Sustainability Conferences

There are so many great conferences related to the very broad theme of sustainability. I sometimes receive e-mails informing me of really interesting conferences, only to find out that they are happening within a few weeks, and usually on the other side of the world. Of course there are the issues of all those emissions required to travel to these distant places, but there are increasingly options for web casting, especially for sustainability-themed events. That will likely be a blog post unto its' own. In the meantime, I thought I would share some sites and conferences that I have come across.

The American Association of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
"Campus Initiatives to Catalyze a Just and Sustainable World", October 10-12, 2010, hosted in Denver, Colorado
Conference goals include:
• Highlighting possibilities for creating leadership and funding for sustainable curriculum.
• Providing attendees with tools for planning and measuring campus sustainability efforts.
• Demonstrating the move from ideas to implementation in sustainability commitments.
• Placing emphasis on transforming the campus through cross-sector collaborative efforts in order to establish economic sustainability.
• Connecting the role of local higher education sustainability initiatives as it relates to social justice and the global campus.

From Ramesh:
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
June Sustainability Conference
Date: June 14 — 16, 2010
Also in Denver, Colorado

This site provides "conference alerts" on specific themes (sustainable development in this case)

Let me know if you have any web site that you like to use to track up-coming conference of related interest.