Please mark your calendar to attend the Environmental Consortium of Colleges and Universities’ 9th Annual Conference on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
“Rediscovering Higher Education’s Role in the Earth Community” will honor Father Thomas Berry whose teachings inspired the formation of the Environmental Consortium in 2004.
• Presentation of the Inaugural Thomas Berry Great Work Award (Nominations due May 30th)
• Plenaries and Breakouts (details to follow)
• Student and Faculty Inter and Multi-Disciplinary Poster Session
Sponsored by Marist College and Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wendell E. Berry named 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities -- NEH
Wendell E. Berry, noted poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, and conservationist, will deliver the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The annual lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.
"Berry will present the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In the lecture, “It All Turns on Affection,” Berry will discuss man’s interaction with nature, as depicted in history, philosophy, and literature.
From the press release:
"In his writing and activism, Berry has spent his career meditating on our relationship and responsibilities to the land and community. He is the author of more than forty books of poems, essays, short stories, and novels, many of which draw on the traditional rural values of Berry’s native Kentucky.
From his first book of poetry, The Broken Ground (1964), Berry has explored themes of living in harmony with nature, and the bonds of marriage, family, and community. One of the most widely read poets in America, his collections of poetry include: There is Singing Around Me (1976), Clearing (1977), Entries: Poems (1994), A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (1998), and Given (2005). A New York Times review of Berry’s Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (1985) described Berry’s style as “resonant with the authentic. The lyricism is not forced, but clearly grows out of a deep bond with the earth and its generosity, with all of nature…he can be said to have returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.”
In novels and short story collections such as Nathan Coulter (1960), A Place on Earth (1967), The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (1986), and Jayber Crow (2000), Berry has chronicled generations of farming families in the changing landscape of a fictional small Kentucky town of Port William.
Berry’s influential volumes of essays such as The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (1977), Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (1993), and Another Turn of the Crank (1995) have argued that American culture is rooted in its agrarian communities, and warned against abuse of the land and its resources."
"Berry will present the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In the lecture, “It All Turns on Affection,” Berry will discuss man’s interaction with nature, as depicted in history, philosophy, and literature.
From the press release:
"In his writing and activism, Berry has spent his career meditating on our relationship and responsibilities to the land and community. He is the author of more than forty books of poems, essays, short stories, and novels, many of which draw on the traditional rural values of Berry’s native Kentucky.
From his first book of poetry, The Broken Ground (1964), Berry has explored themes of living in harmony with nature, and the bonds of marriage, family, and community. One of the most widely read poets in America, his collections of poetry include: There is Singing Around Me (1976), Clearing (1977), Entries: Poems (1994), A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (1998), and Given (2005). A New York Times review of Berry’s Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (1985) described Berry’s style as “resonant with the authentic. The lyricism is not forced, but clearly grows out of a deep bond with the earth and its generosity, with all of nature…he can be said to have returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.”
In novels and short story collections such as Nathan Coulter (1960), A Place on Earth (1967), The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (1986), and Jayber Crow (2000), Berry has chronicled generations of farming families in the changing landscape of a fictional small Kentucky town of Port William.
Berry’s influential volumes of essays such as The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (1977), Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (1993), and Another Turn of the Crank (1995) have argued that American culture is rooted in its agrarian communities, and warned against abuse of the land and its resources."
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The Greening of Consumer Products: Legal, Regulatory, and Strategic Considerations -- BNA Webinar
The Greening of Consumer Products: Legal, Regulatory, and Strategic Considerations a Bloomberg BNA Webinar
Date:
Tuesday, February 7
Time:
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (ET
Highlights:
Consumer product manufacturers are challenged today as never before. Materials selection for consumer products invites a dizzying range of considerations: Are the chemicals hormone disruptors, carcinogens, or persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic? What toxicogenomic biomarkers might make the product the next celebrity tort case? What labeling requirements apply? What are the implications of genetic variations among the demographic to which the product is to be marketed?
