AASHE Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education
Taking place ONLINE October 18th, October 26th, and November 3rd 2022!
Check out the full online schedule here! Details will be added to the calendar as they become available.
Conference theme: "The Urgency of Now"
In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major report indicating that immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change. Despite this unequivocal and urgent warning from the world’s leading climate scientists and even as the dire consequences of climate change become ever more apparent, especially for the most vulnerable communities, many institutions and organizations seem mired in gradualism. With a theme of “The Urgency of Now,” this year’s Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE) is a clarion call for transformative sustainability solutions that match the speed and scale of the challenges we face.
The theme takes inspiration from the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who in his 1963 I Have A Dream speech remarked: “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” He uttered the phrase again in his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence when he said, “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Those five powerful words are just as poignant today as they were in 1963 and 1967. On climate change as well as on matters of social justice, there is such a thing as being ‘too late,” as he famously noted.
Sustainable Campus is thrilled to announce that Florida State University is once again an official Host Institution of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE)’s annual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE)! This means you get to attend for FREE!
Throughout this three-day event (Oct 18, Oct 26, and Nov 3) you will have the chance to explore live interactive sessions, tune in to captivating keynote presentations, and engage in networking opportunities with thousands of other sustainability professionals and campus-change agents.
Sign up using the instructions below to gain free access to this great event:
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