- Applied research field studies examining how to best enhance sustainability
- Education coursework, seminars, workshops, and training programs to teach leaders/managers and students to lead and manage sustainably as world citizens.
- Services facilitation, consulting and network-building to support concrete sustainability-enhancing initiatives.
- This course will enable students from dissimilar backgrounds to experience a common sense of creativity in communication that bridges classroom and career.
- This course will observe how people of various cultures have sustained or failed to sustain themselves and
- What analytical techniques best translate this information into action for improving our community, nation and planet.
NJHEPS Webquests Now Available
NJHEPS Webquests, funded by the National Science Foundation, are now available online and for use in your classroom! Please feel free to integrate the learning modules into your course work and give us your feedback.http://www.rst2.edu/njheps/
| The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE) at Fairleigh Dickinson University's 2006-07 Achievement Report |  |
The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE) at Fairleigh Dickinson University, was founded in the Silberman College of Business in 2005. ISE focuses on bringing people together to learn how to make their organizations and the world more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. By sustainable we mean being able to generate and regenerate the human, social, natural, manufacturing and financial capital for short and long-term prosperity. ISE is committed to helping leaders and managers develop new roles and competencies for themselves that will contribute to creating sustainable enterprises in the 21st century. We are especially good at connecting the dots, blending theory and practice, learning by doing, building bridges between sectors (corporate, government, non-government, education, academic), and creating an atmosphere that fosters thoughtful reflection and collaboration. ISE concentrates on three related areas of contribution that feed one another:
 | Design Competition for Sustainability |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requests proposals for the 5th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet. P3 is a partnership between the public and private sectors to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, planet protection, and improved quality of life. P3 supports R&D and design solutions to real world challenges involving sustainability.
Areas of interest include: Energy, Water, the Built Environment, Agriculture, Materials and Chemistry, and Information Technology. In Phase 1, $550K expected to be available, 55 awards anticipated. Responses due 12/20/07.
For questions or additional information contact :
Cynthia Nolt-Helms at nolt-helms.cynthia@epa.gov
or visit
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_p3.html.
(Refer to Sol# EPA-G2008-P3. (Grants.gov 9/5/07))
| New Jersey SWEP Scholarship Program |  |
The New Jersey Chapter of SWEP is planning to continue the scholarship program this year. The purpose of the scholarship program is to encourage women to pursue careers in the environmental industry; to mentor students with environmentally related majors; and provide students connections to SWEPÂs membership for future internships/careers in the environmental industry.
This year we hope to grant scholarship money to two women, one undergraduate student and one graduate student, who are pursuing studies related to the environment with an intended commitment to pursue a career in the environmental field. The SWEP New Jersey Chapter will determine the amount of the scholarship based on fundraising activities but our goal is two $1,000.00 scholarships. The scholarships will be given directly to the students in one lump sum. Also included with the award will be a free membership to the SWEP New Jersey Chapter.
Both applicants must be female; a United States citizen or hold permanent resident status. The undergraduate student must be entering her junior year in the Fall of 2007 or have completed 60 credit hours as of August 2007. The graduate student must either start or continue graduate or law study in the Fall of 2007. A minimum GPA of 3.3 (scale of 4.0) or its equivalent and a declared major in a field related to the environment are also required.
Applications must be received by May 15, 2007. The NJ SWEP Scholarship Committee plans to award the scholarships by June 30, 2007. Immediate family member of SWEP Board of Directors, SWEP Scholarship Selection Committee members or New Jersey Chapter members are not eligible to apply. SWEP New Jersey Chapter members with student status may apply.
Applications are available at www.swep.com.
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For questions or additional information contact :
Linda Taylor at ljtaylor@optonline.net or 609-586-6559 or Colleen Kokas at grapp6@comcast.net or 215-630-0482.
(please include NJSWEP Scholarship in the subject line of email to receive a reply)
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New Post Graduation Course - 'Understanding Sustainability' at Ramapo College of New Jersey |
UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY can accommodate diverse learning styles and performance levels. This course will use contemporary literature and organizations to explore social behavior, basic science and math applications in problem solving.
The purpose of this course is to develop lesson plans and content that participants can use in their respective classrooms and workplaces.
UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY is a course of study that connects past and present civilizations with Âthe way we make and use things today. The goal is for participants to become more aware of their individual impact on the environment and the planet. Participants are enabled to communicate principles of sustainability in their respective classrooms and workplaces. Another objective is the incorporation of these principles into curricula with practical courseware and delivery modules that can be pilot tested and replicated.
Cross discipline students will create instructional modules that relate directly to their own career track. Teachers will prepare a lesson plan and delivery module courseware consistent with New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. Non-educational Professionals will prepare best management practices presentation materials that can be used to inform and educate peers.
UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITYwill prepare participants with the latest high performance (green) building information for homes, neighborhoods, existing and newly constructed projects. Skills and strategies necessary to apply the pedagogy of education for sustainability will be addressed. Core content and habits of mind reinforcing sustainability will be continuously developed.
