Tag: sustainability
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Symposium: Sink or Swim. Searching for a sustainable relationship with water.
Category: Uncategorized‘Sink or Swim’ is an interdisciplinary symposium establishing an encounter between visual art, history, philosophy, ecology and governance, seeking to provide current insights and creative inspiration for building a sustainable relationship with water. Still Waters Run Deep is an interdisciplinary programme curated by Marlies Augustijn, taking place from 26 June…
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Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on…
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CfP: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency – International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (online)
Category: UncategorizedThe 17th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability invites submissions. It will will take place on 24-26 February 2021. This year’s special focus will be on Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability: Policy Solutions for the Climate Emergency. Plenary speakers: Diederik Samsom, Marjan Minnesma, Christian Felber and Ilona Otto. …
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Online Symposium: Investigating and Rethinking Single Use Plastics
Category: UncategorizedFor those interested: there is a Vrije Universiteit (online) event about single use plastics taking place on the 18th of September.
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Help the Green Office make our campus greener
Category: UncategorizedThe Green Office invites you to help make our campus greener.
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Lecture and Masterclass Allan Stoekl – Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation
Category: UncategorizedTags: Allan Stoekl, Buddhist Economics, environmental humanities, Georges Bataille, sustainability, technocracyPlease note a change of room for the Masterclass: VU Medical Building, room D-565. In his public lecture on 20 September, Allan Stoekl draws on the work of Georges Bataille and E. F. Schumacher’s Buddhist economics to imagine a theory of sustainability that will avoid the pitfalls of the technocratic…
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Should we follow the Wizard or the Prophet? – Discussing diverging paths for sustainable food system transformation
Category: UncategorizedTags: event, food, food system, sustainability, sustainable food, transitions, vrije universiteit amsterdam, vuThis food system symposium will include keynote talks by international food system experts from within and outside academia. It is held at Vrije Universiteit on Friday, September 13, 9:00-13:00.
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ASI Call for Integrative Project Proposals
Category: UncategorizedAmsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) now calls for integrative project proposals. ASI aims to invite you to submit proposals that would encourage and strengthen ‘Science for Sustainability’ at Vrije Universiteit
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On the Roof Film Festival – Sustainable edition
Category: NewsThe annual On the Roof Film Festival, held on the roof of the main building of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this week, is devoted to the theme of Sustainability. Together with the Green Office, the organizers put together a programme of four films, talks, food, and drinks. For four evenings the…
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CFP: Science for Sustainability Journal
Category: NewsAttention all students interested in the environmental humanities: our Green Office has launched a peer-reviewed student journal on sustainability. The journal’s editors are looking for contributions from the Humanities. Please take a look at their call for papers and consider this opportunity to publish your research paper. Submit your papers…