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Monday, September 24, 2007
By Jordan Kemp
 
 
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In almost two weeks, the Sustainable Campuses, National Conference will finally begin at The University of Western Ontario.
In partnership between the Sierra Youth Coalition, a branch of the Sierra Club of Canada, and EnviroWestern, the conference will serve to launch sustainability initiatives on campus.
 
Drawing 150 students from across Canada, the National Conference will train and educate students on how to conduct a reliable sustainability assessment and implement change.
 
The conference is the only event of its kind in North America, bringing the next generations of leaders together to improve the sustainability of campus communities.
 
In addition to training delegates, the conference will host several keynote speaker sessions which are open to the entire university. On Sept. 28, Western's Charles Trick, Beryl Ivey Chair of Ecosystem Health, will discuss the relationship between human health and ecosystem health.
 
Hans Schreff of London Hydro's conservation program will discuss the importance of utilities, the private sector and the individual in effectively improving energy efficiency.
 
On September 29t, Penn Kemp will open the evening keynote with a reading of her work “Poem for Peace in Many Voices."
 
Evon Peter, the national director of Native Movement, an organization that seeks to motivate young people “toward balanced relations with each other and Mother Earth" will give the Saturday evening keynote entitled “Steps Towards a Balanced World."
 
The Sustainable Campuses, National Conference, 2007 seeks not only to train students across Canada on improving sustainability on their own campuses, but to inaugurate initiatives within our own community. This event will showcase our successes while providing a means for community members to effectively reduce their own ecological footprint.  
 
The writer is a member of EnviroWestern and coordinator of the Sustainable Campuses, National Conference.
 
To learn more about the event, visit www.syc-cjs.org/sustainable
 

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