UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference

UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference

REGISTRATION OPEN!

June 24-27th, 2007.

If you are a UC, CSU, or IOU Staff REGISTER EARLY and get a $100 DISCOUNT on your registration! This discount is funded by the UC/CSU/IOU Energy Efficiency Partnership and there are only a limited number of discounts. The University of California, Santa Barbara campus is proud to host the 6th annual statewide UC/CSU/CCC sustainability conference, highlighting best practices that you can implement today!

Participants will come from UC, CSU, community college, and private university campuses, government agencies, contractors, vendors, suppliers, and the general public. Together we will look at best practices and new technologies in all aspects of "greening" campus life and explore how to meet the challenges of responsible growth with environmental stewardship.
See http://geog.ucsb.edu/sustainability/conference2007/keynote.php for full biographies of keynote speakers.

To register, please visit: http://geog.ucsb.edu/sustainability/conference2007/index.php

MAQUILAPOLIS documentary PREMIER SCREENING

MAQUILAPOLIS is a documentary about (and by) workers in Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras. The project is a collaboration between filmmaker Vicky Funari, artist Sergio De La Torre, and Tijuana women's organization Grupo Factor X, with the participation of the human rights organization Global Exchange and the environmental activism non-profit The Environmental Health Coalition.

It will be screened on March 7, UCSD Center Hall at 8 pm. Come and meet some of the activists and workers.

Effects of globalization and the struggle to choose between livelihood and health

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/02/28/PM200702288.html

Click above for a story from "marketplace" on NPR. It is in audio or text format and includes pictures. In case you don't get a chance to read it, here is just one particularly sad quote-

"On cool mornings, exhaust from the plant sits here like fog — full ofsulfuric acid, arsenic, cadmium and lead. It burns holes in the shacks'steel roofs. Studies show that nearly every child under the age of 6 hereis technically poisoned."

I [Melissa] just went on a maquiladora tour on Saturday and at the end of the tour we spoke with some former maquilas who currently have suits against theirfactory. Although the above story is from Peru, as you know, the same experiences are happening right in our backyard and all over the world!

*Message shared with us by Melissa Munsell