Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education

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The Miller Worley Center for the Environment is host institution for the upcoming Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education, organized by AASHE, allowing MHC students, faculty and staff to attend the virtual conference free of charge. This year's conference will be held virtually streaming live on October 18, October 26, and November 3. With a theme of “The Urgency of Now,”* this year’s Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (#GCSHE) is a clarion call for transformative sustainability solutions that match the speed and scale of the challenges we face. Conference materials and record sessions will be available asynchronously until December 31, 2022.  Learn more and check out the conference schedule here

Please complete our interest form if you would like to attend. The Miller Worley Center will be in touch with interested individuals regarding conference registration in October. Reach out to Jordan Lassonde at jordan.lassonde@mtholyoke.edu with any questions.

*The theme takes inspiration from the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who in his 1963 I Have A Dream speech remarked: “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” He uttered the phrase again in his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence when he said, “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Those five powerful words are just as poignant today as they were in 1963 and 1967.  On climate change as well as on matters of social justice, there is such a thing as being ‘too late,” as he famously noted.

 

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