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Join the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association on a Tour to Germany!

ESAC Intern — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:31:33 +0000

Join the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association <http://www.ontario-sea.org/> on a unique Renewable Energy Tour in Germany from June 30 – July 8. Visit state of the art, successful Bioenergy, Solar, Wind and Hydro facilities and learn about community ownership models, financing vehicles as well as grid integration of renewables.

Special student rate for all-inclusive package now available. Only $2,184.

Urban Renewal Opportunity!

ESAC Intern — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:35:48 +0000

Urban Bee Keeping in Toronto

ESAC Intern — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:26:28 +0000

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What: Urban Beekeeping 101—a ‘sweet’ introduction to beekeeping in Toronto!

When: Saturday May 12, 2-4pm

Where: North Dining Room, Hart House, University of Toronto

Cost: Free!

The University of Toronto Beekeeping Education Enthusiast Society (U of T B.E.E.S.) is a U of T club. They’ve been around for two beekeeping seasons now and want the word to be spread about honeybees on campus. Especially to new members!

U of T B.E.E.S. keeps honeybees on campus rooftops, spreading awareness of the importance of pollinators and allowing everyone the chance to learn hands-on urban beekeeping skills.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/groups/132701820111760/
Email: bees.utoronto@gmail.com

2012 ESAC/EECOM Conference Field-trips!

ESAC Intern — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:17:27 +0000

2012 ESAC/EECOM Conference Field-trips!
Greetings Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) and Canadian Network for Environmental Communication and Education (EECOM) members. We’re so glad you’ve registered for the 2012 Conference Environmental Knowledge: People and Change, May 30 – June 2, 2012, University of Waterloo. We’ve attached the draft schedule for your information as well as a separate registration form for post-conference field-trips. Hope you will join us on one of these fun-filled field-trips (say that three times)! Come get to know the area with us!

Theresa Southam
Executive Director/Directrice executive
Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
Reseau canadien d’education et de communication relatives a l’environnement
Tel: 250-354-1088
E-mail: director@eecom.org
http://www.eecom.org

Job Posting at Royal Roads University

ESAC Intern — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:05:22 +0000

This is a new position

Limited Term Faculty Member

School of Environment and Sustainability

Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences

Royal Roads University is seeking applications to fill a two-year limited-term position at Assistant (or Associate) Professor level in the School of Environment and Sustainability, Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences. This appointment has an emphasis on teaching and service.

You will be expected to serve as the Acting Program Head of the Master’s in Environmental Education and Communication program and execute other administrative responsibilities in the program. Teaching opportunities both within the School of Environment and Sustainability as well as within the School of Communication and Culture will be part of this position.

Located on one of Canada’s most beautiful campuses just outside Victoria, British Columbia, Royal Roads is the only public university in Canada focused exclusively on the needs of working professionals. At Royal Roads we are committed to providing an exceptional learning environment for our students. Our innovative programs, anchored with an applied relevance, are delivered through either traditional face-to-face, online or blended learning, a combination of enriched web-based learning and short on-campus residencies.

The School of Environment and Sustainability offers programs at the graduate and undergraduate level, providing the leadership skills and interdisciplinary knowledge that lead to sustainable solutions. Our graduate programs consist of a Masters in Environment and Management (MSc or MA), Master’s in Environmental Practice (MA/MSc), and a Master’s, (MA, and Graduate Diploma and Certificate) in Environmental Education and Communication. At the undergraduate level, the School offers a residential degree completion BSc program in Environmental Science, a distance degree completion BSc program in Environmental Management, a BA/BSc and Certificate in Environmental Practice (online only).

To be considered, candidates will posses:

Doctoral degree completed or near completion, with a minimum of 7-10 years experience

Demonstrated teaching excellence, and an ability to work as a team member within an interdisciplinary outcomes-based curriculum

Strong theoretical and applied skills in an environmental education and environmental communication, demonstrated through current research activities, are essential

Broad theoretical understanding of environmental communication

Knowledge of research, computer literacy and ability to employ adult learning and applied learning principles with mature learners

Experience in distance education teaching

Work experience in the field

Academic administration experience would be helpful

In addition to a collegial learning community, RRU offers a comprehensive compensation package to faculty, with a starting salary and academic rank based on qualifications and experience. This is a two year term position from June 2012 – June 2014.