These considerations invite legal, marketing, and technical issues that go well beyond questions of core compliance with the law. What exactly is the professional’s role? How are regional differences in regulatory standards, consumer perceptions, ingredient restrictions, and related factors to be addressed? Given the complexity of the global issues and the high stakes involved, what must a professional do to remain competent, socially aware, and scientifically proficient? This webinar will explore these questions and more.
The Webinar will help you:
Identify the core concepts of green product development and the maturation of conventional environmental protection themes on which green product steward concepts rely.
Describe the diversity of legal and regulatory authorities, domestic and international, that are relevant to chemical, industrial, and consumer product manufacturers from a legal compliance perspective.
Analyze the role of private party standards and evolving concepts of product stewardship in product design and management.
Address the trends and emerging themes embedded in the commercial value chain that must be monitored to be competitive and successful.
Explore the challenges and value of green product marketing.
Develop basic strategies for legal compliance and commercial success in green product marketing.
Date:
Tuesday, February 7
Time:
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (ET
Highlights:
Consumer product manufacturers are challenged today as never before. Materials selection for consumer products invites a dizzying range of considerations: Are the chemicals hormone disruptors, carcinogens, or persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic? What toxicogenomic biomarkers might make the product the next celebrity tort case? What labeling requirements apply? What are the implications of genetic variations among the demographic to which the product is to be marketed?
These considerations invite legal, marketing, and technical issues that go well beyond questions of core compliance with the law. What exactly is the professional’s role? How are regional differences in regulatory standards, consumer perceptions, ingredient restrictions, and related factors to be addressed? Given the complexity of the global issues and the high stakes involved, what must a professional do to remain competent, socially aware, and scientifically proficient? This webinar will explore these questions and more.
The Webinar will help you:
Identify the core concepts of green product development and the maturation of conventional environmental protection themes on which green product steward concepts rely.
Describe the diversity of legal and regulatory authorities, domestic and international, that are relevant to chemical, industrial, and consumer product manufacturers from a legal compliance perspective.
Analyze the role of private party standards and evolving concepts of product stewardship in product design and management.
Address the trends and emerging themes embedded in the commercial value chain that must be monitored to be competitive and successful.
Explore the challenges and value of green product marketing.
Develop basic strategies for legal compliance and commercial success in green product marketing.
Friday, January 20, 2012
The Greening of Consumer Products: Legal, Regulatory, and Strategic Considerations -- BNA Webinar
The Greening of Consumer Products: Legal, Regulatory, and Strategic Considerations is a Bloomberg BNA webinar offerd on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM.
Agenda
Consumer product manufacturers are challenged today as never before. Materials selection for consumer products invites a dizzying range of considerations: Are the chemicals hormone disruptors, carcinogens, or persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic? What toxicogenomic biomarkers might make the product the next celebrity tort case? What labeling requirements apply? What are the implications of genetic variations among the demographic to which the product is to be marketed? These considerations, in turn, invite legal, marketing, and technical issues that go well beyond questions of core compliance with the law. What exactly is the professional’s role? How are regional differences in regulatory standards, consumer perceptions, ingredient restrictions, and related factors to be addressed? Given the complexity of the global issues and the high stakes involved, what must a professional do to remain competent, socially aware, and scientifically proficient? This webinar will explore these questions and urges professionals–whether lawyers, product stewards, scientists, or others in the field–to remain vigilant and as prepared as possible in recognizing the constantly shifting demands on professionals in this area.
