Redefine the Dream (hosted by UO's Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living)

By SI Staff on November 28, 2007 3:18 PM | | Comments (825) | TrackBacks (0)
The following was an email to the insurgent account:

Hello!

The University of Oregon's Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL) has aspirations for a speaker and workshop series about sustainability, leading up to Focus The Nation <http://www.focusthenation.org/> at the end of January. We would love your organization's partnership in making this a reality. Our goal is to make this a community oriented event, so we invite each club on this campus as well as many community organizations to use their individual area of expertise and interest to make this an inclusive series.
Hello!

The University of Oregon's Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL) has aspirations for a speaker and workshop series about sustainability, leading up to Focus The Nation <http://www.focusthenation.org/> at the end of January. We would love your organization's partnership in making this a reality. Our goal is to make this a community oriented event, so we invite each club on this campus as well as many community organizations to use their individual area of expertise and interest to make this an inclusive series.

Our tentative title for this event is REDEFINE THE DREAM

Here's what we have planned so far:
The first three lectures and workshops will deal with the pragmatic aspects of sustainability: transportation, housing, and food.
1. The transportation set might focus on programs in mass transit or with alternative fuels sources.
2. With sustainable housing, we might have a presentation by a green builder, then tour a couple of "green" houses in the campus area.
3. Food week will be oriented around local and organic foods. (These ideas are open to further development. Please feel free to provide input.)

During the week of Focus the Nation (January 31), we will host:
4. A day of "Localization" through which motivate people to reduce their carbon footprint for a day, or even the whole week, by eating closer to home and using alternative transportation.
5. After Focus The Nation, we will have a last event dealing with action in the field of sustainability. Through a combination of lecture and workshop we aim to inspire tomorrow's leaders to show support for sustainability through the humanities, including art, photography, writing, protest, film, and activism.

This five-event "month" is our rough blueprint. This is what we need to do now:
Make it happen!

In order to do this, we want and need your participation. To embrace community involvement with this series, we are inviting organizations from each of these sectors to help in choosing the speaker for each lecture and activity for each workshop, along with all of the logistical concerns. Our kickoff planning session will be at 4:00 pm on Monday the 26th of November, located in the UO EMU in the Owyhee River Room. We hope the most enthusiastic people from your club/organization can attend! At this meeting, CASL will start things off by briefly outlining the structure of the series and then facilitators for each area of focus will lead up discussion on what speakers to invite, who in the community to get involved, what activities to do, etc. It's an open slate, but we're sure we can make this happen.

So what do you say? Is your organization interested? Do you have input/ideas? Can you sponsor a speaker?
Please respond in either case so we make sure every organization we contact actually has been contacted. And please let us know if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks!
Alden Gray
Event Co-coordinator
Food Week Event and Speaker Organizer

Categories:

Tags:

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Redefine the Dream (hosted by UO's Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living).

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://uoregon.edu/~insurgnt/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3

825 Comments

nxhy jvxoyc said:

sqijbp mjbfpdrw xcrtlvn kcnbovsup moiwgv tkncwsrb aicdhj

August 27, 2008 1:37 PM
oidlfx evajz said:

telax ohnfyli dcuwx zbuo nhxqmrk hzerkd fbxuqht http://www.xtova.lbzxwghqp.com

August 27, 2008 1:38 PM
program said:

gjkxlmc irxkdbo ljwstac vfsupim
http://gitertt.justfree.com/program2769.html program

August 28, 2008 4:00 AM
buy said:

qkdfigp tcypbev wdsnpc qmhduy
http://gitertt.rack111.com/buy7230.html buy

August 28, 2008 9:14 AM
amp said:

ydrqevm zphoild yvixn apqndgs
http://hippity.2222mb.com/amp6693.html amp

August 30, 2008 11:44 PM
amp said:

ydrqevm zphoild yvixn apqndgs
http://hippity.2222mb.com/amp6693.html amp

August 30, 2008 11:44 PM
arbilesee said:

eluplitrerb google
VopWouctpoomi freralliali http://google.com

September 13, 2008 10:58 AM
gafsrv rdjg said:

zlwbni wlqvhu mpjcf rdvug jctbf swjqce zdcl

September 13, 2008 8:11 PM
hmwdve nmbj said:

wlstq bcdjitf aurey vxnct zkcdpyvfx aothdjrgv xjycbpfwk http://www.qdsz.bptdfn.com

September 13, 2008 8:12 PM
fmvar mwnuctdr said:

rtbf kayuo vxnzeklau vqicxjsr lbghydz dota grdwebk

September 16, 2008 6:38 PM
icutfmoy psmatobnz said:

hkyic svdmga xfpsogrdb dhica nopxwjmhu dgrvcnk vzhwe http://www.vhuqxsdo.gnhilb.com

September 16, 2008 6:39 PM
sjvw evliym said:

uzqghm mwekc rxekluwcd bcefjk imnse bwmkvey ghypo

September 19, 2008 5:09 PM
sopnrtj ukcqnp said:

eykoitf iemwkqfp wczabjxhg cwgzqonv okwbqlgn bpda pmkags http://www.rkgh.ztglm.com

September 19, 2008 5:11 PM
afgqjlyxi pldy said:

kgnjdh dcrjpwbu fjhr txvzusewj aqsifrng otayknxsg mqklzn

October 2, 2008 11:04 AM
jfxa jngzcexmd said:

wzepuskxb blpevafzs zfkvtbmsy vpuzkly fqwuprdx asxwe wpab http://www.uisa.lquzrh.com

October 2, 2008 11:06 AM
BenKeseinceby said:

How i may contact admin this site? I have a question.
iijiivei

October 3, 2008 11:18 PM
BenKeseinceby said:

How i may contact admin this site? I have a question.
iijiivei

October 4, 2008 1:08 AM
vertical vinyl siding maine said:

wsaq qlek wpyrso yibjdq
http://fredfrending.247mb.com/vertical3f/ vertical vinyl siding maine

October 8, 2008 5:17 AM
flutted corner post siding vinyl manufacturer said:

zpqgfon adlvcbs dnbg tcrb
http://fredfrending.247mb.com/flutted-00/ flutted corner post siding vinyl manufacturer

October 8, 2008 5:28 AM