Georgia Institute of Technology President Ángel Cabrera convenes a panel of faculty to discuss climate action, emerging technologies, and predictions for how we’ll live, work, and socialize in 2050 through a climate change lens as part of Sustainable Development Goals Action and Awareness Week.
Organizer: Georgia Institute of Technology
Join Online: c.gatech.edu/SDG2023
Conversations with Cabrera: Climate Change Read More »
The purpose of the webinar is to explain the efforts of young Emirati plant specialists in the generation of UAE Flora: The Native Plants Database of Emirates; a fully referenced, extensively validated, evolving, web-based, virtual database that has been designed and developed to introduce native plants form the biodiversity of UAE to the Global scientific communities, with the help and support of UAE plants’ expert from all the emirates. This database will be accessible to experts, researchers, and the public to support the UAE Flora conservation and reintroduction efforts.
Organizer: Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-uaes-native-plants-how-we-built-the-flora-database-webinar-tickets-559442998067
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s SDG Scholar Program (housed within their College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources), seeks to both spark curiosity about the goals and help students chart their professional paths to be aligned with them. Learn more about the program (and potentially join us as an SDG expert, if you’re interested!) by attending this session about creatively re-combining resources and connections to benefit students, our countries, and the world.
Organizer: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Register: https://unl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuf-ihrjkvHtCaGd6tALbcYl7WxCtWO-x3
“Beyond the Box: CASNR Edition” is a collection of resources in an interactive audio exhibit highlighting Nebraska faculty and staff contributions towards the Sustainable Development Goals (currently on display at the Nebraska East Union third floor). The project was created to utilize digital storytelling to support students in various grades as they explore their future. Through focusing on important human values, these collections of stories highlight how individuals have found their way into the sciences and how their chosen career has allowed them to do amazing and impactful work related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Organizer: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
To register: https://unl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucuutqjIvGNJGfYtANyfZlAZMyJnQvA-f
“Meet the Maker” of the Beyond the Box: SDGs exhibit, Nebraska alumna Peyton Bishop Read More »
The Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 program is organized by the SDG Innovation Lab, Centre of Entrepreneurship, Centennial College with OSPE and Canadian Partners and the support from UNDP and Digital Society School Amsterdam. It is a weekend program to contribute to the Global Goals by collaborating and building solutions to pressing social or business challenges and invoking the participation and engagement of students, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, creative thinkers, and the public community. The program uses a design process and lean methodology to guide participants ensuring that any potential solutions actually solve the problem at hand.
Organizer: Centennial College and Partners
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-goals-jam-canada-winter-2023-march-10-12th-weekend-tickets-479543897707
Global Goals Jam Canada Winter 2023 Read More »
Please join us on Monday, March 6, 1-2 pm PST, as UC Davis SDG Interns interview student speakers from around the world about encouraging local agricultural production, reducing food waste, and engaging communities to facilitate food distribution.
Organizer: UC Davis
To register: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ccy17hwAQfasyKQdDXfolA
We head over to Colombia’s second biggest city, Medellin, to explore the positive social and environmental impacts urban gardening can have upon your community. Led by a local pioneer, you will learn how to dramatically reduce your daily carbon footprint while also discovering expert techniques to be able to start a composting system for your home or university. The interactive webinar includes a presentation from local pioneer Laura Rubio and tangible take-away tools to take sustainable action straight away.
Organizer: Kagumu Adventures
TO REGISTER: https://forms.gle/6kaEdsUsn7YLMYeg9
Urban Gardening & Composting: Take Action in Your Community Read More »
A webinar on “Strengthening Resilience and Collaboration for Wetlands” for participants from Higher Education Institutions. Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet wetlands are in danger; threatened with drainage for agriculture, degradation, pollution, and destruction at an alarming pace. Collaboration among Business, Government, and NGOs and Higher Institution is essential.
Organizer: University of Madras
4-5 pm Indian Standard Time
Strengthening Resilience and Collaboration for Wetlands (4-5 pm Indian Standard Time) Read More »
Billions of tons of solid waste are generated every year globally, estimated at 60M tons of electronic waste, 730M tons of medical waste, 1B tons of hazardous waste, and 2B tons of municipal solid waste (World Bank Group 2018). For this talk, Professor Beril Toktay will discuss strategies for managing two types of solid waste–both that which is fit for value-added recovery as well as that which is unwanted and potentially detrimental to public health and the environment. Registration requested.
Organizer: Georgia Institute of Technology
International Considerations in Responsible Waste Management Read More »
This event will share with Tec de Monterrey’s alumni and attendees the role of the Institution as part of the Race to Zero Initiative to catalyze climate action in Mexico.
Organizer: Tecnológico de Monterrey