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Applications open! YES Japan 2009
JAPAN YOUTH ENCOUNTER ON SUSTAINABILITY (YES) 2009 Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan, 25 March - 9 April 2009 Applications Now Open! Deadline: 30 December 2008 ETHsustainability, the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Hosei University in Japan are pleased to announce the opening of the application process for [...]
Continue reading...S3.Zurich | Registration Open
Saturday, October 25, 2008
The next Student Summit for Sustainability (S3.Zurich) will be hosted in Zurich, Switzerland from 25 January - 1 February 2009. The deadlines for abstract submissions and funding applications have passed, but registration is still open for all students interested in attending. Please visit this page to learn more about this exciting summit!
Continue reading...S3.Zurich | Call for Papers & Posters!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Call for Papers and Posters for the next Student Summit for Sustainability to be held in Zurich, Switzerland from January 25 - February 1, 2009 is now open! Access the Call for Papers and Posters here, as well as further information on this exciting student summit, which will be hosted in collaboration with the [...]
Continue reading...Applications still open | oikos Student Award
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Apply till 30 September: oikos Student Award 2008 The annual oikos Student Award recognizes outstanding student driven projects in the field of higher education for Sustainable Development.
Continue reading...VII Latin-American Encounter of Youth for Environment and Sustainability
Friday, August 29, 2008
Date: 16 - 19 October 2008 Place: Bogotá – Colombia Brief: The regional director for Latin America of the WSC-SD, Adriana Valenzuela, is organizing in Bogotá, Colombia the VII Latin-American Encounter of Youth for Environment and Sustainability, with the principal topic “Youth, Climate Change and action for the future”. In this Encounter will participate leaders, [...]
Continue reading...AGS-UTSC | Japan Youth Summit for Sustainability (JYSS)
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
JYSS was held three weeks before SSS2007. About 60 youth include university and high school students and people working in NGOs and companies joined this 3 days program. We set the goals of each day; Learn more about sustainability, Create more for our future, Communicate more for actions and collaboration. Participants learned and discussed how to [...]
Continue reading...Millennium Development Goal # 7 -Ensure Environmental Sustainability:How are we doing?
Monday, May 1, 2006
Author: Atish Bajpai MSc (Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure); Kungl Tekniska Hagskolan, Stockholm, Sweden The environment is in trouble and the United Nations is implementing plans in many areas to make the environment sustainable. Millennium goal 7 sets out the following 3 targets in the area of environmental sustainability about energy/forests/biodiversity, water & sanitation, and slums. Target 9: [...]
Continue reading...Sustainability : A South Asian Perspective
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
by Nitin Tanwar, Department of Civil Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh 160012, India Sustainable Development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.†This definition has been accepted de facto ever since the Brundtland report of 1987. However during recent times there has been a renewed [...]
Continue reading...Supercritical Water Oxidation of the Sewage Sludge from Ryaverket Wastewater Treatment Plant
Saturday, November 13, 2004
by Ashraf Syed Ali, Mir Nadeem Ali Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) is an innovative, modern and effective destruction process for treatment of organic-rich sewage sludge. In the SCWO sludge treatment system, dilute aqueous organic waste is combined with an oxidant above the critical point of water, 22.1 MPa and 374.2°C. For most organic wastes, these conditions [...]
Continue reading...A Systems Approach to Conflict Resolution in Sustainable Energy Management
Monday, September 20, 2004
by Timo Marquez Arreaza In sustainable energy development, many actors are involved in the juggling and distribution of our natural resources, each with the best (personal or social) intentions in mind. These actors, which can be corporations, governments, and/or civil society, tend to follow set series of procedures to carry out these decisions, using tools such [...]
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JAPAN YOUTH ENCOUNTER ON SUSTAINABILITY (YES) 2009
Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan, 25 March - 9 April 2009
Applications Now Open! Deadline: 30 December 2008
ETHsustainability, the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Hosei University in Japan are pleased to announce the opening of the application process for the “Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) Japan 2009”.
This two week YES course aims to sensitize participants to the complex issues of sustainable development in a global context, while exploring issues pertinent to Japan and the region, though course work, field trips, workshops, group work, discussions and practical learning experiences, combined with unique social and cultural activities. The unique program builds on 9 years of experience successfully running the Youth Encounter on Sustainability YES program in Switzerland, Costa Rica, Austria, Slovakia, Australia and Kenya. The YES course is a once in a lifetime opportunity for personal and professional development, an outcome reiterated time and time again by alumni from the course. This alumni group is represented by a strong network of 900 individuals from 91 different countries around the world who have gone on to be actively engaged in sustainability initiatives at local and international levels.
A total of 36 places are available for this course, with 24 places reserved for international applicants, and 12 places reserved for Japanese applicants. All participants must have a good working command of English, be between the age of 20 and 30 years, be currently enrolled at a university (either in the final stages of their undergraduate study, or at any level of graduate study). The entire course will be held in English and applications are welcomed from diverse disciplines and nationalities.
More information on the course is available from this website.
Location: Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan.
Dates: 25 March - 9 April 2009
All applications must be submitted online.
The link to the online application form is available at: http://www.sustainability.ethz.ch/en/activities/japan.cfm
Deadline for applications are:
30 December 2008 (International Applicants)
14 January 2009 (Japanese Applicants)
Friday, December 12, 2008
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