Invitation to AASHE 2008 Conference & Sustainable Solutions Expo

[Jack Kittinger]

Dear AASHE Supporter, We invite you to participate in our 2nd biennial conference, AASHE 2008: Working Together for Sustainability - On Campus and Beyond, November 9-11 in Raleigh, NC.  Registration is now open and those who register by August 29 will receive an early bird discount.    AASHE's Conference is the largest campus sustainability gathering of its kind in the United States and Canada.  We expect over 1,000 attendees in Raleigh, and more than 300 presentations, with an impressive array of campus and business leaders sharing their experience, knowledge and passion for promoting sustainability on campus and in the community.  Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are the host campuses for the 2008 Conference. This year AASHE is partnering with Sustainable North Carolina to offer a unique tradeshow - the Sustainable Solutions Expo:  Green Solutions for Campuses, Businesses and Institutions.   You'll be able to network with an impressive array of higher education and business leaders at the Expo, and some fun events are planned. Highlights Keynotes this year include these engaging and widely acclaimed speakers:   Lester R. Brown - Founder, Earth Policy Institute, and  author, "Eco-Economy," "Plan B," and "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" Van Jones - Founder and President, Green for All Peter Senge - Senior lecturer, MIT, and chair, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) Vandana Shiva - Physicist, environmental activist, author of "Stolen Harvest," and "Earth Democracy", and winner of the 1993 Right Livelihood Award Government Plenary featuring:  Bracken Hendricks - Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Kevin Foy - Mayor of Chapel Hill, NC Harvey Ruvin - Miami-Dade County Clerk, FL Other special events include an array of pre-conference workshops, a career fair, a student summit, the AASHE awards banquet, field trips to our host campuses, and activities highlighting the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. This Conference aims to significantly advance sustainability in higher education with a particular emphasis on the need to consider all dimensions of sustainability in decision-making.  Reflecting this year's theme of "working together for sustainability," additional goals are to advance sustainability practices through partnerships and collaborations, to promote new pathways for elevating sustainability education and student leadership, and to involve a wider range of participants in advancing sustainability in higher education.   Please visit www.aashe.org/conference for more information or contact me directly. We hope to see you there! Lisa Lisa A. Satin, AASHE Conference Manager 213 1/2 N. Limestone St. Lexington, KY 40507 P: 859.258.2551 / C: 859-338-3740 F: 859.258.2264 Li...@aashe.org

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Jack Kittinger
NSF IGERT: Ecology, Conservation & Pathogen Biology
Department of Geography
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
445 Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
jkitt...@gmail.com
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jkitt/