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Acara prepares young leaders to take on the greatest environmental challenges...
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: Strategies for Living a Zero Waste Lifestyle
LUNCH & LEARNS You bring lunch, we’ll supply dessert, drinks, and learning. Strategies for Living a Zero Waste Lifestyle / Wednesday, Sept. 26th, 12-1pm Want to learn about how to live a zero waste lifestyle? Kyle Samejima is the Executive Director of Minneapolis Climate Action and has a knack and a passion for finding ways to live a full and vibrant life without harming the environment. Learn her secrets through this Boreas Lunch and Learn. Bring your lunch and we will provide…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: Mindful Ways of Leading
LUNCH & LEARNS You bring lunch, we’ll supply dessert, drinks, and learning. Mindful Ways of Leading / Wednesday, Oct 3rd, 12-1pm At this lunch and learn, we will discuss ways of leading through mindfulness practices. Justin Baker is the founder of Mindful Power and blends the scientific, medical, and therapeutic worlds to create mindfulness-based training, offering the opportunity for others to get the most out of themselves. Justin is also our new Graduate Research Assistant and is working on a…
Find out more »10 Years of Sustainability Studies: A University of Minnesota Sustainability Alumni Gathering
Was sustainability part of your UMN experience?
Find out more »SESCON18
A collaborative conference with University Health and Safety, Facilities Management, Energy Management, Sustainability, Institute on the Environment, and the Wellness Program—a shared commitment for keeping the University community and environment safe.
Find out more »We Are Water MN Exhibit Opening
Save the date for our special public exhibit opening and reception where we will share our water connection stories.
Find out more »Open Saturdays: We Are Water MN
Take advantage of this special weekend opportunity to experience the We Are Water MN exhibition including programming and other activities.
Find out more »EcoDistricts Research Forum
Join researchers, policymakers and practitioners in engaging in a facilitated discussion and interchange of ideas designed to help shape the evolving research on sustainable district-scale development.
Find out more »Fall Environmental Justice Symposium
This unique event will bring students and faculty together with community leaders to discuss the importance of environmental justice...
Find out more »Finding common ground on the environment
Join two of the country’s most influential young leaders — Benji Backer, founder of the American Conservation Coalition, and Caroline Weinberg, co-founder of the March for Science — for a conversation on the role of science in policy-making and what it will take to find common ground on critical environmental challenges given our hyperpartisan landscape.
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