Agenda
Consumer product manufacturers are challenged today as never before. Materials selection for consumer products invites a dizzying range of considerations: Are the chemicals hormone disruptors, carcinogens, or persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic? What toxicogenomic biomarkers might make the product the next celebrity tort case? What labeling requirements apply? What are the implications of genetic variations among the demographic to which the product is to be marketed? These considerations, in turn, invite legal, marketing, and technical issues that go well beyond questions of core compliance with the law. What exactly is the professional’s role? How are regional differences in regulatory standards, consumer perceptions, ingredient restrictions, and related factors to be addressed? Given the complexity of the global issues and the high stakes involved, what must a professional do to remain competent, socially aware, and scientifically proficient? This webinar will explore these questions and urges professionals–whether lawyers, product stewards, scientists, or others in the field–to remain vigilant and as prepared as possible in recognizing the constantly shifting demands on professionals in this area.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
6th Annual Student Summit of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities
Become an Agent for Change: Green Your Career from the Inside Out
Monday, April 25, 2011
2:00pm-6:30pm
Columbia University
Alfred Lerner Hall
New York, NY
On Monday, April 25th the 6th Annual Student Summit of the Environmental Consortium will provide inspiration and ideas about how people have made a difference in their careers or created programs to foster more sustainable workplaces.
If you are interested in environmental issues or just want to network with other environmentally minded students from the region, register today! There is no fee to attend the Student Summit, all majors welcome, and dinner is included!
Highlights
• The Individual and Beyond – Transforming Your Ideas and Ideals into Action, a roundtable discussion.
• Breakout groups to continue dialogue and collaborate.
• Networking with like-minded students from across the region.
• Free dinner!
• Stay tuned for details for a special evening event to follow the Student Summit, featuring NRDC Co-Founder John H. Adams and his wife, Patricia Adams.
Roundtable Speakers
Nilda Mesa (Moderator), Assistant Vice President of Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University
Anne Brink, English ’13, EcoRep, Barnard College
Tim Rairdon, Executive Director, Graduation Pledge Alliance, Bentley Alliance for
Ethics and Social Responsibility, Bentley University
Michael Sater, Director, Decker Design, Inc.
This event is open to all students. All majors welcome! Seats are limited, RSVP required by April 18th.
Monday, April 25, 2011
2:00pm-6:30pm
Columbia University
Alfred Lerner Hall
New York, NY
On Monday, April 25th the 6th Annual Student Summit of the Environmental Consortium will provide inspiration and ideas about how people have made a difference in their careers or created programs to foster more sustainable workplaces.
If you are interested in environmental issues or just want to network with other environmentally minded students from the region, register today! There is no fee to attend the Student Summit, all majors welcome, and dinner is included!
Highlights
• The Individual and Beyond – Transforming Your Ideas and Ideals into Action, a roundtable discussion.
• Breakout groups to continue dialogue and collaborate.
• Networking with like-minded students from across the region.
• Free dinner!
• Stay tuned for details for a special evening event to follow the Student Summit, featuring NRDC Co-Founder John H. Adams and his wife, Patricia Adams.
Roundtable Speakers
Nilda Mesa (Moderator), Assistant Vice President of Environmental Stewardship, Columbia University
Anne Brink, English ’13, EcoRep, Barnard College
Tim Rairdon, Executive Director, Graduation Pledge Alliance, Bentley Alliance for
Ethics and Social Responsibility, Bentley University
Michael Sater, Director, Decker Design, Inc.
This event is open to all students. All majors welcome! Seats are limited, RSVP required by April 18th.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Where Activism Meets Technological Innovation: The Challenge of Environmental Problem Solving -- Pace Academy
Advocacy and technology have each played a part in our environmental successes and failures to date, but to what degree should each be leveraged as we face new environmental challenges? Has advocacy lost its way? Is technology a blessing, curse, or both? This roundtable discussion will explore the relative value of advocacy and technology as well the notion that a union of the two may be our only way forward.
