There are two workshops available -
Pre-Conference Workshop: Recalibrating Sustainability for the Northeast
Post-Conference Workshop: Building a Sustainable Brand: How to Identify, Attract and Engage Stakeholders in Your Mission
From the Center for Sustainability Website:
Register today for the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference.
Colleges and universities are incubators of innovation, tackling the biggest challenges of society through creative means. The 2013 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference provides the setting to learn, share, and explore how campuses are using their passion for innovation to develop technologies, infrastructure, programs, and curricula that address the world's most pressing sustainability challenges.
Join your colleagues and take an in-depth approach toward defining, understanding, and creating solutions to sustainability issues facing our campuses.
Attendees include directors and staff from sustainability, facilities, health & safety, campus planning, and business offices; as well as students, business partners and other education stakeholders.
Applications are now being accepted from full-time, currently enrolled college students interested in receiving a limited number of complimentary registrations to attend the conference. Applications are due by February 15, 2013. Click here to find out more.
The conference will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Bethesda, Maryland. Early bird rates are in effect until February 28th.
You can register for pre- or post-conference workshops.
Pre-Conference Workshop
Recalibrating Sustainability for the Northeast
Sunday, April 14, 2013
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Workshop includes breakfast, lunch and two coffee breaks
The Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) invites you to join us for a one-day meeting of sustainability minds. The purpose of this session is to shape a 2014-2024 vision for this region following the end of the first UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Join us as we recalibrate our understanding of the ecological changes and business case propositions for campus sustainability efforts. An outcome of this session will include a short summary of key themes for the future (Charter). These themes will be useful for campus and community presentations on trends for the next decade. Everyone is welcome. Find out more here.
Post-Conference Workshop
Building a Sustainable Brand: How to Identify, Attract and Engage
Stakeholders in Your Mission
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Workshop includes breakfast, lunch and two coffee breaks
Who cares about sustainability at your institution? How do you know? You are so focused on rolling out your programs that the last thing on your "to-do list" is to talk about them. Ironically, this step is critical in enhancing your work, and when done effectively, can actually play a key role in leveraging sustainability outcomes to meet institutional goals such as reducing operating costs, staff and student recruitment, alumni engagement and more.
This full day workshop is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and tools they need to successfully engage university stakeholders in sustainable behaviors, as well as, enhance their own success through targeted promotion of their program/department/office's efforts. This is a very hands-on workshop, where emphasis will be placed on message development; program branding; audience identification and prioritization; and proper selection, implementation and measurement of program marketing strategies and tactics.
Post any questions in the conference message board or visit the website here for more information.