Show Me Sustainability Conference 2010

The conference goes global

ajpaige66 — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:30:15 +0000

We are very excited to announce that Chevy Hiceta from University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos, Bacolod City, Philippines will be attending the conference. Chevy is from the Greenheart Hermitage. The Greenheart Hermitage was built to become the center of the University’s ecological initiatives and commitment. Chevy will be leading workshops at the conference as well as participating on the key panel.

Kicking off the conference

ajpaige66 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:46:34 +0000

This year, we are kicking off the conference with a Sustainability Expo on the Maryville campus. It will include Green businesses from the St. Louis area as well as other organizations. This will give conference participants a chance to interact with these businesses and organizations, and possibly provide resources and ideas for people to take back to their campuses. This event will take place from 3:30 to 7pm on October 15th. Following the expo, we will have a Green BBQ for everyone. This will give people a chance to relax and get to know people from other campuses. If you would like to suggest any business or organizations to attend the expo, or if you have a request for the menu at the BBQ, just email us at showmesustainability@gmail.com.

Fall Keynote Speaker!!!

ajpaige66 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:44:54 +0000

We are very excited to announce that Kate Gasner will be the keynote speaker at the conference. At the age of 23, Kate has done a lot and she is excited to share her passion about the promising and pressing opportunities in better managing our water resources. Kate recently graduated from Yale University where she studied Environmental Engineering and led environmental advocacy groups on campus. As director of the Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership, she implemented campus-wide campaigns for energy conservation and waste reduction while raising awareness of environmental issues as a priority for the University.

As co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, she worked to inspire student environmental advocacy and create community around environmental interests.Water resource issues have captivated Kate’s interest since high school. At Yale, her studies focused on water quality, culminating in a study to demonstrate how a treatment plant policy loophole affected river water quality in Connecticut. In 2008, Kate was a Sustainability Exchange Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and then a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, studying the effects of river restoration on ground water dynamics.

Since graduating, Kate worked with The Artemis Project to rate the best water technology businesses. She is currently planning the upcoming Water Energy Nexus prize for ImagineH2O, an organization that works to stimulate and support innovation in water.

The fall conference is aproaching fast

sustainmizzou — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:58:05 +0000

The conference may seem like it is far away, but summer time ticks away much faster than normal. Mizzou has done an amazing job in the past. It is now up to Maryville University to pick up where they left off. We are still in the planning stages, but already the excitement is growing in anticipation. Stay tuned for more details!

2010 Powerpoints

sustainmizzou — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:26:28 +0000

These are some of the powerpoints presented at the 2010 Conference.

http://showmesustainability.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

Climate Change Education and Action at Truman State

Getting High School Students Involved

Sustaining a Student Sustainability Movement

Conference Debrief

sustainmizzou — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:46:18 +0000

2010 Conference Debrief

Show Me Sustainability Conference

Connect Learn Lead

What worked—what didn’t work—what you liked—what you didn’t like—suggestions

Spring semester vs fall semester- benefit earlier in spring semester or even in the fall semester so that students can be empowered and have time to start up projects/get people involved in their campuses
- Fall- later in the fall so you can encourage freshmen to come
  - Inform and encourage freshmen during orientation week
Spring- awakening time with better weather and high hopes J
Contact res life and community colleges when advertising
- Contact student success centers and career centers
- Tell everyone you know- have a page on the website for people to put orgs at their schools to contact
- Truman- res life
- Promote at other student conferences
- Have MSEC contact people from each school to promote the conference on their campus
- Nice to have high school students to get their perspective and let them see what’s up in college
  - Parent’s may not want them to go
  - Under 18- travel across the state to stay with college students…hmmm
  - Start out encouraging Columbia high school kids
  - Look at other youth conferences and see what they do
    - Have an advisor take them to the conference to introduce them to this
Scholarship to bring top environmental students to the conference
Keynote- good that he was out of school for a while and had a different perspective
Presentations- all students that can relate to each other and have common goals
Send out a list of things to bring via website and e-mail and facebook, etc.

