Leadership's Role for Administrators in Establishing a Campus Sustainability Program

Date:  12/3/2008
Time: 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. AND 5:00 - 5:45 p.m. Eastern
Price: $0.00
Registration Deadline: 12/3/2008 10:00:00 AM

Registration For This Event Is Closed

Choose From One of Two Sessions

This webinar will be held twice on December 3, 2008. The first session will be at 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. Eastern and the second at 5:00 - 5:45 p.m. Eastern. Your registration (and the dial-in instructions that will be provided upon registration) allows you access to either session.

Webinar Overview

Colleges and university presidents and chancellors are uniquely positioned to focus attention and resources in response to the growing threats that climate change poses towards society and our world. Climate action provides a multitude of benefits for the institution itself, beyond greenhouse gas reductions, if pursued using a systems approach.

This webinar will demonstrate, by example, how responding to the challenges of climate change creates opportunities to:

• Foster a shared vision for promoting engagement of sustainability among the varied institutional stakeholders.
• Build a management system that creates a supporting infrastructure to ensure programmatic goals can be achieved given available resources and incentives.
• Promote the campus as a living laboratory for sustainability by incorporating curriculum development and experiential learning. 

About the Speaker

John Spengler, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative and is Principal at EH&E. He is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Exposure, Epidemiology & Risk Program, within the Department of Environmental Health, at Harvard University's School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Who Should Attend

• College and University Presidents, Vice Presidents of Finance and Administration, Provosts, Chancellors, Business Officers
• Signatories (and their designees) of the College and University Presidents Climate Commitment and those considering joining
• Director of Facilities and Energy Management
• Environmental Health & Safety Directors
• Sustainability Directors
  

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