AASHE's 2022 Impact Accelerator + webinars & workshops

[Daita Serghi]

Hello Colleagues,

Are you a sustainability change agent for your institution or organization? We would love for you to join us from July 18 - July 21 for a four-day immersive, interactive virtual program, the 2022 Sustainability Leaders Impact Accelerator. This year's event will include activities that foster meaningful connections with peers as well as a mix of arm-chair conversations and interactive discussions with attendees and invited speakers around emerging topics like Transformative Leadership, Racial Justice & Healing, Achieving Zero Carbon, Activist Donors and more. Attend to recharge your battery as you connect virtually with peers while you build skills to advance sustainability and buy-in across your institution. Learn more and register today! 

With the pandemic often leaving people feeling isolated and stagnant in their lives, staying connected with your peers and advancing your personal and professional growth is more important than ever. Don’t pass up this opportunity! 

Other upcoming professional learning opportunities include:

• Webinar: Using Climate Change Games in the Classroom
  June 1 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
  This session addresses how games in the classroom can be used to broaden student understanding of climate change. Find out more »
• Webinar: Strategic Planning and Pathway Development for Significantly Reducing GHG Emissions (Scopes 1 and 2)
  June 8 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
  Join team members from the University of Chicago and Edison Energy as they discuss the University’s strategic planning and pathway development to achieve their 50% reduction in GHG emissions across scopes 1 and 2 by 2030. Find out more »
• Brainstorming Session: Reducing Waste During Campus Move-Outs
  June 22 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
  Join this brainstorming session and meet with peers to discuss everything from community painters to communications to student helpers and more. Come prepared to share, listen, or both. Find out more »
• Webinar: Cli Fi, Sci Fi, and the Culture of Sustainability
  June 29 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
  Join this webinar for an overview of the climate fiction genre and to address the question: How can fiction help to stimulate new thinking and conversations about our planetary predicament? Find out more »
• The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club for Sustainability in Higher Education
  Starting on August 4, meeting monthly through December 1
  This short course in climate fiction (“Cli-Fi”) is the ultimate academic book club for everyone. Are you a non-literary type who has never attended a book club? Or a bookworm who is obsessed with Cli-Fi? Somewhere in between? Everyone is welcome to attend and address the question: How can fiction help to stimulate new thinking and conversations about our planetary predicament? Find out more »

All the best,

Daita

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