Theme of the conference for next year
1. Keep the conference presentations and panels under one broad sustainability aspect so it stays open to as many people as possible who’d like to share their ideas/experiences
2. Presentations
  1. Have an hour for people to come up and talk for 5/10 minutes instead of them having to talk for 45 minutes
  2. Have several themes and have panels talk about these throughout the weekend
    1. i. Failures
Have a balance of panels and presentations
1. i. Presentations would focus on more specific “how-to’s” and details
  1. Recruiting new members
  2. Getting access to financial resources
  3. Leadership development
  4. Managing crisis
  5. Poster sessions for people to present their research
2. ii. Panels would focus on general sustainability ideas
  1. Crisis panel!- fight, someone tries to take over the org, everyone in the org are seniors, when’s it time to let the org die?
3. iii. Trainings
4. Food
  1. Good variety, local, thumbs up
  2. Compostable vs reused plates and silverware and cups
    1. i. Next year- everyone bring your own things to eat off of and eat with
    2. ii. Increase cost of conference by $5 or so and we’ll provide their plates and forks and at end of conference we’ll give them their $5 back if they return their plates.
    3. Schedule
      1. Good with bulk of presentations on Saturday and still have some Sunday to keep people around
      2. Social activities
        
        Baking activity- nice to meet people in small groups and make your own food
        
        Learn to bake
        
        Would be nice to have a chill hang out time for people to relax and talk w/o structure
        
        Networking opportunities
        
        Provide a resource booklet for all of the attendees with
        
        i.     Contact info for all attendees
        
        ii.     Graduation dates, interests, “I’m interested in learning more about___”
        
        iii.     Need and give list for each attendee
        
        iv.     What environmental orgs are at the different universities that they can contact
OR send people to MSEC website for info
Activity- time for people to split up and talk about one of six topics to discuss.
Quality of shared ideas overall
Diversity of attendees- number of schools represented
1. Focus on universities, community colleges, etc.
2. Tabling
  1. Good to inform students to bring a table
  2. Lower the price so it’s much more affordable for students to share
    1. i. Give a presentation and their fee will be reduced
    2. ii. Students could give a campus showcase and have shifts for people to be at the table- shares ideas with other students
Different prices for businesses, non-profits, youth orgs and student orgs
It’d be nice to have an opportunity to share success and failure stories
1. i. Panel w/ a rep from each campus (or rep from each project) to discuss these issues and ideas
2. ii. Rather than having workshops focus on these
Nice to have a chance to talk to people who have recently entered the “real” world
1. i. Talk about non-profits, environmental businesses and non-profits

10. Post Conference

Provide overviews of ALL of the presentations
1. i. Have presenters write a 100 word abstract about their talk

11. Accommodation

Provide info for students to couch surf, stay at hotels, friends, etc.
Encourage relationships and community growth

12. Space

Seating at tables for eating
Nice to have big tables for people to sit around

What’d you learn?!

You’re not alone!

Get charged up again to act

Enjoyed different perspectives of situations

Do you have any more suggestions, comments, ideas, concerns? Let us know by commenting on this post!

This weekend!

sustainmizzou — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:56:19 +0000

The conference is THIS WEEKEND! I hope you all are as excited as we are! It’s looking to be a really great time. If you’re curious, the official schedule for the conference has been posted above in the menu bar. You’ll each receive a copy of this when you arrive on Friday!

A couple of things for you to think about before coming: Feel free to bring your bike, as we’ll have a walking group and biking group when we go out to eat or to the garden. And bring any old containers you have, such as yogurt cups or sour cream containers, for potting plants on Saturday!

And as always, if you have any questions, let us know at showmesustainability@gmail.com!

And the spring 2010 Keynote Speaker is… Jared Cole!

sustainmizzou — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:48:56 +0000

Jared Cole has happily accepted our invitation to be the keynote speaker at the conference this year! The topic of his presentation is: “Youth are the renewable resource of the future: a presentation on creating environmental opportunities for young people.”

Jared Cole seeks to transform the way people and organizations interact with the natural world. He has worked for nonprofit organizations such as Bridging The Gap, Missouri River Communities Network, and Friends of the Woods in his quest for sustainability. During his undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri, Jared founded Sustain Mizzou, a nonprofit organization that focuses on positive approaches to environmental issues and leadership development. Jared is an alumnus of both AmeriCorps State and Teach For America. He currently teaches science at a public school in the Bronx, New York, where he is busy transforming the minds of his students.

Tentative 2010 Schedule

sustainmizzou — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:13:54 +0000

Friday, March 19th:
5-7p.m. Check In
7-9p.m Social Event

Saturday, March 20th:
8a.m.-9p.m. Breakfast and Snacks Provided, Workshops, Keynote Speech, Lunch and Dinner Opportunities, Social Event

Sunday, March 21st:
9a.m. to 1p.m. Workshops, Lunch Provided, Conference Debrief

Save the date!

sustainmizzou — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:19:52 +0000

March 19-21, 2010

The second annual Show-Me Sustainability Conference!
Hosted at the University of Missouri – Columbia.

Watch for more details in coming weeks. If you have any questions, ideas, or just want to get put on a list to receive e-mail updates, send an e-mail to Grace (this year’s conference coordinator) at the Show-Me Sustainability g-mail account.