Speakers: John Cronin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs, Pace University
Janisse Ray, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, Writer, Naturalist, Activist
Andrew C. Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University
Welcome by: Nira Herrmann, Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University
Moderated by: Michelle D. Land, Director, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
Monday, Nov. 1, 2010
5:30pm – 6:15pm Reception in Choate House Gallery (Pace Community)
6:30pm – 8:00pm Roundtable in Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center (all)
RSVP: paceacademy@pace.edu or 914-422-4077 by Wednesday, Oct. 27th
Speakers: John Cronin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs, Pace University
Janisse Ray, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, Writer, Naturalist, Activist
Andrew C. Revkin, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University
Welcome by: Nira Herrmann, Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University
Moderated by: Michelle D. Land, Director, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
Monday, Nov. 1, 2010
5:30pm – 6:15pm Reception in Choate House Gallery (Pace Community)
6:30pm – 8:00pm Roundtable in Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center (all)
RSVP: paceacademy@pace.edu or 914-422-4077 by Wednesday, Oct. 27th
Monday, September 27, 2010
25th Annual International Coastal Cleanup
Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup engages people to remove trash and debris from the world's beaches and waterways, identify the sources of debris, and change the behaviors that cause marine debris in the first place. Join us this September 25: Sign up for a Cleanup near you and get involved today!
National Public Lands Day
September 25 - National Public Lands Day.
Join the National Environmental Education Foundation in celebrating and protecting our nation's public lands - wherever you live! National Public Lands Day is a great opportunity to help the environment while exploring some of our nation's amazing great outdoors with your friends and family. NPLD is the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance our public lands. Last year 150,000 volunteers joined together around the country to celebrate service and recreation by planting trees, removing trash, building trails and bridges and restoring our water resources.
Join the National Environmental Education Foundation in celebrating and protecting our nation's public lands - wherever you live! National Public Lands Day is a great opportunity to help the environment while exploring some of our nation's amazing great outdoors with your friends and family. NPLD is the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance our public lands. Last year 150,000 volunteers joined together around the country to celebrate service and recreation by planting trees, removing trash, building trails and bridges and restoring our water resources.
Monday, April 13, 2009
American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment
This Commitment authored by a group of college presidents urges the College Presidents signing the Commitment are pledging to eliminate their campuses’ greenhouse gas emissions over time. This involves:
- Completing an emissions inventory
- Within two years, setting a target date and interim milestones for becoming climate neutral.
- Taking immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by choosing from a list of short-term actions.
- Integrating sustainability into the curriculum and making it part of the educational experience.
- Making the action plan, inventory and progress reports publicly available.
- Completing an emissions inventory
- Within two years, setting a target date and interim milestones for becoming climate neutral.
- Taking immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by choosing from a list of short-term actions.
- Integrating sustainability into the curriculum and making it part of the educational experience.
- Making the action plan, inventory and progress reports publicly available.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Toolkit for Foundations and Individual Investors: Harnessing Your Investments to Help Solve the Climate Crisis, November 2008
This Ceres report issued today identifies the steps foundations and individual investors can take to address climate change-related risks and opportunities that may be embedded in their investment portfolios. Ceres is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups.
The "Toolkit for Foundations and Individual Investors: Harnessing Your Investments to Help Solve the Climate Crisis" is co-sponsored by the Environmental Grantmakers Association).
The toolkit outlines five steps foundations and other investors can take to advance tangible climate solutions, including:
1) Pressing companies to improve their climate change strategies
2) Engaging with Wall Street investment managers to incorporate climate change into investment research and decision making
3) Joining other institutional investors in supporting policy solutions and SEC regulatory actions
4) Investing in clean technologies and energy efficiency
5) Coordinating with other investors to address climate-related risks.
The "Toolkit for Foundations and Individual Investors: Harnessing Your Investments to Help Solve the Climate Crisis" is co-sponsored by the Environmental Grantmakers Association).
The toolkit outlines five steps foundations and other investors can take to advance tangible climate solutions, including:
1) Pressing companies to improve their climate change strategies
2) Engaging with Wall Street investment managers to incorporate climate change into investment research and decision making
3) Joining other institutional investors in supporting policy solutions and SEC regulatory actions
4) Investing in clean technologies and energy efficiency
5) Coordinating with other investors to address climate-related risks.
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