[UCI-Calit2] CUSA Sustainability Seminar Series - Tonight

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Tue Feb 23 09:58:00 PST 2010


CUSA (UCI's Center for Unconventional Security Affairs) presents the
2010 Sustainability Seminar Series to help foster dialogue between
social and natural scientists on the challenges of sustainability in the
21st century. A select group of scholars, researchers, experts and
business leaders will present a variety of perspectives on choices and
challenges related to sustainability. 

 


Tonight:        Lisa Shaffer, executive director, Sustainability
Solutions Institute at UC San Diego


Title:             Sustainability and the University

Time:            7- 8:30 p.m.

Location:       Humanities Gateway 1800

Abstract:         Universities create the future through discovery,
education and example. Campuses throughout the UC system and around the
world are developing sustainability programs in response to the
challenges facing society, and in recognition of our obligation to
contribute to a more sustainable future. Lisa Shaffer will describe some
of the experiences, challenges, and successes in sustainability programs
at UC San Diego and other institutions, from "greening" the campus as a
model and living laboratory for its inhabitants, through teaching,
research, student engagement, and outreach. She will address the
challenges of academic culture, the lack of incentives for
interdisciplinarity, the tension between research and teaching emphasis,
and the need for "boundary organizations" and how hard it is to create
them in a university system. 

 

Next week:   Dinker Anand, Toshiba AEC, Inc.; Kirwan Rockefeller,
director, Sustainability Leadership, UC Irvine Extension; and Greg
Shank, vice              president, CTG Energetics, Inc.


Title:                Business and Sustainability


Time:              7-8:30 p.m.


Date:               Tuesday, March 2, 2010


Location:        Humanities Gateway 1800


Protecting the environment and promoting business are often discussed as
competing goals. Yet, there is a growing recognition that the next wave
of innovation and development will come through fusing environment and
business. From the movement for energy independence through renewable
sources to efforts to promote economic recovery through green jobs, the
creation of a sustainable economy is one of the core challenges of
sustainable development. This panel will present three perspectives on
the role of business and sustainability, and provide an opportunity for
the audience to interact with panel members to discuss the challenges
and opportunities in the development of a green economy.


Sponsored by: the Samueli Foundation, University of California
Environment Institute, Calit2, University Extension, Student Affairs,
and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society.

 

For more information on the series and future seminar dates, speakers
and topics, go to:
http://www.cusa.uci.edu/programs/sustainability_series.html.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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