The North Country Sustainability Day & Green Living Fair
Fri. April 3 – Sat. April 4, 2020
St. Lawrence University
We are inviting proposals for workshops, breakout sessions, and posters during Sustainability Day this year. The deadline to submit proposals is January 31, 2020, at 5:00pm. This event is organized by the Associated Colleges partnering with Paul Smith’s College and the Potsdam and Canton municipal sustainability groups.
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Proposal Categories
• Case Study, Panel Discussion, or Workshop: 30 minutes during break-out sessions. Note: You may propose an extended session which uses more than one time slot in consecutive order (up to 90 minutes).
• Poster or Activity Table: 90 minutes during Green Living Fair. Presenters are expected to stand with their posters and discuss them with attendees. The look and format of activity table or poster presentations is up to the creativity and imagination of the presenters. Each presenter will be given a table and/or a vertical display surface. Presenters are responsible for creating, transporting, hanging, and taking down posters/activities.
• Artwork: Displayed during Green Living Fair. Artists are responsible for creating, transporting, displaying, and taking down art. Acceptance will be based largely on logistical feasibility for displaying the artwork. We may contact you directly about logistics related to your artwork.
• Live Performance: 5-30 minutes during Sustainability Fair & Poster Session. Performers are responsible for creating, transporting, displaying, and taking down performance aids. Acceptance will be based largely on logistical feasibility for displaying the performance. We will contact you directly about logistics related to your performance.
Potential Proposal Topics
- Sustainability research: Research that brings science to the issues of sustainability and finds solutions to sustainability challenges
- Technical skills: greenhouse gas inventory; project management & facilitation skills; branding sustainability (public speaking, presentation skills, grant writing, written, digital and social media, website development); fundraising
- Household sustainability: carbon footprint analysis; energy & water conservation; green building and retrofitting; waste & recycling; landscaping & gardening
- Personal Sustainability (i.e. how to sustain yourself while promoting sustainability at home or in the workplace): sustainability and psychology; facilitation skills & conflict resolution; support networks for sustainability practitioners; human sustainability; health & wellness
- Integrating diversity, inclusion and social justice: Develop competencies to collaborate, communicate, and manage conflict across cultural divides; building diversity, inclusion and social justice goals; learning to value and build solidarity across boundaries like race, class, and age
- Community climate change resilience: community food security; microgrid; emergency preparedness; infrastructure resilience
- Institutionalizing sustainability: Understanding municipal or higher education culture; integration of sustainability policies & plans; campus as a living lab, educational programming and curriculum integration; community engagement
- Sustainability within higher education: How sustainability impacts campuses; attracting and retaining students and employees; increasing graduation rates; reducing operational expenses; impacting learning and career preparation; increasing quality of life; enhancing town-gown relations
Other: Your creative ideas here!