National Food Summit 2011, Toronto

Check this out!

Intro from the website:

“The National Student Food Summit 2011 is the first of its kind in Canada. The Summit will be held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With the theme of the Summit being, “Food Connects Us All” students working on issues related to food, poverty, health and the environment are invited to be one of five representatives from their campus to share their expertise and perspective in the creation of a Campus Food Charter.  This document will identify a set of principles related to food that all of us can strive towards to achieve food security on our campuses and communities across Canada. ”

 

Next meeting

Hey guys,

 

Next meeting is Monday 28th, at 2pm, in WMC 2506. Check out the minutes for details.

 

We are now on Twitter!

Follow us on Twitter @SCDStudentUnion. We will tweet about upcoming meeting times, and other exciting SCD related news.

Student Common Room

 

As previously announced by your Sustainable Community Development Student Union, you’ve now got access to a Student Common Room. Note: This is shared with Environmental Science students. Located in WMC 2605 – at the Centre for Sustainable Community Development. The room is available 24/7. To request the door code send an email to: scdadmin@sfu.ca (please provide your full name and SFU student number). Please keep this code confidential.

Institute for Values in Policy and Science is having an inaugural lecture on …….

…. you guessed it: GMO!

Title: Policy in the Face of Complexity and Deep Uncertainty: Genetically Modified Organisms

Speaker: Sandra Mitchell, History & Philosophy of Science, U. of Pittsburgh

Location: Segal Centre, 555 Hastings Street SFU Harbour Centre Room 1400

RSVP here

And for more information, check out http://www.sfu.ca/~vips/ .

EnVision SFU with Sustainable SFU

Have you heard about EnVision SFU? President Andre Petter will be reaching out to communities of SFU, to hear their say on a list of 10 questions regarding the university’s vision. You can participate! You can check out and contribute to the discussions online, or participate in focus group discussions (max of 10 people! what an opportunity!) or meet the president himself when he’ll  be doing hallway presentations on campus.  This really is a great opportunity to be heard.

http://envision.sfu.ca/

“As SFU looks ahead to its half-century celebrations 2015, I think it’s important to take stock of our strengths, review our goals and seize new opportunities. “

- Andrew Petter, President and Vice Chancellor SFU

In relation to that Sustainable SFU will be organising their own meeting to bring forth sustainability issues in the enVisioning process, not to mention other projects. It will be a working meeting and so people will be broken into focus groups for some serious brain work.
Location: The SCD meeting room, WMC 2609
Time: TOMORROW Friday 25th 1:30pm

PICS Lecture Series

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions has a running lecture series, one on the last Thursday of each month at 7pm, various locations.

Check out this month’s lecture on Sustainability Systems as if People Matter.

Attend the lecture or view it from the comfort of your home:

http://www.pics.uvic.ca/events.php