Over the past few years, the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has been working to institutionalize environmental justice operations, programs, and projects for the campus community. In this session, student and staff host will present on...
For many colleges and universities, the commitment to carbon-neutrality was initially a pledge based upon a leap of faith that was judged too important to delay until a clear path was understood. Now we have more than a decade of effort behind us, which includes some pleasant surprises and some...
Higher education must drive efforts to promote greater working across disciplines and sectors in order to generate the knowledge needed for meeting the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals) by 2030. This is what IDS Director, Professor Melissa Leach told senior...
Sustainability studies educators in colleges and universities must identify and teach the knowledge, skills, and abilities their graduates will most need to advance sustainability while confronting perhaps the most serious, sweeping, and integrated set of challenges humanity has ever known....
The world has about a decade to get climate change under control, according to a landmark report produced by scientists serving on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. If carbon emissions are not drastically reduced by then, the globe stands to be transformed into...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education (ED), has awarded a $650,000 cooperative agreement to the civics education group iCivics to lead a coalition of experts in assessing the state of, and best practices in, the teaching of American...
The Center for Diversity & the Environment is honored and pleased to announce that through generous funding from Metro Nature and Neighborhood and The Collins Foundation we are offering another Environment 2042 Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders cohort in 2020. Our E42 Emerging Leaders...
Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is an international celebration of sustainability in higher education. Throughout the month, colleges and universities organize events on campus and elsewhere to engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders to become...
PCC was named top community college for sustainability in the country by The Chronicle of Higher Education. We’re in some elite company as we try to combat climate change & create a healthier future. Check out our ranking! http://bit.ly/2lwVvS1
The winners of the 2019 International Green Gown Awards were announced on 10th July 2019 at our host partner venue – the Institute of International Education (IIE) – in New York as part of the United Nations High Level Political Forum. The International Green Gown Awards celebrate the...
Hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, February 23-25, 2020. This Request for Proposals closes on Monday, September 30, 2019. The 2020 Summit is the premier gathering of higher education leaders committed to driving our nation’s climate action. Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments...
New York, 10 July 2019 – Today, networks representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from 6 continents announced that they are declaring a Climate Emergency, and agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work with students. The...