Our Sustainable Future - CSU, Chico
Upcoming Events
This web page is intended to connect campus and community with upcoming sustainable events. If you are a local community member with an upcoming non-profit sustainable event that you would like us to include on this page please e-mail details to sustainability@csuchico.edu
Partnering again this year with Butte College for This Way to Sustainability!
Registration is now open for Butte College - The Built Environment - to be held at Butte College June 4-6, 2008.
Please visit http://www.butte.edu/services/facplan/Sustainability/conference.html
We are now accepting proposals for This Way to Sustainability IV Conference at CSU, Chico to be held November 6-9, 2008.
Please visit http://www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/events/2008conference/conference_info.shtml
See the Summer Savings Series workshop calendar. These workshops are presented by the Sustainable Business Partnership ~ a partnership between The Institute for Sustainable Development at CSU, Chico, the Chico Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Chico.
June 2008
June 4-6, 2008
This Way to Sustainability IV - Part I The Built Environment
Will be held on the Butte College main campus. For registration and information please visit http://www.butte.edu/services/facplan/Sustainability/conference.html
Green Baby Expo
June 21
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Silver Dollar Fairgrounds
June 21, 2008
CFL Event
Summer kick off for compact florescent light collection in Butte County. Details pending.
Please contact Adele Phister or Robyn DiFalco at AS Recycling (530) 898-5033, or Mary Muchowski with Butte Environmental Council at (530) 891-6424 or via e-mail at marym@shocking.com
July 2008
July 31 – Aug 3
UC/CSU/CC Sustainability Conference at Cal Poly SLO
http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/
August 3-6, 2008
CA Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) Annual Conference
For recycling industry professionals in Burlingame (SF) Interested students may join or volunteer to get in free. www.crra.com
August 2008
Tuesday, August 19-Sunday, August 24
Getting Connected
Getting Connected Activities will be Tuesday August 19th – Sunday August 24th. For individual department or program event schedules and locations please contact the Academic Advising Programs office at phone: 530-898-5712 or email: kdufour@csuchico.edu.
September 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Chasing Sustainability
David Chameides Returns to Chico
PAC 144 - Time TBD
David Chameides is a freelance journalist writing articles on alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles for Edmunds.com, an automotive website that receives in excess of a million hits a month. He created and teaches a course on renewable energy and sustainability to middle school and high school students throughout Los Angeles County, has converted his car to run on used vegetable oil, and has a 2.8 kilowatt solar system installed on his house. Presently, he is developing a Green themed reality television show for the Discovery Channel. He has served as an on air expert on a PBS show entitled Green 2.0, along with Cameron Sinclair(Architecture For Humanity), Alex Steffen(WorldChanging), Simran Sethri, and Allison Arrieff(Dwell Magazine). He is creating a non-profit organization that will serve as one stop shopping for film productions in Los Angeles that desire to decrease their ecological footprint and will offer certification for those productions that meet the criteria. He teaches the Residential Greening Course for Sustainable Works of Santa Monica and is in the process of creating a Green Zebra Green Guide for the city of Los Angeles after it’s successful beginning in San Francisco.
October 2008
November 2008
November 6-9, 2008This Way to Sustainability IV Converence
CSU, Chico Campus
See Conference Details