSG will provide your campus sustainability project with
extended support building from the support already offered by SYC through the
Greening the Ivory Towers Project.
SSG is currently fundraising in order to provide the following services to our
partner campuses:
? A 1-2 week (depending on campus needs and schedules) intensive on-site
training session with the SSG team to get you started on your assessment. This
will include some or all of the following activities, depending upon needs:
o extended support for researching, reporting on, and implementing the
Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF),
o assistance with facilitating and laying the groundwork for successful
multi-stakeholder meetings throughout the project,
o assistance with making presentations to various individuals and groups
to generate excitement, interest and knowledge about the project,
o developing and building the long-term capacity of your campus
sustainability assessment team,
o fundraising for your project to ensure its long-term financial
viability,
o finding and engaging your campus? human and financial resources,
o conflict resolution and mediation skill development and assistance with
conflict resolution if needed,
o planning for the long-term through capacity building, budgeting,
program definition and work plan development, policy ratification and
implementation, staffing, volunteer roles, etc.,
o developing and evaluating recommendations to ensure their adoption and
implementation by the appropriate people on campus, and
o any other specialized sessions requested by the on-campus team,
depending on the phase that the campus is in.
? Ongoing support through telephone and internet for specific CSAF
questions, research issues, troubleshooting, program management, advisory
committee support, and anything else arising.
? Assistance with garnering campus-wide support and buy-in by various
stakeholders for the project.
? Support in developing your advisory committee (if one is not already in
place) to ensure broad representation, effective decision-making, appropriate
terms of reference, and capacity building.
? Additional in-person support days (number of days to be finalized
through budgeting) at key times during the projects? development to be jointly
arranged by the campus and SSG. Potentially important times during project
development for an in person session include the recommendation development
stage, executive summary writing stage, half way through the report writing
phase, the project launch, specific trouble-shooting issues, etc.
When reviewing applications for campuses interested in this partnership, we
will be looking for groups that are committed to making this project happen.
Specifically we will be looking for:
? An existing on-campus organization working on some aspect of campus
sustainability with team members continuing on in your campuses community for
the summer of 2004.
? Support from some/all of the following campus groups: administrators,
faculty, student government, community groups, local government, or other
potentially important partners.
? Student leadership, with at least two people ready and willing to
bottom-line this project, at least for the first full year.
? Some financial (student employment program, grants, etc.) and/or in-
kind (office space, computer equipment, telephone line, etc.) support.
Please provide SSG and SYC with the following information:
? Names, roles, contact information, and CVs for the people submitting
this application.
? Current on-campus activities relating to campus sustainability work
that your group is directly involved in.
? Why do you want to be selected for this program? Why do you want to
work on campus sustainability issues? What do you hope to gain from working
with SSG and SYC? What do you plan to offer back to SSG, SYC and the larger
campus sustainability movement?
? Provide an honest and brief account of the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats (SWOT) of your team and your campus climate. (If you
are unfamiliar with this ?SWOT? analysis please get in touch with us).
? Provide a list of people committed to work on this project (volunteers,
staff) through the summer and fall of 2004 (at a minimum).
? History of involvement with the sustainable campuses network.
? Letters of support from supportive administrators, faculty, and other
relevant groups. Please keep these focused to key partners and supporters.
? Anything else you want us to know about.
Please submit your application by e-mail to Melissa Garcia Lemarca by March 31,
2004. If you have any questions, please e-mail or phone Melissa at the
coordinates listed in the header of this call out.
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4)
Hello fellow SYCer!
The Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) is inviting universities and colleges in
Canada to submit an application to host the 6th Annual National Sustainable
Campuses Conference. The Conference will take place during the last week of
September or the first week of October 2004. Application deadline is March
31st, 2004.
WHAT IS THE SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES CONFEREBCE?
The Sustainable Campuses Conference is an initiative of the Sierra Youth
Coalition, the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. The Conference aims to
support, document, spread, and share the efforts of Canadian post-secondary
students at creating and implementing sustainable initiatives for their
educational institutions as well as to provide training for students who want
to expand their knowledge of these issues.
Over the past five years, SYC has held the Sustainable Campuses Conference in
various regions of Canada. This has proved to be successful in allowing all
regions to participate, and is a tradition we are hoping to continue. The
first conference was held in Ottawa, Ontario, the second in Victoria, British
Columbia and this past year in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the fourth at University
of Waterloo and the fifth at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
HOST THE 2004 SUSTAINABLE CAMPUSES CONFERENCE!
SYC is looking for a committed school and students who are interested in
hosting the 2004 Conference. This is a great opportunity for your group and
school to put themselves on the map as national supporters of campus
sustainability. By hosting the conference your group and school will be:
- Demonstrating that you support the national campus sustainability
movement;
- Featuring your schools initiatives and success to over 150 students,
professors and administrators from all over Canada and the US.
- Engaging students from your school in the organization of a national
conference;
- Learning about conference organizing and community involvement;
- Creating massive campus awareness about the importance of student-led
campus sustainability projects.
- Putting your school on the map as a leader in campus substantiality;
- Meeting more than 150 students from all over Canada and learning
about other projects and success stories;
- Network with students, administrators, professor and expertise in the
filed of Campus sustainability.
- And much more!
To find out more about hosting the 2004 National Sustainable Campuses
Conference please read the Application form (see attachment) or contact
Fernando Aloise
Sustainable Campuses Project, National Coordinator
412 - 1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa - Ontario
K1N 7B7
Telephone: 613.241.1615
Fax: 416.241.2292
Good luck to all candidates!
Fernando Aloise
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5)
CALL FOR PAPERS + SCHOLARSHIP
Young people are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration in an
expanded edition of the environmental book "Landscapes of the Heart."
Individuals already involved include E.O. Wilson (Biology, Harvard), David
Cash (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), Noam Chomsky (MIT), and
Maurice Strong (2003 Recipient of USA National Academy of Sciences's
highest award; Senior Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan). Please
don't be deterred by these big names: the two best chapters in the first
edition were by students. Indeed, the fresh perspective of young people is
very much needed in this book.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/call_for_papers
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/scholarship
Background information can be found at the project's website (URL at bottom
of this message).
Thank you.
Michael Aleksiuk, Ph.D.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage
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