Registration closes a week from FridayCall Joyce Phone # 201 777 2416
For Detailed Course Information : CLICK HERE
| New Sustainable Design courses at Boston Architectural College |
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The Boston Architectural College is proud to announce some exciting news:
- A number of our online Sustainable Design courses have been endorsed and are included in the USGBCÂs Education Providers Program, as high quality education programs, delivered by proven green building leaders.
- More topics have been added to our selection of sustainability topics, please see the list bellow.
All courses are offered completely online, run for 8 weeks, and are taught by our national faculty of green building experts. We offer introductory courses, as well as courses that examine specific topics in depth. The online courses have been developed in partnership with BuildingGreen, Inc. These are the summer 2007 offerings. All courses run from June 4th until July 27th:
| Sustainable Design as a Way of Thinking, | Instructor: David Foley |
| Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality, | Instructor: Michelle Reott |
| Building Envelope, | Instructor: Peter Yost |
| Marketing Sustainability, | Instructor: Jerry Yudelson |
| High Performance Design, and the LEED Rating System, | Instructor: Mara Baum |
| Materials, Resources and Indoor Air Quality, | Instructor: Andrea White |
| Environmental Systems, | Instructor: Chris Schaffner |
For registration information, course descriptions and instructor bios, please visit: www.the-bac.edu/green or call us at 617 585 0101 with any questions.
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World's Ecological Footprint Exceeds Biological Capacity By Nearly 40% |
New, more comprehensive methodology identifies overfishing, industrial agriculture, urban sprawl and carbon emissions as the chief culprits driving ecological overshoot.
Oakland, Calif. Â Humanity's ecological footprint exceeds the Earth's biological capacity by nearly 40% according to a new Footprint of Nations report by Redefining Progress, an Oakland based policy institute. The ecological footprintÂa concept refined over the past decade by Redefining ProgressÂis a measure of the amount of nature it takes to sustain a given population over the course of a year. By comparing a population's footprint with its biological capacity, ecological footprint analysis suggests whether or not that population is living within its ecological means. If a population's footprint exceeds its biological capacity, that population is said to be engaging in unsustainable ecological overshoot. According to the new Footprint of Nations report, humanity's footprint is 57 acres per person while the Earth's biological capacity is just 41.
"The ecological footprint is becoming an increasingly accurate tool for monitoring humanity's impact on our planet's vital life support systems. Our new results should heighten concern about ecological overshoot and our new tools give the whole world the ability to understand and then to act," said Michel Gelobter, Executive Director of Redefining Progress. "RP's new ecological footprint analysis underscores the need to act soon to curb a runaway greenhouse effect, an extinction rate approaching nearly 1000 times the natural rate, and degradation of farmland, forests, fisheries, and pastures. The good news is that the largest single threat, climate change, is now being addressed by the Kyoto Protocol. The ecological footprint highlights the need to make even deeper cuts in our consumption of fossil fuel based energy and increase the speed of the transition to widespread renewable energy. The latest Footprint of Nations report is available on-line at www.ecologicalfooprint.org. The report was based on a new approach to ecological footprint analysis  Footprint 2.0  pioneered by Dr. Jason Venetoulis, a Research Fellow at Redefining Progress. According to Venetoulis, "Footprint 2.0 paints a more compelling portrait of planetary environmental stress than the standard footprint approach. For the first time, our unsustainable use of fisheries and crop lands is made explicit, as is the enormous share of ecological overshoot attributable to carbon dioxide emissions. The previous version of Footprint that is widely used and cited failed to capture these troublesome findings. Footprint 2.0 appears to be a step in the right direction to better science and information for decision makers." The new Footprint of Nations report also underscores the inequitable distribution of the world's ecological footprint. "Nations with more voracious appetites for consumer goods, fossil fuels, and urban sprawl carry the largest responsibility for global environmental stress while poorer, less urbanized nations that are less reliant on fossil fuels are more likely to be living within their biological capacities," said John Talberth, Director of the Sustainability Indicators Program. In addition to the Footprint of Nations report, RP's footprint website provides ecological footprint and biological capacity accounts for 138 nations over a forty year time span. "It is our hope that researchers in the field will use the new data to help shape public policies to reduce the footprint of nations, states, and cities and to advance the science and application of ecological footprint analysis," Talberth continued.
Redefining Progress has published its Footprint of Nations reports on a regular basis since 1997. This year's report is based on a new methodology, Footprint 2.0, which responds to some of the critiques of ecological footprint analysis noted in the literature. The report discusses the origins of footprint analysis, the justification for the new Footprint 2.0 methodology, new global, regional, and national results and a research agenda for further refinements to ecological footprint analysis.
Redefining Progress is an Oakland-based policy institute working to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability. RP's Sustainability Indicators Program provides communities, public officials, and business leaders with analytical tools and educational programs that help protect our environment and promote a more equitable and just society. RP conducts independent research to support sustainability campaigns of our partners and provides sustainability analysis services for municipal, non-profit, business, and educational clients.
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