To apply please forward your cover letter and curriculum vitae (preferably in electronic format) to:

E-mail: rru-career-opportunities@royalroads.ca

Competition #12-039

Human Resources – Career Opportunities

Royal Roads University

2005 Sooke Road

Victoria, B.C. V9B 5Y2

Fax: (250) 391-2570 Tel: (250) 391-2511

The competition will begin on May 4, 2012 and will close on May 18, 2012, however, the competition will remain open until a successful candidate is found.

While Royal Roads University values all applications we receive, only those candidates short-listed for further consideration will be contacted. If you are sending your application via e-mail, please ensure that your electronic file is saved in MS Word, Adobe, or text format.

RRU is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the principle of equity in employment. Preference is given to Canadian citizens and applicants with Landed Immigrant status.

Please note that two of our heritage buildings, including Hatley Castle, have some areas that are not easily accessible to persons who use wheelchairs. Please call 391-2511 for information and assistance if you are dropping off your application in person.

When Nature and Numbers (Don’t) Meet: Panel for ASEH 2013, Toronto

ESAC Intern — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:34:44 +0000

We are interested in submitting a panel for ASEH 2013 on the intersections and tensions between the sensory experience and bureaucratic quantification of the environment. For instance, how has beauty’s value been defined? How have sensory and emotive experiences of the environment (sounds, tastes, textures, disgust, the sublime) been translated into numerical and/or monetary terms? Who has done the work of defining and translating, and why? When and why have environmentalists adopted numbers/monetary values to fight for nature? We are especially interested in reflexive moments when numbers become experience; moments of cooptation when quantification appropriates the language of experience or vice versa; and moments of resistance when the mismatch between experience and quantification overwhelms the discussion. If you are working on cases in which sensory/bodily knowledge of the environment interacts with bureaucratic knowledge producers (the state, the market, the church, etc.), please send a short abstract of your work to Melanie Kiechle (mkiechle@chemheritage.org) and Kristoffer Whitney (kwhitney@sas.upenn.edu). We look forward to thinking about and talking through these ideas with you!

ESAC Conference Schedule is Here!

ESAC Intern — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:39:46 +0000

Please continue to check back for updates as this is a tentative schedule.

RIO+20: A WASTE OF TIME OR A NEW BEGINNING?

ESAC Intern — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:37:01 +0000

To register for this event see - http://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/rio-20-waste-time-or-new-beginning
There is a live stream option for those of you who are nowhere near Waterloo, Canada.

RIO+20: A WASTE OF TIME OR A NEW BEGINNING?

10 am to noon, Thursday, May 3, 2012
Auditorium, CIGI Campus, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo

Join a public discussion and debate about the possibilities, opportunities, and risks arising from the upcoming Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

Rio +20 should encourage debate about the concepts of “sustainable development” and the new terminology of “green growth.” What is the difference between these concepts? Are they the same thing only repackaged? Has the paradigm of “sustainable development” helped produce a greener global economy? Will Rio+20 take us on a new, greener trajectory?

Participants:

Maurice Strong: Former under-secretary general of the United Nations, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Jim MacNeill: Director of Environment at the OECD (1978–1984), Secretary General of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) and lead author of its landmark report Our Common Future (1984–1987),and member and Chairman of the World Bank’s Inspection Panel (1997–2002).

David Runnalls: Distinguished Fellow with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, where he served as President from 1998 to 2010, member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, and CIGI Distinguished Fellow.

