[van-announce] 4th Annual Sustainability Conference at UBC

[Student Environment Centre]

hello!!! there is a super-cool conference this weekend at UBC - lots of discussion around media, governance, gender, globalisation, first nations issues, environmental sustainability, etc. etc.
there's also a celebration with public dreams!

tell your friends! info. is below ... pre-reg is recommended but not required... it's cheap - but if you want to come and can't pay - you can help volunteer!

see info. below for more...

Abram Moore / SEC / 822.8676 / enviro at ams.ubc.ca


<<please forward widely!!>>

<< saturday panel / workshop descriptions attached...>>

<<registration info. at bottom of e-mail>>

Building Livable Communities: the 4th Annual Sustainability Conference at UBC
Friday January the 30th and Saturday January the 31st, 2004
FIRST NATIONS HOUSE OF LEARNING, UBC

the event:

Friday Evening Celebration 
w / Keynote Speaker John Robinson, Sustainable Development Research initiative
and Community Art Projects, Performances brought to you by the Public Dreams Society.
5pm-10pm   /   $5
(incl. light dinner)

Saturday Conference
w/ Keynote Speaker Helen Spiegelman and a series of panels, workshops and student discussions throughout the day
9am - 5pm   /   $10
(incl. lunch)

Follow-Up Sessions
there will be a series of workshops and networking events to follow up the conference.  times and locations to be announced.

the Location:

the First Nations House of Learning was built in 1993.  it serves as a home away from home for first nations students, and is a gathering place, a place of learning and caring.  see www.longhouse.ubc.ca for more.

format:

the conference is intended to be a community building exercise in itself.  wherever possible we are trying to create opportunities for students to connect, converse and engage with other students in their community.  this conference is primarily for students.

******Registration:

please fill out the information below 
e-mail to enviro at ams.ubc.ca - you can also pick up a form at SUB 245b.
payment for conference for ubc students must be dropped off at AMS Administration Office, box 39, or Sub 245b (sliding under door is okay).  for off-campus students, payment is due day of conference.  space is limited - please do not register unless you plan to attend.

today's date:
your name:
e-mail:
phone #:
student (y/n):
school:
area of study:

you will be able to attend one of the panels / workshops from each of the 4 sessions.  please number them in order of preference in the blank provided.  see attached file for full titles and descriptions.

session A
__ ubc / downtown eastside
__ bicycle planning / advocacy
__ co-op transport alternatives
__ public policy and health
__ visualising community sustain
__ dirt to fork
session b
__ community gardening
__ natural building
__ energy alt / development
__ landscape arch / comm
__ devel in marginalised comm
__ sustain game
__ democratised learn syst
session c
__ coop model
__ media democracy
__ seeds
__ sustainability ed
__ art and community
__ consensus decision-making
session d
__ sweatshop purchasing
__ urban agri at ubc
__ gender / globalisation
__ transport planning
__ tradit eco / bio-region
__ what paradigm.?

will you also be attending the friday celebration? y / n










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