With the launch of our new site, we also have a new feature on the right side of our homepage. Under “Events” is a list of the “Green Events Calendar” which can also be opened in its own page. Below are a handful of exciting conferences, seminars, and workshops in the month of June. There are two major themes to the events listed below. As schools let out for the summer there are a number of opportunities for professional development (many of which are listed below). The other trend relates to international conventions, symposiums, and seminars. Amongst the latter is a conference on car free cities, one of the top search terms that drives traffic to 2ndGreenRevolution.com.

Third Annual Student Congress on Sustainability 2010
When: June 1 – 4 2010
Where: Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy, 65-1692 Kohala Mountain Road, Kamuela, HI 96743 (map)
Description: The Student Congress on Sustainability 2010 aims to celebrate, inform, and cultivate student-driven environmental initiatives addressing local, national, and global issues. Through the enthusiasm, talent, and resourcefulness of young men and women, the Congress will be one means of facilitating widespread education and collaboration among high school students, serving to cultivate and shape habits of mind that will translate sustainable ideology into practice. During this four-day event students will have the opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas. There will be excursions, workshops, hands-on activities, and a series of speakers drawn from environmental scientists, community activists, educators, and others whose work will provide inspiration and direction for the students.
Further details: http://www.hpa.edu/gogreen/studentcongress/2010

CONFERENCE: Food in Bloom: Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Food Systems, Cultures and Methods
When: June 2 – 6 2010
Where: Bloomington, Indiana, United States (map)
Description: The conference seeks to celebrate the interconnectedness of food studies and to promote the understanding of food and agriculture. Cultivation & Sustainability of Food Systems; Boundary Crossings; Food, Agri. & Pedagogy
Further details: http://www.food-culture.org/

Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshops
When: June 3 – 4 2010
Where: San Diego State University; San Diego, CA (map)
Description: Through an intensive two days of presentations, exercises, discussions, reflection, and planning, participants will become familiar with the philosophy of change in higher education developed through the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project. Participants will also experience a range of workshop strategies, hear local experts, enjoy outdoor place-based activities, and dialogue with faculty from around the country as they gain help in adapting this model to their own campus. In a supportive and stimulating environment, workshop members will reflect on their own roles in the transformation of higher education. Readings and materials will also be provided.
Further details: http://www.aashe.org/profdev/curriculum.php

CONFERENCE: Footprint Forum 2010
When: June 7 – 12 2010
Where: Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy (map)
Description: The Forum Round tables are a series of fast-paced, highly interactive conversations on critical topics, designed to move the sustainability agenda forward during a time of increasing resource constraints.
Further details: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/forum

CONFERENCE: The Future of the Electricity Industry
When: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Where: Austin, Texas, United States (map)
Description: The symposium is designed to bring together decision makers, policy makers, managers,technical experts from a full breadth of energy industries seeking emerging solutions to a carbon-constrained electricity industry future.
Further details: http://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/shortcourse.cfm?course_num=1292

CONFERENCE: ‘Place Based Learning’ for Sustainability & Global Citizenship
When: Friday, June 11, 2010
Where: London, United Kingdom (map)
Description: London South Bank University -’Place-based learning’ is an emerging “movement” which orientates learning on the learners own place or home locality. This conference is for those interested in sustainable and cosmopolitan ‘place-making’
Further details: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/rbdo/external/EFSann-conf2010.shtml

4th Annual Biomimicry & Design Workshop
When: June 18 – 26 2010
Where: Veracruz, Mexico (map)
Description: This workshop is designed for faculty, professionals, and students seeking an intensive, interdisciplinary, and experiential introduction to biomimicry. Because the principles and practices of biomimicry straddle disciplines, we strongly encourage individuals from a diversity of disciplines to learn, appreciate, and interact together. You’ll work with people from various fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, industrial design, the sciences, engineering, community development, and city planning.
Further details: http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/education/training/#mexico

Germany as a Model? – Local, Regional and National Approaches to Sustainability
When: June 25 – July 5, 2010
Where: Berlin, Germany (map)
Description: In 2010 Studienforum Berlin e.V. will continue to devote its annual Faculty Development Seminar to the question of how Germany is mastering environmental challenges – in particular whether and how a major industrialized country in Europe copes with climate change and the ever increasing necessity to develop strategic sustainability options.
Further details: http://www.studienforum-berlin.de/facultyseminar_2010.html

CONFERENCE: Towards Carfree Cities
When: June 28 – July 1, 2010
Where: York, United Kingdom (map)
Description: Promoting practical alternatives to car dependence, helping to transform our towns and cities into human-scaled environments rich in public space and community life. The focus is on applied research, strategy, collaboration and exchange.
Further details: http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/

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