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Day Tour of Maungatautari Ecological Trust – Now Available

Published on November 29, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

We invite you to join us for an all day tour of the Maungatautari Ecological Trust. The Maungatautari Ecological Trust is an internationally significant restoration project, this 3,400 hectare forested, extinct volcano stands majestically on the landscape in the Waikato basin, between Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Putaruru, in the central North Island of New Zealand. This tour includes bus transport to Maungatautari Ecological Trust from Hamilton and back, a guided tour and information session, as well as lunch. For more information on the Maungatautari Ecological Trust please visit http://www.maungatrust.org/index.asp. Please wear appropriate walking shoes and sun hat.

The tour will leave from Hamilton on Saturday, 8 January at 9:00AM and return at 5:00PM.

*This tour has a minimum of 30 people. If we do not reach this number, we will notify you and refund your payment.

For more information please visit the 2011 Sustainability Conference Web-Site.

Eva Collins and Veronica Dujon to speak in New Zealand

Published on November 29, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Eva Collins and Veronica Dujon will speak at the 2011 Sustainability Conference at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Eva Collins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand (BS Hons, Portland State; MA, Essex; PhD, George Washington University). Her area of research and teaching is business strategy related to sustainability. She is an award-winning writer of sustainability case studies. In 2009, she and her research team received a prestigious Marsden Grant for a 3-year study examining the vulnerability of New Zealand’s global environmental positioning.

Veronica Dujon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon, USA. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. She publishes in the area of natural resource use and Third World Economic Development. Her latest publication is the edited volume Understanding the Dimensions of Social Sustainability (2009) with colleagues Prof. Mary King and Jesse Dillard.

Prof. Dujon teaches courses in environmental sociology, sociology of globalization, social sustainability, and the sociology of women. One of her major research interest areas is the role of women in the global economy and how to build socially sustainable societies.

Prof. Dujon is a three-time winner of the John Eliot Allen Teaching Award. In 2005 she was nominated for the U.S. Professor of the Year Award. In 2008 Prof. Dujon received the PSU Distinguished Faculty Award.

For more information please visit the 2011 Sustainability Conference Web-Site.

Dr. Robert Howell to Speak in New Zealand

Published on September 21, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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Dr Robert Howell is currently CEO of the Council for Socially Responsible Investment. He is a highly experienced CEO, consultant and university teacher, with competencies in strategic visioning, strategic planning, governance and policy setting, organisational and systems design and implementation, and business ethics. He has a wide ranging experience having worked in advisory, teaching and CEO positions in the health, local authority, international education, and non-profit sectors. During recent years he has developed competencies in writing and teaching the ethical, economic, business, policy and conflict implications of climate change, environmental degradation and sustainability. He has played a significant role in the introduction of social and environmental factors into aspects of New Zealand investment. He  led a Quaker 12 year Project dealing with the introduction of non-violent conflict resolution training into the Indonesian police. He is one of the authors of Strong Sustainability for New Zealand: Principles and Scenarios, and one of the Quaker authors of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.


Sustainabilty Conference–Share Your Photos

Published on July 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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To those of you that joined us at the 2010 Sustainability Conference in Cuenca, Ecuador, or if you’ve participated in a previous conference, please share your photos of the conference with your friends and colleagues that you met while at the conference. Pictures of the conference sessions, dinner, tours and ‘down time’ are all welcome!

Join our Sustainability Conference Flickr group here, and upload your pictures to easily share. Once you’ve joined, simply click on ‘Add something?’, and upload your photos or videos of the conference.

For information on sharing photos with Flickr, please read more here.

Redesigned Newsletter: Launched Today

Published on April 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Today the International Conference on Sustainability Newsletter will be relaunched – marking the start of a new approach to connecting with and reaching out to our Sustainability Community. The Sustainability Newsletter will be sent out on a monthly basis and will contain important community news, conference updates, and publication information.

It is the hope of Common Ground Publishing that this newsletter will provide you with a more positive experience connecting with the Sustainability Community.

If you are not currently a subscriber but would like to receive future newsletter emails, please go to http://www.onsustainability.com and click on “Sign Up: Our Newsletter” in the upper right-hand corner.

If you have inquiries, concerns, or general comments, please feel free to contact the newsletter team at support@onsustainability.com.