Stone Barns Center is a highly respected and well-known, due to its proximity to New York City, non-profit farm and educational center that used to be part of the estate of the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. It has just announced that it will be offering summer apprenticeships in its greenhouse, which happens to be […]
Month: January 2013
ASAP Scholars
The Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP) seeks to enhance the quality of agricultural and environmental education at the University of Illinois through support graduate students studying critical issues in agriculture, food systems and their interactions with the environment and society. The intent of this program is to recruit and support exceptional graduate students interested […]
U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack pushes for progress on Farm Bill
Now that the presidential election is over, and a new session of Congress has officially convened (their first day was yesterday), the government is focusing once again on the critically important Farm Bill, a $500 billion behemoth of a bill that expired in September of last year. Both sides are hoping that a new session […]
Pastured Poultry Webinar
Another day, another webinar it seems. I’ll be brief in my description, but this webinar, entitled “Pastured Poultry Production and Profitability” will be presented by NCAT and NCAT’s own Terrell Spencer at 12pm Central time on February 7, 2013. The title of the webinar should give some description into what will be talked about, but […]
U.S. Borlaug Info for Grad Students
Hope everyone had a great holiday season; I know I did. If you’re a grad student studying sustainability, food systems, or international politics, do you know about the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program? If not, you very well might be interested in a couple of opportunities being offered through the program, which […]
Webinar Tomorrow: Decision-Making and Pollution Prevention
Tomorrow, the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center will be kicking off its spring Sustainability Seminar series, named “Multiple Facets of Sustainability”, with the intriguingly titled “Beyond Energy Efficiency: Behavior Change Tactics for the Pollution Prevention Community”. Appealing to the environmentally-minded as well as those interested in psychology, tomorrow’s talk, headed by Susan Mazur-Stommen, Director of Behavior and […]
Beyond Energy Efficiency: Behavior Change Tactics for the Pollution Prevention Community
Come to the kick-off of the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center’s spring Sustainability Seminar tomorrow (Jan 17) from 2 – 3 pm. Susan Mazur-Stommen, Director of Behavior and Human Dimensions Program at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Susan will discuss what behavior change research tells us about how people make decisions and what motivates […]