[SustainableTompkins] EVENT: mini-symposium on educating for sustainability

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

Education for Sustainability 

An International  Mini-Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2008
1 – 4 pm
304 Fernow  Hall

Speakers
Justin Dillon, King's College, London, UK
Jo-Anne  Ferreira, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Robert Stevenson,  University at Buffalo, SUNY
Arjen Wals, Wageningen Univ, The Netherlands  (Cornell Visiting Scholar)

Facilitator
Marianne Krasny, Chair, Dept of  Natural Resources, Cornell

Sponsors: Department of Natural  Resources, Department of Education, 
Office of Environmental Compliance and  Sustainability (ECOS), Einaudi Center


This mini-symposium explores  approaches to learning that might contribute to 
the transformation of  unsustainable systems, values and routines. It 
examines whether the "greening  mantra" – greening the curriculum, the company, the 
campus, the community --  represents a rhetoric that pushes cosmetic or 
low-impact changes (e.g.,  recycling, reduction of emissions, increased energy 
efficiency) without  questioning taken for granted values and routines that are 
fundamentally  unsustainable (e.g., oil-dependency, continuous economic growth, 
materialism,  consumerism). 

The mini-symposium should be of interest to students,  staff, and faculty who 
are concerned with learning for change and transition in  a range of 
contexts, including resource management, organizational learning,  curriculum 
development, business (i.e., Corporate Social Responsibility), and  health.

For more information, contact Erin Kelly, _eak58 at cornell.edu_ 
(mailto:eak58 at cornell.edu) , or 607-255-2820.
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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
agn1 at cornell.edu




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