[SustainableTompkins] NEW BOOK, Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University Michael M'Gonigle and Justine Starke

[Michael Burns]

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> From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe at silcom.com>
> Date: October 9, 2006 1:42:36 AM EDT
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> Subject: [permaculture] NEW BOOK, Planet U: Sustaining the World, 
> Reinventing the University Michael M'Gonigle and Justine Starke
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> http://www.airamerica.com/ecotalk/node/255
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> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
> by Philippe Boucher on October 6, 2006 - 12:24am.
>
>    Michael M'Gonigle, coauthor of Planet U: Sustaining the World,
> Reinventing the University talks about what huge contribution they 
> could
> make toward sustainability.
> LISTEN (12 min)
>
> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University by Michael
> M'Gonigle and Justine Starke. New Society Publishers, 2006.
>
> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University explores the
> unique nature of the university as a vehicle for becoming an integrated
> model of place-based sustainability. Each university is different, but 
> each
> has attributes that no other institution has, collectively equipping 
> these
> places with an unparalleled potential for ecological innovation and 
> ability
> to drive regional sustainability. The historical role of the 
> university as
> a site and catalyst of social critique and change is evolving, and 
> Planet U
> addresses the university as the object of change as well as the agent 
> of
> change.
>
> Touching on everything from the development of complete campus 
> communities
> to food security programs to innovative transportation systems, 
> M'Gonigle
> and Starke weave together a series of best practices and examples from
> around the world. Alongside this comprehensive survey of the 
> sustainable
> campuses movement is a narrative focus of the authors' struggle at the
> University of Victoria to catalyse complete community at their 
> university.
> Planet U puts forth a place-based strategy to integrate everything 
> from the
> development of green buildings to local reinvestment strategies to
> governance structures into an integrated approach for university
> sustainability.
>
>    Distinctively, Planet U includes both a discussion of technical
> possibilities and one that addresses the underlying power issues 
> necessary
> for "ecological governance." Universities must engage in democratic 
> reform
> of their governance structures to enable the high degree of ecological
> innovation that they are capable of. Planet U provides the movement 
> with
> the inspiration to begin addressing this too-often overlooked aspect of
> sustainability.
>
> Planet U is of interest to a wide audience -- environmentalists and 
> student
> activists, academics and administrators, business people and 
> politicians,
> and to anyone concerned with how we can think our way out of the
> ever-escalating crises of global sustainability, and how we can act 
> right
> now. To sustain the world, we must reinvent the university, one place 
> at a
> time.
>
> Michael M'Gonigle holds the Eco Research Chair in Environmental Law and
> Policy at the University of Victoria and is the founder of the POLIS
> Project on Ecological Governance.
>
> Justine Starke has recently completed a Master in Arts in Planning at 
> the
> University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional 
> Planning.
>
> For more about Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the 
> University
> and the Planet U movement check out: www.planetaryuniversity.org
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