Registration is now open for the 2018 Sustainability Town Hall, to be held on Monday, March 12, from 7 to 9 pm at the CH2MHill Alumni Center on the OSU campus. Save your place by registering HERE. Participants will be seated...
Join Island Press and Post Carbon Institute for a webinar featuring Richard Heinberg and Rebecca Wodder, contributors to The Community Resilience Reader. Richard, co-author of Our Renewable Future and Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, will explain the intersections of our multiple sustainability crises. He...
Join us for this seven-week online course on building community resilience, featuring group webinars hosted by Richard Heinberg.
During his talk, Richard Heinberg will review the types of energy used today — and why some are less suitable for certain uses briefly underline the imperative to shift away from fossil fuels highlight creative “workarounds” for intermittent energy...
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy’s Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Research and Education is hosting its 11th Health Disparities Conference. April 19–20, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Conference participants will include clinicians (pharmacists, physicians, nurses,...
For the past 10 years, we’ve held our annual seminar on the east coast, in the wilds of rural Massachusetts. This year, however, due to popular demand to offer the experience on the west coast, we’re happy to...
“Where’s the world heading?” “How should we live?” “What work should we do?” “How can we resource ourselves and each other?” In December 2017, Sterling College hosted a two-day symposium sparked by the posthumous publication of Dr. David Fleming’s extraordinary books, Lean...
The Community Resilience Reader editor Daniel Lerch (Post Carbon Institute) and contributor Bill Throop (Green Mountain College) discuss what community resilience really means in this time of multiple sustainability crises, and how the education system –both formal and informal–...
“Resiliency is the capacity to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly.” The definition of resiliency is not only relevant for the Sierra Nevada that we want to create, but also the Sierra Nevada...
Join us this October for the Northwest Earth Institute EcoChallenge. It’s a fun and easy way to make more sustainable, resilient choices that benefit our local and global communities. To participate you choose actions from curbing emissions to generating...
