HEASC News Digest
Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium ®
http://www.heasc.net
Number 45.0 - October 8, 2008
Contents:
1. HEASC Update
2. ACUPCC Update
3. HEASC mentioned in Inside Higher Education
4. CCCU-Renewal Summit
5. CFP: 4th Annual Smart & Sustainable Campuses Conference
6. Chronicle of Higher Education Building & Grounds blog
7. New Book: The Green Collar Economy-How one solution can fix our two biggest problems by Van Jones
8. December 1 "Publications Futures Group" Meeting Invitation
9. Upcoming Events
1. HEASC Update
The Campus Sustainability Day (CSD) program is complete and registration is now open! The October 22 webcast, "Climate Realities, Challenges, and Progress in Higher Education,” is available to all campuses from 1-3:30 pm Eastern time. Climate and higher education experts will review the latest climate information and the synergy of campus action taken by professional staff, faculty, students, and senior leadership. Panelists include The New York Times science correspondent Andy Revkin, the World Wildlife Fund’s Richard Moss, Jessy Tolkan of the Energy Action Coalition, and Tony Cortese of Second Nature.
Campus Sustainability Day is supported by the member organizations of the Higher Education Associations for Sustainability (HEASC) and the Campus Ecology Project of the National Wildlife Federation (CEP).
To register for the webcast click here
More information regarding CSD is also available on the HEASC website. Here you will find a list of institutions that have participated in CSD, as well as some examples of passed events!
Reminder: The HEASC Annual Meeting is set for December 2, 2008 from 12:30-4:30 pm. This meeting will be hosted at the offices of NACUBO and will be used to highlight the sustainability efforts of each of your associations’ as well as the consortiums collective efforts. This meeting will also focus on the consortiums continued support of the growing trends in higher education with regard to sustainability and will look to develop strategies to meet the sector's growing demand for sustainability resources. The meeting agenda will be sent out shortly. Please contact Steve Muzzy at smuzzy@secondnature.org with any questions.
Reminder: HEASC Monthly Call Thursday October 30th at 1 pm eastern
Resources:
- Resource Center: Please visit the Resource Center to make sure your association's efforts are shared and current. Send any new or missing items to Steve Muzzy at smuzzy@secondnature.org for posting. Your efforts have contributed to many useful resources, please share this page with your members.
2. ACUPCC Update
The ACUPCC stands at 583 institutions representing all 50 states – and over 4.7 million students, or 28% of all college students in the United States.
Resources:
- Announcing the Launch of The ACUPCC Implementer! This monthly newsletter will provide ACUPCC Implementation Liaisons with up to date news and information on compliance deadlines and sustainability related events. It will also be used to share ACUPCC specific resources. For questions on or to send items to The ACUPCC Implementer please email AASHE’s Climate Program Manager Toni Nelson- toni@aashe.org To view the first edition of The ACUPCC Implementer click here!
3. HEASC mentioned in Inside Higher Education
On September 4th Inside Higher Ed wrote an article titled “It’s not easy being green” that discussed the multiple rating, tracking, and assessment metrics available today in regard to ‘green’ campuses. The article mentioned HEASC and its role in commissioning AASHE to develop STARS.
4. CCCU-Renewal Summit
The first ever “Renewal Summit” will be held Thursday, October 16 through Sunday,
October 19th at Eastern University!
This gathering of Christian college
students from many schools all over the nation, will equip, inspire and
connect student leaders in the creation care community! The training
summit will include:
- Some of today’s most exciting Christian and environmental leaders as keynote speakers
- Skills-training and workshops, such as:
- Issues workshops: mountaintop removal, climate change, sustainable agriculture and environmental justice
- Skills-trainings workshops: campus organizing, implementing an effective environmental campaign, networking, fundraising, communicating Biblical foundations of creation care, coordinating events, environmental partnerships, media and communications, web organizing, and engaging the church community
- Networking events, inspiration, community gatherings and relationship building
This exciting event is hosted by Renewal: A Student Creation Care Network… This is a student-run network born out of the energy and vision of Christian students from both secular and Christian colleges, who care a whole lot about the whole of God’s creation.
Follow this link for information on registration and the program.
5. CFP: 4th Annual Smart & Sustainable Campuses Conference
Share a story, success, or research on sustainable practices in higher education at the 4th annual Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference, April 5–7, 2009 at the UMUC Inn & Conference Center, adjacent to the University of Maryland, College Park. For more information click here.
6. Chronicle of Higher Education Building & Grounds blog
Last month Dr. Peter Bardaglio was a guest blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Educations Building & Grounds Blog. His two entries focus on the role of higher education in setting sustainability as a strategic imperative and how this will begin to leverage society to do the same.
The first entry titled ‘Spending Endowment Money to Benefit All’ explores the question what does it mean for higher education to adopt sustainability as a core financial strategy? Read it here
The second entry titled ‘Code Green for Higher Education?’ begins with a brief discussion of Tom Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America. Described as “Code Green”, Friedman describes a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that would address global climate change and sustainability while also renewing the spirit of innovation and idealism in the U.S. Dr. Bardaglio follows with an exploration of what would “Code Green” mean for higher education? Read it here
Dr. Bardaglio and Andrea Putman are putting the finishing touches on their book, Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change. Published by NACUBO, it is due out by the end of the this year.
7. New Book: The Green Collar Economy-How one solution can fix our two biggest problems by Van Jones
"Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country--the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable."
8. December 1 "Publications Futures Group" Meeting Invitation
APPA and SCUP would like to invite the "publications" folks in your office to a meeting of the Publications Futures Group. This is intended as a futuring, brainstorming, and sharing session among higher education association publications staff about where "publications" are going in 3, 5, and 10 years. It'll be held at the APPA offices in Virginia - an easy Metro ride from downtown DC - and is sponsored by SCUP and APPA. Please share with those who do your "publishing" - whether journals, magazines, books, marketing collateral, or whatever. We plan to begin at about 11:30 with lunch, followed by an afternoon of discussion. Planning for Higher Education executive editor, Tom Longin, will moderate the discussion. RSVP to Terry Calhoun at terry.calhoun@scup.org.
8. Upcoming Events
October 8-11, 2008; Dallas, Texas
October 18-21, 2008, Austin, Texas
October 22, 2008, Nationwide
October 29, 2008 1:00-2:30 PM ET
November 5 – 7 2008; New Orleans, LA
November 9-11, 2008; Raleigh, NC
- Publications Futures Group Meeting
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