Moderator: Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Sponsored by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, the Department of Environment and Resource Studies (University of Waterloo) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Call for Papers: Time and Globalization

ESAC Intern — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:27:49 +0000

Workshop on Time and Globalization

October 19-20, 2012

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

We are calling for the submission of paper proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop on Time and Globalization, to be held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, on October 19-20 (Friday & Saturday), 2012. The workshop is organized by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC), which has focused on research and teaching on globalization and its social and cultural effects since its creation in 1998. There is a large literature on temporality, as there is on globalization. However, we think that it is important to bring insights from these two literatures into closer dialogue. A great many urgent problems involve complex interactions between temporality and globalization. These range from problems experienced in daily life to large epochal problems such as climate change. Much of the literature on temporality provides valuable philosophical and sociological insights into its general properties, its historical transformations, or its presence in daily life, without exploring the distinctive aspects of the interaction of temporality with globalization. Much the same could be said of the globalization literature’s relationship to temporality.

In this workshop we hope to build on work that is ongoing at the IGHC. We are particularly interested in proposals that focus on the (re)conceptualization of time, changing relationships among various temporalities, policy responses to temporal challenges, and relevant reflections on and implications for sustainability and social justice, in the ongoing processes of globalization. Among the themes that could be considered are:

Reconceptualizations of time in the context of globalization
Changing relationships between local and global temporalities and between various local temporalities
Contested globalization discourses and their temporal conceptualizations
Interplays of spatial and temporal logics in the context of globalization
The impact of global temporalities, for example acceleration or simultaneity, on democracy
Representations of globalization and temporality in literature, film, and popular and digital cultures
The relative importance of speed and space in global business and war
Differential collective and individual experiences of global temporalities
Rethinking the relationships between gender, sexualities, age, class, culture, ability, geography and global temporalities
Tensions between personal, corporate, governmental and environmental temporalities
The circulation and acceleration of new health risks and new public health challenges
Global public policies and changing temporalities
The role of activism in addressing the intersections of globalization and time, with regard to social justice, efficiency, productivity, speed, or sustainability

The workshop will bring together a small group of scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, and aims to maximize the fruitfulness of our discussion by sharing and reading the papers in advance. We are interested in papers that focus on specific practices in which the interaction of temporal and global influences is evident empirically, as well as more theoretical papers, as long as they focus on the interaction of temporality and globalization and are not so embedded in particular disciplinary literatures that they cannot easily engage with insights from literatures in other disciplines. They will be circulated to participants a week in advance of the workshop, and should be 4000-6000 words, excluding endnotes and references. Our aim is to have some or all of the papers published in a special issue of a journal or an edited volume.

If this workshop interests you, please email us by May 1, 2012 at tempora@mcmaster.ca, with a title and 400-word proposal. We will notify potential participants by May 15.

Opportunities in the Green Building Industry

ESAC Intern — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:24:28 +0000

Interested in getting involved in the Green Building Industry? Opportunities are plentiful in the developing world of sustainable design and LEED is at its forefront.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is simply a green-rating point system, or a scorecard. The more energy efficient and sustainable a building is, the more points it will earn. These points are earned through meeting credit requirements in LEED including integrated design, energy and water efficiency.

Just as Buildings can be LEED certified, people in the sustainable construction industry can become LEED Professionals.LeadingLEED is offering a 2-day crash course for LEED Green Associate Exam Training, the first tier of LEED accreditation.

The cost of the entire course including 12+ hours of in-class training, 4 realistic mock exams and professional study guide is $200 ($150 for students). The actual fee for writing the exam is governed by the GBCI and is $200 (www.gbci.org for more information). The classes are located at the University of Toronto.

Class 1: Saturday MAY 12 10:00AM – 5:00PM – Introduction and In-depth overview of all knowledge required for the LEED GA exam as well as a professional guest lecturer to speak about current LEED projects in the GTA. Study guides and relevant materials will be distributed.

Class 2 – Saturday MAY 26 10:00AM – 4:00PM In-depth Review of 2 completed Practice Tests, followed by an in-class practice test/review and then concluded with an overall wrap-up.

For more information please visit: http://leadingleed.com/2011/07/19/leed-green-associate-ga/ and download the linked LEED Green Associate Handbook.

If you would like to register for the class please sign up at:http://leadingleed.com/products-page/ {Coupon Code: Utoronto (students only), Paypal only}
or E-mail us your statement of intent at info@leadingleed.com.